Background, Cityscape Design

Cityscape I designed, utilising coloured blocks and fine line to add simplistic details. I thought that this would be an ideal set up for an animation, featuring the movement of a busy street; cars, bikes and buses all rushing in the same exit. Just an idea at the moment.

I'm not quite sure to which style of animation to use really; whether to utilise the techniques of silhouette like Lotte Reiniger or fine liner sketch board animation used by such main animated industries as Disney.    

Printing with Collage

 Emotion I aimed to convey with my character:
* Pleasant Surprises from find new things
* New-ness
* Growth in character and knowledge

Food Illustrations

Here is some posh grub to get your mouth watering.

As preparation for a recipe book illustration project, these were part of my winter observational drawings. Drawing food before I ate them, you can imagine how hard that was.

Food displayed:
*Lamb Chop
*Olive and Cheese Canapé
*Scallop & Chorizo slice
*Fresh Onion
*Black Olive on a stick.

Typography

 Here are my experimentations with type; by trying to adapt techniques and translate styles of different type, I produced these pieces (using my own composition and colour scheme).

Bookmark or Card Designs

Here are a few doodles from the old noggin that I believed would be ideal (once redrawn and neatened up) for bookmark designs to be engraved in wooden strips or printed on thin length cards.

Anthropomorphism !

Who doesn't like animals adapted in cartoons and movies to have human traits. So here are mine. Using toddler water colours and fine liner, I aimed to create a fluid romanticism style I feel embodies the countryside I'm surrounded by and combined this with animal dressed in casual working class dressed mice just enjoying the peace and tranquillity out side the 'ugly picture' of work and in to the 'Golden frame' of relaxation. 

Birds- Observational and Experimental Development

 After being inspired by the idea of travel and migration, I felt I need to do a few studies in illustrating bird. Of course due to seasons, I was fairly limited to species so I drew mainly seabirds that migrate to the city form Observation (90% drawing 10% looking). I was lucky to see a Blue Tit and a female flinch though which took a great deal of patience to draw as the little things were only observed from fleeting moments (which the pair, I used the technique of memorising as much detail as humanly possible before doodling (and before they flew off).


















Blue Tit : Mixed Media to which I utilised scrap bits of map pages and cheap watercolour paints for toddlers for the Bird.

Gulls: Mix Media utilising scrap map pages (grey) to illustrate the body, and Fine-liners and toddler water colours for the faces.

Pigeon: Mix Media utilising scrap pieces of maps (black and green), water colours that were loss enough to blow with a straw and fine-line pen for the bird design and silhouette plant observations.