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Design Pieces

2nd Year Book Cover Designs

Spirited Away Complete Front Cover.JPG
Spirited Away Complete Back Cover.JPG

The purpose of this exercise was to create a typographical illustration communicating the meaning of a book or film. Following research of typography illustrations to gather inspiration, I developed three concept ideas. I selected Spirted Away, an anime film as it is one of my favourite movies and inspires visuals.

 

I selected the iconic No-Face image for the front cover with the bathhouse, the main setting as the background. I created a smoke effect using Photoshop to emphasize the other worldliness of the film. The font I chose follows this theme, as does the pink and teal colour palette. For the back cover, I inserted a silhouette of Chihiro's head (the main character in the movie) using Photoshop. 

 

 Digital Marketing Campaign

The above gallery features four designs I produced as part of a digital marketing campaign for Woodies (Urban Gardener) using a jumper as the vehicle. My idea was to use the jumper as a message board encouraging people to grow tomatoes to save on packaging and promoting Woodies as the providers of everything needed by the Urban Gardener. I put the jumpers on characters who really communicate urban and unlikely gardeners going for visual impact using striking colours and graffiti font. The images are hand drawn and digitally coloured in Photoshop. 

 Anime and Manga Original Artwork

These pieces I have hand drawn in my spare time, reflecting my passion for anime/manga artwork. For each image I would start by sketching the drawing as I imagine I want it to look, gradually adding the finer details as I go along. Once I do that, I outline with a black fine liner pen (I use Unipen and occasionally Faber Castell Pitt Artist for thick black areas). Finally, I color the images using Windsor and Newton Promarkers starting with the lightest shades, adding shadow as I go and blending. I have swtiched from watercolor paper (which absorbs far too much ink!) to Promarker paper, which are specially designed not just for my pens but also other alcohol based markers. Over the years I am perfecting my techniques and learning as I go. These pieces are a small sample of my work. 

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