Brooches of the jewellery box

I only just realised that I don't think I ever posted the final for my self directed project last year that I was working on and kept posting work of on here. So, here it is. It was printed out at A2 and hung up in the exhibition. You can't really read what any of the writing says but they're all quotes from my Nana.

This was by far my favourite brooch to draw and paint and I'm really pleased with the outcome. This whole final poster and all the work that went with it is something I'm actually really proud of and happy with.

Kidney's story

                   A selection of pages from my book which I have entitled 'Kidney's story'

I wish my brain was actually blue

These are the final illustrations for my book. I have only shown one of the kidneys but within the book there are several that are slowly changing colour and shape as the illness progresses.

Sorry about how badly laid out this post is but Blogger wasn't having any of it and this was the best I could do. Bloomin' thing. Feel free to let me know what you think of these illustrations, I know they are very very basic, but the whole idea of my book was to be almost like a Mr Men book. I experimented a stupid amount too to get to these final images/colour choices.

More recent work...sort of.

This brief was our last one of the first year, meaning it was around June/July 2010.  For this brief we were asked to create an 'artists book' based on the theme of 'Me and my city', we were given an outline of what pages we should include, such as self portrait, autobiography, contrast, scale, pattern in the landscape, quote, quote image and busy. I used both 'Photoshop' and 'Illustrator' as well as traditional methods such as drawing and photography. There are around 20 or so pages in the final book, I will have to get back to you on that and also upload an photo of the book but these are the pages I've chosen for now, enjoy :)

Please be aware that the quality of my designs changes when I put them onto the blog and they have to be changed from 'Photoshop' and 'Illustrator' files into JPEGs. Ta :)

Quote

Quote image

Autobiography page

Busy

Busy

Self portrait

Skyline

Any questions or feedback about any of the pages or any of the others not shown are welcome :)
Ta x

Starting out

This is one of my earliest pieces of college work and was the 2nd or 3rd brief from October/November 2009 (I think!) and my first attempt at using 'Illustrator', aside from my work experience. The brief was to create a series of 4 stamps which would appeal to a teenage target audience and increase their interest in the product (stamps). I chose to focus on festivals, as I felt this would connect really well with teenagers around my age, as they are a personal interest. I created it by scanning in textures such a scrunched up brown paper and a scarf from my bag, as well as simple line illustrations which I then edited and coloured in using 'Illustrator'. I then used 'Photoshop' to layer the textures and images over one another to create my stamps. I did a stamp per festival and created 2 illustrated characters for each stamp. I really liked this piece when I first created it, but looking at it now I know I can do much better, however I am still pleased with how it originally turned out :) Click to enlarge.