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(^o^)14th Day Christmas Pictures!(^_^)

2011-12-14T12:57:00.000-08:00

As a lead-up to my 25th birthday, I decided that every month on the 14th, I will create and post an image on my blog, this will be based on what comes to mind, what I have seen from the first week, on TV, DVD's or places that I have been around London. This month I have chosen to create a Christmas drawing since it will be next week where Christmas will finally arrive. It's of a drawing of an angel that lives on top of the tree and meets another ornament which has floated around the house. (You'll probably realise this already or not but the ornament or the right reminds me of Steve Jobs in his younger days.... He didn't really come to mind while I was drawing this picture but as I coloured the image, I saw a bit of a resemblance.) This image is in water-colour paints and inked in black ink:

The next drawing is a Secret Santa for a particular forum member on a website called Sweatdrop. This forum member has a web comic called FanDanGo that begun in 2009 and is still going today. She is part of a group called Indie Manga and has created some great comics so far. Since she is a fan of Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle, I decided to do a fan art of this series. It's written by a five female manga artists called CLAMP, where each of them create various fragments for one series. They are also the artist who create one of my favourite manga, called xxxholic. It's a different story however it's a cross-over of Tsubasa and the same scenes in Tsubasa are portrayed quite differently in this comic. The main characters are drawn in Christmas clothes:

The final drawing, is a another fan-art for Deb Marlowe. This is another retrospective picture of two brothers (Charles and Jack) who have found their love (Sophie and Lily) in two of the authour's books. (Scandelous Lord, Rebellious Miss and Her Cinderella Season) It's has a Christmas theme and I was inspired by visiting The Museum of London. As usual I visited the Pleasure Garden's section of the Museum and sketched the clothes with an orange coloured pencil. When I got home I inked and used water colour paints the drawing. Towards the end of this week, the image will be sent to Deb:

On a side note, I created this impressionist drawing of myself to celebrate my 24th birthday last month, I've abandoned black in this drawing and used blue. Also I portrayed myself wearing my Front of House uniform that I wear at work:

The five chosen images for children's book

2011-11-04T03:40:00.000-07:00

Here are the five chosen images that I have chosen for the children's book, from last month:

4) This fourth image that my client really admired a lot. I love the invisibility that I created with this main female protagonist.

So here are the five chosen images, soon I will a show the images that were not chosen. I enjoyed this project and I felt really inspired researching different Illustrators. I hope to research more and find more inspiration not only to create more pin-up drawings but to create stories.

Front covers for Storybook

2011-09-19T05:48:00.000-07:00

Here are the front covers for the Story book project that I done with my client:

As I finally showed these to my client she decided to have the female villain who has blue hair. By the end of next week I will post up the five images that I have chosen for the story. Also the last front cover with the pink clouds is the chosen cover that my client would like to use for the book. Soon I'll post up the image again but with the title, etc.

Stained Glass Pastel Drawings and something new to share! (^_^)

2011-08-24T14:36:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

My apologies for the long hiatus, I've been busy finding a new job. Although I work as an event steward, I'm hoping to find something else that will be useful with books and also with the Illustrations that I produced.

At during these past months I worked at the Hampton Court

Palace Flower Show. I produced some line art drawings which of course lacked light and tone. These sketches were a starting point of something new and exciting. Originally these sketches would transform into A4 format of coloured inked drawings.

But this drastically transformed into pastel drawings on one Saturday where I watched a show called 'Art Attack', where the presenter Neil Buchanan, drew a fairy on blue paper using white chalk. It was then I decided to look through my room and find the black sheet of paper and pastel set that I bought a while back to produce the next stage of the the sketches.

The first one is a fan art from Deb Marlowe's second novel 'An Improper Aristocrat'. If features

the main protagonist Nial and Chione, in a fixed embrace position. The changes that I created for this composition is the spirals and the extended hair of Nial. Here is the sketch and the A3 piece:

The next sketch and picture has a gardening theme. Inspired by the place that I was working, I drew out a girl within an array of flowers:

The third one that I sketch and drew was of a female Joker. The idea came to mind on a bus ride home from work. The song that I was listening to was a track called 'You' It's by a band called Take That. It's featured on their album 'The Circus' which I think is a brilliant album.

I with this pin-up that I drew I hope to create a manga with the character. Hopef

ully before November if not then it will be a novel with illustrations. The story hasn't come to mind yet but I have a feeling something will come up. A vague difference with these two images is that her eyes are smaller than the sketch:

Lastly the project that I am working on now will be something that I am really excited about. Here are a few character designs of the female villain. I had to draw her more than once basically because I was not satisfied with the first one I drew. Also it has some similarities of some of the female characters of DC comics and Marvel:

Late February to Late March

2011-03-20T13:51:00.000-07:00

During the end of February to the end of this month I have been reading a lot of historical fiction watch some music videos and working on a project for a company that works woth youths from a young age until early twenties.

The first batch of drawings were loosely inspired by a historical romance novel called 'Gallant Officer, Forbidden Lady' by a well known Romance novelist Diane Gaston. This is in fact the second time that I have been inspired by this novelist's work and I can honestly say what drew me, to this novel was that the main protagonist Jack Vernon. He most certainly had a great and extraordinary mind to be an artist. His mind were always filled with everlasting images of a certain war that occurred within the novel. This was the first war, that left him with open scars of hatred and pain not only to his soul but also on one of the characters of which I won't mention. You'll have to read the book to find out. I admired him so much that he even went to the extent of recording what he visualised and pouring them into the cup of pages of his sketchbook. His studio were filled with mountains of sketchbooks.

This novel really did give me interest of Gaston as an auth

or and I will certainly keep up to date with her books.

Here are the drawings that inspired me while reading the book:

Coloured inks were used to add colour into the drawings.

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These two drawing were modified on Photoshop. The first one takes reference to a camera photo on my old phone. As for the second drawing, it was derived from

a walk home after creating a batch full of drawings my mind began to sing some lyrics to a very popular song that was released this year. These were the lyrics: "So ju st put your hands, on me on skinny jeans, be your teenage dreams tonight" My mind then began to play the second drawing which is featured before your eyes right now.

These last two drawings were created from pastels, one which is of a gentleman in regency clothing and the other is of a fictional character called Wizadora, from my childhood:

The final task that I have been working on is a storyboard and character studies for a film for my client. So far the majority of the characters have been completed and I am

still working on the storyboard:

Happy Valentines Day!

2011-02-14T03:20:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day, for those who celebrate it. I've been drawing this month and I have been inspired by stained glass windows and also different variations of bedrooms:

This first drawing is for a competition which is being held on Deviantart. It is loosely based on forbidden love between an angel and a devil. I was advised to create something as safe, so this is what I have thought of. I am absolutely amazed with the results and it quite inspiring to see something such as this to look so cool.

For this drawing, I researched some bedrooms to make sure that the chosen theme will fit the setting that I was asked to do. I was commissioned to create something that fulfil the client's specifications, I hope that the person will like it.

Plus this is the second version of the drawing, the first one looked quite boring.

Finally I created this drawing, since I have never done a person with a lolita dress. Once this was completed, I realised that it resembles my friend Tina. So I sent her a copy, via e-mail.

I used Photoshop and created a pattern stamp for the dress:

Happy New Year!

2011-01-21T05:48:00.000-08:00

I created a few drawings to start off the new year. One of them is a picture for the new year where the guy is wearing a cliché clothing for a prince. The remaining three were for The Escapist characters Parfaite and another character called Eliza who is the mother of Kylan. She isn't seen until chapter three.

Pastel Drawings (Merry Christmas Everyone!)

2010-12-23T08:25:00.000-08:00

Two days ago I felt the inspiration to do some drawings. The first drawing were I was inspired by one of the characters from Diane Gaston Christmas novel:

The next pastel drawing is of a female dandy:

The next pastel drawing is of a wintery feel:

An Element of two Eras, Tudor and Regency:

A couple kissing under a large mistletoe:

Lastly a response to the first image:

To anyone who visits my blog, I would like to wish you all a great Christmas and an awesome new year.

September-November Tasks

2010-11-25T08:18:00.000-08:00

Since September, I have been working on the alternate version of my second manga jiman comic, but due to unseen circumstances, I am now working on the prequel which is based on the main protagonist at the age of ten. I will not go into further detail, but I think it might be an interesting comic to be seen by readers. On the winners are announced, the comic will be shown on SmackJeeves. I'm quite nervous because it has indeed been a while since I've shown some artwork on line.

In October I drew a girl playing a violin, this represents that during that month I began to play the violin:

This month, I have done a character pin-ups from historical romance. This one is of Jack Alden. He is not only from 'Her Cinderella Season', but a couple of other books by Deb Marlowe. He's an amazing scholar and an am

azing character.

This is an completed pastel drawing, of a couple wearing Regency clothing. The building is the house of the Lord John Ashburnam. It now a place people come for a prayer retreat. I took a lot of photos, from this place, I hope to depict some of my characters within the chosen settings.

Lastly, as I have now turned twenty-three, I have drawn myself in Tudor Clothing, with my last hairstyle which was in Ghana cornrows. I'm quite proud of this drawing because I feel that I have really captured the dress perfectly.

Catherine Stevens Drawing

2010-09-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

As this is now the final day of September, I re-drawn this pen-sketch of a drawing that I made at the National Portrait Gallery. This person was a famous opera singer within the Regency Era and was also one of the musicians who sang at the Vaxhuall Pleasure Gardens:

Tomorrow, I will be going to the gallery to see an exhibition of a photographer called Camille Silvy. I thought that it would be necessary to have a look due to the vast advertisement in the gallery. I will be also posting up some more re-design of the drawings and sketches that I created not only in this gallery but at the Museum of London.

Bridget Hyde drawing

2010-09-24T07:08:00.000-07:00

Today, I was peering through my drawings that were made at the national portrait gallery and decided to modify one of them on Photoshop. This drawing that I manipulated, is of Bridget Hyde from the Stuarts Era:

This is the first of the drawings that I will manipulate on Photoshop.

A gentleman in Regency Clothing

2010-09-13T06:04:00.000-07:00

I just finished the last of this drawing today. It looks awesome, this was done on Photoshop CS3. I researched some clothing that men wore within this era and created the drawing immediately.

The Split Me 1 and 2

2010-09-09T06:12:00.000-07:00

Last month, I created two sketches of myself. On one side has modern day clothing and on the other side has Victorian clothing:

This first drawing was used for my ID on Deviantart. The patterns that were made on Photoshop CS3, the pattern on the left is based on an Easter treat that my younger brother made at school and the other is the logo of my company: Memenda Seven.

The second drawing was completed today, the clothing on the left is clothing that I wear on special occasions, the clothing on the right is based on the Victorians. The pattern that is depicted represents the traffic light symbols STOP and GO. I was inspired to design this pattern after listening to the track Keep it Comin' Love by KC and the Sunshine Band. Oddly enough I imagined the STOP and GO symbols, running after a villain and managing to be successful, as the song closes.

A Poem for Sepetember!

2010-09-02T01:23:00.001-07:00

I wrote this poem last month but I thought it might be useful for this month:

"When you get up,

Dust yourself,

Restore your clothes,

Smile, be strong,

And walk towards your success"

I'm not sure if it makes any sense, but I this came out from the top of my head.

Friday Drawing!

2010-08-27T10:32:00.000-07:00

This is a pencil drawing of Miss Lily Beecham from the historical romance novel, 'Her Cinderella Season'. By Deb Marlowe . This drawing depicts a certain scene within the earlier chapters of the book, where she has sits frozen on the street. I will not reveal why, but you must read the book to find out. (^_^)

Céline Dion - Immortality

2010-08-26T03:13:00.000-07:00

This video I find so marvellous, not because the song is very soothing, but the video is brilliant. It has a certain feel of the Regency era, and I think this is shown within the dress sense as well as the rooms that the video was set. The video depicts the song so well that I have a sense of history in this video.

Monday Drawings!

2010-08-24T02:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I visited the National Portrait gallery to draw more portraits from the Tudor era, Jacobean and Stuarts sections of the gallery. Most of these drawings are brain drawings and the rest are the portraits:

The Wave Painting Hunt (Alternate Version)

2010-08-20T02:34:00.000-07:00

Now that the second Manga Jiman entry completed, I am now ready to begin the alternate version of this comic. As a result of this I decided to create the antagonist of the comic who is called Leanne. (I know she should be named differently but this came at the top of my head.)

This is how she is visualised, with her expressions:

The template was created by Nancy Lorencz, and with her permission I used the template not only on Leanne but on the other three characters of the comic:

From thumbnails to the finished comic would probably take me until the end of next month... hopefully if this is successful. It might be formed as a webcomic.

Reading Historical Romance Novels

2010-08-13T06:12:00.000-07:00

Recently I have been reading a new genre of literature other than comics, the genre is called Historical Romance, this genre was recommended by a old secondary school friend of mine, of whom I met unexpectedly in the library.

The first book I read was called 'Not Quite a Lady' by Louise Allen, shortly after I was reading a book called Written in the Heart by Judith Stacey. Within a span of two days both books were read. Soon after I read the first book called 'The Dangerous Mr Ryder' which is part of a series called 'Those Scandalous Ravenhursts'. This is also by Louise Allen.

Other books that I found very inspiring was the book 'Her Cinderella Season' By Deb Marlowe. This is because some parts of the story revealed parts of 'The Slave Trade', and also how certain issues of love were resolved. The other book was set within the Victorian Era, the book was called 'The Ac

cidental Countess' and it is by Michelle Willingham.

This book I came to love alot, other than how the author revealed some interesting quotes by the protagonist, but how each of the characters were able to become so realistic. I felt so inspired by the book that I decided to do a fanart, which can be seen here:

Alot of humour elements were revealed and I was utterly amazed how vividly theses author was able to depict some of the scenery settings. I was so facinated and amazed of what I read that I decided to e-mail some of these authors my response and reactions Some of them I am waiting for a response, others have already replied back.

There will indeed be more of these books from this genre that I'll be reading and hopefully getting inspired from.

Images for unknown project

2010-08-11T14:51:00.001-07:00

These are images that I created for a project that will never be made. I had high hope for these images to become of good use. But I guess maybe they might be used for another comic or probably logos.....

More Sketches (part 3)!

2010-07-29T14:20:00.000-07:00

Once again but this time it was today, I visited the National Portrait Gallery, to create some more sketches:

Commencing from Charlotte Sophia: (1744 - 1815)

John Burgore: (1722-92)

Catherine Parr : (1512 - 48)

Catherine Stephens: Countess of Essex (1794 - 1882)

I was marvelled of how she was depicted on the painting, so I decided to do some more research on this person. From what I gathered, she was a soprano vocalist and an actress and quite known within the life that she lived.

Robert Burns (1759 - 96)

This final image is half completed however, I was amazed of how the sketch became almost accurate. This drawing will be shown again but completed the next time I return to the gallery to create more portraits.

Second Manga Jiman Entry!

2010-07-21T02:45:00.000-07:00

With the first Manga Jiman entry completed, I will now proceed to the second entry, with the story and building sketches completed. The only tasks that need to be fulfilled are the character designs. Still using the theme waves, there is a drawing that I have created on Photoshop. (But this will not be seen since it will be used in the comic entry.)

The first two protagonists are Tanisha and Aiden. Here is how they are visualised:

Tanisha's hairstyle was something I drawn quite quickly, this was just a quick sketch and I somehow seemed to be quite satisfied when I finished her characteristic faces.

Aiden's hair style is similar to Mick Hucknall's hairstyle from the 1990's. (T

he front man of the band Simply Red) The sooner I realised this I decided to leave it as it is. I was a fan of their music ever since I was a child and it quite surprising that their music still sounds as brilliant as it did ages ago. The last two characteristic faces on the bottom will indicate how his hairstyle will be revealed in the comic.

I have chosen to use my secondary school teacher Ms Debbie Brown again (she was previously used in the Obsession Project) in this story because during the time of when I was studying art in school she was very influencial and inspiring. I admired the way she would always give me advice to create new ideas in the projects that I was creating. This comic entry is dedicated to her because I feel that she has indeed been a huge influence on how I continued to pursue art from school to university.

Originally she was going to be depicted on how I have seen her i

n the past. But since I was unable to depict how her hairstyle in my thoughts I decided to look on the net and find something suitable. On the other hand, I have chosen to make her wear the same thick black lenses she wore from my school days.

This is how she will be seen in the comic:

Now that the main characters have been completed I will now proceed to thumbnailing a rough draft of the comic entry.

More Sketches (part 2)!

2010-07-14T15:32:00.001-07:00

Here are some more:

More Sketches!

2010-07-13T06:58:00.000-07:00

I have created some more sketches of clothing from the Pleasure Garden at The Museum of London. I also did a portrait from the National Portrait Gallery.

New Competiton: Manga Jiman 2010: Part One

2010-07-08T09:06:00.000-07:00

A new Manga Jiman competition has now begun, so I have now decided to enter again but this time I might enter more than one entry. The first one, will be based on a past memory* of Kylan, who is one of the bullies who abused Petra.

This is how he would be visualised as a child and in his late teens I also have created various facial expressions that will be used for the comic:

*I thought of that this will be necessary because this entry, because I yearned to do something in a boy's point of view so this entry is heavily based about him.

Brain drawings and Clothing sketches at the British Museum and The Museum of London

2010-06-26T02:35:00.001-07:00

After the ending of my degree course, I decided to use my leisure not only to find a job but also improving on my drawing skills as well as reading. During the first week that I finished my degree I managed to meet up with my old friend form secondary school that recommended me to read some Historical Romance novels.

After reading about four of these novels, (where three of the four were set in the regency era and the last one in the Victorian era) I decided to do some research of clothing that were based in these tow eras. This led me to visit the Museum of London and to do sketches of clothing.

I checked out an area of the museum called the pleasure gardens, and was so surprised of the clothing that was shown that I decided to commence sketching. For the next two days I sketched about five designs of clothing and I have to

say that drawing them felt like a breath of fresh air.

Here are the images:

On the other hand I also took a trip to The British Museum and did some brain drawings, of some of the objects that were featured on a BBC radio 4 show called A History of the World in 100 Objects.

Here are some of them:

Competitions 2009/2010

2010-04-30T03:04:00.000-07:00

During this month, I have submitted some images for some competitons that were are around one of them is on a website called Life Support. This is how it looked like:

This entry is based on the ways that you can benefit from the recession.

You can vote for this image here. Thanks for your vote! ^_^

Another competition, is called the Kiseki Competition. Kiseki is a magazine in South Australia that reviews works on Manga and Anime drawings. The competition is international, so you can check it out and see if you can submit.

Here is my Entry:

This entry is based on how human relationships can begin from a strong foundation, for example it begins from the roots and grows into a tree. The couple shown here symbolises this.

Another competition that I have also entered was called the Manga Jiman competition that has taken place last year. All entries had to be based on 'The Sun' Since Japan is the first country to have the sun. My Entry was based on a girl called Rae, who tries to catch the sun. Here is how the protagonist is visualised:

The book will be published, with the help of a friend called Chris Bottoms. Who is a self- published artist in comics.

Finally after the Manga Jiman competition, I asked for some feedback from some of the Judges. This was from a well known comic book artist called ILYA.

Final Major Project: The Escapist (Part 5)

2010-04-19T04:19:00.000-07:00

I have now completed the images in coloured inks, here are four examples which are sections from the story:

Once these have been completed, I will choose one and apply it on to the front covers. The book will be formed on book smart and be published. I will also remove some of the images from the story because I have realised that not all of the images do not have to be seen.

Final Major Project: The Escapist (Part 4)

2010-04-01T11:39:00.000-07:00

So far, I have sketched out the story sequences in pencil, they will be coloured in coloured inks.

Here are two examples:

Also there will be a likely chance that I will be creating A5 postcards or prints of each of the characters. The concept came to be as I stepped out of the bus on a Thursday afternoon on my

way home from university. I visualised a girl with her own signature textured pattern expressed in her hair, eyebrows, eyes, and mouth. The only areas that would be left white would be her skin. These Prints have been completed, here are Kylan and Ria as the first two examples:

When the drawing were completed in an 0.8 fineliner, I decided to create the signature design here are Kylan and Ria's signature pattern design:

Graphic Arts: Human and Animal Feet Collages

2010-03-31T13:59:00.000-07:00

One of the two collages that have been chosen, is now in the form of a screen-print. CYMK is the format of the printouts and process colours yellow, magenta and cyan were used for the prints. Today, eight of them were made and four of them are shown here:

One more colour should bee applied, this is process black. Once the first eight has been completed the second collage will proceed.

Graphic Arts: Human feet and Animal feet

2010-03-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

More research was done on finding more animal feet other than human feet and decided to create some collages on Photoshop. I invented monsters from animal and human feet and created a border of these feet too.

Here are two of the images:

With the remaing white background that was seen on the image I decided to use some of the animal feet for the background. One of them was elephant skin and the other was the feet of a cheetah.

Here are two of them:

These are the two collages that I have chosen to create screen prints from. I will probably get started on them next week, the first few examples will be shown soon. (^_^)

Graphic Arts: Shoes to feet

2010-03-18T08:09:00.000-07:00

When I completed the collograph shoe prints, I decided to create a large sheet of rubbings of the shoes that I used for the collograph prints. I also chose to create photocopies of the prints that I have created and make a back drop of shoes. Here are two of the images:

After the xmas holidays I decided to look at other forms of shoes and create more monoprints, I have chose to use a combination of colours for the shoes, once this was completed I found images on deformed and club feet and made monoprints from them:

Final Major Project: The Escapist (Part 3)

2010-03-10T11:36:00.000-08:00

I have finally completed the rough drawings of the story, here are some of the images:

I have also created front and back covers for the story. Here are the four front and back covers in a rough draft:

It is going to be quite difficult in choosing which one would be useful, there might be a likely chance that I might use the first one since it features all of the characters.

Final Major Project: The Escapist (Part 2)

2010-02-24T06:22:00.000-08:00

So far I have managed to complete the colour scheme for each of the characters but before I reveal them. I did the final character that is Great Great Grandmother Augustina. Since her story is set in the 1930’s I have chosen a hairstyle from that era. Here is the pencil and colour drawing of her:

Here are coloured images of each character. Some characters are left out but I am hoping to add them later. I will also move on to explain about the concept of each character:

Petra: I chose to name the protagonist Petra, because it is a name that is unknown, but also it the name of a friend of mine who was part of my degree course in the second year. As for th

e model, I have chosen to use Katie Melua because one of the tracks that she featured on Ali Campbell ‘s Album Running Free. I was amazed of

her voice so I decided to do some research on her and purchase some of her albums. It was then I decided to use her as the model for the protagonist Petra.

Aly - Petra’s Mother: She is a real person that I chose to use after a result of an interesting conversation with her at her first exhibition for illustration. Her interesting love for tea became a heavy influence in developing the character.

Matthew – Petra’s Father: After watching the English version of Studio Ghibli’s movie Howl’s Moving Castle I decided to learn more about the voice actor Christian Bale who played Howl. I researched some information on him and chose to use him as the model for my story.

Ryan: Ryan was created after the description that is explained in the story. Surprisingly after I drew him, he looked a lot more different than what I imagined him to be so I kept him as he is.

Kylan: This character was conceived in the summer of 2008 after watching a children’s programme. When the episode was finished I decided to draw a pin-up character that would be just as horrible as the boy in the cartoon and a lot more similar. This proved to be a success and I even nicknamed him. When time approached to find character concepts for ‘The Escapist’ I felt that it is necessary to use him. I yearned for him to still keep the same characteristics and have him depicted realistic. This is because his original form is viewed to be for a Manga.

Obsession Project book arrived!!! (^_^)

2010-02-18T01:48:00.000-08:00

The third book arrived on Tuesday and so far I am impressed of how it turned out.

Here are the pictures:

Final Major Project: The Escapist (Part 1)

2010-02-09T05:31:00.001-08:00

Here is the information provided for the Final Major Project. The plan, introduction and story is completed which took me three days to finish and check to spelling mistakes and grammar. But all in all it will be an interesting semester for me to achieve what I can do: (^_^)

It is about a girl in her late teens who uses diary writing to her advantage, after she is currently being bullied.

Here are most of the characters in sketches, these will be inked and shown again in the blog very soon:

*Names in order of posting*

* Petra

* Anita

* Aly (Petra's Mum)

* Matthew (Petra's Father)

* Ria (Bully One)

* Ryan (Bully Two)

* Kylan (Bully Three

Some of these characters look very similar as famous people, I decided to use them because these are very people who are very appealing to me and also have known for a short or long period of time.

*The book for the obsession project has been ordered and will be sent as soon as possible. I’m counting the days literally. (^_^)

Two of the three books have arrived today! (^_^)

2010-01-29T09:58:00.000-08:00

When I left for university this morning, a package arrived for me. I'm not sure what time it came, but when I came home I was left astounded, when I saw it on the computer desk. I instantly knew and realised that my books have finally came.

Here are a few photos of the pages:

The images are quite large for the third book which is based on the obsession project. The images are very large that I had to minimise them, so now I have no idea of how they would look like.

Obsession Project PART 4

2010-01-21T05:50:00.000-08:00

I used violet ink to colour in the images that I have created. First I made three shades of violet ink and applied it on to the drawings. When it was dry, I repeated the same procedure to add tone.

Here are three of the images:

With the violet images almost completed, I decided to create the front and back cover for the book. Here are the covers in three stages:

Now that the images are nearly completed, I will now scan them and apply a white misty background on the bottom of each page, which will be applied on photoshop and text which will be added in Booksmart.

Graphic Arts: Clothing to Shoes

2010-01-19T11:22:00.000-08:00

In the previous semester I was working on clothing. I first began with selecting clothes and objects that seem to fascinate me. The images that were chosen were from image websites such as istockphotos.com and getty images. With the images that were chosen I enlarged them into A3 and created monoprints.

Here are a few that I have done:

The monoprints seemed to be empty so I used coloured inks to fill the clothing in. I soon moved on to shoes because I felt that it would be an interesting source to look at and maybe finding out about it's history would be awesome. So I went into the library and browsed around to find some books on shoes. Once they werefound I looked throughout most of the pages and selected the shoes that I found exciting, next I photocopied each shoe and made more monoprints.

I next chose to created colograph boards, these were made by cutting the card into the correct shoe size and glued the images on. I then stuck the card shoes on

to a rectangular card, and repeated the same procedure three times. In th

e end I had four colograph card with shoes on top.

I filled each colograph card with a range of material such as sawdust and tissue paper and covered the board with shellac. Once it was left to dry over night it was then ready to be used to print. With the use of fabriano paper and printing inks, I created four colograph prints.

Here are all of them:

The prints describes frozen objects trapped with a large block of ice and colourful lights are shown to make the objects interesting.

Obsession Project PART 3

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After I photocopied the real drawings, I used a 6B graphite stick, to create a rubbings behind it and traced through the characters and backgrounds, using a ball pen. I used heavyweight cartridge paper, to trace the drawing on.

Finally, I inked the lines with black Indian ink and a nib pen. Here are the six images from a section of the main story:

Obsession Project PART 1&2

2009-12-18T02:35:00.000-08:00

In this project I have been asked to choose an obsession and make a story from it. An obsession is something that you would think about most of the time. I went to the Tate Modern to look at some artists who express there obsession with their work. The three artists that I chose was Anish Kapoor, Clause Monet and Fernand Leger. Next I commenced this project by making a list of the things that I like and what I think about and chose three; these were:

Happiness/Innocence,

Cartoons: Disney,Pixar, Studio GhibliHistori

cal Clothing of the Past

I then chose one obsession from the three (Happiness/Innocence) and created a story. The plot was about me and my father reading a book which was about a Prince call

ed Belshazzar who had to get his mother's violet and silver brouche from his evil Un

cle Leon. As the book reaches a cliff-hanger, my father departs to make some food and try to th

ink about how the story would end. Within minutes I drift into the book itself and find his

cousin Princess Debbie, who would need my help to save him.....

After writing the plot, I started sketching the basis of the story, the images all together make thirty-seven. The real images were drawn onto cartridge and water-colour paper. Next, I will photocopy these drawings and copy them onto a new sheets of paper. There is a likely chance that I will use water colour paper. The originals will be kept and shown for the exhibition that will be held next year.

Here are first few of the drawings that I am going to use:

These two drawings will be fused together to make one image.

Dark and Light Project

2009-11-23T06:24:00.000-08:00

This was the next brief that I have been working on a few weeks ago. The task was to chose one of the five images that have been chosen by the teacher and create a 11 page story using the selected image, as the middle. I chose the Metropolitan Police image, which was focused with two hands on a gun. Each hand belong to a male and female.

I created a story that is set in the 1930's the main four characters were sketched first:

I will not explain what happens, because I feel that it is better for the viewer (The person who is looking at the images) to decide what happens.

Here they

are:

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These images will be published into a book, hopefully once it is delivered to my door I will take photos. (^_^)

1000 Drawing Project

2009-11-22T01:39:00.000-08:00

This project was about making about 1000 drawings from any real objects. The drawings should not be imaginary and the objects should be drawn up to no more than 30 minutes. I managed to create at least over 220 drawings. It was quite difficult at first to draw so much, plus after long while it became boring...... I was impressed with the results of what I did and I knew that it could have been a lot better if I have pushed myself further.

Here are a few of the drawing that I have produced:

With the images that I have drawn I have to choose 25 to put into a book. Three publishing websites were chosen to pick in order for the book to be published. I chose blurb.com, on this site I had to get a software, to design the book. This it is called Booksmart. The only thing that I have to do now is to order the book.

Imagined Record Collection Part 4

2009-05-11T05:25:00.000-07:00

Since I have not produced enough work for this project, I have chosen to make another 4 album covers with a poster. I chose to look at some more jazz albums in order to get some more inspiration.

Here are the four completed album covers:

Thriller Project and 'The Conversation' Project

2009-04-27T05:14:00.000-07:00

The Thriller project took place for just one day. The class were asked to illustrate the lyrics to thriller. This proved to be a big succes for me and I seemed to have enjoyed working on large sheets of paper.

Here is one of the first images where I have used inks black and blue...I next moved on to illustrate headlines which were from the metro newspaper:

As a result of this, I chose to do six A1 images for 'The Conversation' project. I took six photos of various people who were within a conversation and used black acrylic paint with water to create a water colour effect. I also attached the original photos next to the images.:

Book Project Part 5: The book (2/2)

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Here is Edan's point of view, which starts from the back of the book:

End of Book Project! (^_^)

Book Project Part 4: The book (1/2)

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The materials that I used for this book were acrylic paints: Magenta, Cyan and Blue, Decorative Paper: Italian and Marble, a Drawing Pen and Bookbinding Materials. Here are the pages of the book starting from Coral's point of view....

Edan's point of view tomorrow....

Book Project Part 3: Plan for Pages and Characters

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Before I commence on starting the actual book. I have done some sketches of how the pages will be visualised, I have also done some drawings of how the characters will look like.

Here they are:

Book Project Part 2

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Here are the next 25 images that I have produced for my folded book:

This is a much large image of the final drawing.

From these drawings, I chose 5 and made a colour booklet from three colours: cyan, yellow and magenta. Here is the book before it is folded behind this is a woman and gentlemen in victorian clothing:

Book Project

2009-03-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

A few weeks back the class had a new brief. This was called the book project. Our first task was to draw 50 rapid drawing of objects from catalogues like Argos or IKEA. Here are the first 25 images:

Sense of Place Project Part 4

2009-03-09T06:32:00.000-07:00

Here is the finished piece in photos. (I didn't have the correct colours to do the building but what I have tried to to the building quite similar:

These are the four views of the building.

I placed the camera, on the building itself and took a photogragh of how it looks. I am quite impressed of how it is visualised. Also took a photo of the top, which is painted in gold.

There are some more photos of the buliding, also there are figures that I have made, which I have placed in the building. The pink small ballon was made by Plamen who is in my illustration class. His little people seemed to have fit into place in most of everyone's work.

Here are the figures without the building:

Slap-Dash-No-Cash Project

2009-03-04T12:09:00.000-08:00

There is another project that I am doing with my illustration group. I can't remember the name, but the task involves the group to create three images and change the image size into A6. The budget the group have is £200. With all the three images that each member has made will be produced into a book. Here are the first three images that I have made:

Although these images were quite amusing, I chose to create new images. I felt that these images will be kept as examples as the ones which would have been used. I also felt that I could have done much better if I produced another three. Here they are:

These are the three that I have chosen for the book. Now as I have previously mentioned, It will be scaled down into A6, I am quite scared of the outcome because I am not so sure how it will turn out. Plus I feel that not much detail will be shown. Nevertheless, I will see the finished piece and hope for the best.

Sense of Place Project Part 3

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Here are the skeches that I have made for the 3-D Manifestation:

The first two involves a skech of how the 3-d manifestation would be visulised floor filled with skeches and a large circle space for the short cylinder builing to be placed.

The next two pages reveals how the cylinder will be filled iwth the lyrics of the music that I have been listening to. I will also make cardboard people. These will be placed around the building to show the amount of people who were present.

The ceiling will be filled with a transparent sheet, (probably assetate) with matchsticks expressing the design of the actual ceiling that is at the Great Court.

This is an drawing from memeory of what I was drawing at the the British Museum.

Sense of Place Project Part 2

2009-02-24T01:25:00.000-08:00

Here are the rest of the images for the sense of place project. These are the artifacts that I have sketched around the museum:

Sense of Place Project

2009-02-20T12:21:00.000-08:00

This is the new project that is currently taking place, it is called sense of place, I have been asked to go to a gallery or a museum and make sketches then make a 3-D manifestation of the chosen place. I decided to got to the British museum and chose the Great Court as my Sense of Place. Here are my sketches of the Great Court. There were lots of people present and I found it at times quite difficult to draw some of the people since a lot of movement was taken place:

There are more drawings that I have done hopefully there will be shown tomorrow or wednesday.

Imagined Record Collection Part 3

2009-01-27T10:34:00.000-08:00

Here are the various vinyl records that Rishche release.......(I used various materials for the covers but enjoyed using pastels. I remember using an old technique from the Greek Myth project, this was creating tones in single colours as well as on top of another colour.

Here they are:

Rishche also had duets with two musicians they are Takashi Ryan who is a pianist and Ki Ki who is an musician from Malaysia:

The final two are just Rishche on her own:

Imagined Record Collection Part 2

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Here are the singles that Rische Neon released from the album 'Reflection'

Imagined Record Collection

2009-01-20T07:49:00.000-08:00

The Project that I am doing present, is the ‘Imagined Record Collection’. My task is to create an imagined character and create a various selection of albums, posters etc, highlighting his/her career.

I have chosen to do a jazz/blues musician called Rishche Neon. The word ‘Rishche’ is my name Cherish backwards. I have also chosen to use a hairstyle that I have used earlier in May last year. Here is the image:

Rishche Neon, is a 21 year old, Jazz and blues musician, who wears odd dresses for her performances. With her mum making the clothes and her father composes the music, this musician writes the songs, which are listed, on her albums.

I commenced this project by drawing her and inking her with a brush pen. Here are a few images:

This is the line art and the inked version of this imagined character.

This is a jazz dress which her mother made also the image which I am hoping to use for a poster.

I have done an album which is on CD and three singles which are from the album 'Reflection'. The images below are the front and back cover of the album.

Self Portrait and Illustrated News

2009-01-19T06:07:00.000-08:00

I would like to explain that before I commenced any of the projects that I have talked about last year, I was previously doing a project called 'Self Portrait'. This was the first project that was given and I enjoyed it. This was entered in a competition and I am not really sure who won. Never the less, I am glad I entered. I have to use eight things which can be illustrated. I chose to use a prospective building to represent me. It took a while to draw this building but in the end it was quite successful.

Here is the drawing that I have drawn using a nib pen and ink:

Here are what I have chosen:

1: Favourite Pastime: Walking home with friends.

2: Favourite Pet: Cats

3:Favourite Weather: Sun

4: Favourite Possession: Spectacles

5: Favourite Clothes: Jeans

6: Favourite Book: Manga

7: Favourite Comfort: Hugging

8: Favourite Shoes: Boots

Here are the remaining two drawings for the 'Illustrated News'. I'm quite pleased with this project too:

Big Pictures with wierd words.

2009-01-15T03:20:00.000-08:00

One the last illustration class of 2008, the class each got a sheet of paper and wrote a word on the sheet and folded it. We continued this a few times, after we did this we switched it around the class then finally got a big sheet of paper and used three colours and illustrated what is written.

Here is the first example:

The other two pictures are based on various sentences which are switched around:

The final picture is a phrase which kind of funny in a way. This was: "Was it a rat I just saw?"

Photos from play and Dream Dictionary book

2009-01-12T23:11:00.000-08:00

Hello and Happy New Year,

Before I show you the dream dictionary book, I wanted to show you guys the photos from the greek play that have taken place.

This is the first photo is of me and

Waine in costume for the play.

Here are two other pictures of when the play started.

Here is the middle and the end of the play where the death has taken place.

Just I had to add that some parts of the story were taken out so that only the importaant features were added.

Here are now the photos for the dream dictionary book. It cost a lot of money for it to be on a big size. However all was successful and I managed to do the book. It looks very good and I'm quite please with it.

This is the front page and the second and third page of the book.

This is the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh page of the book.

Finally here is the last eighth page.

There will be more work that I will put up. I hope you like what I've done so far. (^_^)

Dream Dictionary

2008-12-08T05:03:00.000-08:00

Hey there,

this is the latest project from my illustration course. 'Dream Dictionary' is a book by a guy called Tim Etchells where various things that we see in dreams have a definition. This was all fiction, but the definitions were quite interesting. The task was to illustrate 8 of these definitions and put them into a folded book. The process that we have to use was printmaking so the students had to go to the printroom and print images which we have planned in our sketch books.

These photos here are the before and after images of each definitions.

Image 1: Wearing a Wire

Image 2: Carpet Burns

Image 3: Cure for Cancer

Image 4: Crop Circles

Image 5: Moon Bisected by a Tiny Slither of Cloud

Image 6: Polystyrene Fruit

Image 7: Dissolving Stiches

Image 8: Movie

The Images of the right, has the writing the other way round becuase I thought that I'll be print the images on steel. I did the writing this way because it would be easy for me to write it when it cames to printing.

But now I have to use digital prining. This is done by:

* Scanning the images

*Positioning them in the correct order

*Saving them as PDF.

*Print them out on the sheet.

The images will be put in a certain position they would look like this:

The book will be very large. I decided to leave them as A3 images instead of changing them to A4. The images will be placed on A0 on computer.

Hopefully when the book is completed, I will be showing how it looks like.

2008-11-05T01:47:00.000-08:00

Here are the before and after images of the greek myth that I have chosen. At first I didn't like the way the pastel portrayed my images. But it was nly unitl I contimued to work on them that they started to make a big difference. I sprayed hair spray in order for the pastels to not ruin my work. (^_^)

Cupid and Psyche

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Scene 8

2008-10-30T09:35:00.000-07:00

Before I started on my costume I wrote the story plan for the people participating on the play, Naheed wrote it and I put it into my notebook. I typed it on to word and posted it on facebook. Bianca who was one of the members of our group wrote the script. Here it is:

Brief for Greek Myth Play for Ancient Greeks

Waine: Uncle George

Angela: Niece (Crystal)Cherish: Hair Clip Stall Owner

Naheed & Aarti: Jewellery Customers

Bianca: Narrator

Crystal: Sister (Crystal’s Mother)

Story + script plan:

• George comes up with idea with mixing chemicals to make jewellery ancient.(we can have Waine create the pieces of jewellery (in his work shop), holds it up to the light to make sure it look genuine)

• Takes jewellery to Sister’s house. Waine: i've come up with a unique ideaCrystal:what that?Waine: Take a look(looks in to the bag or tray)Waine: don't you think they actually look genuine?(Crystal has a closer look at the jewellery, putting it up to the light

• Sister and George create an idea to make money with ancient jewellery.Crystal: Just like the ones your get on the market stall, we should should try and sell them, we could make a fortune from it.(Same scene as before)

• Sister opens the stall for customers.(stall set up we should have Crystal, Waine and Angela behind one stall and cherish behind the other)

• Customers look at the first stall and lose interest of hair clips(Arti and Naheed going over to cherish's stall not taking much interest to it)

• Uncle and niece run the stall; mother supports the stall by persuading customers to by jewellery. Customers buy jewellery. Narrator shows a sign describing the highlight of the story.Crystal: Ladies come over, come!!! we have all sorts for pieces of jellewery, come and get your jewellery here I grantee that you won't loss interest.(Naheed and Arti leave Cherish's stall and make there way other to Waine's stall)

• Narrator shows sign of the months that pass after jewellery has been bought. Customers come to Uncle George’s house to get their money back. Within minutes uncle dies of shock from a heart attack.Bianca:the customers had returned to uncle George's house to retrieve the money form the fraudulent jewellery but within minutes uncle George dies of shock from a heart attack.

I also worked on the the costume for the play. I found tutorials, on how to make a tunic or a greek dress and commenced creating the costume. Before I started sewing the costume, I used safety piny to pin the points that will be sewn.

Picture A shows the three holes that have been revealed on the costume. This was the head and the two holes for the arms:

Picture B depicts more of the costume.

Picture C is my arms covering the waist. I did this because I yearned to see how the cloth would be shown.

Picture D, E and F, depicts what will happen if I use a belt around the cloth. It seems that I would have to buy a thicker rope to tie around the cloth.

2008-10-27T07:24:00.000-07:00

Enjoyed my day in illustration. I had to show some of my images which were based on headlines from newspapers. So far I have done at least 2. Hopefully I'll so the rest very soon. There were 4 images that I had to create.

The first image is in charcol, where there were image was bad on a shrine for a cat who had a tumour.

The next image was based on baby tigers swimming with professional swimmers.

I was quite surprised with the way various mark making were shown. Plus how the view of perspesctive was shown in the first image. I felt that it would have been very interesting if I showed the cat on the side explaining how the headline would be more easier to understand.