ALL HAIL BEARS

I finally got round to doing another poster after a bit of project work. The concept comes from love of awesomeness of bears shared by myself and one of my sisters.

I re-used the banner from "EINMAL UM DIE WELT" and re-painted and masked out a bear face to make it look OBEY-esque.

Illustrator CS6 & Photoshop CS6

GANESHA: FINISHED PENCILS

After days of hard work on this single piece I am proud to present to you my finished pencils of my portrait of the Hindu god Ganesha.

GANESHA UPDATE

Just a little update from the previous sketch of Ganesha.
Only two arms, his legs, headdress and pattern-work to go.

GANESHA (IN PROGRESS)

I started work on a sketch of Ganesha last night and decided to start turning it into something.
This will eventually turn into a full-body shot of a seated Ganesha portrait once I'm done.

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

SENTIMENTS

Well, I only miss the sea a tiny bit.
Just had this sketch kicking about, not doing much. So I made a simple little thing in Photoshop.

 

Ahoj!

BAKKUSHAN & CRO

Developed even more typographic posters after class today.
This time with lyrics from "Baby, Du Siehst Gut Aus!" by Bakkushan and "Einmal um die Welt" by Cro.

Third version with grunge texture
(Leading on the first poster could do with a bit of work)

Second version with paper texture

Customised with panda mask pen tooled in Illustrator

PODCAST WORK

I did some work for a classmate's podcast this week and here are the outcomes.

You can listen to the podcast "Geek and the Greek" here on http://geekandthegreek.podomatic.com/ or subscribe in the iTunes store.

 

^ Final choice for podcast cover ^

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.

PERSPECTIVE

I saw a pretty inspiring and awesome quote from Billy Talent's website the other day and decided to make a poster from what the lead singer said in an interview.

Used the colour of a blue/green to link with life in some cultures then added a texture in Photoshop.

Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CS6

RESPONSE TO MUSIC

In class today creating album covers for bands that we like.

Things we were urged to include: mood, texture, experience and atmosphere of the music; can respond to lyrics and themes, narratives contained in the music; could include fashions of the times or a political/social message.

Questions we were asked to possibly include in the creation process: why do you feel passionate about their music? (reflect your experience)

Answer: I love the style and tone of both Billy Talent and Alkaline Trio's music, found it a bit hard to push aside remaking a cover when there are already awesome covers to these two albums.

I wanted to create two albums that I could link visual language to such as "addiction" to pills and "dead" to a crucifix.

Compiled in Photoshop CS6

2, 3 & 4 are final versions

1-3 Alkaline Trio "This Addiction" album (2010)

Grunge texture, syringe vector, prescription pill image, banner vector and Alk3 logo (completely rendered in Adobe Illustrator using pen tool)

4. Billy Talent "Dead Silence" album (2012)

Grunge texture, text and cross rendered in Adobe Illustrator, halftone brushes and mask layer

BORN OF FIRE

Made another poster after class today for one of my flatmates with a phrase she said to me about herself in a conversation a while ago.

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.

INDESIGN PRACTICE

Had an introduction to InDesign today and had to produce an article using a layout of our choice from a slideshow. I preferred the photographic magazine layout for this particular article (article source: http://www.einslive.de/musik/platten/2012/09/120906_billy_talent_dead_silence.jsp) on Billy Talent.
Article belongs to 1LIVE and photograph by Dustin Rabin for Billy Talent.

TYPOGRAPHIC POSTERS

After class today I wanted to make a couple of typographic posters in Adobe Illustrator using some lyrics. Here are the end results!

 

First 3: "Gewinner" by Clueso

Last: "Hanging by a Thread" by Billy Talent