Superman..

1am is the best time to draw :)

I think I listened to "Waitin' for a superman," on loop while I drew this.
I'm trying to generate ideas for my new project which I'm doing on the Soft Bulletin album by the Flaming Lips. I figure by extensive listening, and text analysis I may get somewhere. I've got big ideas to do with 3D and paper :) I hope to be experimental.

I also visited the V&A yesterday.
I saw the Decode exhibition... http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Decode/ ...very good, I recommend! Many gadgets and intereactive pieces.

As well as Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies - so beautiful. It was amazing to see them first hand. If only I could paint like that! <3

Don't I know you from somewhere?

This is my latest project. We were given a phrase and were then asked to develop practical work from it.

I found this interesting, especially looking into the condition Amnesia, and creating illustrations based around this.
I didn't want to lose the recognisation process of the phrase though. So as a result I created a catalogue of faces of people I knew, and people I did not know so well. In the final the faces are fazed out depending on how well i know them. So the bolder face the more I know the person in question.

A few of the developments are shown here, will try and upload the transparency piece too at some point.

Anorak Competition

The children's magazine Anorak recently posted a competition to create a cover design. I wanted an excuse to create something fun and child-like. So I went for it.. I could only find a handful of felt tips though. i think this probably helped my colour palette however.

Publishing Brief - Atwood Book Covers

I have been extremely busy and unable to update this, but I'm going to try my best to rectify this! I hope to use this blog as a tool, rather than a chore.. possibly why I haven't updated it in so long. But I understand it will become valuable to me in time.

So yes, I'm going to post what I did for my previous project at university.

It was a really odd brief, to create 5 covers for 5 of Margaret Atwood's books. There was a continuity factor that needed to be applied; so in essence all the book covers needed to look like they were part of a series.

This was a lot of work. Much more than I imagined, but I really enjoy working with paper. Paper is so much fun!

Especially creating 3D environments with them. I feel that they are far more captivating due to the lighting and the way that the shadows add depth.

Goodbye Michael :/

such a shock, as if he's actually gone... my dreams of seeing him in concert are quite far out of reach now, oh well.. hopefully he's in heaven.

I'v been doing a lot of doodles and things, well while i

was at uni, I seem to require a new muse. Hmm, thought I'd post some of my sketchbook pages though :)

I love tea.

Just an image that was floating around in my head. I love Stina Persson, i think looking at her work inspired me, and then subconsciously I created this. I love fashion illustration but i don't think my degree work would lend itself to this, hmm.. but yum, tea! 

So Thursday it is. I haven't been posting, but I'm going to try really hard to make this blog work now.

I will use it for my illustrations primarily. The one above is well something on the spur of the moment, a late night and a lot of ideas in my head... and some krispy kreme packagaing included there too! haha.

I'm looking forward to Easter shall be good to have a break...