Just a few tweaks here today - updated my photograph to a recent photograph of myself at university, the one from the newspaper as it is so vibrant and bright and enthusiastic - just how I would like to portray myself on my site and as an illustrator.
Also added a note in the Awards page about my CPA Scholarship from Coventry University, which is currently funding me upgrading my PC so I can handle higher resolution and more detailed files in Photoshop, as well as buying some more modern image making software in both traditional medias and on my PC. Thankyou Coventry University, I won't let you down!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Hot Off The Presses!
Two friends and myself can be found in the Coventry Observer on the 31st of January issue posing for a photograph to publicise "The Big Picture", an initiative in the Coventry area to break a world record for the largest photomontage - with all the photographs used contributed by residents from around the area.
I'm glad I was able to help publicise the event, and also excited at being in the paper - the last time I believe I was still in primary school for a piece on pond dipping!
(If you are reading this from my website, please click on the "Hot Off The Presses" link at the top to view the cutting from the paper in which we feature!)
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Watercolour Illustrations
Some new pieces added to the site today, including a few watercolour and mixed media pieces created for a fundraising project at university.
I felt that participating in the fundraiser would help people to see my works - the fundraiser is for the third years final exhibition, and they will be showing the "postcards" created by students in a exhibition, and inviting members of the public to purchase them to raise money.
I hope that people will see my works, and note my name, and like them! I love the thought that someone could pay money for my original watercolour postcards, and read the back and find thier way back here.
(If you do - hello, thankyou very much for buying one of my postcards, It really means a great deal to me).
Also I hope that people will like my style enough to commission me for further projects, and start to create a name for myself in the industry, even while I am still studying.
I felt that participating in the fundraiser would help people to see my works - the fundraiser is for the third years final exhibition, and they will be showing the "postcards" created by students in a exhibition, and inviting members of the public to purchase them to raise money.
I hope that people will see my works, and note my name, and like them! I love the thought that someone could pay money for my original watercolour postcards, and read the back and find thier way back here.
(If you do - hello, thankyou very much for buying one of my postcards, It really means a great deal to me).
Also I hope that people will like my style enough to commission me for further projects, and start to create a name for myself in the industry, even while I am still studying.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Award Winning
Today I was awarded the "College Award for Creative Achievement" at the Rutland College, Oakham.
This award is given to the one student they feel has achieved the most in the year, and I was nominated for it by my Graphic Design tutor, June.
In my time at the Rutland College, I worked very hard - I joined the college unsure of my skills and potential artistically and graphically (I had not done as well as I had hoped in my art based GCSEs, and had taken three years out of education to travel and work), and in the time I spent there I feel I learnt a great deal about Art, Graphic Design and Photography, which all has boosted not only my skills but my confidence in myself artistically.
I am very pleased to have this presented to me, and I hope I can live up to the title and talents of those awarded it in the years before and after me.
This award is given to the one student they feel has achieved the most in the year, and I was nominated for it by my Graphic Design tutor, June.
In my time at the Rutland College, I worked very hard - I joined the college unsure of my skills and potential artistically and graphically (I had not done as well as I had hoped in my art based GCSEs, and had taken three years out of education to travel and work), and in the time I spent there I feel I learnt a great deal about Art, Graphic Design and Photography, which all has boosted not only my skills but my confidence in myself artistically.
I am very pleased to have this presented to me, and I hope I can live up to the title and talents of those awarded it in the years before and after me.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Proverb Illustration
Uploaded my final piece for one of my modules at university, an illustrated proverb, "There are 40 types of lunacy but only one type of common sense".
I was really pleased how it came out - I used a mixture of styles and techniques - each one representing a feel of lunacy, or of common sense.
For the figure I used several clothing references from a popular sensible clothes catalogue, then created the sweet cartoon character with the blonde curly hair out of my imagination. I used bright and "wooly" looking colours, to convey a feeling of wrapping up warm and sensibly. I also used a classical umbrella, shielding her from the background and the lunacy. As you can see around the umbrella is the lunacy themed area, and inside it is calmer and blue.
For the lunacy area, I used reds and blacks, and drew out the big red moon in Photoshop. I also took photographs of myself making a sinister hand, covered in red paint, and scanned in papers I had created with splats and smears of red "blood". This added the rough, horror-filled feeling to the background.
The text was created using a normal font on a seperate layer, and then creating another layer over the top and drawing over it, using the font as a guide to keeping the letters even and straight, but freehanding a completely different feel to the letters, with the dripping, smeary effect. Then I deleted the reference font, leaving my own hand-written font.
The only critique for this piece, which I noticed much too late, was her hat being in front of the umbrella, instead of inside, and perhaps I could've drawn some "lunacy" images to hover menacingly around the figure in the lunacy area.
I was really pleased how it came out - I used a mixture of styles and techniques - each one representing a feel of lunacy, or of common sense.
For the figure I used several clothing references from a popular sensible clothes catalogue, then created the sweet cartoon character with the blonde curly hair out of my imagination. I used bright and "wooly" looking colours, to convey a feeling of wrapping up warm and sensibly. I also used a classical umbrella, shielding her from the background and the lunacy. As you can see around the umbrella is the lunacy themed area, and inside it is calmer and blue.
For the lunacy area, I used reds and blacks, and drew out the big red moon in Photoshop. I also took photographs of myself making a sinister hand, covered in red paint, and scanned in papers I had created with splats and smears of red "blood". This added the rough, horror-filled feeling to the background.
The text was created using a normal font on a seperate layer, and then creating another layer over the top and drawing over it, using the font as a guide to keeping the letters even and straight, but freehanding a completely different feel to the letters, with the dripping, smeary effect. Then I deleted the reference font, leaving my own hand-written font.
The only critique for this piece, which I noticed much too late, was her hat being in front of the umbrella, instead of inside, and perhaps I could've drawn some "lunacy" images to hover menacingly around the figure in the lunacy area.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Life Drawing
Removed some older works and added a selection of new life drawings, both male and female (full nude). Both of these models were not the "ideal" figure we are subjected to in our daily lives by the media as "perfection". I learnt alot more about anatomy, skin and how flesh moves and hangs from our frames from these sessions, as well as how to interpret age and weight. It's fair enough drawing pretty people, but I must expand myself to a much wider range if I am to succeed.
I hope to update my site as I progress, moving older works to an archive that can also be viewed by the public and potential clients to show how I've improved, but not showcasing them as my current standard of works.
I hope to update my site as I progress, moving older works to an archive that can also be viewed by the public and potential clients to show how I've improved, but not showcasing them as my current standard of works.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
More Illustrations
Added three new illustrations to the site, these are mostly my personal works in my free time. I like to spend my spare time practising exploring my figures and creating characters and ideas. I hope I will keep progressing and learning new styles that I can exhibit in my portfolio and be seen as an illustrator, designer and artist that has a broad and exciting range with bags of imagination!
Every Thursday I attend a life-drawing class, and I will post some of my favourite figures on the site in the life drawing section, and use the rest as references to create more fuller works. I hope that by attending these classes, and expanding on the drawings I can greatly improve my knowledge of different anatomys, lighting and drawing at various speeds.
Every Thursday I attend a life-drawing class, and I will post some of my favourite figures on the site in the life drawing section, and use the rest as references to create more fuller works. I hope that by attending these classes, and expanding on the drawings I can greatly improve my knowledge of different anatomys, lighting and drawing at various speeds.
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