Blumfeld

Design for front of Blumfeld's wardrobe

Internal illustration inside Blumfeld's wardrobe 

For our negotiated unit (FMP) we were asked to come up with something for the short story 'Blumfeld an Elderly Bachelor' before we started our own project and this was my take on it. I decided to focus on the bouncing balls within the wardrobe as well as the children. I found it much more fun this way, and wanted to make the children part of the wardrobe design. The final is a 3D paper card layered piece, photos will be up soon! :) 

Heart of Darkness

This is the first final of the 4 internal illustrations based on Heart of Darkness, the style of this illustration was fun! 

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.

               

The Macmillan Prize Competition 2013 - Little Princess Book Entry

 Little Princess Cover Illustration

 Little Princess page entry 1

 Little Princess page entry 2

Little Princess page entry 3

This was my entry for the Macmillan Competition 2013 (unfortunately didn't end up entering in the end) with my story 'Little Princess'. Our tutors told us to look at existing examples of tales/fables/short stories to either illustrate or use as a starting point for our own story (which I ended up doing).
An obvious.. I chose dragons because well.. I am just obsessed with dragons! My story was basically about a dragon that befriends a little girl and grants her a wish to cheer her up (he found her crying.. aww). She wished to be a princess so as to grant her wish off he went to find her a crown and played princess with her but as most stories have, there is always a bad guy (dun dun dunnnnn). This bad guy is the King Emperor dragon who, seeing everything through his magic ball, gets jealous of the dragon and little girls friendship and wants her for himself. He flies from his castle (obviously) and challenges the friendly dragon for the girl but loses (as bad guys do) and the little girl and dragon fly off into the sky all joyous, ahhh :)

This was my first time using Photoshop to do anything other then a little photo editing and such so it took me a fair while to complete even with giving myself plenty of time, I still ended up just missing the competition deadline.. boo. I'm still pleased with the outcome and it's definitely one of my most favourite pieces. (I'm not sure about the text but we'll leave it as it is for now..)

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! :)