Fashion Look Book: front cover tester.

My last project for the year was to design and book cover (front, back and spine) for Illustration, advertised to a younger audiance. We could choose fashion, or gadgets. I went with Fashion, and aimed at a more girl based audiance for this front cover.

This is just a quick example of what I had in mind for the final piece. I'm hoping to adapt it after getting the tutors opinions on it. Possiblty try a less pink scheme and re-do the title.

Side note- Yey for masking tapes various uses. Makes an excellent texture :)

Some of the mini experiments I did for this project. I scanned in various items of clothing that had patterns or visible textures to create these images.

Opposites and free time illustrations.

This was done for a very short project simply labelled 'Opposites'. We picked out a piece of paper with a pair of opposites on them, and had to illustrate what we felt was appropriate. I got the words 'Happy and Sad', so I felt a good way to portray this was with atmosphere and colour. I used watered down Acrylic paints and Indian Ink for the colouring and outlines.

Another thing that I've recently gotten involved in was Dungeons and Dragons. Because one of my favourite things to draw is humans, and more specifically costume and interaction, I decided to take two of the characters from my party and illustrate them in combat.

 

This is one of the character design sheets for when I was working on my character.I also did design sheets for my parties characters, but have yet to finish them.

Bus lines; don't we all hate them?

Or more specifically when someone pushes in. One of my recent projects was to do a response to this article. (To read it, click it to see the full size). So I chose to do a somewhat comedic drawing of angels and demons, but played down from what you'd typical expect, and drawn to present real everyday humans. This was the final outcome-

'Lady like'.

Whilst watching a video today about the 'Bright Young things' from the 1920's, I found myself experimenting with my fine liner and creating thicker over laying lines and created obscurely dressed or decorated women. 

The insparation was how the Bright Young things were portrayed in the document, as wild, carefree and often horrendous looking, yet they were showered with love, attention despite their lack of real talent or ambition. Though these designs are not quite as obscene and culturally out of place, I feel they have a sense of carefree and outrageous behavior. 

I hope to do a male equivilent to these designs, especially after learning more about how men responded to this cultural outbreak.

Poetry- Illustrative responses

One of the new briefs I was given today for Illustration was to create an Illustrative response to a paired line from 'Nature Trail' by Benjamin Zephaniah. Poetry being one of the things I take enjoyment from, alongside art, meant this gave me almost immidiate inspiration. 

'There's this constant search for food

And then there's all that flowering.'

The poem is aimed at a much younger audiance, but I think children can enjoy a more complex image once in a while.