Self Portrait and Illustrated News

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.

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

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

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.

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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