Photoshop Workshop - Snow White and Rose Red

Snow White and Rose Red cover idea - I created this entirely on Photoshop using edited photographs of roses and leaves that I took to create the rose trees and then Photoshop tools to make the rest of the image.

Little Red Riding Hood Cover

My original drawing of a wolf drawn with fineliner, marker and pencil. This is the wolf from the Little Red Riding Hood story, which is much scarier in the Brothers Grimm version than the one most know today.

Developments of my wolf drawing - Each one has been photocopied and then I have added colour using different methods. For the first one I have used water paints, colouring the eye, some of the fur, and the tongue. The middle has been coloured with red pencil crayon. And the last I have used water pencils for the eyes and teeth, and tea and fire for the fur.

Thumbnail Sketches for Fairy Tale Cover

Thumbnail sketches for a book cover and a book mark for
a fairy tale



Responses to existing illustration



Mini development
for my cottage idea
for Snow White and
Rose Red

Mini development
for my Frog King
cover idea

Typography Experiments - Fairy tale

I did all of these on Illustrator, using words that relate to fairy tales and their typical themes. I created them using simple fonts and shapes with only two colours for each word.  

Research and Responses for Book Cover Brief - Growth and Evolution Theme

Research on artist Anita Mejia - One of my
options was to create covers for the Brothers
Grimm fairy tales and I felt her unique, vintage
style fit very well with these versions

And here I my responses to Mejia's work.
The first is Rapunzel looking out of her tower,
the second s Little Red Riding Hood holding
the basket she took to her Grandma, and the
third is the princess from the fairy tile The
Fiddler

Here I have analysed the work of Si Scott
as I felt the simplicity of his designs fit
well with my other option - to create covers
for the series of books written by Karen Rose.

These are my responses. I drew the main
images on three different book covers
already existing in the style of Si Scott
with a fineliner pen.

Campaign Poster

This was my final piece for my awareness poster. I chose the foxes because I felt it was the hardest hitting and it would touch more people, making them want to help with the cause. I drew and edited the foxes.

Developments for Poster Ideas

On the left is my robotic deer that I have scanned into Illustrator,
Live Traced and then opened in Photoshop where I coloured it
with blacks and greys to make it look metallic. On the right are
photographs of a rabbit I drew with fineliner and coloured with
pencil crayons before cutting it out with a base and standing it up
for photographing as though it were a real rabbit stood with a shadow.

This is another idea showing a mother and baby wolf touching noses
that I sketched with pencil. I then came up with the phrase "Aren't
they worth saving?", asking the public if the fox family are not good
enough to be kept alive. This would hit people hard because most people
would feel sympathy for the young and the mother, as well as the rhetorical
question forcing them to think about the cause.

These are developments of the fox and deer ideas. For the foxes I have
added a coloured affect and for the deer I have made it look more like it
is made out of metal.

Thumbnails and Ideas for Nature Brief

Thumbnail ideas for a campaign poster to raise awareness
 about saving forests

Responses to existing nature posters

One of my thumbnails developed and draw with
coloured pencils and fineliner showing a bird
 and a squirrel in a tree with the phrase
"It's more than a tree, it's a home"

I developed the idea further, drawing the tree with black
marker on brown paper and on white paper drawing the
animals with fineliner pen 

I also developed one of the responses - here I drew
a robotic deer to suggest that this would
be the future if we were to continue destroying
woodland areas using a fineliner

I then drew the deer in a different position with it's
 head turned to look behind itself, however
 this one didn't show as much detail



Here I have sketched the idea of an owl in a tree with
pencil and decided on a phrase that I felt would have
been effective with the purpose of the poster 

I then redrew the owl in the tree in fineliner and
wrote the message with a marker to make it stand
out against the picture

This is a water painting inspired be Lucinda
Rogers' work showing a man jogging down
a path in the woods to show woods benefiting
people with more than the beauty

Wrapped in Nature

This is my "Wrapped in Nature" font. I hand drew each letter, scanned them in separately, and then Live Traced them on Illustrator before opening tem in Photoshop to add colour to the flower heads and leaves. This font would only be used for headlines and main phases on posters or covers, which is why there are no lower case letters. It fits well with the nature theme because there are lots of different images of nature surrounding each letter.

Hand Drawn Typography Experiments - Nature Theme

Typography ideas using floral patterns with stems drawn with fineliner pen



These ideas have been drawn with fineliner and markers and have been made to look like trees and vines

Developments of the vine idea using fineliner

Hybrid typography experiments using Algerian and Blackadder

Wrapping letters in flowers idea

Development of wrapped font and ideas

Completed alphabet for font "Wrapped in Nature, hand drawn with fineliner pen

A Sense of Place - Photographs and Typography Experiments

Photographs I had taken in Worsley Woods

Typography experiments using objects including pepper, potpourri
and tea making words relating to the obects

"Worsley Woods" written using wood shavings, grass and leaves





Edits with different styles and textures



The word "Woods" written in pepper lined like trees

Digital experiments for typography using geometric shapes to make flower letters

Exam Pieces for Urban Branding Brief

Design Sheet showing one of my posters in different colours
 and as examples of how it would look in public

"Cat in the City" - Poster for Crystal Concrete - Urban Branding Brief

"Colour the City" - Poster for Crystal Concrete - Urban Branding Brief

Research, Response, and Development for Crystal Concrete Poster

Research on artist Jared Nickerson and his poster work



Initial response to one of his pieces with the
background changed from nature to city themed



Here I changed the creature to a fox so that it
 was more fitting to the city brand



I then changed to a cat which fits more because it is a
commonly seen animal in a city and is grey like concrete,
 relating to the name of the brand crystal concrete



Poster Ideas and Developments for Crystal Concrete Poster

Patterns emerging from a head facing
sideways drawn with fineliner




Woman's face with patterns surrounding it
created with water pencils and markers




Development of first woman's face drawn using marker
 and fineliner and then coloured with water pencils