Experimental Ink Work

Some ink experimental sketches from working on my previous project.

This beast was based on a manuscript illustration:





















This was based on a traditional Russian icon:

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The Master and Margarita: Final Images

These are some my final images from my project on The Master and Margarita. The images represent my own personal take on the novel, rather than attempting to show the narrative in a direct way. This probably won't be my last post featuring work from that project as I've got a lot of it on the 'to scan' pile.

Images drawn using Concentrated inks on watercolour paper, scanned and assembled in Photoshop.

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One Day Workshop

These images are part of a one day workshop from my project on The Master and Margarita.
The task was to produce a series of A5 images developed from storyboarding visual descriptors.

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V&A Student Illustration Awards 2012 Entry

I've submitted some of my work to the V&A Student Illustration Awards, which you can see on the V&A site here.

The images (which I'll post below because a blog post just isn't a blog post without images) are from my current project, but the ones I selected are more related to my research than the actual storyline of the Master and Margarita novel, because everything is in storyboards and up in the air at the moment.

The colours in this one weren't this garish when I pressed save in Photoshop, I swear. Tweet

Shoebox Project

These illustrations are part of a mini-project we were set early on in the semester. The task was to create a 3-dimensional narrative within a shoebox and to produce a series of illustrations telling the story. We then had to set up a pop-up exhibition in uni, whi is all quite a lot to do in just a week. My projects ended up being a million miles away from this in terms of style and content, but I liked the images I produced in it anyway. My shoebox was filled with a mix of 3D cut-outs and some illustrations from an old biology textbook.

 

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The Master and Margarita: Two Day Book Project

This week we were set a two day book project by visiting illustrator Maureen Valfort to create book spreads and a cover combining our existing illustrations with type. These are the spreads we were asked to create using digital type, I tried to pick extracts from the novel The Master and Margarita that fitted well with the images.

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Some More People of Moscow

These are a continuation of me studying the photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson for research. I've tried to make them a bit looser and done the ink blob portraits thing that is a bit of an illustration student staple, but I've tried to make it my own.

This second set is a bit more of a worked up version of the faces, but I'm not sure if I prefer the simpler ones.
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The People of Moscow

As part of my project based on The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, I've been looking at some of Henri Cartier-Bresson's amazing street photography, in particular the from the book The People of Moscow. The portraits I've been drawing in response to the photos have started to shape the style of my project so I thought I'd post them up here to give an idea of what I'm up to.

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Follow Me Maidstone Exhibition Photos

These are some photos taken at the Follow Me Maidstone Exhibition in June at the County Hall, Maidstone. All the work has been produced by second year Illustration students at UCA Maidstone, given a loose theme of transformation. There were around 30 illustrators in the show, so this isn't everyone's, just a little sample (if you squint you can see my book in there).

You can find out a bit more about some of the illustrators taking part, blogs etc. at the Follow Me Maidstone website produced for the event.

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Paper Dragon!

This is just what I've been messing around with for the past couple of days. Its a paper cut-out / collage dragon, loosely based on the Ouroboros thingy I drew back in college. This is meant as part of a larger project I'm working on over summer, which I'll explain if I get anywhere with it (it's one of those bad ideas that my tutors always laugh at when I explain to them).

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Edgar Allen Poe - 'The Lake'

Open publication - Free publishing - More illustration

So for everyone who isn't coming to the Follow Me Maidstone Exhibition this week, this is my final book in digital form. I'll take a few pictures when I get it back from uni, because it looks a bit nicer as a concertina book than it does in digital form.

Artist's Statement:

Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, The Lake, describes a remembered place from his childhood, and his own connotations of death that he associated with it. Through an abstract narrative based on a similar location from my own childhood, I attempted to recreate the feelings and mood described in the poem. The location featured within my book is Embsay Reservoir and the surrounding moorland. Tweet

Obsession Project Work: Edgar Allen Poe - 'The Lake'

These were designed to illustrate Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Lake. The landscapes are based on the countryside in the Yorkshire Dales. Eventually some of these are going to be incorporated into a concertina book, but at the moment, they are quite initial and I will probably work them up to give a bit more contrast.
(They aren't really that red, that's my awful scanner.)
The Lake

In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less-
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.

But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody-
Then-ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.

Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight-
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define-
Nor Love-although the Love were thine.

Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining-
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.

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