Editorial

A mock editorial project. We were given a few articles and had to illustrate one of them.
The article I chose was a New Scientist piece talking about the possibilities of changing things you hear into visual images.
It can be read here http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727731.500-sensory-hijack-rewiring-brains-to-see-with-sound.html?full=true



The illustration is made with black card, and lots of poked holes and cut out shapes. The final image is a photograph of the piece on a lightbox.
The image shows a stream of glowing dots coming out of a woman's eyes, butterflies made out of ears and more white dotted patterns. The butterflies represent a new freedom and beauty that this technology hopes to provide. While the white dots remind the viewer of braille, and of the experience described in the article of different positioned dots representing different sounds.

Body organs project

We were each given a few words and had to create 2 contextual illustrations based on the word. I had 'body organs' and made one image showing the effect of a literal brainstorm, and another which imagines a world where pigs are using footballs made out of human organs.

7 Deadly Sins

This is a piece done as a possible background/side image for friend and poetic shambler Mr Sunil Sandhu

"The Importance of Being Eager: The Art of Making Friends at University" Part 1

I did some illustrations for some of beautifully crafted words of Dominic Fogg for Hullfire, the Hull university magazine. These are the other 3.

Find people insipid and annoying? Snort all and any available substances until they become more bearable.


Why did Jesus only have twelve mates? Because he had principles. A rookie error in the art of making friends. I may be a chain smoking alcoholic who is failing my degree, but I’ve got six hundred friends on facebook! Sacrifice all sense of moral judgement because, let’s face it, individualism is for egocentric pricks!


Thought G-Unit was dead? That happy slappers were childish? Think again! Make an exclusive gang, wear the same clothes and ride a tandem bicycle. Popularity guaranteed.

"The Importance of Being Eager: The Art of Making Friends at University" Part 2

I did some illustrations for some of beautifully crafted words of Dominic Fogg for Hullfire, the Hull university magazine. These are the first 3.


If your life has been thus far boring, make up some interesting lies. Fictional philanthropic Gap-Years work a treat!



To make people feel comfortable around you, you need to be comfortable with yourself. Get naked spontaneously. It’s ‘quirky’ – “Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed”



If you like sports on television, or in any form, you’re an idiot. This is fact. Most people are, however, utterly stupid. Eager for friends? Grab the nearest racket! Or remote!

Dawn of the Dead

Using the same process i used for the previous piece of work, i created an image/poster inspired by Dawn of the Dead.

Initial cut out


Final photo

Alien

To further develop the way of working i sort of stumbled across for my last project, ive been doing some more pieces with a similar graphic feel.
This first one is an image inspired by the famous chestburster scene from Alien that Im sure most people are aware of.

Ive got a few images to show how the final piece comes about.

Firstly, this image shows the initial sketching, note making and experimenting with cutting the black card.



Next, i draw out and cut the final design, creating the black stencil like frame, which i will later stick coloured paper to the underside of.



Before sticking the paper on, i like to use them as stencils.



The final step before sticking on the paper, lighting them from behind and taking the photos, is to scan the black stencils, and to colour them digitally, in order to work out colour schemes, various shades and whatnot. Obviously the final image will appear differently, due to the nature of the light, the paper thickness and quality, and the photo, but this is enough for a rough guide.



Photo of the final created image