Joe Ward

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September 2012

1 post

August 2012

1 post

June 2012

4 posts

May 2012

3 posts

mutatedgenez asked: Where can I buy one of the books?

For Vanessa. →

Badgered into a new blog.

April 2012

13 posts

(Note to tutors and examiners)

This blog reads reverse chronologically, so the most recent posts are at the top. I suggest either scrolling to the bottom of each page and going right back to the very start, or going to www.joewardillustration.tumblr.com/archive for thumbnails of each post. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Final Major Project Evaluation

The Final Major Project started off purely as observational work on interests such as animals, portraiture, occult imagery, turn of the century outfits and rituals, modern fashion trends, museum collections and historical ephemera. During summer I spent a lot of time researching and being immersed in these areas, whether in books or on the internet, just in my spare time. These topics are all...

Bibliography/Webography - FMP/Research Projects...

Bibliography Albarn, J. (2010) The Boy In The Oak. Vancouver : Simply Read Books Albero, A., Paetzel, P., Hefenbrak, T. (2011) #3 ABBA. Berlin : Biografiktion Aubenas, S. (2001) Gustave Le Gray. London : Phaidon Press Limited Badger, G. (2001) Eugene Atget. London : Phaidon Press Limited Barthes, R. (1993) Mythologies. London : Random House Birgisson, J.T., Somers,...

sadooskria replied to your photoset: Riceboy Sleeps, Jon “Jonsi” Thor Birgisson and… oo where did you get this? Dunno, ebay I think, it was a few years back, wouldn’t have paid much for it.

turquoiselizard replied to your photoset: (Click images for slideshow) As promised,… i’d love to purchase one please reply if you have one to ship :) Sure thing! Email me at joeward234@hotmail.co.uk and we can discuss prices :)

Creation of a Self Promotional Book

1- Illustrations were scanned and individually removed from the white backgrounds, each being saved separately. This was time consuming but ultimately made composing and creating pages extremely easy and quick. 2- The scientific descriptions for each insect were neatly handwritten onto decent paper using the lightbox and a sheet of lined paper underneath, again being scanned, edited and saved as...

March 2012

5 posts

Today I’ve edited 39 individual insects, cutting them out on photoshop, erasing the edges to a feathered effect so they can all be composed for future work, being put onto any background I want, hopefully with minimal extra effort. It’s taken roughly 11 hours straight, well, having an hour break, and a quick booze run. Quite tired now. Better be worth it.

Here’s my parallel blog for my Research project, concentrating on experimentation, abstraction, and, you guessed it, research. http://joewardresearch.tumblr.com/

February 2012

6 posts

January 2012

3 posts

December 2011

4 posts

November 2011

1 post

Authorship/Research Project Statement

WHAT I plan to develop a collected works of interesting, highly visually appealing illustrations on the subject of natural history. These will be developed and produced as collectable books (hand printed and bound, in a way reminiscent of Whittington Press, for example) and as aesthetically pleasing, high quality pieces of art, such as prints (concert posters and records are both huge personal...

September 2011

2 posts

August 2011

9 posts