Continuation of sweets

I tried to use the sweets in different ways yet still add their features on. I decided to do this by using the an actual photo and then adding my faces over the top. I am really pleased with these and i think i might work with these types of images further.




My favourite is the two mini eggs but i am happy with them all. I have just done them quickly so if i take these further i will make sure they have a proper background and make sure all illustrator lines match up to the image.

Sweets

I have now expanded my work further by looking at food items and 'Pic n mix' sweets. I felt there was something retro about them and there was a wide variety of sweets available. These sweets were drawn with the wacom and then i added their features and coloured them in. I tried to use the colours that they are so they looked more realistic. Im not sure as yet how i feel about them, i need to play around with composition as to how they might work on a page.

Wacom

WACOM, not just a fun name, but a pretty useful tool! I went back to my original hand-drawn images but felt they were simplified too much. Using the wacom i was able to have a hand drawn quality to my images. I found it very difficult to use at first (as you can see from this first image), and i am still spending time experimenting with it.

Stories

I think that some of my images need an added element to them, either in the form of text or making them into a little story.
I have tried to make my images more complex and add more elements to them. For this 'story' there are two images and the use of text. I want my designs to be very quirky so that they stand out, but also because i think there is a market for them.




This is an image of a basic story board of two of my images. I have used a picture of an object and then added their features. I also like this idea of adding the features onto real images. This is something that i will consider to do more of.

Adding colour

Colour is going to be a key issue to my work and i am going to have to find ways of how to apply the colour to my designs. I could leave my designs in monochrome but i think that they will need more detail in the form of colour.





These images have colour on the actual image and highlights different sections. I prefer the second image as the first on has lost some of the details.



This image has colour as a background, which emphasises my design. These are not true colours which i will use, but they were just used as an experiment of where to use colour. I think i prefer colour in the background so that my images stands out.

New Project - "Ooodles of Dooodles"

I'm not quite sure how i came up with this idea, but it roughly began after seeing the Antony Gormley exhibition in Torquay "Fields of the British Isles". It showed me that you can make anything look human as long as you add two eyes to it. So i began doodling and drawing everything i saw. This consisted mainly of stationary objects and then developed into household items. I wanted to add my own twist so i have made them have their own personalities, so i added arms, legs and faces to them. These are a few of my first drawings using illustrator.

Fisheye photography

These are some of the photos which i took in Morocco on my fisheye camera. I took two pictures on the same negative which gives these interesting photos. I like how you can just about see both of the pictures and the colours are still quite bright.