Craig Oldham Poster

I am so pleased with how this has turned out! A big thank you to Ian for putting up with me sending him draft after draft after draft haha!


Having the colour restriction really helped with this I think. A website I found massively helpful was http://www.colourlovers.com/ 
Really good for getting ideas for colour pallets to use :)


Doing this poster had made me realise that I need to practice more with creating my own text. I think it could have been a lot more creative. 
I also need to make some more textures! Need to take advantage of the A3 scanner in college! 

Feeling Festive

 A few Christmas illustrations I've been working on the past few months :)

Finished Children's Book

 Below are all my finished pages for the personal project. I'm so happy with how its turned out. Have tried out lots of new ideas and learnt lots of new things. There are few things that I would change with more time but I think that the book is very effective overall.

The night time images were much more fun to produce. I really enjoyed getting to experiment with lighting and the starry skies. 
My next step is to learn how to use Indesign to print a few copies of the book. I would also like to have a hardback copy of the book printed using blurb.com. 


My plan for future projects is to make lots of new painted textures and also to find more experimental textures such as scanning fabric or even foods! This will give me much more to work with and hopefully make my work more visually effective.

Character Designs

Have been playing around the past couple of weeks with character design. Alongside the Uganda Children's book project I have been continuing with my daily monster (over 140 of them now) and have also been producing some other random characters...


Here are some examples.

Angry Bear. Was playing around with over exaggerated features. I still think he could be more exaggerated!

Little Robot Character. Came up with him absent mindedly and thought he deserved to be finished with colour :)

Wanted to see if I could produce different animals in the same style as I have been using for the Uganda Children's book project. Really want to write my own story where the African animals travel round the world meeting and learning about other animals.

A more recent daily monster. Really love the colours on this guy :)

Interesting Idea

Found these 3 images today whist surfing about. Sadly couldn't find a website or even a name for who created them. I have no idea if these are real or just somebodies work. 

However, I felt that they were very amusing and might be of some interest or inspiration to someone...

Enjoy

Rosie's Walk

Have spent most of today reading through a book I got from the library called Words About Pictures: The narrative art of children's picture books by Perry Nodelman.


Found an interesting chapter about colour theory and how it's used to convey moods in the reader. In this chapter Nodelman mentions a children's book called Rosie's Walk illustrated by Pat Hutchins, how she hasn't included the colour blue at all throughout the entire book. This has been done on purpose to remove any glum or sad emotions that the colour blue might convey.


I also really love the way the book has been illustrated in general. I found an animated version of the story on youtube.... enjoy

Video