Challenges 8, 9 and 10

10: 'Take these drawings and reproduce them without line.'  This was quite tricky as it's a true departure from my usual style, but I think they turned out rather well - particularly the top one.  This kind of study might help with my colouring in the future.

 9: 'Do observational drawings of people on the train'.  I was supposed to do four, but somehow only managed 2 :-P The last sketch is of my friend Dan (shhhhhh...)

8: 'Design the label for an invented ale' - this design was inspired by our visit to the Aquarium in Berlin :) Very tempted to develop this into linework, ensuring I give the jellyfish a jaunty expression... :D

Just a little something you should go to if you're free...

I'll be playing with Jipsy and I am also one half of The Hart Sisters! Fingers crossed that the weather holds out.

I've only just been able to go back to these, after the disastrous Mac explosion of 2010 whereby I lost all but the linework for these beauties... 

A series of designs for blusher boxes in an art deco style, 'Plum', 'Rose' and 'Natural'.  I'd like to think that my colouring has improved over the last two years - it would be interesting to see, but oh well!

Time to put the Raybans on...

Look! I used LOADS OF SATURATED COLOURS! :D 

Poster for a friend's dance school (ADA) starting classes at Parmiters School in September. I don't usually do this sort of thing, so I'm fairly pleased with the way it turned out - I was going for a 'club flier' feel to catch kids' attention in the corridor!

Logos a Go-go

Another logo design for Hertfordshire based company 'Custom Made Carpentry and Joinery Ltd'. They do pretty much everything from wardrobes to whole staff kitchen re-fittings... It was pretty hard to come up with a logo that told you all this! So I just drew a lovely dovetail joint instead :) Custom Made's new website isn't up yet, but if you feel like a look at what they do, visit www.custommadecarpentryjoinery.co.uk
I did a leaflet design too, which should be winging its way around the area pretty soon...

Elevating Solid Ideas...

...is the tagline of the company I designed this logo for! 'Flying Anvil' are web consultants specialising in SEO and Accessability - their website is currently under construction but hopefully will be up soon. In the meantime, here is a preview :)

And a rectangle-friendly version:

Some of you may have noticed I also have a new fancy header! And no, the visual pun was not intended...

Mmmmm sushi...

A little idea for those of us that don't have unlimited back balances which allow us to regularly dine at posh London Sushi restaurants - DIY sushi! In the real world the tray at the bottom of this box would contain some rather small chopsticks, a cloth napkin and a ceramic wasabi dish.









Each recipe card takes you through how to make a particular type of roll (Uramaki, California etc) and and would be printed with a wipe-clean coating; to complete this project I had to take reference photos and things got rather messy...

Well, hello.

It's a shame that Boots own products don't have lovely boxes like Too Faced and Benefit. I love boxes.

For my first trick, I will be creating some speculative make-up packaging for Boots '17' range. The colour schemes are 'Metallic Toffee', 'Mermaid's Tale' and 'Purple Heart' (my personal favourite, of course). As you can see, the sleeves can be removed to reveal some lovely little cut-outs so that one may view the sumptuous product hidden inside...

This was a bit of a photoshop fumble which luckily didn't end too badly. I have yet to master the wonders of Illustrator which will hopefully result in lovely clean lines instead of slightly botched hand drawn ones.