SOME OF THAT NEW STUFF

A greeting for Dia de los Muertos.
My take on La Calavera Catrina; a design for this year's celebrations.

I wanted to create something to highlight the event of the Day of the Dead; marigolds symbolising the memory honoured by the living to the dead, crucifixes to show faith and sunrays to depict new life. The Catrina as the central figure embodies a typical depiction of DOTD, I added a veil of stars to her outfit in parallel to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

OVERHEARD CONVERSATIONS

So our task for this week's discussion was typographically set-out illustrations of overheard conversations.
Seriously, I overheard nothing. Nada. Nichts. Rien. This was about the only thing I did overhear...because in a supermarket in England this is all you hear.

Enjoy it in all its simplicity.

MAGGIE ON A DOLLAR BILL

Played around a bit in Photoshop today and wanted to do something different with "Hospital" so it came down to putting Maggie on a dollar bill (sorry Washington).

Wanted to still keep the red in there for her dress to make it different. 

"THE GREAT FACE RACE"

A small project from Uni a week ago. Take a massive A0 portrait of yourself and draw on it by hand stuff personal to you that connects the audience with who you are.

Handdrawn first; digital version last (completed in Photoshop).

I used one of my own works in the digital version ("HAMSA") to just sort of cover the background.

(Beware the Bears)

GOAT

Goats and mountains. Ideal.

Brown paper on sketchbook with Faber-Castell ink pen (XS, S, F, M & B)

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

TYPOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

Two of a few typographic portraits I've done for a Unit.

Hand rendered type scanned and coloured on Photoshop.

Handwritten words.