LEON

Print for Cult Cinema Sundays at Fruit (Hull).
Now available to buy online HERE.

SUPER 8

D&AD competition, Little White Lies cover.

LEON

For Cult Cinema Friday at Fruit (competition)

Vamp

Having a welcome break from college work.

UN Declaration of Human Rights.

For Christmas holiday funzies, we were asked to illustrate six of the Human Rights in poster format. This was the most challenging brief I've had so far; the 30 declarations are short, sharp and very specific. The research involved a lot of sifting through awful examples of the violation of human rights. I dont do dark and serious. My brain just isn't wired that way. It took a lot of effort, but the results are my best work this term!

Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. This one is inspired by the Slut walks. A woman should be able to walk down the road without fear of being attacked, no matter how she looks.

Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

 Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 15. Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

 Article 17. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Angela Carter Book Illustrations

For the Angela Carter book illustration competition. Illustrations for The Bloody Chanber and Other Short Stories.

 The Bloody Chamber. The description of the dozen mirrors is what stuck with me throughout the story, so I really enjoyed this drawing.

 The Company of Wolves. 

Puss in Boots.

Rowan Atkinson Tribute.

Personal work. Just a tribute to the man as Mr Bean. Drew this after spotting him in London, a friend shouted' "it's Mr Bean!" So embarrassing! 

Study.

Bruce Mau, "Study, A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit."

NewScientist magazine project.

The brief: to do two black and white spot illustrations and a front cover for NewScientist Magazine.

 "Botanic gardens the source of invaders" According to 

the article, more than half the world's most invasive plant species

spread into new habitats from botanic gardens.

"First Europeans did not rely on fire" Evidence now suggests

that humans did not learn to control fire until much later into our

development than was previously believed. We were pretty

well developed as an intelligent species by the time we 

mastered it.

The cover story was really interesting. It talked about changes in 

human physiology over the last 2000 years, but was cautious about

claiming this was evolution. It pointed out that if we as a species 

returned to the lifestyles of ancient civilisations, these recent 

changes in our bodies could return to their previous states.

Bruce Mau Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

 "Think with your mind. Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent."

" Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique."

"Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day."

 "Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value."

 "Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them."

"Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism."

Text Me Up!

Following the publication of Tracey Moberly's book, Text-Me-Up!, we were asked to illustrate some of the texts she had collected.