Personal Work

Dalmatian created with Photoshop brushes

Sketch image for practice

Font/Illustrator Practice.

Personal Work

Sherlock: The Six Thatchers

Inspired by the BBC Show; created into a bust based on the plot.

Inspired by Netflix's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" 

Eye to indicate Count Olaf's tattoo & smoke stock for Baulderlaire fire.

Inspired by the Women's March (21st Jan) 

Using half-tone and quotes from posters.

Personal Work: Animation

Animation re-fresh I did whilst my internet connection was down, using only resources I currently had on my computer. Was a nice refresh to learn how to use tracking, generating, and use of colours to create something I was happy with. I managed to get quite far without being able to google anything I needed a re-fresh of, and was quite happy with the outcome, though wish I could have changed the speeding slightly as I felt it was a bit off. However I'm happy with how it came out, despite not having any idea what I initially wanted the video to look like.

Personal Work: Watercolour

Personal Work: Type Experimentation

Taking a break from my current project, I used my tablet to experiment with designing and type. This only took about 20 minutes for me to come up with, but it was a nice break from doing illustrations and to design what I wanted to.

I chose to play with the brush settings on Photoshop to achieve a marker like feel with the posters, creating several dozen different layers before I felt happy with the brush style I created; I even saved this as preset for me to use in later work. It was nice to contribute my own handwriting to a work and create something very minimalistic as oppose to something with a few hundred layers.

The text I used was whatever came to my head at the time - “meow” or implicating tiredness was how I felt on the day, and I added a pop of colour to the background of the work which felt very tactile and gave the work some texture to it. 

This was a nice break and I really wanted to do some more text development behind it, maybe creating some kind of pattern or piece to upload to my portfolio or experiment with different downloadable brushes to see how far I could take hand-written stuff, as this was something I’d never approached before.

Fairy Tale: A Exploration

Throughout my theory lectures this year, I discovered my lack of interest in the topics. Because of how my style is approached, a very specific, different style that isn’t modern or “arty” or considered out, I found it quite hard to remain interested in my lectures this year. Although some of the concepts were interesting, they either never applied to me; or they lacked any relevance to me posting upon my blog. 

Because of this, I asked for feedback from Jay - questioning my interest in the theory posts this year. I knew I wanted to do something for theory as I did find it quite interesting to research and find out about the meaning behind pieces of work and art, but this was never going to be something I’d gain from theory. Jay suggested I’d research into something that I found interesting, as it wou

ld be more considerate to write about and mean I could research quite happily without being bored. 

We both decided upon Fairytales: the art behind them, such as Disney, Grimm Fairytales. I wanted to look at the illustration, animation, CGI, design and concept behind each interpretation of fairy tales. This would be a very broad subject for me to research into but I’d always found this topic very interesting so it could prove quite easy for me to come up with the theory behind it. 

I wasn’t sure about how I would go about starting this - whether to go from a coherent timeline or just start with things that interested me and work backwards, but I knew this would be a side project or research to look into. I especially found Disney movies such as Maleficent, Beauty & The Beast, or TV shows such as Once Upon a Time, Grimm, etc, very interesting as they’d appeal to my demographic; but I also wanted to know why they were rising in popularity again and why people still enjoyed the same trope and ideals in each work. There was something nostalgic, personally, for me, and exciting as they’d developed their own twists and turns which left me quite encaptivated. Because of the way they were also presented in such a high quality form, it allowed me to be fully emerged in the magic behind fairy tales. 

Personal Work

Inspired by The Walking Dead

Commissions for students in their projects.

Website for my portfolio and work.

 Inspired by recent project PDF.

Personal Work: Website