It’s all going MAD! Key points I wanted to showcase and issues I will face. * less PINK. * I wanted to avoid stereotype “girl”, but still not exclude girls by doing so. * Not being TOO serious but also not downplaying completely this issue.* Appealing to the age group. * Humour within the illustrationsContinue reading “Educational Strip”
Category Archives: Coursework
Working For Children
The very vast world of children illustration. I have borrowed and read Illustrating Children books (Creating pictures for publication) by Martin Salisbury. Which has been a truly interesting read, one thing that is clear before reading and more so after is “Children have never been offered so rich and diverse a choice of imagery thoughContinue reading “Working For Children”
Packaging
Cute enough to sell! I started out with the key words Organic, children, raisin, choc chip, ginger, extant animals, interacting with the biscuit, full colour, box size? I went out and did a bit of market research and collected pictures to help with my mood board. I paid attention to what caught my eye, howContinue reading “Packaging”
Text and image
An area for my personal development! One of the things I’ve been working on already though out the course has been hand-lettering and calligraphy. In fact this exercise reminds me of a skill share class called Introduction to Modern Script Calligraphy by Bryn Chernoff she asks you in the warm up to write “welcome toContinue reading “Text and image”
Travel Guides
Taking a risk and trying something new! My brief idea for this one is simple, create a new travel guide look that appeals to the younger, Instagram generation without aliening the current audience. The client is looking for trailing a new visual style for travel guides and starting with some of the most Instagram worthyContinue reading “Travel Guides”
Editorial illustration
Sometimes the right idea just takes time! I had to pick a heading, I was really torn between “how green is your food?”, “the best restaurant in town” and “loves me and love me not”. In the end I picked “how green is your food” as wouldn’t mind limiting the colour palette to just green.Continue reading “Editorial illustration”
Your own work
Making my own work go further! One thing I’ve learnt so far in many studies of other illustrators and artist is that make the most use of your artwork. The rise of third party print on demand companies such as Redbubble, Society6 and zazzle means you have access to having your work on product andContinue reading “Your own work”
Character development
Illustrating with character! I have started creating character moodboards (Sample above of my digital), physical, digitally and on pinterest. (below) Characters really do interest me, I’m going to continue to make mood boards as the list is endless! Aaron Blaise I cannot talk about character design without talking about one of the biggest influences inContinue reading “Character development”
Visual distortion
Not just pushing an image visually, I found I really needed to push myself! I start this exercise with being honest I’m not a fan of using collage of magazine/printouts in my work, I have just started to like creating textures and put them together, but to visually distort using images seem to fail me.Continue reading “Visual distortion”
A Tattoo
Designing with a client in mind and his mum! A quick note before starting this learning log. An important lesson was learnt during this exercise, that you need to be careful within illustrations, I had a direction I was going within Norse and Viking mythology, runes and mother symbols. While I did a lot ofContinue reading “A Tattoo”
Emclemmie @ OCA 