"Ladies of Heartsure"- card design

"Ladies of Heartsure"

Design for the RatPack Card Project.

Art Stars:11 -Comp Entry.

      "Paint Your Own Future" 

 Front of Star:

         Back of Star:

 MoodBoard and Layout:

 Check the Art Stars Site:My Art Star Entry

I did a "quick" collage for both sides to show my design, easier than sketching it out over and over, and it helps to see how the colors,layout etc would work together. I will use my collage as reference to paint,spray paint and using mixed media. Artwork in the moodboard(right) you can find here: 

personal artworks.

Entry Description:

"Paint Your Own Future"

Front: A working boy(1900s) with a soldiers hat and the constitutional flag in his pocket, walking up the steps to paint his own future (the stars). He has a tough look from living a hard life but determined to reach higher. Inspired by the industrial age, 1900s, Immigrant Dreams, arriving to New York and starting a new life of their own following their own Dreams and Stars. 

Back: The modern boy also walks up, but rather use more modern tools by spraying his stars. Inspired by street culture, modern outfits (w jeans pants and cap). 

Middle/Sides: The Machinery working behind the scenes, like a clock, the engine that also keep things moving forward. Inspired:Industrial age, machines. 

Will use the collage as a reference for Painting with Gouache, Spray paint, mixed media.

Re Cycle London

New editions of one of the characters I did for london cycling competition last year. I finally had more time to spend on the background. I haven't thought much of how to use more collage for not just the characters, but to create their environment aswell. Some processes that should be very obvious to recognise is hard to spot when it's right in front of you, well I do get easily distracted and lost by other things. Hope you like the new version: "Re Cycle"

The Golden Tea Pottress

This is for all the Tea Lovers and other Looneys out there.
Finally, after a few sessions with Photoshop tutorials I've learnt a few usefuls bits an pieces just since end of December. I'm getting slightly addicted to theses tutorials, all this free tips and tricks, yes please!
Have put up some crops of the image so you can see more details, and a small collection of "Mad Hatters" following after. I found taking screenshots during certain processes helps me see what works or not, and also when it gives me ideas for what I can do for later use. I'll also post up some Pre and After (between?) shots too. It sort of reminds me of Looney Tunes, loved those cartoons tho.

  "Flower Wand"

"Glazed Eyes"

 "Loosen Up"

 "Merge the Metal"

 "Rusty Red & Golden Drops"

The Mad Hatters:

So This it How the Hats started, i thought it was to hard to work with a straw hat basically, but then made a misson for myself to figure it out this way instead:

Some random foot came floating by and just thought it looked cool.

Close to finished, just need the drops. 

 

I really liked the splash of paint, why didn't I go for this in the end? Oh well, maybe next time, and I'm done arguing with the bloglayout..I'm out!

Creatures of Fashion

"Greek Godess"

 Some quick collages for you. It's fun when the images I've cut out leaves new and fun images and unexpected poses in the magazines.

Draculas' Mistress?

She's slightly scary I think.

Boxer Psd & animation

Here's a new character design for you, and I have  picked up a few new ways to render them digitally. I love watching and following these tutorials online. So much free 'education' out there, just go on an grab it! I've also put him in Adobe Flash, which is first time actually playing around with it. So the first animation I'll put out will be simple, almost like a Monthy Python'ish type of style to it. I will keep posting it up for you after I have added and played around a bit more, so you perhapse can see a developement of the animation. Here's a quick link for now: Boxer Short Animation

Give it up- to the Collage and Drawing

Give it up..to the masses?! 

A piece I did last summer. Collage with drawn details, and a tiny session in photoshop.
I couldn't help my self playing a bit more with it tho, woops:

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Birthday gift for U

Here's some characters from Out of the Box commission I did few months ago,

I know, it's my birthday, so stop working!! Ehm.. sorry, needed to put this up first. 

Hope you like'em. XD

 

 

Butter cup= childish? I think we all are XD

Out of the Box-

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Out of the Box- Travelling tent, a commisson I finished last month. I will link it up when they have launched their website. I was asked to make an event/festival tent with a lot of characters including, singers, guitartist, cabaret acts, performers etc. I gave the entire tent wheels and a piano vehicle to transport it (music driven tent?). I added some drawn details for clothes and other elements to add something extra to the collages. Hope you like it, maybe I'll post some of the characters seperate later for you people to see. Let me know what you think!? (click image to enlarge)

Falmouth Uni Degree Show

Final Roll

My Illustration Degree show, Falmouth University College, 2010. This character is one of many made for the AOI London Bicycling Competition. I printed out 8 A3 pages with different pieces of this character, and mounted them on foamboard. The hard part was to cut around all the edges, a little bit perfectionist sometimes but it turned out alright. I wish I had printed even bigger pieces of the rest of the work to balance it out, oh well. I also designed a little box he could have on his shoulders to have my business cards on. At the last minute I 'made' the table thing to put my portfolios and a little comment book on.

After making this dude on the bike I really want to see how my work looks when printed big, maybe  I'll find out one day :)

 

 Smile With Style.

 

I had to take a picture with all my work arranged and organised for the final assessement. It wasn't too many projects, but a lot of work.. 10-11 projects perhapse.

Anyways, had a lot of fun bringing the Bikedude home, I think he did too..

 BikeDude Keeps it Green

On location

 At the doorstep

Ok, BikeDude has had enough and heading home and away?! Even I have had enough of this guy for a while, going to bring him to London soon tho. For now Go to bed Dude, time to make some new characters, I think!

Sketchbook mixup:09

Hey there. I'll add a bit more to this later on, whenever there's some extra time. Hah, hopefully this easter, after that it'll be full on working to finnish website and the portfolio for New York and our final year show. I definitely gonna have some time off not working, need a break from all this work. Will post my actual uni work later on, by hey, the website comes first right?! It's up and running already but I want to redesign a bit ans s.o, so stay tuned.. haha if anyone's listening. Ciao, happy easter anyways!

CONtinue THiS

(press it, it'll grow :p)

Antichrist..

Some of these looks a bit messy, wasn't the best idea to sketch when hungover, woops!

What if... you were the boss...

Playing with type..

 

These sketchbooks is actually the first few that I been more free about. Experimenting a bit more, mixing media, collaging, painting, drawing and testing out some type. Hard keeping a sketchbook right now though, but will catch up on it when I can.

(We are all) CopyCats:

 

Well it doesnt show in the size I wanted but if you press on the images.. ;)

 

Heeeey 

mOleskinerie..

 

Passion for..