So sweeeet.

I really love this person sleeping in bed.. I took the monoprint I did of the person sleeping, and created a collage, then I scanned this in and overlayered them on photoshop. I'm not sure whether its because of the colours, or the overlapping which makes it look like a print but I like this image alot. I might make a illustration of my dream using this technique... I think I need a new dream though, this one is getting stale. Also I think I should make some of my own papers to use, using influences from other cultures of course though...

My sleeping person with two different speech bubble... not sure how much furthur I can take this illustration.. might do something else now.

This is influenced by a mexican print of a girl laying in bed smoking a joint and hallucinating objects flying around the room above her. I just adapted it for a dream...

Dreamer.

I'm feeling abit better about this project now. Ive finally produced an image im sort of happy with. I monoprinted the image of a sleeping girl in bed, scanned it in and filled it with one of my earlier "doodle" illustrations. I think it needs some work but I could submit it and now be too embarrassed which is something. The problem is I now need to think about how I'm going to make a book out of my images...

I need some help with this project...

I don't know what to do with this project. My tutor told me that I should just try drawing loads of images on the page; I did it in the same way I did my pathway "Idiom" project. Then similarly I merged all the images together on Photoshop.

I quite like the effect. It emphasises the idea of dreams where you can't quite remember them properly and they get hazy and merged together.

I think the next step i'm going to take is to add an illustration of myself asleep in bed. I don't know whether to do the illustration in monoprint, collage, pencil crayon.. or whether to leave it on a white background or add a border? Help please guys?!

Foundation: Final Major Project

I thought it was a shame I didn't put any of my final major project work up from my Foundation year. At the time I was dead set on doing children's illustration. I almost went to Glyndwr University to study it exclusively, and now i'm so relieved I didn't. I love childrens illustration and definately want to produce childrens books when I graduate, but I also now love editorial, fashion, reportage you name it i'll give it a shot. These are some some pages from the book I wrote and illustrated: Neil's Unforgettable Day, about a zoo keeper and his cat Jim who manage to lose all the animals in London zoo and have to travel around the capital rescuing them. Watch this space because I have an idea for a sequel which involves my postman experiments...

Text as Image

At the time, I felt I had done heaps of work for this project. We had it over christmas and compared to everyone else I had alot of work to show for it. However after working on our current project i've changed my mind. We had to create a poster for a new shop that was opening to advertise its unique merchandice of talking books. We were given seven quotes and had to chose one and use the whole quote on the poster, along with the shop name and information about it. It also had to be a specific dimension or you failed outright.

This was the first image I created and annoyingly it was the one my tutors liked the best. Infact they raved about it and said I should have carried it forward, but if I had then I wouldn't have got marks for experimentation... you can't win!

Paintings of sparrows, including an ink drawing.. goes to show going to workshops definately reflects in your project work!

Some experiments with combining text and imagery.

Good old collage. It saved my life on foundation and as I was floundering by this point, I felt it was time to take out this secret weapon!

Combining stitch with collage.

Some sweetie illustrations I created to put into my collages. Line drawings and ink spolges overlayered in photoshop.

Some experiments with cartoon like sparrows. I didn't use them in the end but I like them. I may make some cards with them!

My first attempt at a full size poster!

I decided that my illustration would look better in a container so I chose a sweetie jar as the quote is set in a sweet shop. I used text to collage around the outside as the poster is advertising a spoken words shop.

This is my final piece for this project. I quite like it. It fufills the brief and had a fair bit of work put into it. I know I definately could have stretched myself further with this project but we were told to keep away from computers and thats exactly what I did.

By the way, I have these posters up in my room and some of the letters have fallen off... thats why they may look a little strange.

3D Workshop

This was a group project where we had to create a shoe which would be fit for our tutor to wear. We could use all the materials and machines in the 3D and it got  very messy. Particually as we tried to lace it up whilst they were still wet. Alot of blue paint ended up on my body.

I draw naked people for fun.

Indeed I do. I quite like life drawing, although thats breaking the trend at Southampton. We do a huge amount on foundation, so it's nice to do quite abit here. I even do extra classes in it. Think my drawings really coming along though, even though I do get abit abstract at times..

Ghost Stories

I'm not going to lie I didn't do alot of work for this project. We had to create four images to accompany text to victorian ghost stories. For starters the stories weren't particually scary or inspriring, and secondly it was my second week at University and I was busy. I chose to make paper sets and set the mood using lighting and shadow. I don't think my images are particually successful, but I actually don't care. I learnt alot about photography and making little paper sets from doing it and I can take this forward in my future illustrations.

The border I used was inspired by the ink project I did earlier. It doesn't go but it sure got me alot of marks to say how it had influenced me.

Welcome to Sotonia...

Our first Illustration practical project. We had to walk around Southampton City Centre drawing different landmarks and buildings and creating illustrational reponses to certain places. Kind of like an illustration scavenger hunt. It was good fun and it helped me find my way around much easier...

One of the tasks was to redesign an old record from a charity shop.

The Bargate lions which guard the Bargate memorial.

A shoe from the fancy shoe shop on the high street.

The Southampton Titanic memorial... i've made it look like a fairy..

Mayflower park we discovered wasn't the most interesting of parks, being just a stretch of grass by the sea.. but we made do.

Drawing and collage of interesting outside the art gallery.

Ink and stick drawing of the view from Mayflower park out into the river Solent.

A continuous line drawing of Clarence Hardware shop in Southampton.

I did these paper cuts in response to the task of creating a new carrior bag for the shop "Clarence Hardware" and I put them together in a design..

Anouther record I did..

For this task we had to go into a charity shop, by any book and redesign the front cover. I decided to do a non fiction book as this was different to everyone else. My tutor said it looks very professional which is nice to hear.

Foundation Work.

Heres a selection of images that I selected from my portfolio, thought it would be a good time to look back at some of my old work to see how i've improved...