It's all about the Portraits

One of the tasks I was set for the summer break was to create portraits that reflect certain words. It has been and is still an ongoing task but here's a little sneak peek of some more to come!

Three of the words provided were "Me" with the chance to make it something a little more interesting than just your average self portrait. I therefore broke myself down slightly and this "portrait reflects who I am in a few key icons.

Mediums Used: Photoshop with a drawing tablet

Macmillan 2014: 'The B-Team & the Lost Letter'

Mediums used: pencil sketched client visuals for all the pages, and then the final coloured pages are watercolours.

Poster: "10 things to do instead of smoking cigarettes"

Design a poster for boys at secondary school with ten different visuals.

Mediums used: Original line art drawn out and scanned into photoshop. I then worked over it to define and fill certain areas and apply over the coloured blocks.

main typography was done using gouache and scanned into photoshop.

Folio Society Illustration: Die Geschichte vom Hasen - Kurt Schwitters

Using the same Kurt Schwitters story, now create an illustration that would be suitable for use within the Folio Society; using only solid black and white and one other colour.

Mediums used: Black and teale fine liner pens.

Tate Poster: Die Geschichte vom Hasen - Kurt Schwitters

Design a poster for Die Geschichte vom Hasen by Kurt Schwitters, in a style that would be suitable to sell in the TATE.

Mediums used: Original Sketches and ink line art of the drawing and typography done in black fine liner and scanned into photoshop, where I then inserted the colours.

Party like Gandalf

So my dad reached the big 5-0 a few weeks ago, and despite my demanding deadlines I knew I had to sort a card out, especially as he still hadn't forgiven me for never sending a card last year...despite having demanding deadlines again! 

Therefore as a nod to Lord of the Rings being one of my Dad's favourite things, and always teasing that he's just so old, Gandalf the party wizard came forth and became the star of his card!

Mediums used: Drawing tablet in photoshop

Far away in the Midlands Business School...

Recently I got asked to help out a friend with their dissertation where one of the components they had to submit was in a story-book form. I was asked to produce a cover page and the typography for the chapter pages. 

I used a very similar design to the one used within my 'Blue Pet' children's book work, however the layout had to be rearranged for this A4 sizing, and the elements used within the image where different. I designed a fairytale castle which would be suitable for both male and females, as this book was to be directed at male and females of university age. 

The background was a stock image of old parchment paper, which I used for all pages of the book. It gave that impression that you were following through the story as though you were continuing to read the map you see on the front cover - the idea that the whole book is the journey.

Chapter Headers

For the typography I hand drew it so I could get that much more control over it. It also meant where I was a bit more sketchy in colouring in the letters, when scanned in and the levels changed in photoshop, I could make it look more worn and aged for the 'old-map' aesthetic immediately through my pen work.

Originally the chapter titles above were going to have illustrative icons incorporated within them. However, I thought it would be better just to fully tie them in to the themed aesthetic of the old map, and I used a variety of "banners" as their backdrop settings.

Mediums used: Cover page and final work done in photoshop.

Original typography work done by hand using a 0.2 fine liner