Artists I like #6

Saw this link posted on Facebook, made me smile. The images are created by an Illustrator Rafael Mantesso. I like the humour to these images as well as the creativity. They all have a range of skill, some being simple and cartoon, others being more realistic and well drawn.

http://www.boredpanda.com/jimmy-choo-bull-terrier-illustrations-rafael-mantesso/

Artists I like #5

On my trip to Disney World I found an Illustration I instantly loved. 

The artist is Jerrod Maruyama. All his work is cute and mostly Disney related. He works as a freelance Illustrator and graduated San Jose State university with a degree in Illustration. I'd love to one day produce work that would be sold by Disney.

Final Piece - Rsearching Methadology

Kind of fell behind on the old blog again, finished the animal research project and I'm now onto the newest Narrative Illustration. I thought I'd just put a few of the pictures from the shoot of my final dresses (which turned into skirts.)

 

Skirt and scarf 1 - Printed my own design onto fabric

Skirt and scarf 2 - Using felt I made lots of little Robins

Robin Lino - Researching Methodology

Having a lino workshop we had to produce some prints with the full body view of our animal. I created the Robin itself at first and decided I wanted the border and background to look almost "woody"; like how wood would look if it had been hacked at. I removed the background in a sort of chiseling method. I didn't do any reduction for this lino although I implemented the process on Photoshop so that I might get an idea on how the piece would look. I have a larger scale piece of lino which I will be creating a print with and hopefully doing some reduction prints.

New year, new project - Methodology

I haven't posted in a while so I have set myself a goal to write at least one post a week! I totally lost track of the book project I did so I thought I'd just chuck in the final design as well as my new project starting point.

So these were my final cover ideas for the book "Lolita". I enjoyed researching this book so much, it really was an enjoyable project. 

So my new project involves picking an animal and basing our whole project on it, with lots of research. (Which I happen to love doing research. ) My chosen animal is a Robin!

First monoprint - Identity through print

I had my first ever University workshop. Woohoo! Our project at the moment is looking into our own personal identity. We are using methods of print to help us discover more about ourselves. The first workshop was Monoprint, something I have previous experience with; I wasn't too delighted at the idea. I thought that after my college days that it would be a drag but I used some letter stamps along with the monoprints and actually enjoyed it a lot more than before. I liked mixing the media of stamps and illustrations together. We were only supplied with black and I felt a little restricted by the colour; although colour shouldn't make a difference I am use to doing much more colourful prints. So seeing as I love food, it was the main inspiration as well as Disney!

The 'mmmmm' was actually created with the letter N because I couldn't find an actual M. I just double up two nns to make a lovely m :)