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! :) 

Graduation Book

Finished Illustration for Number One

I finish uni in around 6 weeks and graduate in around 2 or 3 months, scary stuff! So to celebrate this and to showcase all of our classes work, we're putting together a little book with an illustration from each person based on the number we were given. I got given the number one, as previously explained in a past post.
This is my final illustration for the book, it took weeks to complete around other projects but i'm happy with the result! I decided to go for the theme of 1st class stamps but make them more oriental and interesting. For the moment they are being shown on a Tumblr page for people to see, which you can find here. If you click on the UOL BA (Hons) bit at the top you can view everyone's work! And if you have a Tumblr you can like and reblog your favourite ones. I'm so excited for this as there are many great pieces of artwork, I hope you'll like it to :) 

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! 

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! 

Doodle

 Sketch

Satisfaction

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

Galactic Crown Brand Corned Beef

Crown Brand Corned Beef Advertisement

Here it is! the final design for the Corned Beef advert poster, after weeks and weeks (with a sprained wrist.. not fun in the slightest) I have it completed and i'm pleased with the outcome :) Majority of it was done in Illustrator; the characters and type, the rest was done in Photoshop. I'm still learning the ropes of Photoshop so to me, this was a challenge but a fun one! Yay just in time for assessment this week :)

Crown Brand Corned Beef Progress #2

Crown Brand Corned Beef Advertisement progress

More progress shots of the corned beef advertisement I've been working on. Final image to be revealed next! :)

New Favourite Artists Discovery

Recently I've been lacking in posts due to constantly keeping track on University work, I do apologise! However, (sorry this isn't a post of my work, I know you're all heartbroken) in my constant search in finding artists I like and get inspired by I came across two, yes that's TWO new artists that I love. They both work as a Visual Development artist for Disney Animation which makes me love them more as I'm a sucker for a good Disney film.

The first artist being Helen Mingjue Chen, I found her on Instagram where I've found a lot of my new favourite artists believe it or not, and went on a search for websites and blogs by her to see her work in full. You can find her work here and here.

Inktober Sketch - Helen Chen

The Wolverine Girl  - Helen Chen

She has also done work as the main artists on this little animation called 'The Paperman' which I only found out recently but knew of the little animation months ago, so that was a nice little piece of information as the artwork in it, I really like! Here is the trailer to the animation below; it is a Disney Oscar Nominated Animated short film and here is the full animation (around 6 mins). Helen has also done work in films such as Tangled, Wreck it Ralph, Frankenweenie and Pinnochio.

The second artist is Brittney Lee, another visual dev artist for Disney Animation. I found her work through Helen Chens blog and immediately took a liking to her vibrant work. You can find her work here. Her style always seems to have that fun essence to it, her characters looking happy and bubbly, bright colour palettes and such. Brittney has a lovely style and her use of typography is very playful! She is very talented with paper layered work. Here are some of my favourites!

The Best Day - Save the Date cards - Brittney Lee

Queen of Hearts - Brittney Lee