i thought i'd post up a lil more of my work - nothing in particular, and in no order ^^

this is from my 'acrylics workshop' basicly i know how to use acrylic paints - so i spent a happy few hours chatting, then did this in the last hour or so, just to show willing -

i like this image for a few reasons; firstly i think the composition works quite well, also, (a few other people have also said this,) i like the juxtoposition (long word ^^) between the detail of teh maiko and the rough ness of the background.

this is a piece i did for composition theory; teh brief was to portray a small mouse about to be eaten bu a BIG rat; the original thumbnail 'skech' i did is this :

apparently the composition was "a little to perfect", ie the composition was too comfortable for an uncomfortable situation (do you believe it?)

anyway, i had to play around with the composition to make it more tense.

the piece is acrylics and texture paste on mountboard. i love texture paste - with a 'dry brush' is gives teh impression or a really 'worked' piece, with mininmum effort; to illustrate:


detail of mouse

aint it cute ^^

this is, i think my largest pieve so far this year - it's just a little larger than A1 - it was basicly the work from our 'wax and oil pastel workshop', where for a day we were let loose with tissue paper (the base) , wax crayons and oil pastels and an iron :D
being teh poor student i am i had bought my wax crayons and pastels from teh pound store, and as is unfortunatly yrh case with art materials; money = value ; i found out quite soon into the class that my oil pastels contained more wax then my wax crayons did!
not that tha made much of a adiiference - i think it turned out quite well. i tend to think of this piece now as a warped self portrait, good luck trying to interpret that ^^.
a few pics of detail (sprry about teh awful photos)
















this is a kinda personal image - it was part personal work, but spurred on by a project we had (unfortunatly never handed in)

the image is a re-hash of an image i drew a couple of years ago, when i was going through depression.

the original picture:

the image is titles "Angel, Falling" - the idea was originally to protray the feeling, the pain of falling further, in my case into depression, or into disspair. the wings of the angel are becoming blood; they are bleeding away.

im still not sure how to portray this.


the main reason i have not as yet finnished this piec is because as soon as i try to open the file, photoshop trhrows a hissy fit!

once i hace it all working, and finnished, i will be sure to post the final image!










just a quick composition of two (of 8) thumbnails i did for colour theory that i thiygh worked you quite nicely.
i think this'll do for now ^^

i will post pics of my Maiko project up as soon as it's all been marked ^^

The Magician's Nephew

ok - so i promiced i'd post these up - here we go...

first - the brief.

the basic brief was that a audo books company was doing a CD of a 'classic' novel - we had a choice of novels to chose from (eg: war of the worlds, lotr, emily bronty etc..) or we could could choose our own - i opted to do "the Magician's Nephew" as it was coinciding with the release of teh lion teh witch and teh wardrobe at cinemas atm...

any way - using Adobe Illustrator - a graphics programme for those who dont know - we had to produce 4 images - one for teh fron cover of teh CD case, one for the back, one for the inside/ inlay and one for the CD

for teh image i chose to illustrate what i thought were key scenes in the story...

and so :

i will post the images as they are without, and then with text :)

first: the back cover :

this is where the children (polly and Digory) forst encounter Jadis - she was teh red queen then - rather than the White Witch.

to clarify - she is holding digory by the sholder and tilting his chin up to look at him
polly is, of course afraid.

next : the Inner image - the inlay

this is the scene where straberry, the horse becomes fledge, the pegasis (sp?)

the CD image - this image has no text - so i am providing a full image and a cropped image (what it will look like when it is on a CD)

this image is from teh scene where digory is sent to collect a silver apple to plant a tree that will protect narnia from jadis (cos that worked), and he is tempted by jadis...


Last, but not least, and finally finnished (it took way too long);

Front Cover:

this isnt so much an image taken directly from the book; i wanted to protray the wood in between worlds; it's supposed to be lush and green, so i chose to make it literally green ^^
the hand in the foreground is supposed to be Jadis'.
Im not so happy with how the text turned out on this image, but i didnt want to use colour in the text, as i thought it would somehow drown out the image...

anyway, overall, i'm happy with how this project turned out.

hope tutor likes it.... (i forgot his name again >.< )

more examplars of my work to come! ^^

new avatar ^^