Professional Project Book Photos

 The book has been printed. Here it is, I haven't photographed every page. If you want to see it all you'll have to buy one. Very happy with the quality of the print. Final Spec: 180gsm Premium matte paper, Hardback, perfect bound, image wrap, full colour, charcoal grey end papers. 

Front Cover

End Paper

Title Page

Intro & Process

Subject Introduction 

Blue Skies & Adventure

Threats & Eagles

Back Cover

If anybody wants a copy you can get it direct from the printers (so no extra charge added) here:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2132461

New Fisheye Photos

 

Swing Chairs Thing 1

 

Swing Chairs Thing 2

 

Tombstone 1

 

Tombstone 2

 

Trees 1

 

Trees 2

 

Flower 1

 

Flower 2

 

Washing Machine In Braches

 

Bottle 1

 

Bottle 2

 

Other Bottle

 

Old Couple 1

 

Old Couple 2

 

Old Couple 3

 

Old Man's Sweaty Back

Professional Project: Layouts And So Forth

 

New Front Cover featuring the photography hand C.

End Page 1 & Title Page

Intro Pages

 Intro to new Subject Matter for Illustration

Professional Project: Illustration Number Nine - Roman Army (Revisited)

I didn't like the last version. It was far too simple, I didn't spend enough time on it, just tried to get it done so I went back to it and spent more time and thought about it more. Incorporated a banner, the crossed swords & wreath, the S.P.Q.R of the Roman army, changed the 'Disobey' to simply 'Obey', added a little motto to the bottom and generally worked off of the Obey poster style and colour palette. This is a hundred times better. Aesthetically it is much more pleasing for a start, it also holds a lot more information than the previous version. It's been a good morning.

Professional Project: Front Cover Mock Up

One of the ideas that arose at the last crit was a front cover idea. Basically since I've used so many styles & techniques of illustration in the project, to reflect this in the cover design by illustrating my name using various methods/styles of typography. Sounded good. Here's my letters.

 

Here's the end result that took far too long. This would be printed onto brown paper/card/backing so it wouldn't seem quite as plain as it does here. I think I worked this one out quite well considering types not really my fortay. Got a mix of hand rendered and digital characters, bold and weaker, positive and negative, pencil and pen, simple and ellaborate. I might play around with it a bit more as at the moment the central 'E' is a little bit lost in between all the bolder letters, could sort this out by dropping some of the blacks to greys to give the type as a whole some more mid-tones. I'm also playing around with some photo work which I might substitute in at a later point for one of the letters. But for now, this is what I've got.

Professional Project: Illustration Number Ten - Hessonite

Hessonite is a semi-precious stone. So I immediately thought of jewelery and then fashion illustration. So that's the style I went for.

 

Sketch

Add ink/watercolour

I thought the hessonite should stand out more so I desaturated the clothing. Not sure if I like it.

Removed the splodges. Not sure if I like this either. I'll pick one later.

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.