Getting back in to the swing of things

Back at uni after summer and I am getting back in to my illustrator drawings with my dissertation project. As I am basing my dissertation around music graphics I decided to look at creating portraits of musicians. They are still in the development stage at the moment.  jimmy hendrix, bob marley, steven tyler, slash.

Presents...

This is a painting I did for a friends xmas present of B.B.King, and also a birthday present for a friend of his dog Alfie...being a poor student and all I thought it would be a good idea to put my creative skills to work :)

Sitting amongst the roses

This is an illustration I decided to do just because I fancied it, was so good not to have to worry about a brief or a deadline for a change! :)

Workshop with Matt Croft

Just over a month ago I had a workshop at uni with Matt Croft. In this we learnt about creating our own type faces. We stuck to using a couple if elements and developed each letter from there. This was my outcome

It is something I would like to develop further and possibly bring in to other projects in the future.

Jason Mecier

I found this artist whilst looking through the new Taschen book: Illustration now! Portraits online. He creates portraits out of objects such as sweets etc. Really worth a look as his work is very good. These are just a few of his works, I may even included him in my Professional Context work.

Laura Kalbag and Scott Coello

I had another 2 lectures today from past students Laura Kalbag and Scott Coello. These lectures were very informative about freelancing and actually inspired me to strongly consider it as a form of work in the future. Laura specialises in web design however also branches in to a bit of app design, logo design and illustration. Scott works with web design and animation/video.
Laura's website is : http://laurakalbag.com and if you google her you will find her tweets on twitter and her blog.
Scott's blog is cribble.net
both of them are worht checking out as they are both informative and funny :)

Adam Tickle

I had another good lecture yesterday, this time by graphic designer Adam Tickle who currently works at Work Club. He has done a lot of work with companies such as Schweppes, Coca -Cola, Sharp, WSPA, etc. His work is really worth checking out. He has a couple of blogs:
Things I've Seen which documents, yes you guessed it, things he has seen through photography
www.thingsiveseen.co.uk
His second blog is a collaboration of him and his friends called Things we've eaten, which again is self explanatory
www.thingsweveeaten.co.uk
It is defiantly worth checking out :)