Design A Character Competition

I entered a competition a few months ago to design a character. The competition was held by The Lightbox gallery in Woking, this was the picture I entered, and I found out yesterday that I won!! It was judged by John Huddy, who is co-founder of Illustration Cupboard, a gallery in London. I'm really pleased, so thought I would post up Stan for you all to see.

Silent Auction December 2010

To fundraise for our final year show in London we held a Silent Auction at Uni, and raised £1250!! These are my images I put into the auction and I'm pleased to say I sold them all :) The three christmas cards in the bottom left of the box are the ones I made. It was a huge success, so thanks to everyone that came and won!!

 

Church's Shoes

As well as illustrating the song for my Uni project, I also did some shoe illustrations for a girl on BA fashion to use in a magazine she made. I really enjoyed doing these, as it was something that I've never done before and was experimenting with pattern and watercolour. I'm really pleased with the outcomes, as soon as I get the layouts I will post them up so you can see them in context. 

Litte Yellow Spider Book

These are my final images for the song, they are all done in pen and watercolour and I've included all the lyrics in the images. They are all in order so should make sense but if you listen to the song at the same time it makes them better. For submitting them I made them into a book. Hope you like them!

Little Yellow Spider First Drawings

These are the first drawings I did for the Negotiated Practice Unit where I chose to illustrate a song called  'Little Yellow Spider' by Devendra Banhart. I have always loved the song, and when the D&AD brief came up, and the brief was to illustrate a song I thought it would be brilliant . Most of the verses are about animals, for example a dancing crab and a snapping turtle. I have been doing a lot of drawing with pattern lately, so here are the first lot of drawings.

A Recipe For . . .

For our final year at university we are fundraising for our end of year show which will be held in London, and to do this we are making a funky little magazine called A Recipe For . . .  in which lots of amazing illustrators on my course will be creating a recipe. We are hoping to sell lots of copies and raise lots of money! I have tied mine into the nautical nonsense brief (see below) as I can't get octopi out of my head. Here is my recipe . . . 

Nautical Nonsense

This is some work I have made for the This Is... competition which (if chosen) will be exhibited at Sixty Million Postcards in Bournemouth. The theme this month is Nautical Nonsense so for this I have been looking at seaside pop art, the bright colours of arcade games, candy floss, lolly pops, ice creams and flashing lights all mixed in with the traditional seaside stuff! The whole image is the landscape one, but as it has to be submitted portrait I've split it in two and made two illustrations!

Day trip to the Tank Museum

As we are now in the final year of uni I think it is time to get the regular updates going again! I've chosen to do my project on war again, so here are a few things I have done in the past week to get my creative juices flowing.

I went to the Tank Museum in Bovington on Thursday and drew all the symbols on the different tanks. I like the way they all seem to have their own identity, making them all different, not just ordinary tanks, and then I put them all into Photoshop to make one big tank!

My topic is still very broad at the moment but I like the idea of looking at the identity of soldiers, I'm hoping I will make or see something that will stimulate something amazing :)

  

Transformers

This is a painting I recently finished for my boyfriend as he loves Transformers!

Rainbows

I saw the most amazing rainbow the other day whilst I was driving up to London so just had to draw it!

Butterflies

I've been having lots of fun drawing butterflies in a silhouette style as I love the effect it makes. I have been using the designs to make greetings cards and note paper and am going to play around with the colours to make some even better designs! After making the fathers day card I thought I could make an insect alphabet, so thats my next project!

Fruit

Just some painting I've been doing whilst sitting in the sunny garden.

Divergence Final

Here is the final for the divergence brief. It is meant to be interactive, so you would hover the mouse over the people yourself to see the pictures but I can't do that on here! So for this I have recorded the screen while I rollover the icons.

The main concept behind it is to show how people all begin the same (which is why there is a grid of identical people), then when you scroll over each person a different image pops, portraying the effect war has on individuals. I have finished it with a video of burning candles to represent all the victims of war, going back to the idea that we are all the same.

Divergence Animation First Attempt!

Here is the first upload of the animation, there is still a lot to do but this is the general idea. The images are going to be positioned better within the grid and when the images pop up the man that it is associated with goes red! Anyway, more to come.

Digital Revolution - Divergence

Thought I should update with what I'm doing for the latest project! Our brief is to make an animation on the theme of divergence so I have been making mine on the theme of war. It is really about war in general, not so much specific wars and should show how war affects different people. I am going to be doing a series of images which run through very quickly. I have tried to upload it  but it doesnt want to work! So I will try again tomorrow. For now, here is a series of images I took at the Keep Military museum in Dorchester. The whole animation is going to be made up of photos, my own ones from museums and other places and from internet/books etc.

The four bottom images are my favourite as they are still images taken from a video, I think they have come out really well, and the blurriness captures that individual moment. Basically the opposite of animation!