LEIF

Entitled "Leif"
09.11.2013

Quick 5 minute painting with gouache on Moleskine sketchbook paper.

Showing my style to be more Scandinavian inclined/inspired and enjoying using a minimalistic approach to illustration. 

SANKT LÜDIGER

Continuous line portrait of Sankt Lüdiger/Saint Ludger, the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia.

Made using Bristol board 220gsm no-grain card, Faber Castell XS Indian ink pen and the bottom two portraits, Photoshop for brush detail. 

EIVØR PÁLSDÓTTIR

Portrait of Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir.

Mech pencil on Moleskine paper and texture applied in Photoshop.

SANKT MARTIN II: SCREENPRINT

Did some screen printing at university today with one of my course-friends and came out with some pretty good results. 

Some prints that didn't come out too well the first time with vermillion I then printed cerulean over the top and displaced the image.

My friend then had a great idea to make some look like playing cards by turning the pages upside down and printing again.

 

CIRCUS CIRCUS

A project for university this semester.

A few pages from my sketchbooks with titles:

LEFT TO RIGHT: Gennadiy and Grigoriy (strongmen), 

Katenka (acrobat), Queue (for the big top).

These three sketches with watercolour (and dark sepia Faber-Castell Indian ink B [brush] pen for Gennadiy and Grigoriy) were done in my new Moleskine sketchbook which has the most lovely (possibly 180+ or so gsm) paper to work on.

The subject we are given to work with is the theme of "circus" so I've been looking and experimenting a lot with shape and colour; challenging how I normally use my preferred media of choice and also trying out a handful of different ones while creating a narrative.

FABELHAFT II

Experimenting with digital collage.

I used Photoshop alongside parts of a previous illustration with a postcard of Celia Hammond in Paris taken in 1962.

FABELHAFT

Using part of an old illustration for my coffee shop zine from university last year, text lyrics from Kraftwerk's "Das Modell / The Model".

I wanted to create something mainly black and white in the end after playing around with Photoshop on another piece; something not too fussy. I decided to add one colour (red) with the hard brush as a circle of rouge to implicate it's make-up or on a model's, or woman's cheek. 

TOP: Black and white image with text

BOTTOM LEFT: Multiply 100% BOTTOM RIGHT: Screen 100%

SANKT MARTIN

Since it is coming up to Martinstag (Saint Martin's Day) next month on the 11.November I took a break to create a portrait for the occasion.

A continuous line portrait of Saint Martin, the Roman soldier who cut his cloak in two to share with a beggar.

Made using Bristol board 220gsm no-grain card, Faber Castell XS Indian ink pen and the bottom two portraits, Photoshop for brush detail. 

HELLO CA$H

Another Johnny Cash inspired poster.

Original design/concept by myself.

Price tag created using polygons and pathfinder "unite" option.

GET RHYTHM

A Johnny Cash lyrical typographic poster for "Get Rhythm."

TOP: Border with a corkboard texture

BOTTOM: (l) Border without texture (r) without border or texture

Lyrics belong to Johnny Cash. Design is original.

WINDHUND

Entitled "Kaspar der Windhund" o. "Kaspar"
27.09.2013

Watercolour

Tested some non-photo blue pencil sketcher (didn't really work well with watercolour over it), but still came out with a good result on the painting.

SCHICK

Entitled "Anke"
26-27.09.2013

Watercolour & scarf textures

Experimenting with line and geometry.

W.A.M. II

Just one of those things.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonio Salieri

W.A.M.

...And playin yo requiems on repeat.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

KØBENHAVN CHIKKE

Entitled "København"
19.09.2013

Inspired by various sources about Danes and fashion, especially humongous scarves that consume you and high-tied hair buns. 

Mech pencil, moleskine paper and Photoshop.

KEEP THE 1400s ALIVE

Entitled "Burgundy"
17-18.09.2013

Left: Original sketch on Moleskine paper Right: Photoshopped texture (pin light, soft light and mask)

Inspired by The White Queen and this bank of references:

  ^ Rebecca Ferguson as Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Woodville), Elizabeth Woodville (wife of King Edward IV), St. Eligius in his goldsmith workshop (detail) by Petrus Christus

^ One of my favourite dresses from the series, 

the scalloped sleeves and colour are amazing

EDWARD V OF ENGLAND

Entitled "The King with no Crown"
18/19.08.2013

Inspired by the BBC's The White Queen series and the story of the Princes in the Tower.

Mechanical pencil on Moleskine paper.

Playlist for this piece: Arvo Pärt - De Profundis, Lamentate (slow pieces), Spiegel Im Spiegel
                                Gregorio Allegri - Miserere (Psalm 51) performed by New Oxford
                                College Choir
                                Mozart - Requiem In D Minor, K 262 Requiem Æternam

STEFFI GRAF

Recently has ended the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

This poster came from watching a funny tennis video where a fan yelled, "Steffi! Will you marry me?" from the crowd, to which Graf replied, "How much money do you have?"

Created in Illustrator CS6 and edited in Photoshop CS6 with grass texture.

 

Block colour

 

Layered Colour Dodge and Screen

 

Left: Twice layered Colour Dodge

Right: Layered Colour Dodge and Screen 50% opacity

Layered Colour Dodge and Screen 70% opacity

 

GRID SYSTEM

Another typographic poster from my Summer to-do list.
I do enjoy dabbling in Graphic Design, however a dragging lecture prompted a short sentiment.

No offence to Schweiz, the creators of, or utilisers of the grid system. In fact, it's a very interesting and useful concept. (You can even see I've paid a little homage its origin with a cute little Swiss cross on the bottom).

Created in Adobe Illustrator and edited in Adobe Photoshop.

 

TOP: Black & white

BOTTOM: Eggshell texture "multiply" 35% in Photoshop