Final LP cover!

Nina Simone final development

Wild is the Wind

So I've been working with the album cover, adding typography etc. I had a tutorial with Peter today and it looks like it's going well, all thats left to do is mess around a bit more with the type. The designs I came up with for the back cover were much to messy, it's time to start working to scale! Here's a peek at some of the designs I showed today:

Vanishing Valerie experiments

http://vimeo.com/41713499

http://vimeo.com/41714092

New Blog!

New blog for writing:

http://devinetalks.blogspot.co.uk/

Here's me trying to be more fluid with my illustrations, funny colour choices I know, wanted to use ink and they were all I had! Quite like it though

Self Portrait

 I finally completed the self portrait I started weeks ago, not too keen on it but I thought I'd post it as it took a while!

Headhunters

Last week for our film project we went to watch the film Headhunters at a cinema in Soho. It was a really good film with a twisted plot, I would definitely recommend it! We were then given the task to recreate the film in a one minute film of our own, not easy I can tell you! We had an hour to plan, an hour to shoot and an hour to post product. I can tell you it definitely took a lot longer than that! It was really fun to play around with the camera using different shots and experimenting with imovie.

Beauty in the Making

Last week I went to the Beauty in the Making event at Victoria House, the exhibition was set up by GF Smith and allowed us to get an insight behind the scenes at paper making and print. It was a really interesting exhibition, beautifully created with the use of stacks of paper, also I got lots of free promotion print items which are really interesting! We had the opportunity to make our own envelopes and do some letterpress printing as well as seeing how paper is actually made.

Wild is the wind update

So it must have been two weeks since I posted about my LP Cover, Sorry folks, I really am rubbish. So last week I brought in some more experiments I had done:

Peter and I agreed that the image of the orange birds wings from the week before looked a lot more successful so I decided to take a step back and work on that imagery. Then this week I experimented with different ways that a LP cover could open to display the wings. This method was an agreed favourite, I discovered this folding method through a piece I received from an exhibition. The way it works involves the card being able to fold outwards in three ways, it took me a long time to work out how to do it! I'm afraid I don't know the name of the fold.

So my next step is to work on typography layout etc, something that I really don't know enough about!! 

Sara Blake

This morning while killing time before uni I was blog hopping when I came across the work of Sara Blake I really like her use of a 'wish wash' effect, I wish my illustration was a bit more like this and less...regimented. Check out her blog : http://www.hellozso.com/blog/