A few more ideas for the flat

A few more.

Right! i know what the colour issue is now. I am officially an idiot. I will fix these tomorrow and repost them. I always forget the whole, RGB vs CMYK thing when i post on this site.

Things for the flat

So, i'm sick of living in a flat with bare walls.
I have a few sketches and paintings up but it is mostly just work i have left out of projects from last year so i have decided to make up some very quick, simple designs in illustrator.

Got a few done in between jobs, this is literally an hours work so i will keep coming back to it over the next few days till i can pick out 4 or 5 for print.

And, once again, the colours are off. Every time i post to blogger it changes the colours :/ probably something i'm doing lol

HSC posters again

My last attempt was pretty poor but i have touched up the design.

here they are, looking a bit more professional.

The band wanted something brighter so i added the orange in the first design. I still sent the blue one as i personally think this is the stronger of the 2 but this is mainly because of my own personal colour preferences. They work quite well together though so i am not complaining too much.

Kris Davidson

I thought i would take some spare time to talk about one of my favourite artists who has really inspired me to focus my illustration and artwork.

KrisD is an American artist and tattoo artist who mostly uses isometric drawing for his designs and artwork.

From complex patterns such as this which i used for inspiration for the album artwork for Human Sacrifice Club which can be seen on this blog.

To much more complex pieces of artwork like this that takes isometric drawing to a whole different level.

I have been really inspired by his work and have used it as a spring board to move onto other kinds of pattern drawing such as Mandalas like this one:

I have really enjoyed designing in this style and find patterns really therapeutic. Hopefully i can learn to produce work like Kris's more recent work, i just need to find out how to put my own stamp on it.

Final module jitters

Well, we come to the end of another year... My last year as i am not staying for the third year top up.

The aim of this module is to gather all my work over the last year and a half to organise a portfolio.
This is also a chance to re-do a lot of the final pieces that i have been unhappy with which, for me, is moat of them. Up until this point i haven't had the skills to do any of my work any real justice.

First up is a project from last year that i was really unhappy with. A live brief from penguin books, a competition to design the cover for the Brothers Grimms' fairy tales.

I spent the whole time painting an illustration for the cover and left my actual cover till too late to do it justice. It was aweful. I would post it but not even my hard drive wanted to be reminded of it apparently :p

Anyway, I have used the skills that i have picked up over the last few months to completely redesign the cover. I used my painting as a guide (i will find the painting and post it soon) and completed the design in Illustrator, using Photoshop to add texture as the design was looking awefully flat.

Here is the completed design, I'm not sure about the font so may change that but it will not be too much of a change.

For once, I am actually pretty happy with the outcome. It actually looks like it could be used.

As an aside, i just noticed a mistake in the vector art. I'm not going to say what it is as i don't want to draw attention to it lol.

I know she doesn't look right but i put so much effort into the original painting i was loath to redesign her...

Hopefully it is a suitable representation of the darkness inherrant in Grimm brothers stories.

Making things.

Nothing quite like getting your hands dirty.

A few in progress shots to show how it is going together. It will be on a transparent floating base.
Below the WIP shots is the image of the graffti that inspired it.

Quick poster for HSC.

Had a really, incredibly tight deadline as this was just a favour to go with the album cover which is still in progress.

Not great, i know. But i got to try a few new things and play in inDesign. Obviously  rush job so i'm not happy with it.