Foundation Year - Final Show


 So I've finished my Art Foundation year in Bath, after spending the last few months on my final project - an illustrated book of the Brothers Grimm story, Little Sister and Little Brother.
The exhibition is now up, at last! You can see the internal spreads in my previous post...



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L I T T L E    S I S T E R   AND   L I T T L E    B R O T H E R


  some spreads from my foundation final show... a tiger, some wolves and a roebuck. 8 pages.

A story about transformation, the little brother is turned into a roebuck-
the full story can be found here!
 



Figure - Life Drawing

Another post - updating college work and such...
Deer studies (referenced from various youtube videos)
and some recent life drawing below (contains nudity)
Long and short studies - Trying to practice more and more!



IF- Jump






Oh dear, this will be my first IF
of 2012 -I've missed so many nice words!

Just a quick sketch to start... :)

Brothers Grimm


So I'm currently working on my final project for my Art Foundation Year - 
Based on fairytales by the Brothers Grimm and one in particular called "Brother and Sister"
a story about a little boy who is transformed into a roe buck...
It's a lovely tale, with wolves, tigers, forests and witches - just perfect to illustrate :)
I'll try and post more as I develop ideas, but till then, here's a few sketches and ideas so far!

"what a beautiful bird am I"

Another Juniper Tree illustration -  
I'm quite fond of the lines for this one...

Shadows


So I've been working on a new project - Looking at Shadow Puppets,
Story Telling, and the Brothers Grimm fairytales.
I'll try and keep updating through this project, but here are a few sketches,
based on "The Juniper Tree" (which is such a creepy story, but has great imagery...)
And of course, trying to not make it too 'cute'...






Foxes and Bears





So! Long post - various things from the last month...
I'm busy with university interviews at the moment - a lot of portfolio prep, no time for updating the blog!

I'm currently working on a project, looking at the fur industry - Bear skins in particular.
These are just a few pages from my sketchbook, I will try and update again soon!
 



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2012


Happy 2012 everyone...
End of  the year of the rabbit, 
start of the year of the dragon...