Lil Christmas tree commission

Halloween

Halloween !

Spent way too long carving these ,but love the outcome ! 

Poster Mock ups

      Some more samples just with different boarders to see which is best for my poster design

Poster series

two mock ups for my final project a series of Poster Designs . I was initially going to create two colour pieces and two black and white . Now its black and white series with hint of red in each image to link them all together . Think ill will go with a red boarder instead of the white one in the seven year itch mock up ,the red helps the image stand out more .

will post the final pieces fixed up and fully polished Designs  in the next few days !

Still working on it hopefully have it done and dusted by end of day tomorrow and then to just do lettering hopefully be fully finished by friday !

Poster Work

 Work in progress , Young Frankenstein Poster design 

for one of my final projects . I will be doing series of four movie posters . I chose "The Seven Year Itch " ,

" Young Frankenstein " , " High Anxiety "  and  " Some like it hot " . 

will hopefully upload more by the end of the week . 

Some current work

Just some current sketches for the current project I'm working I will post more progress soon !

Brian Froud - guest lecture

So today was pretty good day , we had a guest lecture from none other than Brian Froud, who is mostly known for his work on films such as Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth"and creator of international best sellers LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK, GOOD FAERIES / BAD FAERIES and THE FAERIES' ORACLE . He showed us portfolio of his work, and some of his current pieces which where brilliant pieces of art ."Never listen to your tutors" is a brilliant piece of advice he gave us all and to stay true to your work .All in all a Pretty good start to the week !

So theses images are some I had started for class based work we had to read a piece on "sharing the bill " and create images of diners I decided to take it bit further and tried to create designs for possible Signs for this niche" restaurant "  I thought I would try create them in the style of  Olde English Pub signs . Ill photoshop the lettering and the pieces together soon and will hopefully make a bit more sense to those of you that are not too familiar with these signs.

                                                                  Very Fine Dining .

Some Skull Sketches I went online to find some images of real skulls to help with my drawing reference 

how skulls are shaped to help me create better character designs.

                                                             Some of my character designs , emotions in skulls , I have
                                                             Angry , Happy , bored and some front on and profile sketches .

Some of the Lettering Designs from my Sketch Book .

Roald Dahl Some Book Cover designs

So this was a project were I took  Two Roald Dahl  classics and created my own design for the book covers and one internal page designs .

The First Is my Designs for  "The Giraffe The Pelly and Me "

done with water soluble pencils and pen and ink .

 "Cover Page"

 "Internal Page 

Second Piece is  my design for "The Magic Finger " one internal page and book cover design

 I also used pen and ink with this , some gouche and water soluble pencils. 

"Internal Page 

"Cover Page "

Dads Birthday !

So I did quick card for my dads birthday just used pen and pencil

Some life drawing pieces

Lil Card I did for my grandad

Bolonga Book Fair Entry 2014(Hopefully!!)

So I Chose the poem "The Death and Burial Of Cock Robin" to illustrate .

Its a great poem to use as it is very visually descriptive . For the book fair you have to Illustrate 5 images from your chosen text  here are mine.

I decided to go for black and white design as the poem was originally written in 1865

so i tried match the images with the mood of the poem  .

Cover Image With and Without text.

"Who Killed Cock Robin ?

I, said the sparrow with my bow and arrow,

I killed Cock Robin ."

"Who saw him die?

I,said the Fly,

with my little eye,

I saw him die."

"Who'll dig his grave ?

I, said the Owl ,

with my pick and shovel,

I'll dig his grave ."

"Who'll carry the coffin ?

I, said the Kite ,

If it's not through the night,

I'll carry the coffin ."