" I Has Mail "

Hmmm.

Trying to do something for Orange (YCN brief)

I have a day left to create something better than this. The brief makes me die inside a little but I guess corporate jargon has it's place in the world. Preferably I would like to stay as far away from that place as humanly possible. The Orange brief was the broadest one there but I still can't stay faithful to it. Basically you are asked to imagine what form of communications we will be using in the near future. I thought it would be funny to take the piss out of people who like to covet everything old fashioned and outmoded so I drew people using those cup/string telephone things that children make. Doesn't seem that funny now. My better idea was that people would use cats to carry mail as electronic methods have become just too mundane. I might work on this a bit further. I did one drawing but it needs to be taken further so no scan. Hopefully I will update this once I've created some kind of minor masterpiece marrying Orange's misguided ideology and my own...

A book of books I want to write....

I enjoyed this a lot.

Trials of Photoshop

Yes. I know what you're thinking. Why does she inflict this upon herself? Well the answer is because I won't get anywhere without learning a few Photoshop basics. Sad but true.

None of these are finished masterpieces, they're just me messing around. I've learnt the wonders of the clone stamp tool and I think, finally mastered the concept of layers. The end results don't look like much but as a learning exercise it has gone a long way to boosting my confidence. I think I'll fiddle around with the last two a bit more, perhaps colour the figures in properly but I quite liked my scratchy drawings against the block colour background. I'm planning on doing a picture book about Suburbia, and these were just some preliminary sketches I started doing when I couldn't face Photoshop any more.

I have loads of things to post up here. To follow soon are some scans of the book I made for a batch production project, some large A2 work that i need to get scanned and my project about Kenny the inbred white tiger....