Fossil 30th Anniversary Competition Entry

Competition entry 

This way my final entry for the competition, you can view all the entries that got through to the finals here. Sadly I didn't make it through but there are some good ones which you can vote for to win! I wish now, i'd entered with the previous design, it stood out more.. I don't know, either way it was fun to do! 

Fossil 30th Anniversary Competition

Previous Design Entry 

I recently entered the Fossil 30th Anniversary Competition earlier in February. The competition was for making designs that would go on their watch tin packages, basing it around the subject of 1950's vintage fashion, cars, Route 66, the open road and so on. I decided to go for vintage pin up styles with a modern flair (her dress and watch, which were based on some of their designs in their shop). This is the previous design I was going to use for the competition but ended up tweaking it a little instead, i'll show the final entry in another post! I did this design fairly quick and kept it super simple due to the fact that I decided to enter the day of the deadline... but the result is still good and it was fun! :) Fingers crossed for the competition! 

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.

               

Serco Prize Inspiration #1: Steve Simpson

 

   Picante Spongebob - Steve Simpson

 Anatomical Study  - Steve Simpson

Evil Genius - Steve Simpson

 Caffeine Junkie - Steve Simpson

Illustrated Coffee Cup Design - Steve Simpson

For the past few weeks I've been working on various things but one project we have been given is to enter the Serco Prize Competition 2013 which can be found here. The theme is London stories, fictional or non-fictional, well known or not well known and after hours of searching I found a ghost story which sparked my interest about a chicken in Pond Square. I thought it would be a brilliant way to go about this competition, doing something funny and spooky (quite a coincidence that it's close to Halloween too wooooh.) While choosing a story to base my design on I was also looking through a variety of my favourite artists to help inspire me and I decided upon Steve Simpson as his style is quite like how I wanted mine to look like in the end. He has lots of fun factors within his pieces and is incredible at typography which is something ill be dabbling in with this piece. Steve Simpson also uses limited colour palates brilliantly which is another reason I chose to base my piece around his work. The competition deadline is 3rd November.. Wish me luck!

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..)