Picturing Time Final Piece

Brave New World idea development & final pieces

Here is my development and final illustrations for the Brave New World pieces. This is excluding my cover design.

Freddie Mercury

This was a present for my dad for his birthday, hes a huge fan of Mr Mercury and I loved doing this - defiantly my favorite drawing portrait so far! Available as a print on my Soc6 page - www.society6.com/kittyjudge

Love, is a losing game

A portrait in memory of the beautiful Amy Winehouse, available as a print on my Society 6 page - www.society6.com/kittyjudge

It's all just Pulp Fiction...

The iconic picture from Pulp Fiction was my next line drawing tattoo inspired portrait - avalible as a print from my Society6 page!
www.society6.com/kittyjudge

Marilyn

And another portrait - this time, Ms Marilyn!

Breakfast at....

Another tattoo line drawing inspired portrait, this time, the gorgeous Audrey Hepburn! Avalible as a print from my Society6 Page!

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
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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.

Getting crafty with paper!

In my advertising pack for Holly I really wanted to have lots of things in there that were interactive and that could be made. This is because it engages the audience and gives them memories and as they're interactive it hightens the chance of them keeping the pack as a whole, what they make and remembering it all too.

One of the things I was thinking in putting in the pack was a "Create your own Alfie" pack that would have instructions and images for people to follow to make their own origami rabbit. I think that this could be really fun and something that people would remember and keep but I think I would have to keep it to a more simple design than a complicated one as origami can be pretty hard and I know that I, personally, am terrible at origami.

The simple origami rabbit head that I think would be most successful in the pack - even I can create one of these!"

Although I adore this little dude I'd have to see how hard is to make!

Another idea that I had was to some how incorporate one of Holly's favourite animals, the tortoise, into the pack as something that could be made. I grabbed some origami examples and I may have both a rabbit and a tortoise origami kit or I may just have the tortoise as the rabbit may appear elsewhere in the kit.

I also had some other ideas of different paper crafts that could be involved in the make and do section of the pack. I really wanted to have a little "Make your own Holly" kit that people could create but I felt that if there was too much origami people would give up. I then remembered about these cool cube people I saw a couple of years ago - I had a little Google and found the delightful CubeeCraft! I absolutely adore the style and structure they have and I thought I could think about designing Holly onto one for people to create themselves!

A Cubeecraft template

One of my favorite finds has to be that of the amazing Creature Kebab.  I adore how many different styles that are made and the different objects that are made too. I thought the logo was really stylish and stood out well and I would defiantly like to have a Holly logo to feature on everything I create.

I also discovered the very talented Dolly oBlong! I loved the totem pole ideas and the bright colours that are used in the designs too. As well as this I also like the use of fabric and that is something I'd like to use to create something in my pack. I'm thinking something like a keyring or another keepsake for the person who has the pack.

The final site that I found and loved was paperfolables. I loved the stylistic characters and the unique designs on them.

The Art of Promotion

I felt that for this project it was very important to look at ways people promote their skills/products to the world and how they get noticed. In this blog there are various types of promotion work that I thought were different, unique or really stood out. I wanted to have a look at why they appealed to me and if this could have a positive impact with my Illustration Futures project and promoting Holly and in the future, my own self promotion.

 I thought that the above image had a really nice link of typography, colour and illustration. I think that making a poster similar to this style with information about Holly, maybe looking at hobbies perhaps could be really worthwhile and become a fashionable information poster or post card to have in the advertising campaign. 

I really like the little cupcake image as I think that food and memory are very close and that if someone gives you free food - you are more than likely to remember them! Although I don't think I could bribe my tutors with lovely cupcakes I think that having some form of edible goodness in the pack could be a good extra touch to show I've done a little more research and give a different take on the advertising project.

I thought that the memo pad head was a really funky and unique idea, especially as the hair line goes back as the head gets smaller. I think small interactive objects like this are really effective in showing off and being kept on desks to easily be seen and used. I think anything you can give in a pack that has a "real" use to it and can be kept and used has more chance of being memorable and thus having an impact on the person using it.

I thought the above poster was a really cool little poster idea with a bit of attitude in it too. I'd really like to use fairly realistic images of Holly that are a bit stylised  with text and this image gives me a bit more inspiration and an idea of what I'd like to create or the layout and styles I like.

I thought that this card was funny, cheeky and good because it was interactive it would have an impact on the audience. I think something like this makes a plain business card more fun and interactive.

I thought that little sweets like this could be really good in a pack as they don't go off/mouldy/stale and could be a good little extra to put into the pack.

I think having things to make and do make good promo packs great and that if you get things that people interact with and make they are more likely to keep it around on their desks and remember you, just like the little plane above. 

The above posters and card I really liked because they all had unique colourful styles that all have various ways of promotion. I I like the fact they all have their own styles and have had a lot of though put in to the composition, typography, illustration styles and content to make them stand out and be memorable.

The lovely Betty Pepper!

Recently during the Book Arts module at Uni I stumbled upon an artist called Betty Pepper. Her work is so beautiful and hand made and when I emailed her she was amazing and replied in 24hours with attatchements about her information!

I've decided to look into her work further for my Discourse Presentation to talk about how much she has influence me and my work and my views on the art world too. I really do reccomend you check this awesome artist out!

www.bettypepper.co.uk