Illustration

Derren Brown Illustration, based on this piece of writing from his new book:

"I tried to picture the bar and barman straight-on, to hear the buzz of the restaurant behind me rather than to one side, to imagine the feel of his meal inside me, his weight on my bones, the faint sensation of comfort following the loosening of shoe leather from across the bridge of my toes as he lowered himself back to the floor.
I wondered whether he had picked a whisky he knew well – I imagined so, as the range was not especially adventurous and he seemed to care about which one he was given – and whether, in that case, he was at that moment imagining the walloping peaty taste he knew he was soon to enjoy.
There was something in the showy ease of the barman and the assured way in which he set the glass upon the counter that had about it a hint of performance, a suggestion of the ‘flair’ that sometimes flamboyantly attends the preparation of cocktails; I presumed that the man was noticing this affectation too, with mild irritation at its pointlessness, and making quiet judgements accordingly.
I did the same, following my own references: a blurry memory of a poster for the film Cocktail, and a repeated film-loop of a chess player planting a knight upon a square and firmly twisting it into place with that same defiance.A woman passed by, having emerged from the ladies’ toilet behind me, and the game ended. The sound of the refilling cistern within was bright and loud, and then abruptly muted as the door bumped closed. The fat man wobbled away from the bar and from me, a little inebriated, and my empathy with his thoughts and sensations was lost under the high ceilings of the wide, noisy lounge.
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Life Drawing

A small Selection of my life drawing from a sketchbook I do in my own time. I also have full figure work on seperate sheets but prefer working on the details outside college time.

Rough Ideas

A pun on Ode to joy, Apostrophe and a fine line between love and hate

Spoken sentences: Based on Phonetic lettering:
How a sentence would look if it was spoken, open to mis interpritation, without being gramatically incorrect and without the puns making the sentaces real meaning to obvious. 

A City is Built on Design

This piece is called " a city is built on design" it came about when I realised a fine liner pen looks a bit like a tower block, an odd way to get an idea I'll admit but I am really quite pleased with how it developed. 

I have expanded the letters and turned the "i" into a building. I also re-arranged the letters to that the word itself looked like part of a city, not perfectly straight and level, but bending to the contours of the land it’s built on.

Illustrator Drawing

Font Development

Font Development:

I started off with a relatively ornate font “Cardinal Alternative”. I wanted to link this to the Environment in general and thought a curvy more traditional font would give me a good starting point. I started by using commas from another font to make flourishes, like vines of certain plants. I tried to intertwine some of the letters and gave it a kind of Art Nouveau feel.Finally I added leaves to certain areas, and curved the harsh bar of the E that wasn’t fitting well with the look of the font. Overall I would say the piece has turned out very well, a simple idea that has taken some interesting turns and created some very unusual looking shapes on some of the letting.

Printing Project

A Rare Collection. Our brief was to create a print based outcome that centered on an environment of our own choosing. I chose a charity shop I work at in my spare time. This was not only because it was personal to me, but because of the shear range of objects that come though its doors and on to its shelves. I had an army of objects to draw from, photograph, print onto etc… all with their own individual story and history, it’s like a refuge for unwanted items, a desperate final attempt to give your forgotten objects a new home, before they’re condemned to the rubbish heap.  For some reason this idea appeals to me.

Community Art Project

This project was based on "Freccles" Friends of Eccles train station, we were asked to help them brighten up our local station by making a series of posters, each based on a different time of the stations history. My group designed the thrid board based on 1830, and the "cutting edge of technology", meaning ours was based on the industry of the time and mainly  "the rocket" a train we know was made the year before and road the railway at the time, specifically the famous grand re-opening. It was also the first real project we got to make a purley digital outcome, which I must say I loved. Over the last two years I have been leaning more towards digital work, while still doing allot of hand drawn, painted, sculpted projects, this along with my personal projects are a real chance to hone my digital skills and especially with my personal projects, have more freedom in what direction I stear my work.

Armour and Adornments Project

My initial drawings were based on birds and insects, done in a variety of black and white/ colour mediums.This later developed into material manipulation, batik dying based on the wings of butterflies, latex and clay moulding based on segments of insects like the earwig, and even learning how to knit, a skill I am glad I've acquired even though it took me quite a while to grasp it.

My final piece is based on an earwig. I also looked allot at the idea of armour, turning the insects segments into a helmet and shoulder pad. The colours (taken from the aforementioned insect) remind me of desert uniform from the army, which I suppose reinforces the idea it’s meant to protect. I added segments around the eye and latex over it, I had one antenna that looks a bit like a radio aerial and a shoulder strap so it can be worn with relative ease. Overall its one of my favourite pieces because of how unusual it is, it also showed a decent ability with textiles, that until this project I was unaware I had.

Manchester Project

Painting:

My painting outcome is one of my favourite pieces from my early college life, it links quite heavily with my early sketches, and is meant to show the whole of Manchester in a few seconds, focusing on different details from across the city all from different periods of time. The colour scheme itself was taken from an earlier painting as well as the objects it is made from and I’ve purposely given it fluidity, so you get a feel for the city rather than an accurate representation of its structures.

Organic Structures Project

We spent allot of time looking at natural forms in the first few weeks of the project, these ranged from the ones directly linked into our project, to fruit and veg, that was brought in so we could observe it over time using many different mediums, it also let us see the various stages of decomposition.

My Sculptural final piece was based around a flower, I looked at seed pods and Orchids, and was lucky to find a flower outside college that seemed to be somewhere in between the two. Firstly I made a few sample pieces, based around a seed pod .