A hip hip hop and you don't stop

The project we have just completed was an information illustration project, and I chose the topic of hip hop. As well as being a fan of this genre, I think it often gets a bad press when actually it began as a reaction AGAINST the violent surroundings of the Bronx. I made a dummy book focusing on the 70s and the birth of hip hop culture. Here are a few photos of the artworks (given more time, I would definately format the text better!)

Childrens Book

As on the ball as I always am, I just took some photos of the children's book project from last term. For this project, I illustrated an Indian folk tale called 'Four Brothers' which is about four brothers (yep) learning to work together after their father's death. I really enjoyed this as it was a chance to use the rich colours and patterns from Indian culture to influence my artworks. Below are some slightly dodgy photos of the artworks and detail from them. They are A2 width which is why I haven't been able to scan them! I still haven't found exactly how I like to produce artworks, and storyboarding pages is still my favourite part of the process, but I enjoyed painting these all the same, and I think it gave me more patience.

Blue Door Bicycles

So my Dad has finally jumped ship from the civil service and pursued his lifelong dream (no, not the cinema) (or the caravan site) of owning a bike shop. With his fantastic art direction skills I have done few illustrations for his website (currently in progress, but still viewable) http://www.bluedoorbicycles.co.uk/ including a dodgy wonky logo which unfortunately due to lack of time had to be taken on in its unfinished state - any of you artists/illustrators must know how much of a nightmare handing in something unfinished or not quite right is. But its happened so whatevs. Anyway here's a few things >>

The Original Boombox

In first year, number one on the procrastination list was 'make felt stuff'. We met such greats as Crabman, King Charles the octopus, the plan pony and of course the boombox of dreams.

An extremely delayed update

Many months later (in fact a third of the way through second year) and I still haven't cottoned on well to the art of blogging. I have a few images of my work in the term just gone by (still havent got any of my end of first year project scanned - my bad).

Below are 3 illustrations which I produced for the adult narrative project. I picked the text 'Oubliette' which is a short story about a being that is trapped inside something and is really confused about whether they are a rat or a man and they talk through various theories about where they are and why. It gave me an opportunity to try out different processes and also finally to work out what layering textures in photoshop actually is.

For one of the first projects of second year we were each given a word and told to produce 3 images where we explored different concepts and visual ideas based on the word. We were also given some themes which we could look at. I got the word 'face' and here are a couple of mine >

Pollution

Relationships

More Posters...

Michaels band is playing a gig soon so I've made them a poster. Here are the initial designs and the final one. A grid idea with collaged instruments.

Grid with background

This is the final image that they went for :)

More sketchbook