Light Painting @ Sasha beach club, for EDP

I've taken ages to update my blog, but here are some Light Painting outcomes I did with another illustrator at Sasha for a brand activation event.

It was a Live event that lasted through out the club's opening hours (at night) and in which people would come into the tent where we had set up the camera, stand still for a few seconds while we'd do the drawings with a flashlight and then get a printed postcard that looked exactly like this:

Olympus AX2, film camera

i am seriously in love with the effect sunlight has on the images taken with this camera...









and the colour...



















the night shots are the only ones that don't seem to come out well with the Olympus XA2












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the rest of the photos I took with this camera are on my Flickr

Polaroid Camera

they've stopped selling Polaroid films in most places but thankfully there's still a few left!

5:1 DEGREE SHOW

And so my time as a student at LCC comes to an end.

Adoption Billboard

Billboard proposal.
Decisions are still being made on weather this will be a "adopt a friend" ad or if it will be more focused on why people shouldn't buy pets from the store or breeders. Meanwhile, this is what I came up with.

projector-play 2

Projector-play

Photoshoot preview

sketchbook page

Button Shop/Habadashery , Portugal

Lisbon






Porto

Neither Man nor Beast

cow - bitch - pussy - chick - bird - fox
why is it that when women are compared to animals it's always about sexual attributes or sexual behaviour - but when men are compared to animals it's about their personality (and when they are called the same animal names used for a woman it mean's they're Gay - pussy, bitch...) - why can't we also have a "Lion's Heart" or be called a Bitch because we're loyal and not because we're in heat or are submissive or 'bark too much'?

Solar Plate workshop

adopted animal love' sketches

Viana do Castelo is now the first anti-bullfighting city in Portugal

Words cannot express how proud I am that - finally - someone in charge did the right thing. Too bad it wasn't Lisbon the first (hehe) but I hope we will get there one day.

The mayor of the city decided to close down the Bullfighting Arena and build a Science Museum instead - who would have though ey? Real culture instead of barbarism! - and now he officially said that Viana do Castelo is an anti-bullfighting city.

(pics of Viana do Castelo I took last year during my train-trip to the north of Portugal)







the news here: (in portuguese, sorry)
http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1367028

And this is the Mayor's email - cmviana@cm-viana-castelo.pt - please email Dr Moura to congratulate his choice, he's gonna need all the positive feedback because the aficcionados will surely send him hate mail.

Food

Forest

The Crypt exhibition, Jan 09

I wish I had taken proper photographs of it but I was too ill by the opening day and now that piece is a bit damaged by the dampness of the Crypt - so I had to cut out a new one.
It's smaller but I like it better:

Our upcoming exhibition

(flyer by Erica Dorn)

"Illustrators Killed My Family and Burned My House Down"
A work in progress exhibition by 34 final year illustration students at London College of Communication set at The Crypt, underneath St Pacras Church, Euston.

Private View: 15th January, 6pm - 9pm
Showing: 16-19th January

working on something new.

When you spend a lot of time working on set briefs with little challenges and premeditated outcomes you forget how creative you can be.
It's kind of nice not knowing what your final outcome will be. Or what materials you are going to use.

So I'm working on a new project (project 3 - but 1 and 2 are still in progress) - and these are some images I did for the theme - rough ideas I had for it today - yet it might not take this direction...





I'm also really excited because in 2 days I'll be returning to Portugal for Xmas - yey!

Time Out - mature students

Strangles Flyer

The finished Strangles Appeal design I did for the Animal Health Trust just arrived in the post.




*front and back*



*front layout*



*back layout*

Button Shops...

My first project (out of 4) for the final year. Still work in progress.
Project Nr 2 is also on it's way but visuals will take a while longer as it's not all up to me...

Jantar/Debate, Lisboa

Final Week of Drawing Classes at Ar.Co

After 3 months of drawing classes I've come to the last week.
There were way too many portuguese bank holidays in-between but I feel like I've learned a lot from these months - The only material I had ever worked with before doing this was China Ink, and when I was still in primary school..... So this was a great change from computer programmes and cut-outs (which I still love!).
Now I want to incorporate these in future cut-outs somehow. And I need to keep practicing on my sketch-diary - I found I love drawing random people's faces so I need to keep doing that this summer.





- Oil Pastels / trying on skin-tones





- China Ink / trying on different shades





- Permament Ink and Bleach





- Oil Pastels / full body size




- Ecoline / quick line drawing with reverse (mirrored) line drawing





- Ecoline and Marker Pen / Outline for Organic things and blot for artificial ones

Bullfighting?? No thanks....

Am working on a(n anti-) Bullfighting Flyer.
Finished the English version last week and am now doing the Portuguese one.
They have the same information but will have a different overal look - because it's for different people and opinions differ...
The English version was for MATP and the English for the Centro Vegetariano.

(cover illustration)


(Bulls are happier on the fields)

Let's Go To the Circus

A quick(-ish) Poster. And tickets.
For a Trampoline/Dance/Mixed (animal-free)Circus-like Show/Presentation happening in June.






ave also done staff and for-sale tees (here's the back of the one they're selling)

Children's Book Illustrations

I had 2 days to come up with 11 illustrations for a (already written) kid's story. It felt just like one of uni's 30-hours projects (or "project runway" for illustrators haha) - I loved it!
Here's 2 sketches.








I think this whole taking-drawing-classes is really infiltrating my work. It's kind of ironic how I started illustrating because I was taught Photoshop while doing Graphic Design and started working on some digital photographs turning them into digital illustrations - and then from uni on I started using hand-made things and then converting them into digital, or mixing both - and now I'm using a lot of inks and all that "retro" stuff (did I just call drawing and painting retro? haha)....
So, at the moment I'm working with a chaotic mix of materials and devices! and I'm really enjoying doing everything backwards.

The Story is called D. Ana e a Andorinha, written by Paula Nunes.
Some final illustrations:

Animal Health Trust, flyer

Flyer for the Animal Health Trust's Strangles Appeal ("Breaking the Strangles Hold", as it's called).
They already had a visual line I had to follow and I confess I did try to push my own way through but in the end of the day, they went with the familiar visuals. It wasn't something I was thrilled about, but having finished it, and having been able to do both the sort of visual they were after and something that would please my sensitive eyes as well, I'm now happy with it.

Final


Original Proposal


Proposal with their colour

I'm in love with BLEACH

There are simple things one would never think of if it wasn't for creative teachers or interesting classmates.
Today at Ar.Co in the drawing class given by João Catarino we did a couple of mirrored portraits with silhouette blots in permanent ink and by using bleach on a calligraphy nib to define the details.

I did this doodle of Miguel - I'd call it a drawing but I'm still touching base with non-digital non-cut-out illustration methods.




Miguel did this one of me - he has Autism and he does the most amazing texture/line filling details in his drawings.


And Rita did this one of me.

Royal Opera House posters

For the D&AD student awards competition's brief.
The entries close today..




(the initial sketches)