Grad Book Design

Image For The Number One

Image For the 1st Class Stamp

I'm soon to be completing my third and final year at University (eaaak!!) and there is a graduate book that will have artworks from everyone in the class which will be printed and sold, it's so exciting! The theme was numbers and we all had to pick a number at random from a hat.. I picked number one.. no pressure haha. I struggled with this number but was finally happy with the idea of doing an illustrated first class stamp, with an oriental theme which was inspired by Brittney Lee and Audrey Kawasaki's artworks.
So here are the inked sketches for my design, soon to be followed by the complete version! 

Heart of Darkness Sketches

Just dusting off the blog since I haven't posted in nearly 3 months..Wow! I've been so so busy with University work recently that I've neglected this space but no more! Though I need to get good quality photos of my recent work I thought to start off my first post of 2014 with my inked sketches for my take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. 

Above: Heart of Darkness Illustrations 1 and 2. Below: Heart of Darkness Illustration 3 and cover.

               

Doodle

 Sketch

Satisfaction

A quick doodle I did for a portrait I was redoing. Inspired by Disney/Frozen. 

The Strange Feathery Beast - Lee Cooper

The Strange feathery Beast front and back cover illustrations.

 The Strange Feathery Beast pages 1 & 2

 The Strange Feathery Beast pages 5 & 6

 The Strange Feathery Beast pages 9 & 10

 The Strange Feathery Beast pages 13 & 14

The Strange Feathery Beast pages 17 & 18

These illustrations are from a project back in early march time, we were all given the story 'The Strange Feathery Beast' written by Lee Cooper. There were blank spaces next to some parts of the text for us to fill with our illustrations of the story. I haven't posted all the pages, only the ones with my illustrations on so if you're trying to read the text like a story.. it won't make much sense! I opted for a silhouette style for this, due to doing my usual browsing different illustrative sites such as Behance, Pinterest, Illustration Served etc to get inspiration I found myself being drawn more towards this design. I liked the simplistic look and thought it would come across well within the story having bold illustrations. I used dip pen and Indian ink for the finals. 

This was one of my favourite projects to do as i found it challenging to fit my artwork to a story and within the body of the text. 

I hope you enjoy these illustrations, stay tuned for more of my illustrative posts! :)