Illustration Friday - Stir

This week's Illustration Friday was 'Stir'. I immediately had the idea to play on the word, and use the idea of stirring from sleep, as opposed to the action of stirring something.
I also tried a very simplistic colour scheme, deciding to use purer, more pastel blues to illustrate the freshness of the morning. Since I left a lot of white on this image, it was very hard to add a background that didn't distract from the image.

Illustration Friday - Warning

This week's Illustration Friday theme was 'Warning'. My idea was to take the traditional 'Warning' sign, and use it to warn of something different, like the nudity of my subject. Censorship is something I feel really strongly about and I like making art that reflects my views. I also tried a different feel to this piece, trying a different hair colour and overall colour scheme to contrast the bright sign.

Skull Drawing 2

This is a graphic, illustrative styled drawing of the skull below. I did this in pencil, with lines in graphics pen and the background in ink. I like this piece, but I would have liked to have added hints of one bright colour to offset the harshness of the black and white.

Skull Drawing

This is a drawing of a skull I created in my Visual Studies at college.
I was given a skull and made small visual sketches of it, before using chalk and charcoal on black paper to create the whole skull.
I like this piece because it took a long time to get the shading to look right, and the shapes are all similar to the original skull I drew from. I dislike the centre of the drawing (where the nose would be) because I had to finish it quickly and I found the shapes very complicated and hard to draw.

Illustration Friday: Layer

This week's Illustration Friday was 'Layer'. For this I had so many ideas, I found it hard to choose just one, so I tried combining them into one image.Here, the 'layers' are the colours, as well as the pieces of the face e.g the eyes, and the skull that is on display. This shows all the layers of the body on display.
I also added the arms behind the body to give the drawing yet another dimension. The whole image, to me, has a surreal feeling, which I haven't really experimented with before.

Illustration Friday: Sweater

This piece was for the Illustration Friday theme of 'Sweater'. I decided to do a more sketchy, whimsical piece instead of an illustration, and sketched up this little guy, lost in the vastness of a too-big sweater.

Illustration Friday - Reverse

This week's Illustration Friday theme was 'Reverse'.
My idea this week was to do a mirror image, where one side of the image is the opposite of the other. I decided to use a mirror image of two women - one happy, one sad - which I based off of photographs of myself.
I did this piece in graphics pen and went over it with water to blur and bleed the ink, though the effect isn't so apparent in this photograph.

In a crit, I was told to:
- Improve my picture quality as the photograph isn't so clear, or up the contrast in Photoshop so the image is easier to see.
- Photograph my work in a sketchbook instead of pulling it out.

Illustration Friday - Dusty

This week's Illustration Friday theme was 'Dusty'. I drew this image in Photoshop, trying to get a slightly watercolour-like effect with the colouring. 

Illustration Friday - Chicken

This was my entry for this week's Illustration Friday with the theme "Chicken". I showed this to my Graphic Design class at college, and they said to:
+ Add colour, though some people liked it in black and white.
+ Remove the double hyphen next to 'This Time It's Personal'
+ Clean up the lines to make them smoother and better joined.

The next theme is "Dusty", I'm excited to see what I can come up with next!