Three Wishes Story

This is my first illustration for the three wishes story by Kurt  Schwitters

It is about a man that had three wishes and for his last wish he wished to be a fish but regretted it straight away as he had the same characteristics of a fish; he couldn't talk or even cry, just swim round like a fish.

The mime face symbolises the fact that he can't speak and so do the pins around the fish as they express the saying 'so quiet you could hear a pin drop'

The strips on the fish might be confusing but they show the fish wearing a stripy shirt like a mime does and dungarees.

The reason why I put houses, crowds and coins on the fish is from his previous wishes- wealth and power

Enjoyed the painting process and will be developing this more

Hope the illustration is more clear from reading this, thanks

New Sam Book

Sam has now changed to a little boy!! I was trying portray the farmer as a younger version of himself

 

 

Work so far for the Sam project

Theses are the etchings I did, however now I am thinking about changing the character, which I will do by etching into the mental plate that I've got (time consuming but resulting in proper print to display) or drop a new character into photo shop? Whichever I have more time for really

I think the etching that is most successful is the coloured one, as the colours seem to direct the eye more along the illustration, let me know what you think is attractive to look at

 

Farmer Etching, for Sam project

This is my first drawing that I worked from for my etching

First etching print, the next one I do will be more inked up, so there will be more of a contrast, at the minute all looked a bit grey

Above is the etching plate that I worked into

First Ideas for children's book

My sentence is 'Emerged from the undergrowth and then..'

I started looking into the word 'undergrowth' and the different ways I could interpret it

The different meanings for undergrowth are-

1. Low-growing plants, saplings, and shrubs beneath trees in a forest.

2. A growth of short, fine hairs underlying the longer and thicker outer hairs of an animal's coat; underfur or under wool.

3. The condition of being less than fully grown.

With this is mind I came up with a character

The different scenes I have put the character in so far are

A forest full of under grown/ overgrown tree

In a child's under grown/overgrown hair- bird house is there (hair looks like a birds nest)

Character emerging from underground and appears in the undergrowth of the  forest, was deciding whether to put grave yards in?

And my favourite so far, character appearing from a farmers beard, surrounded by farm land and forests

The farmer character and his beard are really rough still

But just wanted to make sure that everyone understand what was happening and if the illustration goes with my sentence 'emeraging from the ungrowth' or not?

Its hard to see the character but his in the beard near the wind mill

How to undo

Screen print on patterned paper which looks like a wedding invitations, thinking about high lighting different elements with cream?

The idea behind the editorial is how you can undo a wedding.. so there are ripped up pieces of photos from the wedding album

This is another print I did but just on normal white paper, think the patterned paper gives it something more, gives another element to the piece 

How to be conceited

Screen print, with changes on photoshop to highlight different elements for them to jump out at you

Below are the original prints on different paper and materials





Small victories

This is my final for the editorial, a screen print on graph paper, with white highlights on the image added on photoshop to draw the eye in to different parts of the illustration

Keep changing my mind about the two illustrations, am learning more towards the blue and green one (above) than the blue and purple one (below)

However with the purple coloured one the pens shoes and other little elements show up better

Below are the prints that I did with different colours

How to be conceited

So for this piece I've created a character with a big head (which I think am going to make even bigger) as they are very big headed about themselves, they are also surrounded by different types if mirrors because they love to look at themselves, at the minute the character looks a bit of a 'mummies boy' so need to harden him up a bit and change the knitted cardie to vest maybe or polo shirt? 

Small Victories.. Continued

Going with the character in glasses now, need to develop the illustrations on the tie more, better to have them in a list 1. 2. 3. than placed randomly, might be easier to follow... Need to make the ticks stand out more, maybe have the ticks slightly out of the tie



New Spam

Made the colours stand out more and the text closer to the central illustration

Does it look better with a boarder? Maybe try a blue colour later, but don't want it to look too cold?

Edited Spam advert

I put my poster on photoshop to bring the text and the central illustration closer together, however not happy with the line I've got on the top of the page where the colour of the paper changes where I've cropped it and layed it up

Can anyone help and tell me how you can blend the background colours together? 

Ideas for 'why small victories matter'

For a starting point on the new brief I highlighted a line which says 'the challenge, on a personal level, is remembering to notice the smaller things you've achieved. Keeping a 'done list' as well as a 'to do list'

This sparked ideas of a business man with a done list, however I think just a business writing a a 'done list' would not be visually interesting, so I thought it would be more interesting if a illustrated what the man have done that day with illustrations on his tie...... A 'Done tie'....

Here are my first drawings for the project

So on the tie, the things that the man has done so far are.... walking the dog, feeding the cat, washing the pots, hanging washing out, do the ironing, taking the bins out 

Then to relate it more to the business side of it, there are pens, pencils, laptops, books etc

I think I prefer the tie that's moving rather than the one that isn't?

So next step is to fit it in a 100 mm x 105 mm square

Was thinking if its difficult to see the illustration on the tie then have it all over his suit instead, meaning that the illustrations will be bigger, be able to see them more clearer?

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