VISIONS

Saint Hildegard of Bingen O.S.B. (1098-1179)

In this illustration I've depicted her recieving a vision.

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

OF WHAT'S TO COME

Trying to get to work on a few little things at the moment and this is the first of a hopeful many new things to come in 2013.

Moleskine sketchbook: sketch done in pencil and inked with Faber-Castell XS and F pens and biro

BOOKLET: PRINTED

The finished printed booklet for one of my Univeristy projects. Used InDesign to compile it as a PDF ready for print.
In printing I used Moleskine paper pasted onto regular copier paper for the inside pages and brown paper pasted over regular copier paper for the front and back cover. Took a lot of time and effort to construct the whole thing.
Two insert spreads are drawn by hand as no time was left for them to be printed, but they still give an good overall effect I think. I drew a metaphor between coffee and the sea as I made it a journey through the booklet.

Publication thumbnails:

Finished publication:
Title: Q (shortened from "queue")

Front and back cover

Page 1

"THE COFFEE CUP"

The icon of a caffeinated religion, pilgrimage includes: businesspeople, models, students and overworked parents alike.

It is here where we begin our voyage dear wayfarers...

Page 3-4

Illustration insert of the sea and coffee bean fish  

Page 6

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, enslaving than coffee.

(Paraphrased from: There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. -Joseph Conrad)

Page 7-8

Baristas, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

(Paraphrased from: Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. -Nicholas Monsarrat)

Page 9

The coffee is the same on both sides of the cup

(Paraphrased from: The water is the same on both side of the boat. - Finnish proverb)

Page 10-11

Illustration insert of queuing and coffee with the coffee bean fish being poured into a cup

Page 13

Like to moan. Like to queue. Love to moan about queuing. My God they're British.

And the blue lion laughed and laughed.

HAMSA

Hebrew lettering is a task within itself.
"In success/Good luck"

PANELS: WORK IN PROGRESS

Panel ink sketches for Graphics unit from referenced photographs.
Topic: Chernobyl 2065

Ferris wheel, Pripyat &  panoramic view of Pripyat

Damaged reactor, May 1986 

LINO PRINTS

Lino prints from a while ago found on my memory stick.

Russia.