A1 Moodboard

My A1 moodboard to accompany my written proposal for the Final Major Project. I've chosen to do it on J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' because I wanted to read it again, and also because there weren't many other things I wanted to give a shot at as much as this. 

It is essentially a collaboration of previously illustrated book covers and illustrations, mixed with my own drawings of important parts of the text. There aren't many illustrations (next to none) for the text, so I want to create illustrations for the narrative, a book jacket and continue editorial work (in the form of book reviews etc.) and this is the starting point. 

To create the collage I used found pictures, inks, various paints, colouring pencils, pastel pencils and spray paints.

Picture Book Project

My two double page spread ideas for the picture book project. The story is about a woman who wants to eat a child, but since no parent wants to give up their child in the village, she ventures home and eats her own child without realising who he was. 

I used gouache paints, coloured inks and edited the result on Photoshop. 

Influences include Lane Smith.

Approx. 30 x 11cm

Green Day Design

My design for a Green Day competition. It is for the bands Facebook timeline photo, and Green Day have always been one of my favourite bands so I had to enter. I used parts of all their albums (13 in total) to create a collage using Photoshop.

Voting is open now until 13th November so please vote for me. Follow the link --

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a3c151c4af1c0b834be3177db32fafbc/789

Thanks!

Size = 851 x 315 pixels.

How To Write A Book In 30 Days.

My artwork for a magazine supplement cover advertising people who like to read to encounter writing their own book. 

Firstly, I created a gouache painting of a basic owl shape, which I scanned in and edited using Photoshop. I included typewriter wheels for the owl's eyes, pen nibs and quills for the wing feathers and different forms of text such as typewriter keys and scrabble letters.

In my tutorial, the feedback I received for this work was really good, and the editorials have definitely been beneficial for me.

Size = A4

Advertisement for 'Giant Pocky'

My idea for the advertisement for giant Pocky. I've painted each element with gouache and put it together using Photoshop. I played around with this a lot to find the right saturation and overall look of the advert. It has helped me gain confidence using materials I haven't used very often so far, that I feel I can use from now on successfully.

Appropriate for Halloween, too!

Size = 200 x 290 mm

'Madness of Crowds'

My idea for the article 'Madness of Crowds', explaining how because of the recession, Las Vegas is becoming a holiday resort to make money, meaning more children are going there while adults gamble.

I used gouache for the Vegas skyline, and collaged everything together using Photoshop and put it all on a graph to show the decline of Vegas. In feedback, it was mentioned I could make the skyline more like a graph showing a sharper decline than it has here, definitely something I could change.

Size of Illustration = 115 x 105 mm

Mail Art Lincoln

I put this postcard together in a short space of time because I wanted to mail my artwork for the 'Mail Art' exhibition happening in Lincoln now on Sincil Street. I flicked through a small book I have which is based on postcard artwork and made this. It's basically a wheel with the zodiac signs on it, with a bit of collage added to it. I used gouache, gold paint and inks on brown parcel paper. I used an actual postcard and painted over it so that it would be sturdy enough to withstand going through the post.

I have heard that the postcard was put up in the exhibition with my name next to it too!