SPACE Exhibition // Cardiff Design Festival

This an image created for submission to the SPACE Exhibition which will be happening at some point during Cardiff Design week 2011. It's open submissions and the final show will be curated by Ben Cox, Managing Director of The Central Illustration Agency. Hopefully I will make it to the print stage of the show. The theme is space and here is a little explanation of how this image came to be ...

As an Science Fiction fan this seemed like the perfect exhibition for me to create a piece for. However when it came to conceiving of a image to draw all I could think of were my experiences with friends, on still clear nights in various country side locations looking up at the stars. I haven't travelled a huge amount but one of the places I have had the pleasure of visiting is Yosemite National Park in California, it was pretty darn amazing. I hope to return one day and perhaps it will look something like this.

Picture This // Part Two // Finished Spread

So this is what that should have looked like when I handed it in on Monday (if only I had been more organised). I was going to just leave it and be annoyed with myself for messing up but I thought it best to finish it otherwise I would never be able to look at it again (see previous post for original). Over dramatic? Perhaps, but true.

I hate people who ask themselves questions and answer them in the same sentence (its massively over done in the comedy documentary format 'ironically' I'm sure – see Parks and Recreation, which incidentally is actually pretty good)

Beauty & the Beast // Picture This // Waterstones Competition

Picture This is a competition run by Waterstone's in partnership with the Telegraph and Harper Collins Childrens Books. This year Michael Morpurgo is rewriting the nations favourite fairytale (as voted by the public) and they are looking for an unpublished illustrator to work with him on this exciting project.

So I only found out about this last week which has meant it's all been a bit rushed (I haven't really finished the double page spread to a degree that I am happy with), the deadline was today and this saw me rush across London to Kew to hand it in to the Waterstone's offices in person literally just in time to meet the deadline. All a bit nerve racking. I am very pleased with my character designs and I think this competition has made me realise that this is a illustrative direction that I particularly enjoy. Investigating style across a variety of eras and drawing from all kinds of source material in order to create an impression of a personality, tis definitely enjoyable to me.

Time for you guys to get those fingers crossed again

A couple of projects ...

.. that I forgot to blog about.

Back in May Attitude is Everything asked me to produce them a poster for their Glastonbury showcase, obviously the week after Glastonbury is not the ideal time to be blogging about this, anyway here it is. After much faffing about with trumpet hands I eventually dropped that idea and came up with this. It incorporate elements of my camel drawing. By all accounts it was a great success, there are photos of the fun on Facebook.

The beginning of June saw a new project from the most excellent Emergency Exit Arts to the epic pain of my little macbook they asked me to produce a exhibition banner that comes in at about 2 and a half metres tall. But making big things is fun and I am well pleased with the result as are they! Hopefully this will be the start of a beautiful working partnership.

The Big Draw at City of London Festival // 7-10 July

These events sound really really good, gonna try to head along to some of them. You should too. Here is a link to more info about the awesomeness that is The Big Draw.

All Tropical Competition // Part Two // VOTE KATHRYN!!

I am through to the second round of judging for the Shoreditch Festival T-Shirt Competition SCHWING! Should hear about that later this week. However I need your help again! I am entering another design for the weekly competition over at All Tropical I would really appreciate some feedback and votes for it.

VOTE KATHRYN!!

Shoreditch Festival T-Shirt Competition // VOTE FOR ME!!!

This is my entry to the All Tropical Shoreditch Festival T-Shirt Competition. Please head over there and give me a vote. I've gotta win a competition eventually!