Diyana Abbasali

I thoroughly enjoyed my foundation course and it put me in good stead for my BA (Hons) degree in Animation Production at The Arts University College at Bournemouth (formally known as The Arts Institute at Bournemouth). Having been on the course I have been able to further improve and develop my skills, within both life drawing and animal drawing, from which I feel that I have been able to highly enchance my observational skills.

It was from this concept that I started to design some characters of my own. (Pets and owners sharing a similar look). :)

Having successful completed my A-levels I went on to do a foundation degree in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where I was able to further broaden my knowledge and skill base within Art and Design. I managed to produce a whole variety of pieces, ranging from sketches, fashion designs, mono-prints, and ceramic models etc. For one of my final pieces I gained inspiration from that of my AS Level work and made another two way picture, trying to capture the idea of 'People and their Pets', and the concepts of owners looking like their pets and vice versa.

As well as animals I enjoy drawing well known anime characters, from shows such as Naruto, Bleach, Wolf's Rain, Fruits Basket etc. I managed to find these early drawings, that I had done almost 5 years ago, as well as a few that I drew for my best friend (she is a big fan of Renji and Byakuya Kuchiki from Bleach). I have decided to put them up, so I can compare them with that of the ones I have managed to draw now in 2010. (Hoping to see the improvements!!!)

As well as drawing, painting, lino printing and spray painting I also took great pleasure in creating models, I especially enjoyed creating my model tiger - Rufus. He was made for my A-Level Exam and he is made from papier mache, and is very large! Before I made him I also made a few test papier mache animals, including a baby crocodile and kangaroo.

The next series of pictures are from my second year of A-level, in which I started to gain more confidence in my ability and continued to further improve my practice and skill.

The two way picture above was inspired by the exhibition that was held at the Hayward Gallery in London, called Eyes, Lies and Illusions. As you can see it is made up of two different pictures. On the left hand side you can see a picture of three German shepherd puppies and on the right you can see a picture of Cerberus the three-headed dog from Greek methodology. It works nicely as a transformation piece, as you walk from left to right, it gives the illusion that the three puppies are turning into this menacing three-headed dog.