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! 

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! 

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! :)

Crown Brand Corned Beef Progress

Space themed Crown Brand corned beef advert

Just a progress shot, (though i'm a fair bit further on than this image shows, but it's the only image I took of my progress haha..) of my design for the Crown Brand corned beef space themed advert. Mixed wild robot cat, space woman and cute alien :) Been having fun doing this piece but it's taking me much longer to complete than anticipated due to an injury to my wrist which is taking its sweet time to heal. Slow and steady.. slow and steady.

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!

A Collection of Portraits

Portraits.

1. Misanthrope 2. Indolent 3. Hirsute 4. Courageous 5. Putrid 6. Lover 

7. Voluptuous 8. Delectation 9. Adolescent 10. Affluent 11. Anticipation 

12. Beautiful 13. Prime 14. Literate 15. Administrator 16. Leonine 

A collection of portraits I had done during the course of summer, we had 50 words to do an illustration to and incorporate the text. These are my favourites of the bunch! All are in different mediums; pencil colour, pencil, fine liner, dip pen and ink and Adobe illustrator.