HAT

The final colours and a quick little edit on my laptop of the sketches posted previously.

I am quite happy about the outcome of this portrait as I tried to layer the same colours of fibre-tipped colour pens to create shadows. I think that the style of blending the effect on the right has given the image deeper and richer colours. With the feathers I kept them lightly shaded with a black biro so that they didn't take away too much from the image. 

Moleskine sketchbook: Faber-Castell XS and F pens, Pelikan Colorella Star fibre-tips and biro

MOSCOW: REVISITED

Not literally.
Playing about in Photoshop waiting for my lecturer to arrive and remembered I had an old sketch of Russia I never did anything with. Did a couple of variants (text and halftone edges) but overall a pretty good experiment to unwind with.

Watercolour paper and brown paper textures

VISUAL EXPLORATION

Digital collage of news issues.

Had to produce a 200x200 Photoshop document, digital collage in response to a recent news story on BBC News using photographs relevant to the story.

Mucho, mucho masks and brushes went into this. And bevelling. Lots of bevelling.

Austerity protests in Greece and Spain.

A FEW EXTRAS

 Photo overlays on brown paper sketch

Jay

Halftone brushes

Namor

GUTENBERG

Letterpress design. Would've done this in a serif or blackletter-gothic font at the time to reflect movable type, but didn't think to.

TYPOGRAPHY

Typographic posters.

Anatomy of a double-storey "a" - Bowl

 Created by hand (drawn and inked), coloured in Photoshop, 

text and border in Illustrator

Anatomy of 5 letters set out as a comic page. "Rob's Typographic Emporium"

Created by hand (drawn and inked), coloured in Photoshop, text in Illustrator

Anatomy of serifs in type. Something different for me to try and it turned out pretty well

Created in Illustrator

DIGITAL

A little play around with Illustrator.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIGITAL

Tutorials.

One of my favourite effects in Adobe Photoshop at the moment: letterpress. A little play on the Clooney/Nespresso adverts.

Surprisingly after overcoming a couple of stumbling blocks quite an easy one to make. A really impressive and eye-catching light effect with heavy usage of the FX button in Adobe Photoshop.