Hay Festival!

So here is how my final image turned out at the Festival, i am pretty pleased with the result and think all the images that were selected work very nicely with each other. 

My Sketchbook front page signed by Oliver Jeffers who we met at the Festival. 

Hay Festival design - Continued

Here is my under milk wood design once printed through the laser cutter, once i took out the loose pieces i realized that perhaps my design was too complicated for this type of printing.

So i decided to simplify it, drawing the new design and making sure all the lines were connected and would be more suitable for the vinyl cutter, the new design still depicts Captain Cat reminiscing about his love, but I've changed it to a side profile and drawn the mermaid coming out of the smoke of his pipe.   

This is the revised design, After being process and colour changed in Adobe Illustrator, My design has fortunately been selected as one of the designs to be used on the hoarding at the Hay Festival, But circumstances have changed so we will no longer be having our design printed through the vinyl cutter and will be printed on paper on a large scale, which negates the need for the design to be ready for laser cutter, but i feel it looks better in silhouette and having all the lines connected.   

Moleskin bits and bobs

Just a quick post of some of my recent moleskin drawings and paintings, most of these are done in inks and fineliner :)

Illustration futures- Graphic novel progress

I've started work on the Graphic Novel for the Under Milk wood project, i have chosen the sequence in which captain Cat is dreaming about his long lost love. The pages work out to 5 with all the text panels in the right place.

The first page, i feel i might redo this one, some of the panels aren't anatomically correct, i may be able to fix this issue in Photoshop.

I will be adding text in later on Photoshop, i attempted hand written text on the first page but i didn't feel it would fit.

I like this page just being one large detailed panel, although there are still some things i'd like to alter, for instance i'm not happy with the way Rosie Probert's face turned out, also one of the text panels is slightly off being straight.  

This page i feel can go without much Altering.

I will put the last line in the text of the sequence in the center of the white area in this page.

I still need to work on this a bit more, but i quite like the colour scheme and the way the drawing seems to be going. 

Personal Identity- figurines

Whilst continuing to look at Pokemon for my personal Identity project, I've slowly been focusing in more on my Pokemon figurine collection rather than the trading cards, as well as drawing from the Pokemon figurines I've started designing my own creatures, first in fineliner and then exploring with limited colour using inks.

 i like the look of having several small designs on the page rather than having one or two big ones, i feel this reflects the physical collection of figurines better.

Adding line onto block colour ink paintings.

I've noticed that the colours used in Pokemon can often be simplified down to just two or three in the palette, these are fan made Pokemon "sprites" but are almost identical to those used in the actual game.