coffee cars

illy brief about 'journeys'. little coffee bean cars making their way through traffic

postcard

here is a postcard i am getting printed for the show! very exciting

anchovy

larger scale rubber stamp. anchovies are nice

d&ad

these were mine and jess lewins collaborative entries to the d&ad illustration brief. the two pieces were in response to songs by the andrews sisters and while we didnt make it 'in book' we had a great time making the objects and are pleased with the outcome. we will re-photograph them as they aren't as clear as they could be. the two are piano related items and both are fully functional. the top one is in reference to the ocean and how both waves and piano keys follow a rhythm and the bottom one is to show how people are controlled by music just as a piano is controlled by its player. the little arms and legs dance about when the piano hammers are played. i really enjoyed working in 3d and particularly loved working with the wood. wish i had done more wood work before this project!

Robin

its been a while since i've posted, been busy working on final major project for such a long time! but that is done now, so here is a character design from the early stage of fmp.

london 2012

we were set a task to design a series of posters for an imaginary advertising brief to encourage people to cycle to the olympics. i've enjoyed working with stamps recently so uset lino to make larger stamps than previously. the colours were chosen to coincide with the horrible 2012 logo, i usually wouldnt work with these kind of bright colours. i really enjoyed making and stamping the detail of the buildings

doggies

these are a few little doggies i drew to go on a card for hannah rowlands's birthday. me and sophie powell made a collage of dogs for her. she likes dogs.

fairground rides

inspired by one of my favourite quotes on 'the inbetweeners'. unfortunately had to be scanned in two parts so its got a dodge line through the middle but hey ho. here's a ferris wheel. i really enjoyed drawing out the type.

various location

some location drawings from last term. location isn't my strong point but here they are nonetheless.

happy families

jeremy kyle happy families. these are individual cards cut out from an A0 screenprint of 45 different characters from the show. the cards are linoprinted on the back. the names and stories on the cards are the genuine characters. will put up a picture of the A0 print as i think it looks nicer than the individual cards but i cant figure out how to take a bearable picture of it yet. it took a very long time to make and gave me knee problems. fun stuff. worth it though for the hours of jeremy kyle i got to watch as research...

love that show.

some olives and a fool

i am currently doing a project on food. not entirely sure where it's going yet but it will be fun to find out. these two items were pretty much the entire contents of my fridge yesterday. gooseberry fool's have to be one of the greatest foods ever created

hic

tiny book produced in response to a project where we had 16 words to choose from to inspire us to make a story. i picked 'scarecrow'. the result was 'hic'; a 16 page tale about a lonely scarecrow who eventually makes friends thanks to the help of a hiccuping crow. deep stuff.

i limited myself to using only two colours for a challenge. not sure why i chose yellow and purple, they are my least favourite colours. probably wont happen again

coins

screen print for a second year project entitled 'ephemera'. i based it on a collection of chocolate coin wrappers i have had for a few years. it is still to be embossed with hallmarks representing the worth of each coin to me. there are also some ordinary coins in the image to show how personal value is different to monetary value.

meat pig

i like bacon, a lot. so when we were given a one day project simply entitled 'pig' it made sense to make an homage to pork in general. it is a comment on how pigs are born and bred entirely for one purpose; to be dinner. 'meat pig' here, as he was nicknamed, is a life-sized piglet made from raw bacon and sausages and is the love child of me and the marvelous miss sophie h powell. who might i add; is a vegetarian....

we were heartbroken to have to leave him in a bin in fairfield park after 3 days of him sat in the fridge

tooth pirates print

linoprint created for a print project entitled 'accidents' in the first year. it was the pre-cursor to the tooth pirate book.

tea diary

a tiny book created for a personal project in first year, it is a diary of tea. what i drunk, where and when for 7 days. i sewed it together by hand, which taught me a thing or two about sewing through card. don't. it hurts

tooth pirates book

a personal project from my first year. it is a story for a proposed children's book about a little boy who does not brush his teeth properly and as a result tiny pirates come and steal them in the night to make tiny little pirate houses out of them. bad stuff. always brush your teeth.