It's time to dissolve that creepy cake lady.

Hello, It's been a while.
So I developed my initial storyboard forward.. I moved into psychedelics, experimenting with dye and food colouring.Then the effects that this would have on acetate when put into water. The initial development was more about experimenting with the medium as I felt I needed to be decisive about the imagery I used. I thought it was more important what "happened" to the imagery than what it actually was. The idea was to represent a "trip," and explore this journey, drawing upon experiences of others who have taken L.S.D.

I think the results were interesting. I did not expect them to dissolve.

I don't have my finals yet - eek.. expect them shortly. It involves projections.. projections which haven't happened yet. I hope it'll be alright on the night... !

peace out - krispy kreme time. x

Late night experiments.

I've totally destroyed the kitchen. Vegetable oil everywhere, but I'm happy I gave it a go. I'm trying to make psychadelic patterns, and i will succeed.. no matter how much vegetable oil and food colouring i use!

I had my interim Crit yesterday, I think it went well - I didn't like what I showed but I think it gives a good idea of where I'm heading :) I feel very inspired anyhow.

Can you tell what the narrative is from the picture? hmm I really hope so. or maybe I don't... maybe you should be confused? yes you should. :)

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 :)