Paper craft - Social Awareness

My new project, Social Awareness, is looking at how video games affect children both positively and negatively. I tried to think of a way that I could portray the message for both children and parents but using video games to represent my message. The most popular video game for children is Minecraft, it also offers a lot of positives to video games. So I created a paper Steve and a friend to represent how playing online allows you to make friends. I want to do a series of these posters but putting the characters in real settings not game ones. It just so happens to be very wet at the moment restricting my use of outside.

Just a mock up poster. Hooray for Steve!

Artists I like #7

Upon doing some research into some artist for my Social Awareness project, which I'm looking at video games, I found this artist who draws video games but as children books. He manages to give the game a new title that makes it seem more suitable for children. He also creates covers for TV series and movies. I really like these illustrations!

His website, tons more to see: Jo3bot 

Blog characters

Redesigning my blog I thought it needed a bit of personality, and a sense of the style I like to draw. So I create myself with titles to fit into my blog. The titles all follow the same pattern theme so they tie in together. They are all using the same colours and collage style to fit in with each other.

Sequential Illustration

I didn't update any of my work because I just loose track and don't find time to do my blog. I have done two projects but here is the final images for my previous project. I had to design a protagonist and had to place them in a sequence of 5 images. The story is about how Zinnia was born without wings; she has to be independent and clever to make a pair for herself. I did a mixed media shoot similar to my last Narrative project. Zinnia is made from photos of flowers I took myself, along with a drawn body. I then set her in the garden with a butterfly I bought and shot the scenes.

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/

Advertising I like #3

Watching TV I saw the new M&S Food advert. I loved it straight away. It's an advert I actually enjoy watching. You can always tell when it's an M&S advert because of the quality and effort put into the video. It's strange to compare M&S against Tesco or Morrison, you know the different shops just from a few seconds of advert by how they represent food and the quality of the camera. 

I love how they incorporated slow motion and fast forwarding at the same time. I'm not quite sure how they produced the shots to look both slow and fast at the same time but it's pretty impressive. The food always looks so good in M&S adverts whether you like it or not.  The music is a good choice too because it matches the quality of food as well as makes the sequence of the video flow quite nicely.The colours are bright and bold and it really makes the whole thing appealing.

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.