I could do shoes!

One of the guy's from pokedstudios sideprojects I think, nonetheless I could do this! Im not particularly keen on these illustrations, but it just made me think about how easy it must be to do. Anyway I found this image of his too, which I do really like as a fun print solution:

Really nice colours that compliment the stock.

My entry for Ben and Kens Shape of tommorow Zine

Thats a very low quality upload, just for the ease of uploading, but I decided to run with "only a mad man can draw a perfect circle" and then made a head out of a circle. It fits perfectly on A5 and has been emailed off meeting all the requirements. Simple Idea, but it works for me and Im confident this will be a nice asset to the zine. Cant wait for a printed copy!

Matt Lyon

some really interesting and unique illustrative print work I have come across by matt lyon. This sort of approach to an illustrative style I think would sell really well at a craft fair. Its, for lack of a more fitting word, kookie and fun, and a feast for the eyes!

His type solutions are really inventive and expressive, but also fit nicely into a context:

A festival poster Matt did, The kaleidoscopic style shapes and colours work really well for a summery, festival theme, which is why I think there working so well on thi poster. It also works well in more figurative and structurally abstract illustration:

By far my favourite" typoquote" as matt calls it, that he has produced is this one:

I can say that I aspire to create some print work like this in my third year, even if the brief is only to create imagery for typoquotes, So this can be seen as another brief idea - fair enough it would not be challenging to me as a brief, but surely by building a strong portfolio of work that is unique and says alot about me as well as client work shows a clarity in my aspirations into self directed and self motivated projects as well as client lead work.

Photo of the day!

My little friend in the bathroom...

The shape of tommorrow zine

Ben and Ken luckily extended the deadline to the 15th, which was great and means i can submit something, I can get into college and use the resources if need be. The shape of tommorow is a series of a5 zines, each based on a shape, with the first being a circle. I was a little stuck for decent ideas last week, But with a fresh approach (and extended deadline today), heres how it's going so far.

I took this image first, of my chinese health balls, just because they are appealing to look at and this could have made quite a nice full bleed duotoned image for the zine. Then I started thinking about the geometry of circles and things like crop circles. This lead me to the name Euclid after an internet search. Euclid was ancient greek mathematician, and geometrist who actually originated the circle shape.

This made me think of that old fashioned quote "only a mad man can draw a perfect circle" - was euclid crazy? Who knows, hes dead.

Im thinking of just using that image with the red outlines, and putting it through illustrator and making the outlines vectorised, and the desired colour. It's already the right size, and I'm happy with how the illustration actually looks.