Winter Is Coming - In Progress

Teaching myself some digital painting. Slowly slowly.

EMP Poster 2: Troll Hunter - Black

In the final crit for this project, year and indeed the entire of my BA degree course the only thing suggested as a change was to make the backing of the Trollhunter poster black in order to keep it consistent with the BTILC poster. I wasn't sure but after using a black backing for the STF poster as well I thought it would be good to have them all on black. I'd tried this before & didn't like it because it added itself to the border and looked like it was cutting into the image heavily, so I switched the border to white - problem solved.

EMP Poster 2: Trollhunter - Finished

After hours of fiddling about with different coloured backgrounds, tag-lines, different coloured type, fonts, styles, slanting the type, throwing on textures and taking them off again I decided - no, I'm just going to leave it simple. So I did and I think it works well. I already talked about the illustration in an earlier post so I'll skip that. In terms of the text I wanted to keep it similar to the official typeface and Franchise is the closest I could find, it's very similar. It's all in lower case but looks like uppers. I also wanted to keep the yellow of the Trollhunter title as I think that is something that is really memorable from the original artwork. I found that having the whole title in plain yellow left it a little lost in the imagery, I tried it with a black stroke but that didn't help much so I reversed the two, black with a yellow stroke seems to work well. It doesn't get lost because of the boldness of the black but keeps the yellow that I wanted. I carried this across to the information section at the bottom to bring a little consistency and add more yellow. If you compare the layout of this type with that of my BTILC poster you'll notice that they are pretty much the same. This is to keep the series bound as a set. 

Overall I'm happy with the outcome of this piece, I think that it displays the mood of the film but in my own illustrative fashion and compliments the original artwork well. 

EMP Troll Hunter - Things In Progress

Packaging Concept in creation.

Trolls live in mountains.

It still needs finishing, the inside needs sorting out, going to add some grass flock to the bottom of the slopes & Troll Hunter lettering on the purposefully flat section on the front. Painted in a mid grey - wash in dark grey - add dry brush of light grey - white on the top.

Poster Illustration in progress.

Horror Crew - Haunting Houses - Videos

So sometime a bit earlier this year I went to an abandoned hotel with some people from Horror Crew (see photos in an earlier post) and at the time I couldn't get the videos to upload. Now I have better internet.

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Enjoy.

Honour Over Glory - The Return To Blogging

So I've been absent for a little while what with going to America for 3 weeks, not having the internet, going to a festival and generally being lazy. Small piece of advice though - if you don't currently have a phoneline connected, do NOT sign up with talktalk, no matter how cheap it looks, it took nearly 6 weeks to get a phoneline that actually works put in. Ridiculous. Anyway. Now that I have the internet I can post pictures again.

Gypsy Girl as standard. Where would I be without them. The 'Honour Over Glory' comes from this clothing brand that were selling merch at the festival I went to. I liked the name so I stole it. Acrylic, pen, ink & cut out paper on paper.

Swimming Lessons

Acrylic, gouache, ink and watercolour on some good quality paper. 

In between uni work, money work, living, sleeping and the copious amount of time I spend eating I like to find some time for finger painting. There's some brush work in there, the face was brushed in & the outline of the armbands and stuff like that. The rest was finger painting fun. If you wanna throw down your finger painting skills against me come be my guest. I will crush you. Ha. Thick.