Cheltenham Illustration Award application

The title for this year's awards was "Traveller's Tales", and my take on this was taking a sketch of my parent's walking up a hill, surrounded by their story (a very simplified, succinct version) which is partly based on fact, predominantly based on fiction.

This is the finished cut out (1222 letters - it took a good 8 hours of "careful" cutting, with a couple of accidents).

I was going to take a photo of all the alphabetical dandruff that was subsequently scattered all over my room, but my hoover-mad housemate decided to clean it up before I had chance.

Anyway, here is it on a white background, nice and lacy:

And here is the finished piece taken from on top of the light box:

Pub Work

I have recently started some work based upon my shifts working at the local pub. Regulars are often more recognizable by what they drink, rather than by name - so I'm creating characters based on their drink of choice (fitting the text into the specific glass shape).

Taking sketches of punters drinks - I put them on top of a light box. And then cut out the text in the shape of the drink, which can be painstaking - but I am left with tiny confetti-like letters covering the desk...

Layering various pieces of paper on top of the light box - you can see through to each layer.

And ta-da!! This is currently a work in progress - I need to make each layer and the detail clearer and the words easier to read.

Owl

A quick play around with an idea I had. Not overly impressed - but I'm interested in playing around with the possible blurring effects you can make with the camera.

Par example...

Typography

I have finally got around to beginning this blog. I am hoping to use it as some sort of journal to document my illustration work. So, to start, here are some examples of typography I have been playing around with recently.