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.