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 :) 

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

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

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 :)

Kurt Schwitters - Fisch Und Mensch (Fish and Man)

Kurt Schwitters Fisch und Mensch Poster

In 2nd year, we were each given a Kurt Schwitters story to base a poster design on which highlighted the main parts of the story. The story that was given to me was Fisch und Mensch (Fish and Man). In short, from what I got from the story was that it was a fish that escaped death from divers by jumping out of the ocean and ripped the wings off a bird passing by, taking the wings it flies to its freedom but gets shot by another man. It's quite a short story with a hint of violence so I had decided to take a different approach to the design and make it look more.. elegant. I was heavily influenced by paper cut outs at this time, and was originally going to do this piece as a cut out but due to lack of time I opted for the paper cut out 'look' which I thought came across quite well. The finishing touches (changing the colour) were done in Photoshop, the design was drawn out in ink.

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..)