Life Model editorial

Because my DJ editorial with the brain was named one of the top two in the group, I was entered in a competition to produce a bonus spot illustration for an editorial about a life model with the "What I'm Really Thinking" story.

Betrayed By Your Shadow Editorial

Another editorial I chose to produce an illustration for was for a story about being "betrayed by your shadow". Once again, mainly due to time worries, I chose to produce something simple but still effective.

Brain Editorial

Sorry about the delay in posts.

For a project in the second year of my degree, we had a project that involved producing editorial illustrations. For one of my editorials, I had to produce a spot illustration for a story about a local DJ to explain "what he's really thinking".

I took the story on board, and I tried to take the "thinking" side literally, so the idea of a brain listening to a pair of headphones just made sense, and I tried to use a simplistic style mixed with a bold colour scheme. Out of the editorials for this chosen story, mine was named the best. Result!

Blueberry Fields Forever

What started of as a photo I took for a photography project on my National Diploma mixed with a bit of Photoshop experimentation has turned into one of my favourite pieces of work. I was working with Photoshop to get used to it and testing it on some of the pictures I took for my project, and I just started working on this one, and just seeing the bold colours stand out on here has worked out really well, I had a few of the "trippy" songs in the Beatles' back catalogue in my mind when I first saw what the picture looked like the blue fields and orange sky. It was quite a simple piece to produce, but I'm really proud of it.

The Trees Fight Back!

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.

The image caption: "You were gonna chop US down, eh?!"

Octopus Editorial

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.

Illustrator Experimentation - Bear

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.