Plog Magazine...

Eeeee! So exciting I have just been featured on Plog magazine’s blog! I love those guys so its such an honour! See their lovely comments at the link below!


Plog Magazine - Claire Wood

WEC Work Experience...

Front Cover

Double page spread entitled, "How to make a missions noticeboard."

Double page spread entitled, "Networking for Christ in Turkey."

This summer I have been lucky enough to do some voluntary work at the organisation WEC (http://www.wec-int.org.uk) working with their in house graphic designer. She asked me to do a some illustrations for two articles in their quarterly magazine as well as a book cover for a new publication about the history of WEC. The book cover is still in progress but the illustrations have been printed in the next issue of the magazine which I'm going to collect this week. So excited! The people at WEC are truly amazing and I feel so privileged to have had the opportunity to work with them.

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!

Not your average comic...

For the past week I've been doing a brief to design a magazine cover for a comic called Bagatelle that is distributed to a few arty colleges. I've just finished the design and I'm pretty chuffed with the outcome. I really wanted to go for something different without the stereotypical "comicy" appearance and of course as per usual I managed to slip in some patterntastic imagery! I tested out quite a few patterns along the way which I might post up in a bizzle. For now it's over and out.