Havana Arts Festival

For this illustration brief we had to design a poster for the Havana Arts Festival 2012 and redesign the logo for Havana Club who would be sponsoring the Festival.

Final Poster Design with Logo

Childern's Picture Book Illustration

The current brief for illustration is children's picture books. We have do complete a single and double page spread for the Book Moon Rabbit by Natalie Russell.

One of the first thing that I wanted to do was to see how a child would draw a rabbit. So I went to the school where my mum works and asked the Reception class to draw me a rabbit (In return I had to draw a golden coach to help the learn about the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and then got roped into sticking pasta on it and helping paint it!). This is a small selection of there drawings.

I then started to create my own rabbit character.

I decided then that I wanted to try and create a 3D rabbit.

The bottom rabbit is the one that I chose to use.

I then made a "set" for each of the pages that I had to illustrate.

These are the final images that I will use once I have added the text.

CD Cover Finals

These are the final designs for my CD Cover Design.

Developing Illustration Practice

The new brief for developing illustration practise is to design a CD cover front and back. We could choose any music that we liked. The music that I choose was Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons collaborating with the Indian Dharohar Project. This is a mixture between contemporary British Folk and Indian Folk music.

The idea behind the first image was trying to and show both the British and Indian elements. The first way that I thought of ding this was with animals due to the fact that the wildlife of Britain and India are so distinctly different. In the first image the British wildlife is on the left or the West facing the Indian wildlife on the right or the East.
The second image is the same as the first only this time the wildlife is coloured based on the flag of the country that it is from.
For the third image i created a similar piece to the first only this time the animals are more stylised in there form. I wanted to do this to show the contemporary element of the music.
The fourth image is the same as the third but this time in a similar way to the second image I have used the colours of the countries flag only this time just an outline which I think works much better that the full colour.
I also looked at the different instruments used by the British folk artists and the Indian. In the fifth image I used water colour paints an a thin fine liner pen to outline the collection of instruments. In the sixth image I used a similar style as before in the placement of the images and used the brown fine liner again.
In the last image I was looking at ways in which I could add typography to the cover.

Editorial Brief Continued

So the editorial brief...

Research on Mars and its surface.

Experimenting with media to create the effect of Mars surface.

Traditional collage technique using painted backgrounds and magazine images as well as papers to at details.

Computer collage using the same images from the magazines.

Using one of my initial ideas and editing the background to change the colour of the planet from black and white to reds.

Using a similar idea to my initial ideas to create a final image.

Newer Illustration Brief

The new brief for Applied Illustration Practice has moved on from children's illustration to editorial illustrations. The article that we have been given is called Why to Avoid Getting Pregnant on the way to Mars.
These are some of my initial ideas based on the article using collage with assorted papers and images from magazines.