House of Illustration Competition...

The current competition with the House of Illustration is to illustrate 3 stories and the book jacket for the book, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter for the Folio Society. Here are my entries...

The Bloody Chamber

The Company of Wolves

Puss in Boots

Book Binding idea

Cluedo...

Last semester we had a drawing project where we had to find an object to represent each of the characters from the boardgame Cluedo. We had to arrange our objects to create a set up which we then drew. I started off quite timid because I find drawing large set ups pretty challenging. But then Tony my tutor came along with indian ink and some large brushes and encouraged me to GO BIG! Something clicked and I started producing large expressive drawings and had great fun. So much fun in fact that I knocked over a pot of indian ink all over the carpet...oops! I finally faced my fear of tone and tried out a new way of working which I love!

The "stain"

Occult Related Crime Unit Illustration...

Occult Related Crime Unit research...

Research for my latest brief which is to produce an illustration for an editorial on the Occult Related Crime Unit (ORCU)...

Guinness World Records...

Phew it's finally Friday! It has been a very hectic week and there have been A LOT of late nights to try and get stuff done but, I can finally take a mini breath! I've just handed in a short brief which was to produce 4 illustrations for Guinness World Records. They have 4 categories in which their records fall under; size, extraordinary, dedication and speed. Our project was to create illustrations to represent each of the categories. Here are my solutions...

Disintegration...

The first project of my 3rd year studying Illustration, was to design a booklet based on a word we drew out of a hat. I picked "Disintegration." Rather than going for the obvious, I decided to go for something a bit different and look at quirky quotes to do with my chosen topic.

Whatever Happened to C.T. Studd's?

During my work experience at WEC International, I was given a brief to illustrate a book cover for a new publication about the founder of the organisation, as they head towards their centenary year in existence. I am ecstatic to say the publisher liked my design and the book is in print as we speak...so watch this space!

Four Dwellings Christmas Concert...

My lovely sister recently asked me for a little favour. Would I design a poster, programme and tickets for the Christmas concert at her school this December and they all needed to be black and white for easy photocopying. I was more than happy to and snapped up the opportunity! It was really fun and hopefully it'll add a bit of seasonal fun to the proceedings!

The poster

One of the tickets

Miss Emma Jayne Baylis...

(Above: Original Drawing)

(The canvas bag)

It was my good friend Emma's birthday not so long ago and I wanted to make her something which would be a nice keepsake for her 21st birthday. I decided to do an illustration of her and her initials and to print it onto a canvas shopping bag. Pretty and practical!

I want to ride my bicycle...

So the second year illustrators came into uni last Monday morning and were met with a set up still life of bicycles! Hmmm I hear you say. Yes we thought the same! Monday and Tuesday were spent doing detailed drawings of the bikes with no idea as to what they would be used for. Then we received the brief.

The theme of this project was based on the idea that families rarely eat dinner together anymore and that other activities were taking over such as bike riding. Yes an unusual and tenuous link but hey you gotta do what you gotta do! We had to use our initial drawings to produce two illustrations that would appear in a Sunday supplement. The first was just using our drawings and the second could be anything. I really enjoyed this project, although vague it was nice doing something random. These are my illustrations so far, I may make a few alterations to them, I'm not sure as yet but for now I'm pretty happy with the results. Many thanks to fellow illustrator and super star Jenny Cox for introducing me to the wonders of textures and the lasso tool. Oh and her generous donation of chips on Friday night much appreciated lady!