Yes, deer.

A short WIP animation based on a poem by Chris Powici.

Hansel & Gretel

Keeping with my current love of paper-cutting, I decided to create a scene from Hansel & Gretel using the same technique. Instead of a animation however, I created a scene that had depth using multiple layers of card on top of one another.

Lighting became very important again, and was something I became really interested in experimenting with.

Fragment 31 by Sappho.

‘He’s equal with the Gods, that man’

He’s equal with the Gods, that man

Who sits across from you,

Face to face, close enough, to sip

Your voice’s sweetness,

And what excites my mind,

Your laughter, glittering. So,

When I see you, for a moment,

My voice goes,

My tongue freezes. Fire,

Delicate fire, in the flesh.

Blind, stunned, the sound

Of thunder, in my ears.

Shivering with sweat, cold

Tremors over the skin,

I turn the colour of dead grass,

And I’m an inch from dying.

This is my first ever stop-motion animation. It is created with the techniques used by Lotte Reiniger, using shadow puppets on a light box. It is based on a poem fragment by Sappho, an ancient greek poet.

Mapping The Transient.

This was a short video created to be soothing and relaxing to watch. The sounds of the waves against the pebbles and the overlapping video layers make it a very peaceful video.

The sea, and waves are something I'd consider to be transient. As waves crash they are suddenly no more, they pulled back in. They last only for a short time.

Expanding Imagination

Here are two drawings I made based on the idea of the 'unknown' outside the frame of the photograph. Who knows what could be there? 

Dragons? 

Sinister shadows?

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Some quick little double exposure experiments for the initial stages of the new project:

"Look What I've Found"

Combination of found photographs bought from an antique shop, and my photography.

Beautiful Brighton

Since coming back to Brighton for the start of the new term, I have really noticed how beautiful Brighton is, especially at moments like the one below - the sunset. 

This week the sky has been wonderful colours as I've walked home, but I was unable to capture them. So, in consequence I have started this personal project of documenting the beauty of Brighton. 

First up, this gif of Brighton Pier, with murmurations of Starlings flying overhead.

Time

Illustration Friday entry!

I've decided this year, I should start doing a lot more extra personal work, so to begin I am going to start participating in Illustration Friday!

This is my response to this week's topic - 'Time'.

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Gif me more!

As this project has progressed, I've made about 13 or so different gifs. Mostly experimentation, gifs of only about three or four frames.

All of this has led onto me progressing onto more complex and 'finished' gifs! Here are some below.

This gif above is my pride and joy. Hand-drawn and painted, inspired by Mendellsohn's The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture. The music evokes the feelings of a stormy sea in Scotland.

St. Basil's Cathedral was chosen as my "best building in the world". I decided to try this fun little concept with the amazingly colourful domes.

Gif me.

This week was the start of a new two week project on gif-making! We need to make 6 looping gifs based on specific things like our favourite book, the best building in the world, the best song, something that makes us really angry, our hero and -  above - our favourite travel destination. I chose the moon!

This is my first ever hand-drawn gif, and it's made out of 24 drawings.

Here's some pages from the concertina, up close.

Explanation of Natural Selection, and random variation through generations.

Simple version of the Tree Of Life

Explain Why!

This was a week project where we had to explain something in a set of sequential imagery. I chose to explain evolution, which proved difficult at first, seeing as how complex it is! I had to figure out simple but effective ways of explaining, and the result is this little concertina! Good ol' Darwin.

Let There Be Light.

These are a few of my final selection of images from our two week "Let There Be Light" project. I really focused on looking at the different colours and patterns I could make using bokeh as my main subject. These photographs are actually street lights on the promenade, with the occasional green being a traffic light. Zoomed in with a 300mm telephoto lens and turned completely out of focus, this is the result!

If you go down to the woods today...

This is the beginning of a personal project I have started that is entitled "If you go down to the woods today", having taken inspiration from the childhood song "The Teddy Bear's Picnic". It will look at a darker side to forest imagery, and also looking at the lyrics to the song.
Here is a study of a forest, both a coloured version and the original sketch. I hope to have the freedom to explore different techniques, so look out!

Photography Experiments. Personal Project.

Water reflected on the road.

Waves

Tin foil and fairy lights

Light trails of tree lights

I created these images using a selection of abstracted images of artificial and natural light. I started to play around with colouring and layers and I realised the results were not unlike magnified images in a petri dish, hence the reasoning for the circular crop.

The unnatural colours makes them unrecognisable as actual objects, and even with captions it is quite hard to tell.

Drawing is...

Drawing is narrative and humour and personality on paper.

Drawing is ...

These is some starter work on our two week project - Drawing is ... more than Drawing

Five Favourite Fairy Tales - Summer Project

              

 


  Before I get ahead of myself, I wanted to upload my
illustrations that I had done over the summer before
starting uni. We were briefed to create 5 images of
anything that meant a lot to us. One of my favourite
things are fairy tales, and these were the results!

BA(hons) Illustration!

I'M HERE, IN BRIGHTON!

I made it to university and every second is amazing! From now on, there will be a lot more posting of all that I get up to.

For now, here's some sketches I made at the Booth Natural History Museum.

The Final Book - Peter Pan.

Here's the final pages for my Final Major Project.