Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo

I have been working on some ideas for this years Folio Society Book Illustration Competition and the chosen book is Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo. I read the book and i'd say it's now one of my favourite books! The Imperial War Museum has been housing me for the past couple of weeks as I wanted to learn all about WW1. Above are a couple of drawings made whilst immersing myself in the museum displays and another drawing of the horses at Vauxall City Farm.

Post-Graduation: What next?

So. I graduated earlier this summer and since have traveled to Snowdonia, Dog sat for my mum back in Poole, relinquished all my Saturdays indefinitely to work at Urban Food Festival and pursed making in within the creative field o Illustration! I'm not sure what form this will be but I know I would like to work it out whilst working and putting into practice all I have been learning and developing so far. Since graduating I have been focusing a lot on a project that stylistically is digital vector art and of bold imagery and flat colour (above). I have also continued arranging miniature sets and photographing them (below). For now I plan to continue temp work and sending off my portfolio/website to people!

Miniature sets

For the last couple of months I have been playing with arranging a lot of found, bought, collected and made objects to create miniature sets that communicate a sense of other worldly-ness. I was able to use the photography studio to shoot these sets which has meant they've come out top quality!!

Dramatic crops somehow forms a narrative

I've been making some illustration work about Californian like retro cafes and kept thinking about the cafe from Mighty Mprphin Power Rangers; here are some paintings of cropped stills, they create an intriguing narrative all together.

Many ways of making

Photos taken during a workshop last week with tutor and guest tutor Jay Cover and William Edmonds from Nous Vous. It was all about ways of making, moving between 2D and 3D, and a process of playing with abstraction. Thinking through making.

Interim show

  

During this past week I have been working on the installation of my third year interim show. I decided to exhibit some Monoprints I have been churning out (left) and then I little line of investigation exploring form in painting and then taking that into 3D (right).

I would say for me, third year is the best; I am steering my projects a lot more and have more confidence in what I am doing.