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Melancholy Alien warrior 

Guess Who, Evil Avian Sailor.

Evil Avian Sailor, intending to add a background to enhance the apperance. Think it's a little dull without it.

Scene Of A Crime- Bunny Teddy Arson

Bunny Teddy Arson using cut outs and layers.

Detective portraits - Photoshop illustrations

3 Digital outcomes produced in photoshop. More details and some development shots on my PDP blog :-)

Giant Alien Doctor

This is my Tom Gauld inspired illustration for the words giant alien doctor.
I drew it by hand and coloured it on photoshop.

Giant Victorian Teacher

 

This is one of my proposed outcomes of my Giant Victorian Teacher. I looked at Rob Hunter for this image, I like the way the figures are so simple. 

I made the figure look Victorian by giving him a top hat, also by adding chimneys into the background. I made him look like a teacher by adding small school children (also making him seem giant) and setting it in a class room.

I think I need to make the background higher up so that you're more focused on the giant. Also I could add more detail.

 Inspired by 'The Meeting':

"Guess Who?"

This is my final image created using Illustrator for Ben's "Guess who?" character workshop. My words were, Evil, Undead, Warrior. I decided to break these words down and researched all three before I started sketching my character. The head, pointed ears, jagged teeth and red eyes are to represent the evilness within. The torn skin, ribcage, guts and blood are in representation of the word 'Undead' while my characters body Armour and stance are of a fighting warrior.

I like how illustrator Chris King has used light and shadow within his digital illustrations. I have tried to capture this in my image by casting shadows and light areas.

Overall I feel I have effectively portrayed the words I was given and the task set, however, if I were to continue and improve this I would add in a background scenery to support the words further.

 

 Adobe Photoshop

 Here I have used Mark Smith as my inspiration and also used his colour palette. The use of colours without having to outline the image in black is very effective and I also like the use of pencil lines, and no shading is necessary.  The image that inspired me is below

  

Final Pieces for Workshops

Here are my two final pieces for the workshops by Ben and Phil.

My final piece for Ben's workshop was based on the three words “Hungry, Demonic, Lumberjack” and I think that I have been able to convey these words quite well. I went through several ideas for the final piece and I was going to do a much darker, more demonic (human proportions) final image. But in the end I wanted to create a cuter, funnier piece rather than just focus on the demonic side. If you can't see the separate elements of the character here is the break down. So, the lumberjack is portrayed by the hat, jeans, boots, axe, beard and, most importantly, the striped red shirt. The Demonic element is shown through the red skin and horns, this was quite an easy thing to add to my character so I didn't want to dwell to much on it. The only problem was showing my character as being hungry. I could do this by pulling the skin back and show the ribs on my character's mid section, also I added a thought bubble with food in it to suggest that my character this thinking about food.

My final piece for Phil's workshop is actually three images. When doing the workshop I removed items from photographs, with a scalpel, to suggest that the items had been stolen. I wanted to use a computer and digitally edit photographs and I went through several different variations of this idea, using different colours for the empty spaces left behind. However after some experimenting I decided that white is the best colour for this idea, it really conveys the empty, vacant space left behind by the stolen items. Finally, rather than just doing one image for my final piece I wanted to do three to suggest that an entire house has been ransacked and items have been stolen.

 

Enjoy!  Tom :)

Sleepy Bovine Farmer

Took inspiration for this from Artists Morning Breath. 

Evil victorian farmer

Sleepy Bovine Farmer

Illustrator

My attempt of Ace venturer on illustrator. It was not very successful.  I found illustrator extremely hard to grasp and I'm going to go over this image and practice until i get to grips with it :)  

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, illustrator/ photoshop
gave up trying to get the textures on illustrator so finished it on photoshop. 

watercolour textures:
http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/weekly-freebies-10-abstract-watercolor-textures-and-packs/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webtreatsetc/4740847847/
http://abattoir.deviantart.com/art/Watercolor-Texture-03-5880462

This image was done in the digital workshop with Ben. It was done using Photoshop. I based the color palette of mark smiths work. I decided to base this piece on his work as I found the colour palette inspiring. The use of Three colours gives the piece a professional edge and the very simple style does not over complicate the image.

Scene of a Crime Workshop

 

 

This is my final piece for the "scene of a crime" workshop. I decided to focus on an arson attack as I liked the effects I created from earlier experimentation with pastels, bleach and collage. I used black acrylic paint for the background, then selected a number of pieces of furniture from an Argos catalogue to make up the interior of a living room, whilst trying to create a sense of perspective. I then stuck them down, and began ripping at them to make them look damaged as they would be if there was a fire. I went over the furniture, floor and walls with black, grey and white pastels to create an ash effect. I got the idea from looking at photos of rooms that actually had been damaged as a result of an arson attack. I think this piece reflects this crime well without it being too "over the top" obvious.

Work Shop Final Illustrations

Hairy...Robotic...Sailor.

Made from watercolours and fineliners. Not sure if the background is a bit too much but i think it still communicates quite well :)

This is my crime scene for Phil's workshop. I have stylised it quite alot to try and make it as eery as possible. Painted, again, with watercolours and detailed in fineliners. 

Melancholy Bovine Lumberjack

 

This is my final piece for the Guess Who workshop - Task 3. I am pleased with it as I feel it shows off these characteristics well and the background adds to this too, making this work as a whole piece. It was done by hand-drawn images scanned seperately into photoshop, composed the image and then I added colour and effects.

Guess Who : Evil, Cow, Astronaut

The inked version of the character before I colour it.

Poirot Final Image

Using Illustrator I have created a line drawing using the transparency tool over a photograph of Poirot. The lines are semi transparent to give the effect that it has been drawn using a pen or pencil.

This is my final Poirot image which i have coloured in using illustrator. Getting more familiar with working digitally and using Photoshop and illustrator more has shown through my recent work as it appears more finalized and accurate

This is just an experiment using the ink tool on Illustrator. This only took around 10 minutes to draw so the lines are rushed and inaccurate. I like the thickness and thinness within the lines and the effect this creates. I got my inspiration for this from illustrator Katherine Asher who uses similar lines to create her portraits. http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists/KatharineAsher/view

Sexy Undead Gentleman

We firstly researched into our main characteristics, Undead, Sexy and Gentleman, these were the main images that inspired us to create our model. Something that we found was key through all of the images  of gentlemen was the suit, we wanted to make our character well dressed to show this so decided to include a top hat to our final creation. Because he's Undead, its not something you usually associate with sexy, this is why we  made additional female characters to show that he is desirable. Overall we are pleased with the way our finished piece came out and feel we have communicated the characteristics well. 

Dan, Dan, Sian and Harry.

Sherlock created on Adobe Illustrator, in the style of Matt Taylor . It's my first experience of Adobe  Illustrator and enjoyed working on it with my Sherlock once I was set up . I am quite pleased with the outcome . Mark Smith's style works well in this illustration and I used his colour pallet.

 

Adobe Illustrator

Hercule Poirot created on Adobe Illustrator - my first attempt at Illustrator, so still a lot to learn, but thoroughly enjoyed it.  I took inspiration from Matt Taylor (below) and used his colour palette

 

 

Rick Deckard Illustrator

I had never used Illustrator before, but since learning some of the basics, I could see how it is an effective tool for creating dynamic images. I used my chosen detective, Rick Deckard, to try out some techniques.

I am quite pleased with the outcome seeing as I have very little experience with Illustrator. I built up the face and clothing using various shapes, implying shadows and definition. I chose these colours because I felt they reflected the mood of this particular character, who is at times a fairly morbid and solitary person.

This illustration was done by Matt Taylor, and I drew influence from how shapes can be used to create objects and shadows rather than starting with outlines. The colour pallete seems to suit this image, and I believe they were chosen carefully and with purpose, which is what I tried to recreate with my image.