The current sleeve design for The North's latest EP 'Lawful Bullet'. Illustration based on photography by Rama.
A rejected 'sexed up' version of the front cover. I actually prefer this one..
Saturday, 17 March 2012
The North EP Design
The current sleeve design for The North's latest EP 'Lawful Bullet'. Illustration based on photography by Rama.
A rejected 'sexed up' version of the front cover. I actually prefer this one..
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Whispering Dolls - Logo Design
Early prep-work for the Sheffield band Whispering Dolls.
This design is still in development.
They're a tasty blues-rock trio from Sheffield, and really nice blokes too, so here's a plug for them.
Just drums, guitar and human vocal chords, check them out:
http://www.myspace.com/whisperingdolls <- huhuh myspace...
www.facebook.com/whisperingdolls
http://soundcloud.com/whisperingdolls
This design is still in development.
They're a tasty blues-rock trio from Sheffield, and really nice blokes too, so here's a plug for them.
Just drums, guitar and human vocal chords, check them out:
http://www.myspace.com/whisperingdolls <- huhuh myspace...
www.facebook.com/whisperingdolls
http://soundcloud.com/whisperingdolls
Monday, 5 December 2011
Monday, 17 October 2011
Ruberdump #2
I'll annotate this later...
...Probably.
Apparently the max height dimension for blogspot is 1600px, so... problems.
Fullview it here!
...Probably.
Fullview it here!
Thursday, 15 September 2011
BP bits
I applied for some jobs recently, and linked them here; so I thought I'd better dump some more professional stuff, hopefully before they get here. Kinda feels like, when you ask someone to 'drop by whenever' and then end up frantically tidying your house.
Anyway....
Highlights from my work as a Graphic Designer / Web Developer at the Derby community hub, Butterfly Project. I had a great time working there.
Anyway....
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
GOODNESS ME, IT'S BEEN AGES HASN'T IT?!
...I blame the elusive drivers needed to operate my scanner, for being consistently difficult to track down following a format; and to a lesser extent myself, for not switching to the less tedious camera method used here (possibly hence forth), sooner.
So here's some pictures...
I invested in some Promarkers, Copic ciaos, and a Pentel Pocket Brush. This upgrade into more costly drawing media, has to be some sort of milestone, which anyone serious about drawing must eventually pass. The wider range of control takes a while to get to grips with.
This was my first attempt with the colour-mixable Promarkers, and therefore all got a bit dirty. The left portrait is the right one, colour copied onto cartridge paper, then worked on further with those magical pens. This layering method produces nice processed results, and leaves you with physical checkpoints for if you cock it all right up (As I did to this subject's nose).
Ellen Page - Ink sketch from a freeze framed low-res rip of inception. Thusly, all details are largely speculative. Admittedly, I overdid her forehead wrinkles, aging her 50 years in a couple of seconds. I call this a ctrl+z moment, it happens a lot with traditional media. I'd like to thank the clone tool, for it's restorative effects, akin to plastic surgery.
Linework: PentelPB Shading: Copics
A similarly speedy sketch of Dominic, pretending not to be drawn.
I've been drawing a lot of ladies, preferably sexy ladies. I do this for a number of reasons.
One: It's a wholesome excuse to peruse stimulating, provocative and sexual imagery. Foremostly however, because they are doubtless the most subtly difficult things to draw on the planet.
This I understand, is due to a complex mashup of our natural human sensitivity to faces and anatomy, plus their feminine, hormonally-emphasised social releasers, voluptuous forms and delicate curves. Their limitless attention to personal detail, like an aesthetic arms-race, ever driven by the haunting paradox of the imortal ideals of ephemeral beauty, perpetuated by the media, the cosmetics industry and ironically furthermore, by themselves.
Spiderman. Nuff said.
So here's some pictures...
I invested in some Promarkers, Copic ciaos, and a Pentel Pocket Brush. This upgrade into more costly drawing media, has to be some sort of milestone, which anyone serious about drawing must eventually pass. The wider range of control takes a while to get to grips with.
This was my first attempt with the colour-mixable Promarkers, and therefore all got a bit dirty. The left portrait is the right one, colour copied onto cartridge paper, then worked on further with those magical pens. This layering method produces nice processed results, and leaves you with physical checkpoints for if you cock it all right up (As I did to this subject's nose).
Ellen Page - Ink sketch from a freeze framed low-res rip of inception. Thusly, all details are largely speculative. Admittedly, I overdid her forehead wrinkles, aging her 50 years in a couple of seconds. I call this a ctrl+z moment, it happens a lot with traditional media. I'd like to thank the clone tool, for it's restorative effects, akin to plastic surgery.
Linework: PentelPB Shading: Copics
A similarly speedy sketch of Dominic, pretending not to be drawn.
I've been drawing a lot of ladies, preferably sexy ladies. I do this for a number of reasons.
One: It's a wholesome excuse to peruse stimulating, provocative and sexual imagery. Foremostly however, because they are doubtless the most subtly difficult things to draw on the planet.
This I understand, is due to a complex mashup of our natural human sensitivity to faces and anatomy, plus their feminine, hormonally-emphasised social releasers, voluptuous forms and delicate curves. Their limitless attention to personal detail, like an aesthetic arms-race, ever driven by the haunting paradox of the imortal ideals of ephemeral beauty, perpetuated by the media, the cosmetics industry and ironically furthermore, by themselves.
Spiderman. Nuff said.
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