Pages

 A few pages from my book, 'Creatures from the Deep'.

Creatures from the Deep Cover

After advise from my tutors I changed my previous cover, as shown below, to the one above, as the old one was too conventional.  I do like the new one better aesthetically, but I am unsure if it would appeal as much to children.

Fashion

 

Now I'm nearing  the end of my children's book  I'm starting to look into figurative painting again. I'll be doing a collaboration with a third year fashion student, to illustrate their final collection, so before that I need to experiment with different types of fashion illustration, different styles and materials.  The above image was painted using indian ink, making use of negative space.  This is a style I seem to fall in regularly, so I will try and loosen up a bit with different brushstrokes, attempting to be less accurate but still using negative space.

Shoal of Fish

Each fish drawn by hand then layered on an inky background.

Octopus

Little White Lies

This is my submission for the Illustration Brief for this years D&AD.

The brief was to design a cover for the Little White Lies magazine, based on one of several films.  I chose 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' and illustrated the lead character, played by Gary Oldman.

Seahorse

Wet Feet

Creatures from the Deep

Some typography I have been working on for the front cover of my book, 'Creatures from the Deep'.  I've created this using different shades of green and blue ink.

Fish

Some of my favourite fish images from the last month.  These have been created using ink and water and are each based on real fish.

The Azul Ocean

The Azul Ocean website has the most beautiful underwater photography.  The photography shows the depth and variety of colour that can be found in the ocean.  Although I have done a lot of research into the different types of fish that can be found in the deep sea it is difficult to get a real idea of how rich the colours are.  Using ink rather than watercolour I hope to capture the intensity of colour.