Sunday, 8 April 2012

easter holidays!

Easter "holidays".... Been super busy drawing and designing and whatnot! Below is a superquick sketch for a logo design for someone. They're a contemporary jeweler, their work uses lots of raw materials and they're currently producing a lot of work based in the 1980s UK miners' strikes.Also: Samurai Champloo rules! My favourite illustration from the opening title. The artwork from that programme is great!

Monday, 2 April 2012

Book jacket illustrations

Currently working on some book jacket illustrations for the "very short introduction" series by the oxford press (university brief). Finished the illustrations, just need to work on the rest of the cover design! It's in very rough development stages at the moment. Still unsure about the colours. I'm terrible with colour...

The relevance of the train is twofold. Firstly, it's representational of being given a tour around a subject. Secondly, the "brief" introduction reflects the brief snippets of the world you see whizz past as you look at the windows of a train. How about that, eh?





Friday, 30 March 2012

D&AD Student Illustrator Awards!

This was my entry for the Little White Lies magazine cover illustration contest thingy for D&AD.
It looks alot better in real life. I wanted to go for something a little different from the standard face on portraits Little White Lies seems to use.








the original sketchydoodle of Natalie Portman - looks quite a lot like her considering it was done in under a minute!...not to blow my own trumpet or anything...




£17 to enter .................

Illustration du Reportage, deuxieme partie!

Well these images seem to have uploaded themselves in reverse order. The last image is the coverpage.
This brief entailed reporting the deconstruction (or destruction) of an object. I chose an old funky radio.










Illustrations taken from a 26 page book I made recently. The brief was to document a collection of objects and create a catalogue. I documented a selection of horribly creepy old porcelain figurines and catalogued their horrid creepiness. For the first book I've ever made it turned out way better than I had anticipated; for once I didn't get sticky finger prints everywhere, I didn't crinkle all of the pages and I didn't slice myself or any of the pages up badly with a scalpel!
View it on ISSUU below! (if the embed code has worked that is).