Princess Leia

I thought I'd start a new project now I'm done with the majority of uni work apart from Summer projects - I just fancy doing some portraits so I thought I'd look at doing some of iconic/famous people and help work on my line work - my first one, princess Leia. 

 

 Prints are avalible frmo my society6 page: http://society6.com/KittyJudge/Ms-Leia_Print
 www.kittybambi.tumblr.com @KittyBambi www.facebook.com/KittyJudgeIllustration

Getting back on track!

Well then, first off, Happy Zombie Jebus Day!

I've been really horribly ill for about a week now, so I'm kinda trying to remember what I've done and what I want to show you all.

For my uni work I've been progressing more with idea for how to do the Holly posters. I did a big experiment with lots of layers and different modes on the layers and had a lot of fun developing a completely different design to what I have in my mind. I think doing something completely opposite to what you imagine you will create is extremely beneficial and productive as it opens you options up and let's you explore other avenues you didn't intend to originally develop.

With this, I this I came across some interesting experiments that I hope to maybe use in my work.

As well as this I think I have finally cracked the idea to how I will present everything. As I wanted both paper and 3-D objects within my promotion kit I was really struggling for an interesting way that I could present everything together and have it so it could be mass produced if necessary.
I wanted the object to be around the size of your average book, this would mean that people could easily keep and store everything instead of it being annoying and get thrown away.
I originally loved the idea of using an actual book carved out with sections but I felt that although it linked strongly with Holly herself it wouldn't work on a mass production scale. I also looked at making a book box which I could again alter and use to store things but I felt that would be very time consuming to make.

Finally I settled on a massive match box idea. I created a template for a book around A5 in size and I think that this could be easily mass made and reproduced. I will re created the template on Illustrator  so I can easily print out a design on to the template on A3 paper. Hurrah!

More work on the Holly project

I'm having an awful lot of fun working on this project about Holly. It's very creative and flexible and I'm really enjoying mixing her lifestyle and personality in with my own work and style! I'm still unsure how everything will fit in together as it's becoming harder than I thought but that will come at a later date! For my favorite images of Holly that I'm using I hand drew them out and did a tattoo technique called power lining on the image to thicken up certain lines. I kept these originals and copied them to add more line detail, especially in the hair and eye lashes. I've then rescanned them into the computer and developed them on Photoshop for experimenting to see the sort of styles and colour I could use and work.

Developing ideas for Uni

 For the advertising campaign I've look a little more into what aspects of Holly and her life I would like to be included in some way into the campaign and what aspects of her character I think are assets to her as well.
I would like to include multiple images/illustrations of her showing different aspects of her life like trips away, with friends, going out and other general things in her life.
As well as this I would like to include some of her art work or drawings in the work or at least tell people about her creativity.
I think for aspects of her life and personality I would probably include these on a poster and maybe in a little book of some sort and then keep other aspects of Holly to a more creative idea such as the origami and other paper crafts.

 Another idea that I want to develop in a digital way would be a stop motion animation. I 

really want to do one as I want this project to have digital aspects to it and I haven't done a proper stop motion animation before. I think as I want it to be quite a large/long scale idea I will probably have to get some help in, probably from my long suffering boyfriend as he's done them before and knows how dim I can be!

The idea is to show certain aspects of Holly's life. I want her to start off driving and then to get out of the car and for Alfie the rabbit to jump up in her arms. After that I want her to start walking and for the background to turn into text. The text in the background would be all about Holly and her interest ect. Aswell as this I would like to show her creativity through little details adding after she's stepped on areas. I think I would have to add the little touches in digitally (Or possibly do the whole thing digitally at this rate!) But that is the idea I have. As well as this I'd really like to find a song or tune that she really likes and add this into the animation as well. 

 I've also come up with a Holly Logo. I really wanted just a little design that I could use on all of the pieces so it could be something simple, fun and recognizable.
I chose to use Holly's unique selling point for this (she can cross one eye without crossing t'other.

I think that the strong black and white imagery is really striking and effective as well as funny. I wanted to go for a style that was similar to those styles that are on mascara adverts and packaging with the really bold and beautiful eyes and eyelashes but with a funky Holly twist - and I think it's worked!

 Finally, I've started looking at little details that I want in the promo pack. I've looked at papers that I can use of decorative detail as well as other little bits of inspiration too.
I've also done some small mock ups of little photo albums showing the many lives of Holly. I think that they are really nice and effective though I am unsure what size or binding style I will use in them. I really want to keep it simple but have it as a really nice little touch to the whole package too.

As well as this I've also been looking at ideas for the book cover. This is because I want to make my own protective sleeve with design on it that represents Holly and is aesthetically inviting to the audience as well.
For this, I have decided I want to use line and colour as the main features. As Holly loves autumn and it's her favorite season I'd love to do some simple leaf etchings and outlines and use autumn reds and browns ect in the inks to creature a autumn glow and feel to the whole cover. The experiment below is a very thin dry point etching needle with acrylic paint of fairly wet 120gsm paper. I thought it was a really good starting point but I would also like to try some lino cutting as well and see if the different cuttings and paints/inks could be mixed together to create something really unique and inviting.

Starting Illustration Futures

For illustration futures we've only got one pretty big task to complete. I've paired up with the lovely Holly and I now have to create a big promotion to advertise her to a possible flat mate! Fortunately, Holly's one of my closest friends and she's an utter doll and I've got lots of ideas of how I'm going to throw it together!

Firstly, Holly and I sat down and wrote down everything we know about each other and lots of things we didn't know. We listed each other's hobbies, favourite films, books, artists and other things such as likes, pets and what we could use as a unique selling point for each other. I'm not sure what Holly chose for me but I found out she can cross one eye without crossing the other! I thought this could be a really fun design I could create into a little logo that appeared on each little thing that was created for the project. I thought it would be good as it would be fun and defiantly as a logo would be easily recognisable and memorable!



I then started to look at what I could create for "The Holly files" as I shall refer to them. I looked at how I could present everything, I like the idea of it all being contained in a mannar that could easily be stored by the person who has it and would not take up too much space. As Holly loves her illustration, books and have aspirations in publishing I thought that containing everything in something the size of a typical hard back book would be perfect. I'm currently deciding weather to physically alter a book that Holly likes to contain all of the parts for the promotion/advertising pack or weather to create a sectioned box that looks like a book from the outside.

A practise cube Holly!

I've also started to look at what I could contain in the box. I think I will have some sort of paper craft in there for the handler to create and make themselves. I think I would like to make a cube template of Holly that the person could colour in and create. Also, as I'd like to keep Alfie the rabbit involved as well I'd like to create him in to a "Holly mascot" and create a rabbit origami template and maybe a 3-D cuddly keyring as well. I'd also like to have lots of paper promotion things inside such as postcards and posters. These would be created both by hand drawings and digitally to fit in with the project brief. Finally, the other idea I am very keen to put into pack would be a short animation of Holly that I could make. I would really like to use stop motion animation - but I am a pretty rubbish animator so we shall see how this pans out!

Watercolour experiments

Recently I have had a lot of interest in using colour to show the emotion and feeling in pieces and using clear lines to create the illustrations themselves. This is where a lot of my ideas for the Tea Packaging ideas came from in previous college work.