For the final project before we broke up for Christmas we had a project in which we had to sum up the main things we had learnt that term in an interesting way. The more I worked on this project the more it made sense for it to have an Aztec/Jungle theme - to illustrate the points I had listed. Hopefully it also made it more interesting to look at too!
A quick birthday card I knocked out yesterday, but the results surprised me! Not too shabby.
This is the 3rd banner I've just finished for the website. Not so sure about this one, but I'm in a bad mood so thats probably affected it. I'll go and have some pancakes and do some knitting and then the world will be better again.
These are some of the headers I have been working on for my new website (coming soon). The top one will be for the illustration page, and the 2nd for the design page. But knowing me they'll be changed before they get used!
Here begins my updates of the fun I had for this last project. Theres a fair whack to come as I had 2 weeks of uninterrupted image making to play with, DROOLLLllll...........
Playing with layering in photoshop with some of the images I've made for the current brief.
Illustration experiment for our current project based around collections. Digital collage using made textures and drawings.
Here is the final piece for our previous Uni project (for an imaginary book spread). The purpose was to practise layout and typography, aswell as broadening our knowledge of illustrators/designers. I was given the wonderful work of Jon Klassen, and I hope I did him justice. I got a 2:1, and for once think I did a reasonable job, so I'm happy. Want to try and find some bigger images (none were available at the time) to improve on this.
The finished piece! I'm really quite chuffed, what with it being my first digital collage of separate drawings. I can't wait to try it out again with the next one. I especially love the how the patterns worked out for the fish.
It's coming along! This is taking a little longer than expected as I'm certainly learning along the way but so far it's what I pictured. Any comments appreciated, as this is my first illustration using this method (like a drawing collage in photoshop).
This drawing was made about a year ago, before my tutors had taught me how to 'draw properly', so it's a bit naive, but I still like it. I had a brilliant time drawing it as the octopus was really active, wriggling around all over the place - hence the broken lines and scribbles.
An etching made during our uni etching induction. This was made from the original octopus drawing I made at Tynemouth aquarium, which I've been meaning to but on for....an age. It will be added above next.
My first Wacom illustration! AND my first illustration friday. Thought this would be a good chance to try out the wacom properly and take some scary steps into the deeper relms of photoshop. This is why it's turned out far too computery than I would normally like. Next time..lots of lovely ink, paint and pencil. THEN photoshop...Scrummy
Hilke MacIntyre 
Elizabeth Shepherd
Lovely Pigeon
A few of us from Carlisle went along to seven stories as part of the late shows (in Newcastle) and in a plain looking side room we got a lovely shock. The work reminds me rather alot of another of my illustration idols (all bow) Jill Calder. I think it's the mark making and use of colour. Yummy in my eye tummies
This is an image created by my tutor Dwayne Bell (www.dwaynebell.blogspot.com) who teaches us all about the wonderful world of illustration at Cumbria Uni. It is lovely.
This is a page from a sketchbook we had to fill for uni, based around the campus. It's a pretty simple image but i like the way it came out.
