Saturday 29 October 2011

Newer Illustration Brief

The new brief for Applied Illustration Practice has moved on from children's illustration to editorial illustrations. The article that we have been given is called Why to Avoid Getting Pregnant on the way to Mars.

These are some of my initial ideas based on the article using collage with assorted papers and images from magazines.








Final Illustration

This is the background for the final illustration for Skelllig.

 

Using collage and image transfer.
The finished piece.

Saturday 15 October 2011

Illustration: It's getting there!

Continuing on the Skellig brief I have yet more experiment.




These images above use just a normal collage technique (cutting and sticking) to add a bit more detail to the scene.






These images however use an image transfer method. I uses white acrylic paint which i them placed printed images right side down in to the paint (shown in the image at the top of this section), after letting the paint dry the paper can carefully be rubbed away to leave the images. This technique works well for this brief as it does not leave a perfect image so links well to the worn used feel of the garage.

Friday 14 October 2011

Graphics!

Finally got round to uploading some graphics work!











Some layouts for my typography modual.

Monday 10 October 2011

New Illustration Brief Continued

So I've been working more on my new illustration brief. Looking at collage and continuing experimentation with stenciling.







Saturday 8 October 2011

New Illustration Brief

So in Applied Illustration Practice we have had a new brief. Similar to the last brief however this time we can use colour and are producing a whole page illustration. This brief is using an extract from the book Skellig by David Almond.






So researching I looked in to tea chests and thought about that reclamation yard near where I live, Les Oakes and sons in Cheadle Staffordshire.





I then started to look at the text on the tea chests. I produced this look using a stencil hand cut from card and the LetraSet LetraJet with ProMarkers.









Had a bit of a mishap on the Skellig on accidentally pressed the trigger on the LetraJet. Oops!

I'm Back

Been really busy because I went home last wednesday, but I'm back now. So what's been happening, well, a lot really.
Finished off the first Applied Illustration Practice brief.