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.