Paul Hess illustration task

This was the task set by Paul Hess, Illustrator, we were to illustrate a ghost story about a little girl who keeps getting visited by an ominous presence... She sends him away but not before he vows to her "I'll be back! I'll get what's mine!"

Card ideas again

I got sick of trying to draw dogs so went for some flying seahorses instead?

Quick update

Here's a very short shot of Miss Pui Lee (II) breaking the board at a Taekwon-Do class that I have traced over for the commercial I am making...

Inspiration

This Tee Party competition I'm going to do some work for - whether it gets entered or not - is proving to be a challenge... The design brief is so wide and vague I can barely think of anything to do for a design... I've looked on the Dudes Factory website for some ideas as I really like some of their work and have some of their mystery mis-print t-shirts and jumpers from last year's Picto. trip...

I really like the 110 Special Black artwork on the shop page some of which I have posted from the site... I especially like the panda t-shirt...

110 Special Black

Joint the dark side - Smithe

Mcbess 

It is apparent that the majority of T-shirts I have looked at have some form of recognisable trait to them - one had the artist's rendition of Jesus on it, another a man's face, obviously one has Darth Vader on smoking a joint... Witty things like these seem to go well on T-shirts... This is something I will take into onsideration when I'm considering designs for Tee Party... Character designs are also quite popular... Personifying everyday objects such as the glass in Mcbess's 'Old Fashioned' design...

Got to think of something funny and original... hmmm...

Scraperfoil work

I bought some Scraperfoil from Wilkinson tonight because I was having trouble drawing and concentrating today... I feel the tasks I have given myself worked out pretty well, I thought the gold foil tester square would be good for the metallic look of a dalek - it was good fun... More to come hopefully - I have like three more rainbow boards :D

Interview

I had my interview with Newcastle college on Friday - I'm not sure how it went. I may have been reading the situation negatively and so perhaps I'm wrong but I got the feeling the interviewers weren't convinced. I guess I shall find out soon enough either way and I'm not going to dwell upon it. I have momentum to gather up to get the work for THIS year done before hand in week - I still want to be ready at least a day or so before the day so I can bind everything properly and hand in un-rushed. :)

Cheers

By the way new facebook address

Cactustrophic Productions here I come...

Storyboards done

Although they're rough I'm glad to finally have an idea of how I'm going to put this animation together... these will be subject to change but I'm happy with them...

As I mentioned on my facebook page - which has changed address to www.facebook.com/CactustrophicProductions
"I do not mean to insinuate Awesome does not grace other Dojangs too I'm just trying to sell the UKTC North East's ones... xD

Target setting

After a discussion with Dave I have some targets to set myself... So here's ten things I need to do this week before Friday regarding the deadlines and priorities I have (Bracketed stuff is a deadline)

1. Incidentally I need to set myself more targets so voila! (Now)

2. Add more to my portfolio (And Show reel) for my interview on Friday e.g.. life drawing work etc. (Friday)

3. Storyboard my Future Lions competition entry and have an animatic done. (Tuesday)

4. Discuss inspirations for the posters (I need to discuss more inspirations) (Friday)

5. Discuss more inspirational stuff on here... (Ongoing)

6. Treatment for Future Lions. (This Tuesday or next depending on how much you can fit into a week)

7. Posters (Next Thursday)

8. Editing Future Lions (Next Friday)

9. Bake Chocolate Chip Ninja cookeis for a friend's birthday. (Wednesday)

10. Be ready for my interview on Friday. (Duh Friday)

I also need to work on CV's, Business Cards, Paul Hess Illustration work, Tee Party T-shirt designs, Greyscale Gorilla 5 second animation if time, and designing a monster for the new project Dave introduced to us this morning...

Next tasks today is Portfolio work and Storyboarding... Cheers

Having got carried away with Pokémon character hats

After much hard work trying to resist the urge to make a tiny prototype out of felt, I finally caved and spent several hours sewing myself a keyring sized magikarp - I'm missing some googly eyes and yellow moustache strings but otherwise I would say I'm pretty darn proud that the pattern I made from scratch actually worked :) chuffed

Also I've included the other characters I've tried turning into hats and such - some of them are pretty terrible but I was really just enjoying drawing them :)

Hats off to whoever thought of this before me x3

Okay so this morning my Auntie was talking about hat knitting patterns and I got thinking about the fish hat I bought my little sister a while ago - the idea struck me that my Pokémon playing friends would appreciate the idea of a Magikarp hat like it so set about designing my idea on paper... It was then brought to my attention by my brother that this idea is already a 'thing' and so my awesome idea isn't actually original :( but I did enjoy drawing another Magikarp nevertheless xD
I felt I should share this with you...

A summary of my day so far...

 

So work began with finishing off the resizing job I was given from a former student of mine who wants the image to be 2.4 x 3.5 metres so I traced it up in illustrator to avoid it getting pixellated in any way and resized it to the size he wanted... this is the outsome...

 

 

I can't really comment on how I think it has gone as it is not even really my work xD

 

Moving on, this is a still from some footage I captured on a Thursday night class in Tae kwon-Do, our instructor is demonstrating a twisting kick.

 

 

From here I essentially 'rotoscoped' the one frame and incorporated it into the poster... I am pretty happy with how these are going and am slowly but surely finding things I want to incorporate into these... like the shadows on the lettering is new and I think it may stay...

Anyway, after a nice day of solid hard work I feel I have earned myself a chocolate bar, bottle of pop and a trip to the corner shop to buy them xD Then it's back to putting my nose to the grindstone xD

Poster attempts

Blogger isn't working I was trying upload the post with these so I'm re-posting... Each took about an hour to do and I'm quite happy with them despite the fact my wrist got worse again after almost three weeks of it healing well Dx