Coloured Plug the power dog cut out
Visual Distortion
As soon as I read 'dog or cat' for this exercise I thought of the book character 'Whatamess' the Afghan Hound. He was a scruffy and over enthusiastic puppy of…
Three colour Lioness and cub tattoo design
Protected: A Tattoo – MUM
The brief for this exercise was for a tatoo for a young man based around the word mum that could also be printed on a card for Mother's Day. Some…
Watercolour and coloured pencil on bristol board
A Menu Card
The brief for this menu card graphic was that the restaurant is a high end, modern, contemporary fish restaurant. Any food should look appetising. I started off by finding some…
Animals from around the World
Protected: Children’s Book Cover
Animals from Around the World I started with the usual development process of mindmap, moodboard and thumbnails, below.For the dimensions of the book, I decided to go with the dimensions…
Picturehooks Conference 2017
Inside Publishing: An Illustrator's Conference - May 20th 2017 This was an excellent conference held at the Manchester School of Art by PictureHooks in collaboration with the AOI. Speakers included:…
Graphic from general adult poster for Storiel museum in Bangor
Museum Posters
I decided to visit Storiel in Bangor to collect reference for this exercise. It has recently moved to a new building, which turned out to be very spacious and the…
Forget-me-nots dazzle in the Spring sunshine
Spring is in Full Swing
Apart from a few persisting cold nights, Spring is fully underway along the Dee portion of Wales coast path. The swallows have arrived, chiff chaffs are busy singing and butterflies…
Art journal illustration in Zohar Lazar style
Identifying Tools and Materials
Style is a much discussed topic among ilustrators. Some advocate having one style and sticking to it which clearly means finding a style to begin with. Others seem to have…
Final version of first classical music concert poster idea
Assignment 3
Well this one was fun! Serendipitously, my son is planning a classical music concert with some friends for September. Less fortunately the requirements for the poster changed, midway through my…
Book cover mockup for The Snow Child
Mock up
First Attempt So I decided to mock up a book cover for the book I have written, for this exercise. The book is titled Rose's New Family and was editted…