The Big Sleep: Slightly More Detailed Ideas

Having chosen a couple of ideas I preferred I then went on to refine the ideas.

I have since scrapped these ideas completely.

The Big Sleep Thumbnails

As a Uni project I have been assigned to design and illustrate a book cover for the book 'The Big Sleep'. Its a competition hosted by Penguin Book Publishers (competition link here). I am more inspired by the big sleep other than the puffing brief 'Wind In The Willows', but its been a struggle.

Here are some of my thumbnail sketches I've come up with as the first stages of my design process. 

I GOT A WACOM!

I recently started craving for a graphics tab, I knew what brands were best and knew Wacom were very accessible. So my only issue then was funding (being a student with no part-time job, money is AWAYS an issue). I sketched out this with the desire of it being painted in photoshop using a graphics tab.

The issue of funds for my dreams of a Wacom Bamboo (£49.99 RRP) still an obstruction I was doing the typical thing I'm sure we all do when lusting after something: dream, and to amazon wish list, drop hints, and everything else you could conceive short of prostitution! 

I then had an epiphany! I worked at a place almost 2 years ago where you got an Argos gift card for going above and beyond the job role, during my employment there I had accrued over £60 pounds for a multitude of extravagant reason (excluding kiss arse)... I never used these points even though 2 christmas' had past since leaving the job and accruing the points. Why didn't I use them before, goodness knows. But that meant I could suddenly afford the long lusted after WACOM BAMBOO!!

And after that long waffle and nonsense this was the result, enjoy :)

Tribute To Female Aviators

I was assigned a project to pay tribute to female aviators, I wanted to bring a sence of elegence and strength to the images.

During the project I learnt how to created brushes out of textures I had produced with paint.

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Rocket and Eve Concepts

A couple of concept pieces for my Novel

Painted with Acrylics

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Sketch and Colour

Hello everyone, I thought I'd introduce myself with some artwork I've recently created.

Conceptual pieces for a Graphic Novel I'm composing.

To the left the sketch I did, the right is the coloured version.

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Much Love! X