Big Tomato Company illustration project

I chose to do the brief for the Big Tomato Company for the external project as its all about food consumption and waste. I'm really passionate about ethical veganism and thought that I could come up with some good ideas for this brief. The brief is to illustrate a plate in a black and green colour to 'pursue efforts in reducing food waste'.

UNIT 10: Picture book further research

A style that I really like is Maurice Sendak's 'Where the wild things are' picture book. I love the detail that goes in to his work and how he fills the entire page with illustration. I love the patters, colours and crosshatching techniques he uses and feel that my style of drawing is similar in a sense that I also love to create very detailed fine liner drawings.

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Another illustrator that I've been inspired by for years is Brett Helquist, who illustrated the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Helquist uses very sharp, straight lines and only subtle traces of colour which I prefer. Again, he makes very detailed work with interesting crosshatching techniques.

UNIT 10: Picture book primer & research

For this project, I'll be making a children's picture book.
I've started my research by looking at picture books that I find interesting to get inspiration for my own work.
I looked at 'The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales'. This book includes classic fairy tales but with stupid stories. I noticed the use of text and the play on words. I really like that the book keeps the reader interested by using these techniques as oppose to just writing the stories in one font and size.

Some more classics I remembered were books like The Gruffalo, We're going on a bear hunt and The Cat in the Hat which were some of my favourites growing up. 

I looked for patterns in these books to try to figure out ways to create my own. I noticed that most of these books include a character (usually an animal or inspired by an animal). The use of different sized text is also important. Big writing in capital letters usually implies shouting or speaking loudly. Also bright colour's are very eye catching to keep young children interested in these books.

Although, these are fairly straight forward to understand and the language is simple, they usually include an important moral which is educational to the child.

Sell Yourself Event

The Sell Yourself event was a good experience as it was my first time selling my work in public.

I really enjoyed the day and think it was an important to put work out there professionally to understand what I could have done better next time.

I think it could have been organised better. People that weren't in the organising team had their work in boxes and in corners whereas the organisers had bigger areas and work on display.

I sold a few of my lino prints and a couple of my zines which was nice. I really wish I had made stickers though.

Sell Yourself Event

The Sell Yourself event was a good experience as it was my first time selling my work in public.

I really enjoyed the day and think it was an important to put work out there professionally to understand what I could have done better next time.

I think it could have been organised better. People that weren't in the organising team had their work in boxes and in corners whereas the organisers had bigger areas and work on display.

I sold a few of my lino prints and a couple of my zines which was nice. I really wish I had made stickers though.

Selling Yourself - Lino Prints

Since my zines are finally finished, I decided to make A6 lino prints inspired by my favourite drawing which was the one of Bastet. I also made A4 lino prints

I will also be selling these at the Sell Yourself event.

Sell Yourself - Making Zines

I really enjoyed making the fineliner drawings of the cats and decided to make more drawings of my interpretations of Ancient Goddesses. I chose the animal Goddesses on purpose because I really liked the challenge of creating a set of designs that worked together and represented the different animal Goddesses. With these drawings I've decided to create a simple zine of drawings of these Goddesses. This is the layout of the final zine: