PortfolioIllustration | Storytelling | Composition
This is effectively a selection of work to showcase my range, technical skill and basically my best finished stuff. I think it's neat, though it dates itself: I'm keeping the GCSE and A Level work in here though, because I think it shows a narrative of where I come from artistically, even though it's not my best. AS Level Exam Final Piece (iPad Digital Drawings, composited on Photoshop) - My design for a book cover for H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds.
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AS Level Exam Illustration (Ink Pen and Brush) - This piece was all about narrative tension, using line and light to convey meaning and character relationships.
A-Level Exam Final Piece (Ink Pens, Digital Silhouettes) - This piece was also about narrative tension, using composition and body language to hint at a relationship that is no longer what it once was.
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AS Level Coursework Final Piece (Pencils, Inks, and Digital Painting) - My coursework was an exploration of violence in children's media, so I ended up looking at chess, the definitive game of war. If I returned to this piece I would have the queen in the third panel overlap the second panel (to help the pacing feel more like one moment).
A-Level Coursework Digital Illustration - This was a part of my A-Level coursework, exploring the relationship between identity and uniform.
Installation Silent Short Film (11m) - This is the video half of an installation I did. I produced a 6x6x6ft installation in which the chair, book, and destroyed guitar lay on the floor in front of a wall that cut the space diagonally into a triangle - the other half of the 6x6x6ft space was portrayed virtually on the wall: I projected this video onto it, in which the chair, book, and guitars form a narrative around the only character that we see.
The narrative is vague and the video is long, since most people won't stand and watch the entire thing, helping to develop the question of what has happened, who the character is, and narratively speaking, who you as the viewer are. A-Level Coursework Final Piece Illustrations (Digital Illustration) - These images are the four separate layers that make up my final piece. It was a development on my previous Character/Identity project.
Default Profile Picture (Pencils, Digital Inks) - I was commissioned via Twitter to design and produce a default profile picture to be used on www.writehere.com, a communal writing and blogging website.
Short Film - This was part of a group project, in which we all made separate edits using the same content to explore the meaning of a legacy in a digital age, one in which everything lasts, and perhaps nothing really matters? As disappointing as it is, the people on my course hadn't seen Blade Runner, which I think in itself says something about legacy.
Magazine Cover (Photoshop) - As the Final Major Project of my Foundation year, I started a group project with another artist on my course, which developed into an installation piece that depicts a futuristic news-stand, with the magazine covers, graffiti and set design telling the state of society.
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A-Level Coursework Digital Illustration (Acrylics/Photographs, Digital Inks) - This was a continuation of my Character/Uniform project, blurring together media influences into colour without identity.
Short Film (3m) - As part of a project on establishing character, I used repeated patterns in the composition (circles in the right of frame) to tie together otherwise unconnected images. As the film progresses, it reveals connections between these images, to provide a sense of progression (moving the circles across the frame as we learn more) and his character without ever using words or revealing his face.
Wizard Of Oz Logo (Inks, Digital Painting) - I was commissioned to design a logo to be printed on T-shirts for the technical and backstage crew in a production of The Wizard Of Oz.
A-Level Coursework Final Piece (Perspex Prints between Glass) - After some calculations, I printed each layer 6% smaller than the previous one, so that they'd line up when viewed from the right perspective.
Each person who views it will attempt to line up the layers, so they'll all fall into line themselves, becoming part of the statement that my piece is trying to make about uniformity. From the right perspective, the layers make sense together: it's a portrait of an individual created with the uniforms that I share with others, and because it's meaning is vague, it's informed by the perspective from which others view it (and in turn, me). Comic Page (Pencils, Digital Inks) - This is a crop of the central panel of a page that's a work in progress at the moment, as part of my current personal project, a 26 page comic exploring humour and character. In this page, a surprised character unwittingly intrudes on a moment between his friends, which is reflected in the composition.
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Comic Cover Design (DigitalFlats, Photo Textures) - This cover is a mock up of what I plan to produce with paper cutting techniques, using different colours and patterned textures, before scanning it and experimenting with changing hues/overlaying it with a digitally inked line drawing, to provide further useful detail and be consistent with the internal art style. I'll see what it looks like.