Thursday 26 June 2014

Dancing At Angles.

I recently got commissioned to make a double-sided flyer for a new monthly event which will be happening in Norwich. The event is called Dancing at Angles and will be held at The Birdcage (23 Pottergate, Norwich) on the 1st August. There are three bands playing this first event,  Thieving Icons, Edenites, and Reno Dakota. 
The flyer I have designed will be going to print this week, make sure you grab yourself one to get £1 off entry on the door! 


Flyers will be handed out around Norwich in the next few weeks.




Thursday 12 June 2014

Photoshop Illustration.

A few weeks back I found my graphics tablet which I had completely forgotten about. Now I have a whole bunch of free time during my uni summer break I thought it would be a great chance to get myself doing the things I used to love and haven't done in a very long time. I did a set of three potted plant drawings, a cactus, an aloe vera, and a venus fly trap. These were all similar in colour and style (including being drawn into the same style pot).
You can buy these illustrations as separate A4 prints or as a set of 3 A5 here.

Venus Flytrap.

Cactus.

Aloe Vera.

Sketchbooking.

This is the first update on the progression of my work during the summer. Here are a few things I've been doing this week in my newly made sketchbooks. 
Mixed Media Houses.

Dripping Ink Skull.

Skull and Daisy.

Mixed Media Block of Houses.

Mixed Media Colour Leaves.

Mixed Media Coloured Leaves.

Mixed Media Cacti.

Pencil on Black Paper Whale.

Two Tone Ink Drawing of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tracing Paper Removable Sunglasses.

Wax Crayon and Ink Yoda.

Wax Crayon, Ink and Pencil Bikes. 

Handmade Sketchbooks.

I recently made two of my own sketchbooks using a variety of different papers including tracing paper, old opened out envelopes, parchment paper, etc. I used different papers since I'm really bad at sticking with one sketchbook, and in hope that this will keep me interested until the end. This will also help me with different approaches to different paper and media, helping me become looser in my illustration work. To make these books I used the coptic stitch binding method. For a first attempt, I don't think they came out too bad, they could be a little neater but that will come with practice I suppose. 

My Hand Bound Books.