D&AD little white lies magazine

So for the D&AD student awards the task was to create a front cover for the film magazine "Little White Lies." There was a choice of films to choose from - Black Swan, Super 8, Drive, The Tree of Life and Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy. I chose Super 8.

My idea was based on in one of the final scenes which I felt I really connected with in the film. It's a really emotional scene where all the objects made of metal are floating up to make the ship for the alien to go back home. In the film we learn Joe's mum has died and he's kept her locket. He tries to hold on to the locket as it begins to float up to the ship but realises he has to let it go realising his mum is gone and able to be at peace with that.

Another little touch I added to help that effect was the white cubes attaching themselves to the little white lies logo  (as if connecting to the ship)

This is the original sketch which I did in pencil on top of a watercolour background and then added the squares, magazine title and colour of the pencil outline on photoshop after.

 I'm really pleased with how this turned out considering I didn't have much time to do it and juggling another project in the meantime. Happy it's now finished :D

Spectrum magazine illustration for 10th anniversary of 9/11

Summer doodles

Forgotten summer doodles! I did these sketches last summer and had forgotten all about them. I planned to do a doodle for each day of the summer holiday but didn't manage to do one for every day but still managed to do a fair few. I purposely decided not to use colour as I wanted a black and white theme running through it and just focus on the drawing. Some days were very dull but others were more exciting still I think it looks good when they're all put together making a little collection of things I did/saw in the summer.

Lately I've been following work of David Fleck. An artist I've come to admire very much. He uses lots of watercolour and inks to create wonderful dreamlike qualities in his work.
 Looking at his work and one or two other artists really inspired me to do a watercolour piece. I love using paints but almost always use acrylics so it was a nice change to just be a bit experimental and looser with my work (as I'm told I should be.)
Even though this only took 5 minutes to do (at 1 this morning!) it was good to create something I felt so inspired to do and something which wasn't college related. Something I created purely because I wanted to. Will definitely use more watercolour to get effects like this in the future.

Toy animation

So... the final animation never quite got completed. All the stills done but without music/ sounds but I think it was still a good project to do. Here's a few stills from a college project of my toy dog "sam" creating peace in the world. The idea was to look at 3 different acts of conflict in the world and Sam makes them peaceful by having them simply look into his "puppy dog eyes" and fixes the conflicts. Good old sam

Currently working on a hefty 3 projects at the moment Little White lies magazine cover, Picture book and a book with all our work from this year. So needless to say I'm quite a bit busy at the moment. Trying to keep sane while juggling all that but will try to keep posting as often as I can :)

T-shirts for sale!

Our class at college are selling t-shirts of our illustrations in order to fund our end of year show in June. My design is the mixed media Andy Warhol with the banana hair. Some great illustrations on here and still more to come, I'm going to try do at least another one. So come on buy some cool funky t-shirts and help us raise money for our show tar muchly :)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/illustrationetc

4 finals for Therapy today magazine all done yey. The top pictures are 1 photoshop and 1 vector for "Can't pay won't pay" and the bottom 2 are 1 photoshop and 1 vector image for "Family time". So nice to be finished them.. now to get back to my toy project!!