Monday, 31 March 2014

Self Portrait!


So, for our upcoming gallery exhibition which will feature my whole University classes work we all decided we would each do a self portrait of ourselves alongside our work, below you can see mine:



A little explanation on this: the portrait was made to reflect my personality as an avid gamer by including some characters from some of my favorite indie game titles, these include: Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, Journey, Spelunky, N+, Don't Starve, Bit Trip Runner & Alien Hominid. The binary text in the background reads "Gamer" and is repeated over and over.

Monday, 24 March 2014

Wizard design changed again

 
Felt that the previous design of my wizard was far too stiff and didn't make much of an impression, so here's yet another re-design of him:

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Wizard Muddle, Character change


Completely re-designed the main wizard character for my new book illustration, mainly on the basis that I just didn't like the previous design much myself, below is the newest design:

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

New project begins! Short story illustration entitled "Wizard Muddle"


Below is the first concept design for the wizard that will be in my new children's illustration entitled "Wizard Muddle"

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Artist Spotlight: Andrew Rowland

Here is an artist that I feel will be inspirational when it concerns my upcoming project, his style is very creative and really manages to capture the innocence required when it comes to children's book illustration, you can see some of his images below:



Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Harvest book cover:


Working on a book cover for the publisher Aurora Metro, I was tasked with designing a cover for the book titled "Harvest" below is my design: