DESIGN BOARD CONTENT - MY WORK

In some format I thought it would be interesting to include some of my own work, past and present, on the design board- purely so that I'm not just featuring all other artists work as my inspiration.

Some of the illustrations/ work below are from 1st, 2nd and this year- and I think are relevant to both the themes and style that I would like to portray in the illustrated portion of my FMP.

From first year I have a selection of narrative illustrations, above are a couple of examples from 'The Horns', wordless narrative illustration that told a small section of Ben Haggarty's 'The Grateful and the Dead' in 15 sequential images. In these illustrations I tried to adopt a medieval style, and although looking back the images are a bit washy from the watercolour (and pencil marks, argh!), I like the certain parts of the story I chose to draw and think as the group the images together are quite striking 

Also from first year I have my concertina books of 'The Ritual', a narrative based on an object we drew from an observational drawing trip to Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford. I chose a costume (I've obviously been obsessed since first year with costumes) and then produced a short story about three bizarre creatures meeting for an underground, pagan ritual. Although from first year this is still one of my favourite pieces of work, I like the limited colour palette and I always enjoy drawing weird, animal inspired people. 

In second year we had a mask making workshop, and making this giant head confirmed in my thoughts that I wanted to make something like a mask or costume for FMP. I think although only made out of cardboard, it looks really effective and served as inspiration for a few pieces of work, such as a small sequential piece called 'The Big Race' and also became the main character for my children's book module. 

All images above are my own

It feels like I haven't made much work so far this year, but these nudes I painted for the summer project were really useful in me discovered different ways of working and mark making. This negative space work especially revealed a new way of painting form for me, and is something I can experiment with in my narrative work for FMP. I also think the water-y bodies look effective and quite ethereal, so I would like to experiment with possibly combining these two methods- however whether this will work for a narrative about a bear I'm not too sure!