This is a picture of a piece I produced last year for an editorial illustration project. We each had to choose one from a variety of newspaper articles to produce an illustration for, I chose the story of the conspiracy of the death of Paul, the German football-predicting octopus. It was early in the first year, and I didn't feel overly confident in my hand-drawn skills to produce an editorial by hand, so despite not being an expert on Illustrator and having limited time to produce the piece, I decided to produce a piece on Adobe Illustrator, based on the story of an Argentinean chef placing an octopus dish on the menu of his restaurant after Paul (correctly) predicted that Germany would beat Argentina in the World Cup Quarter-Final last year.
I know it's a simple design, and if I had more time to do it again, I'd love to gain enough confidence to produce a hand-drawn design in the same style. It's not the best piece of work I've done, but I quite like the simple idea and I'd like to think of it as another example of me looking to develop a cartoony style.
This was a really simple and quite quick piece I came up with for a project last year where we had to produce a piece of work showing the evolution of trees and what they might be like in the future. I had a few things in mind, but I loved the potential of the idea of having the trees standing up for themselves against a lumberjack.
For one of the projects we had in the first year of my degree, we were introduced to Adobe Illustrator and what we could do with vector graphics. I'd already used it for my National Diploma, but I had never really learned how to use it in great detail, I'm still looking to produce some more complicated pieces for my 2nd year but for this project, we had to use Illustrator to produce an animal of our choosing. I felt like I didn't really have enough time to produce anything complicated, but I had been wanting to produce more of a cartoon style for quite some time, so I decided to try and produce a cartoon bear. The shape of the body may look quite simple, but I'm pleased with the detailed shape of the fur and the style of how the face turned out. If I get time, I'd quite like to produce some similar animals in this style sometime over the next year. Maybe a series of animals with the same facial features.
