Monday 26 November 2012

Thursday 22 November 2012

The Cloud Appreciation Society Manifesto Poster





One of the tasks that I recently was set at college was to design and illustrate a poster for the cloud appreciation society's manifesto. It had to be done with either a propaganda, surrealist or psychedelic feel to it (can you guess which one I opted for?!) and it had to include all of the text from the manifesto on it. These were my finished results.

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/manifesto/



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Tuesday 20 November 2012

psychedelic clouds






























These are some cloud designs for a poster that I had to produce as part of a college project, blog post of the finished poster to follow soon!




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Monday 19 November 2012

Fancy Dress Caterpillar Designs Part 2


























Here is the second half of my 12 fancy dress caterpillar designs. I've developed these designs into a repeat pattern and fabric as well as painting the designs onto my niece's bedroom wall- more blog posts with photos to follow soon!



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Saturday 17 November 2012

Cross Hand Cut Card



















































This is a card that I made over the summer- it is hand cut from card and spray painted blue to finish.
 

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Wednesday 14 November 2012

Box Doodle
















So we've been working on 'box doodles' at college this week- basically you get a box of you choice and then transform it into something else! My box is a night nurse box and below it is a sneak peak at me starting work on it.

http://www.boxdoodle.com/

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An Army of (Fancy Dress) Caterpillars
































From the initial insect sketches (in the previous post) I decided to take forward the caterpillar designs- the collective noun for caterpillars is an army of caterpillars and I decided that they were going to be wearing fancy dress so here is a first glimpse into my sketchbook at my 'army of fancy dress caterpillars'!



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Monday 12 November 2012

A Swarm Of Insects
























Over the summer we were given a 'little book of texts' as a starting point for some illustration work. One of the pages was a list of collective nouns for different insects- here are my initial sketchbook pages of drawings.



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Friday 9 November 2012

"Paying The Bill" Illustration
















This was an illustration that I did to accompany a piece of writing called 'paying the bill' which was one of our module tasks at college over the last few weeks. It was one of my first proper attempts at drawing people and I'm pretty pleased with how it has turned out. I tend to avoid drawing people if I can help it but this made me have a go at it and I think that it was long overdue!


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