Showing posts with label watercolour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolour. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 October 2013

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.

Friday, 27 September 2013

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.

Thursday, 22 November 2012

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.



BOOKLET: PHOTOSHOP

The Photoshop edits of previous sketches for the booklet task at University.
Boosted the levels and added textures and brushes to some.








BOOKLET: SKETCHES

Had a little project for University for the past couple of weeks to produce a printed and finished booklet of sketches from a place of our choosing. Mine just so happened to be coffee shops.

Original watercolour edit scans:





 White A4 sketchbook, pencil, Faber Catsell ink pen, biro, watercolour and coffee.

Sunday, 14 October 2012

HOSPITAL: FIRST SKETCH IN THE NEW MOLESKINE!

Got myself some Moleskine journals the other day and decided to break one in and test the watercolour.

"Hospital" is Maggie Beauford as portrayed by Jessica Chastain in the 2012 film Lawless. (Absolutely loved this film)
Reference below. Pencil sketch, biro drawing and watercolour.