A selection of work from my final year.
Main image:
A rebranding of the National Trust logo.
The original logo was inspired from an oak leaf carving found at the first National Trust property, I wanted to keep the oak leaf and acorn design to celebrate the 125th year.
The four logos represent the four seasons.
Drawn with ink and twig and digitally coloured.
These are the first drafts of the National Trust logos drawn with ink and a twig, before editing in Photoshop.
A new member to the National trust would get a collection of 5 illustrated postcards of National Trust sites, There are 125 in total to celebrate the 125 years. Members then get the opportunity to collect the remaining 120 as they visit each different site.
25 artists pick 5 National Trust sites that have meaning to them, my choices are Eastergate Bridge,Huddersfield (Top Left) Speke hall,Liverpool (top Right) Rufford old Hall, Ormskirk (Bottom Left) Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley(Bottom Right) Gibson Mill ,Hardcastle Craggs, Hebden Bridge (centre)
All drawn with ink and twig and digitally coloured.
For Spread 10, the lonely Bird of Paradise is having a strop.
its nearly dusk and as previously mentioned the houselights provide a spotlight for his dance moves.
Spread 6 of One and Only for the Carmelite Prize,
One and Only is a story of a lonely bird of Paradise that cannot find love.
My bird was based on the newly discovered Vogelkop, after studying the bird I saw many coincidences with the fictional bird in the storyline. The Vogelkop is also very funny to watch and very strange to look at, I wanted to portray that in my illustrations and hopefully raise some giggles.
I have set it in the Papa New Guinea Rainforest on the edge of Port Moresby where the houses on stilts are used for a backdrop and also towards the end of the book the house lights are used for some disco dancing and romantic lighting.
For the Carmelite Spreads the mediums I used were Dip pen/Brush and inks
After watching him bust some moves, the female Bird of Paradise is declaring her admiration.
Lights from the houses provide the spotlights while he takes a bow on his stage.
In the final spread of the book the lonely Bird of Paradise has found his love.
I wanted to use a limited palette in a romantic setting and have the two birds as silhouettes with the houses below lit up in the rainforest.
Inspired by the wacky world of Preston and my interest in the victorian era and the illustrations of that period, I created a Penny Dreadful of three stories with illustrations inspired by myths, newspaper articles combining them with the unique Characters that live in Preston.
From a descendant of The famous outlaw Butch Cassidy, Gangs of marauding Chickens to fighting Ice Cream men and the infamous Fishergate Bollard
Media used Dip pen,ink and digital colouring.
One of the spreads in the final Story in my Preston Dreadful about two warring Ice cream men.
Media used Dip pen and ink, digitally coloured
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The pull out spread in my first story, The Avenham Avenger.
‘The man with no top’ is said to be a descendant of the famous outlaw Butch Cassidy who once resided in Avenham.
Media used, Dip pen and ink
Killer Chickens on the loose around Blackpool Road allotments, in the Deepdale area of Preston,
