Observational Drawings - Animals

Mink

Pencil crayons (A3)

Jay

Pencil crayons (A4)

Woodpecker

Watercolour paint (A3)

Tawny Owl

 Pencil crayons (A3)

Bat

Watercolour paint (A4)

Albino Ferret

Pencil crayons (A3)

Stoat

Pencil crayons (A3)

Life Drawing - Elven Huntress Sequential

Life Drawing - Elven Huntress Sequence

This sequence was created from several life drawings showing a elven woman hunting in a forest, retrieving a lost amulet and then being pursued and killed by a wolf-creature. I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Life Drawing - Disco Sequential

Life Drawing - Disco Sequence

This sequence was created from several life drawings showing a woman dancing in a club, then fighting a skeleton. I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Life Drawing - Murderer Sequential

Life Drawing - Murderer Sequence

This sequence was created from several life drawings showing a woman dancing in the night,then getting decapitated by her stalker. I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Animation Storyboard

"Xen" Complete Storyboard

For the Introduction to Animation module, we had to compose a 15-25 panel storyboard that would preface a short animation we had to create.  I have created a 25-panel storyboard that deals with the issues of xenophobia, that I plan to make a stop-motion about.

Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Studies

Fineliner anthropomorphic owl

Pencil zoomorphic woodpecker

Woodcut zoomorphic woodpecker

Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic

For this assignment, we were given the task to create three anthropomorphic or zoomorphic designs, using the observation skills we are using to create realistic animal drawings. The first study is a pencil crayon zoomorphic forest in the shape of a woodpecker, with leaves and twigs creating the individual pieces of the form - representing the animal's natural habitat. The second study is a fine-liner image inspired by political cartoons, with an underlying Victorian theme. It shows an owl as an upper-class aristocrat, standing above 'society' and ignoring a helpless mouse lower-class, who is clinging to the edge for dear life. The final study is a woodcut version of the zoomorphic woodpecker, a fitting medium for the creature.

Below are smaller studies I created when researching for the final studies above. These both show examples of the form and context behind these ideas.

Life Drawing - Splicing Sequential

Life Drawing - Splicing Sequence

This sequence was made from several life drawings showing a female doctor experimenting with splicing animals to create new species, accidentally creating a Great Horse Spirit. I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Life Drawing - Archaeology Sequential

Life Drawing - Archaeology Sequence

This sequence was created from several life drawings showing an archaeologist making the discovery of their lifetime, then having an egyptian trader steal and sell what they found.
I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Screenprinting 1 - Lion

 Lion Screenprint

This is the result of a two-colour screen print of one of my anthropomorphism drawings in the final stage - the head of a lion. I have separated the mane into the darker section and the facial detail into the lighter section.

The Grateful And The Dead Sequential

The Grateful And The Dead

 This is an illustrated sequence of panels adapted from the story "The Grateful And The Dead". This section encompasses the part of the story where Jack (the protagonist) walks into a frozen town and discovers the history behind the town's blacksmith. I have coloured it with pro-markers and formatted it into a short comic.

Life Drawing - Religious Experience Sequential

Life Drawing - Relgious Experience Sequence

These are pages from a sequential adaptation of larger life drawings, displaying various poses. The theme for this sequence was the story of a non-religious Victorian housemaid being visited by an apparition of her future self, forcing her to change her beliefs in fear and convert to Catholicism. As seen above, I have formatted the sequence in a comic style and added panels and some religious symbolism in the backgrounds to make the story flow more smoothly and make sense for the reader.

 

I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Life Drawing - Pirate Sequential

Life Drawing - Pirate Sequence

These are pages from a sequential adaptation of larger life drawings, displaying various poses. The theme for this sequence was the story of a pirate finding and reclaiming her pet lemur from an undead pirate on a Caribbean island - whom she gets a map to the treasure of the island from. As seen above, I have formatted the sequence in a comic style and added panels and backgrounds to make the story flow more smoothly and make sense for the reader.

I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Life Drawing - Bike Sequential

 Life Drawing - Bike Sequence

These are pages from a sequential adaptation of larger life drawings, displaying various poses. The theme for this sequence was the story of a woman meeting a love interest after having a bicycle accident. As seen above, I have formatted the sequence in a comic style and added panels and backgrounds to make the story flow more smoothly and make sense for the reader.

I have used fineliner pens to achieve the outlining and shading of each panel, focusing on a more linear hatching technique to represent shade.

Illustration personification task

"The Illustration Squid"

For one of our in-lecture assignments we had to design a personification of the Illustration course.

As seen above, I have drawn a squid holding drawing utensils and wearing a broken crown. The squid's tentacles represent the several modules that are delivered throughout the course. The utensils represent medium experimentation within the first year, and the broken crown shows the course as an almighty ruler, but one that can always be overcome. 

The overall image demonstrates both the challenge and the freedom within the Illustration course.