coffee cars

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

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

the end is nigh

short group animation project. i worked with the lovely Marin Matsuo and Dawn Smit and we produced a short animation on overpopulation. these are some stills, i will add the link as soon as we have uploaded it. the images are made on photoshop using scanned individual stamped pictures of the small buildings. it was great fun to produce and i'm quite pleased with it! collaborations are fun!

obsession

so we might have a little 'zine on sale soon. a collaboration of some of the many talented illustrators in our class. and there will be some postcards too. a bit of a multipack kind of thing going on. anyway, theme is 'obsession' so of course, first thing to spring in to my mind was food! i do love food. its true. and categorising things, only unnecessary things. and organising them into pointless grids. i do like grids. its very difficult to draw anything not into some form of grid at the moment. and it will be screen printed! i do also like screen prints. mmm categorised food grid screen print...

wallpaper

the beginnings of a wallpaper design for a recent project. these are just part of a draft, in my final the building are collaged with small stamped pictures of tanks and bullets and planes and other such weaponry that from a distance just look like tiles and wooden panelling. we were asked to design a wallpaper based on two conflicting character traits, mine were 'overt' and 'covert'. mine was a comment on the military background of our country.

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.

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