Illustration Friday- Hoard

This is my first piece for Illustration Friday, which is a site that gives you a new word every friday to illustrate from. This weeks word was Hoard. My image represents a childs birthday, where they get given a Hoard of presents (usually expensive ones too) and they find its more fun playing in the cardboard box that the present came in!!

Macmillan Book Prize

The last major work I did before the end of the second year was to write and illustrate a book for the Macmillan Book Prize. I wrote my story around something I remember my little nephew constantly doing, which was always asking for milkshake!! This was a tough project. We didn't have to write our own story, but I thought it might make things more interesting if I did. But I didn't expect it to take as long as it would to get the story finalised, which then took a huge chunk out of my time I needed to illustrate the story. But after putting in the extra hours, I managed to finish the images the way I liked. It wasn't at a standard to enter the competition, but I may re-do parts of it for next years competition, or write a brand new story, will have to see nearer the time.

Flying Project

This project started as a summer brief before the second year started, where we were given the word 'flying', and just had to brainstorm, research, and draw anything connected to that word. When we then started the year, it was a case of choosing an image/ character from our sketches to then create a story from. I had some drawings of a squirrel getting flown away by some balloons and decided to work from that. We also had to incorporate 3D elements into the work, which I did, using photos, metal, and making my own soft toy version of the character to use in the images. This ended up being a long project which I kept coming back to now and again while working on other projects.

Happy Families

This was a quick project we were given, which was to re-create the old fashioned Happy Families playing cards. After various ideas I came up with a sumo family to base 4 cards on. The under achieving dad, his talented son, the awkward teenage daughter, and the famous, Grand champion granddad.