Promo Play

This is some playing I did with animation, thinking about what I want in my video. But then I made worms. I like the worms the best out of this whole video. I think that I should do some simple animation as pattern in this like the worms but more crowded.

Promo Promo where for art thou Promo?

So my promo video plans took a back seat to cop so far this year but with the cop deadline within sights I'm starting to get re-pumped up about my video. I was thinking about how I want it to look and checking out the kind of animation I like. I looked for other illustrator promo videos but there is sparse research there of particularly successful ones. So I've been looking at adverts and music videos instead. Last time I did animation it was my Terry Pratchett one and music was the thing I structured my animating around, it just got a lot clearer when there was music to work to.


Pratchett Animation FINAL from Rowena Sharp on Vimeo.


 I didn't get to spend as much time on it as I had wanted because I changed my plans in the last two weeks and did it all in that time. It was a rather stressful time and it put me off animating for a while. But with a self lead brief there's no stress for a deadline. More room for mistakes.

SO my top inspirations are..... (drum roll please)

Numero Uno
Sing Sang Sung - Air

I love this video because it has this calming effect. Theway the shapes mould into one another is mesmerising, but there are parts where it bumps about but it only does it in time to the music. The whole piece is so well put together and the song an animation perfectly compliment each other. I think thats the kind of synthesis I want between the music and my animation. Which will be  bit tricky as I'm making my on music. I have little music talent. But I have a ukulele and a kazoo so I think I' set.

Numero Dos
The Wonderfilled Oreo advert



The music in this one is used to tell a story and I think that's a good way to structure the animation. The movement between images is wonderful though, I love it when it swirls out like milk into the next image. I think the mix of the fun playful music an the wacky animation really works well together, it screams 'fun'. The colour pallet it good too, really soft colours but used in contrast to make them appear bright. I might steal that idea. Almost definitely, and use Coolors to construct my pallet before I start animating.

Numero Tres
Jookabox - You cried me



Aesthetic wise this animation is more lo-fi, but there's charm in the way it is constructed. I like the close up on the vampire and there bing almost ridiculous lines and detail on it, reminds me of Spongebob painted closeups.

The jookabox animation is another one that takes on a story though, it feels more memorable when you follow a character. I might play around with this in my animation play. 

Talking in cameras

 Me and Hollie were interviewed at Thought Bubble for this question game. We've now realised that we both speak in a strange disjointed manner when confronted with a camera. But we enjoyed chatting to the two guys who were doing it and that was really fun. It was less intimidating than talking to people looking at your work because I felt a need to wow them into buying my stuff, but these guys had a reason to be there so it was easy chatter. And they bought some of our stuff anyway because we were so cool.



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Saturday Morning Blogging Club

Last year I was the worst person at blogging. Jut awful. I hated it so much. I figured it would just be one of those things that eventually it'd just click and I'd blog without a problem. But it turns out you have to actually work at skills to develop them.

So me and Rosie Wood have started going into college every Saturday with the soul purpose to blog. It's been really great because now if I don't blog all week it's ok because I at least have a weekly splurge of posts. But I've found that, with having a specific time to blog each week that I'm thinking about my blogging more often and I'm taking pictures as I go along, to document my process. 

I do actually do some blogging before I leave college as well. Just recapping my day or just getting some research up for cop.

OutSTANDing

I made a stand.
So Thought Bubble is fast approaching and my aim is to look more professional than last year. Lots of the more famous practitioners had card stands to display their work on and it made it look really good, and it's an efficient use of the table space. I looked on ebay for one but they're like a tenner. So I built one out of mount board. I used four sheets at £1.40 a sheet so it only cost £5.60 to make. And I can keep it forever. Also i've customised it so that we have little boars with out practitioner name on. Because lots of the popular illustrators had their name displayed in big on their table. So if i have my name big on the table maybe people will just assume I'm famous too.

Fake it til i make it!

Leeds in Lines

My rough plan so far for an opening to my promo video is to have actual video of me introducing myself, because then people know what I look like and see who I am. I think it makes the video more personal. But I will be recording that in a photography studio because I want a high quality video. I want it to look professional. I youtubed illustrators promo video's to have a look at the competition and a lot of people just have either static pictures with their voice over or they just time lapse video themselves drawing something. I don't think this is very effective to show what you can do because being an illustrator they already assume you can draw at least. I want my video to be showcasing useful things in the way I work that makes me suitable to employ to do professional work. 

So back to the video: I will video myself saying who I am and that I'm from leeds, at which point I will pull up an invisible leeds. I'll draw leeds and layer the images so that it looks like I'm pulling the illustrations up out of the bottom of the video. 

This is my text because it's pretty much the only font I can draw, and do draw regularly. I'm going to redo the one with my logo in because the bottom one I did bigger the texture on the 3d bit turned out much sleeker.

This is my Leeds so far, I'm just choosing the most recognisable buildings in Leeds. So far I have the Leeds uni Parkinson Building and Leeds met's Broadcasting Tower. These are just roughs at this point because I'm not really happy with how they came out. I think there could be more detail and line quality. and also I think I need to trace just to get the placement of the doors and windows in line, note the horendously uncensored door on the Parkinson Building.

Goodbye Moonman

I've worked at the local Londis this past year. It's a particularly depressing job which I don't really enjoy. But my loan is too small to support me and basically only just covers rent. I've had to have jobs through out uni. First I worked at an 80's themed club on friday and saturday nights, it lead to a lot of useful things to draw because it was always filled with the kind of people who are too old to be clubbing but they do it anyway. But I had to go home every weekend to work at that job and I felt like I was missing out on the socialising part of the week so I quit thinking I could find another job in Leeds. At first I didn't and went back to wakefield to do another bar job in my old boss's second club, since then I've had jobs at Boar Lane Yates and then charity door to door fundraising and finally here at my current till girl job. And finally I'm quitting, it's great. I need more time for my degree and to get my personal practice set up better and to just make me generally happier. My parents are going to support me and I've only got three weeks left. This clip from Rick and Morty is what I think of when I quit

Once I've finished working my notice I will have more time and my monday evenings back
Things I'm going to do to make the most of my extra time:
1. Work on my promo video more
2. Make more things to try and sell and still make a bit of income myself
3. Handmake all christmas presents cause I'll be broke
4. Use monday nights to start my 603 brief to respond to a news story on a weekly basis
5. Have a hobby, preferably something that will make me exercise, maybe rollerblading

Salty Foreplay

This is my logo, I made it over the summer. I hadn't really thought about it too in-depth I was just playing around and since I was doing a fair I felt I needed a logo so I could brand my products. So I ended up being an  olive head on a burger, I had recently gone for a meal and my mother had an aubergine and bulgar wheat burger and she let me taste a bite and it was the most delicious burger. Then I had to go back to my dry, dry falafel. So this burger is in honour of that burger, may I one day have money to eat out again and I will get to eat one of those sweet, sweet burgers.

To make my logo fit in with my work this year I decided it should be accompanied by a poem, also its a way to justify my logo. The poem is as follow; 

I am an olive
I can make something gross look kind of gourmet
At a grand feast, I'm the salty foreplay
But in Illustration, when it comes to defining
I make funny comics and I dabble in rhyming


I'm going to include this in my promo video because it helps to express the kind of illustrator I am .

The bubble pops

Last year me and Hollie had a table at thought bubble. It was a steep learning curve of an experience and although we probably looked a bit out of place in the main hall next to experienced professionals with our kids party table cloth. But we had a lot of fun and we were friendly and we chatted to lots of people. This year when we applied we didn't get a table which we've been pretending didn't bother us but it completely did, which is fine now because we got an email from them the other day saying there's been some cancelations and we can have a table if we want it.
So obviously pretty excited but it's now only a month away and all we can think about is that if we'd known over summer I would have done so much work. To combat it I decided to just do one new comic and then just do a product range around it. I still have other comics left over from last year, I think I'll just package them better and I'm sorted.
Things to do better from last year:
1. Have a business card ready
2. Have bags for people to use
3. Have a nice table cloth
4. Have a print stand
5. Chat to passersby more
6. If i do the characatures again make it so i just take a picture and their email and I send them it.
7. Neater more professional price tags
8. Clear signs saying who we are
9. Make clear who's work is who's to avoid confusion
10. Sort out a float before hand and not that morning
11. Have free sweets to give out
12. Brings lots of drinks and snacks
 and finally
13. Look cool , but we hardly need to improve on that

You spin me right round

To kick start my promo video I've made my logo spin so i can start and end my video on my brand. I will; also add my name and contact details. It took me three days to make this but I think  it could have been much quicker and smoother running if I'd made a model and photographed it spinning for reference like I planned. But once the clay I ordered for this purpose arrived I had forgotten and instead made a batch of tiny food. But onwards and upwards next time I'll just order double the clay.

The unneeded presentation

Since I worked on it anyway I'll post it. The slides help me to organise what I want to say anyway.

Slide 1: Big Ween. I've branded myself as Big Ween because it sounds silly and makes people smile. And I want to have humour in my work so I think it fits.

Slide 2: I don't want to be an animator full time but I do enjoy doing gifs and short animations. I need to  think of a way I can say this in my promotional work because I don't want people to assume I can do complicated animations that last 5 or 10 minutes.

Slide 3: Over the summer I did some fair selling my comics, I didn't do well and made a loss at every event. It kind of knocked any confidence in my work I had. But I can use it as a learning experience to better my selling ability.

Slide 4: I need a kick up the butt to get onto contacting people. I haven't really done it over the summer but that ends now.

Slide 5: Getting into illustrators heads; I'm going to work my way through my bookshelf of comics and message each author telling them I liked it and why and then ask a question. Just little questions to open up communication and so I can escape spam folders in future.

Slide 6: My fish comic is one of my favourite things that I've made and I found it really satisfying to make. I think illustrating things from my own life is a good thing to explore because I can draw my self and people I know relatively well which leaves me open to play with compositions and body positions.

Slide 7: Some Illustrators who do biographical comics; Sarah Anderson, Gemma Corell and Jeffrey Brown. I like the way they work and the style is playful and light. I think my work sty the moment fits into this selection and way of working.

Slide 8:But I would like to be more like my favourite illustrators; Michael DeForge and Jesse Jacobs. To do this I'm going to have to work on my colours and making my own narratives which is why some of my 603 briefs this year are creating narratives.

Slide 9: These are my favourite two publishing agencies but from the selection of work I've shown I think its obvious that my work would fit more into what Koyama Press are producing.

Slide 10: Promo Video. Because I struggle to straight out talk to new people I thought a good way to break the ice would be to make a self promoting video using animation and film. I want it to show that I can use humour, I work to deadlines, I can package my material and then just some stuff about myself as an illustrator. Then when it's completed I'm going to send it out on mass and put it on social media. Offering my services for a fee, and hopefully this will help me get some commissions under my belt.

Being the lamest in the flat

Since doing thought bubble I thought that one of the main issues with my work was that people picked it up, read it all and then put it down and left which I found really frustrating. So I decided to package my comic, I put it in A6 cellophane bags and put a sticker in with it as a free prize. But this time it went the other way in which people saw the comic and picked it up but once they saw it was packaged they put it down again and moved on. I think people like to be able to see what the comic is going to be like before buying it and in the past they read it all because it was so short but this comic was actually a decent size so in retrospect I think I could have left these out to be flicked through.

I was thinking that next time I'll package them so that you can read a couple pages but the rest are packaged together so that people won't get the whole story for free.

The fair was a bit of a failure for me because I only made £1.50. It was a big knock back to make a loss on a £2.50 table and honestly I stopped working for a while and had a small existential crisis.
I tried to sell my comics again at a table top general sale but sadly again I sold no comics whatsoever. So this summer kind of bummed me out on illustration. But I think once I got over the initial disappointment of not magically being an amazingly popular illustrator straight away I started seeing where I was going wrong.

First thing to change was sharing a table with my flat mates, although it makes sharing the time behind it easier and we can work as a team making things less stressful, I think it made my work just blend into the crowd. My 3 flatmates are all very talented Illustrators and their work is eye catching and commercial, whereas I tend to go down a more 'weird' and ugly route of drawing. My main aim is to make humorous comics and I think I sabotaged myself sharing a table with Hollie because she already surpasses me in her humour and comic skills. I let her work shadow mine, because when they are all on the same table next to each other you instantly compare them and I found that mine were drawing the short straw each time as customers were immediately picking up the others work whereas mine barely got a look in. So at the next fair I am going to have my own table to myself and then I can set it up specifically to showcase my work and decorate it with things that bring out the good qualities in my work.

Summer ups and downs of trying to be proffesional

So in the summer I moved in with 3 other illustrators from the class, Adam, Hollie and Becky. Living with just illustrators has been good because we can all encourage each other to do more work.The minute I see another flatmate getting on with some work i feel guilty that I'm not.
Together we did a zine fair, it was at a hall down the road and it was only £10 for a table, split between the four of us we figured that we could make back £2.50 each. I made a new comic for the event, I had recently bought some fish, and it turns out fish are hard to care for because I have no idea about how to tell if they are sick. So at this point I've gone through 7 fish, 2 are still alive. I did the comic when I'd just got my first 3, it is called the life and death of pork chop and george.

Presentation

Gifs for presentation

Pattern is key

I tend to struggle sorting out colour pallets and making them work and so if I do a crowded scene things tend to blend into one another because they look very similar and theres no great contrast in the colours. But this shows that a use of pattern can really make things stand apart. I think my problem is when I try and make a pattern to fill something I'm trying to think what would make sense and what communicates the texture best. But I think that sometimes I should just let loose and try lots of different ones because in the image above I wouldn't have tried some of these for trees and it shows that its always worth just experimenting. I think I Should start a book of patterns to just use as a dictionary.

James and the Giant Peach

by Livy Long

I liked this book cover because its quite minimal in its design and colours. The texture put in makes it seem more held back, softer to the eyes. It makes it more appealing I think and suites the story. The characters inside the peach are made to be quickly recognisable without too much detail and I think it has achieved this very well.  The colour on the font makes it more obvious of its purpose. The orange text in sea makes for a thick amount of colour when everything else has lines of cream in them. This makes the cover quite bottom heavy and thats the place eyes are drawn to after the peach. The author name however is in pale blue at the top. It makes it seem whispey and light, an after thought. I think it was less important to the design who the author was and more focused in on the story and narrative itself.

Printing onto other things

I like the idea of printing on top of other documents. I really like how effective it is to have the actual visual information, like the official, mixed in with your own style of drawing and printing. It provides a nice contrast between design. This is a technique that could even be used in collaboration projects where one could worn a piece and the other will work their piece on top of it. 

I think this shows that I've not fully explored the [possibilities of layering in screen print and it is something I need to explore.

Tiny Screen Print

So screen printing is a  potential for over the summer when I won't have access to the college resources. I always feel like I want more time to work on my screen print skills but I find the whole experience so stressful that I tend to just avoid it. Also I feel like it's not ok to just go down to the room to play about for no real reason other than experimentation because there are limited screen beds and I feel like I'm depriving some one else. Also I like the idea of making lots of tiny screens. Maybe them themselves can be a product then people could get one and they'd just have to get the colour ink of their choice and they can print onto anything they want.

Also this size is really portable so its a possibility to even do screen printing on the go. Maybe holding up the screen and drawing straight onto it from reference or looking through it for scenery reference. There are a lot of possibilities with pocket screen printing.

Bright Mountains

I really like this screen print because it manages to pull off bright colours without being gaudy and visually loud. I think that its the texture that makes it work. The little breaks in colour reduce the glare and vibrancy of it. It gives the weathered effect which contrasts from its bright colours. The white mountain separates the yellow and the pink and I think this is because if the pink was directly next to the yellow colour theory dictates that the contrast would make it seem more vibrant and it may seem like an acid yellow. But the white give a break to the colour and spaces it out giving a much lighter over all feel.  The colours are reminiscent of a sun rise/set when the sky starts to have hues of pink and purple. This gives the piece a sense of calm because it is pre associated with those times to either be done with the day and over or its a new day with new potential.

Hand drawn

I liked this image because it uses two colours and although it seems really simple it has the charm to pull it off. It looks like its been drawn straight on with no previous planning, its getting the balance between just quick doodles and full length masterpieces. Sometimes letting yourself into a couple of wiggly linbes and mistakes adds so much more in personality than you could have achieved with hours of planning and measuring. Hand made stuff always seems to hold a certain amount of charm for me, it's something I feel I should get back into. I have been enjoying coloured pencils so maybe I should run with my colouring analogue.

Bear with me

I liked this pice mainly for its humour. Theres just something satisfying about a pun. I like silly puns and I think that is something I should work into my projects more. I need to figure out how to mix my humour into my work without it feeling strained. 

I like the simplicity of this piece, it being a one colour print; I think this is because its the joke that drives this piece and they don't want to take attention away from that.

Pattern Cat

I like this screen print for its use of negative space. nothing is made with outlines it is instead dictated on where the pattern peters out. I like the textured striped on the cats body a lot. They look like they've been made with chalk or a  pastel dragged a long. This shows that you can use a variety of texture making techniques and they work together in one print. The minimal colour scheme gives the image a sense of calm as well, the density of the pattern also makes it look like sometimes theres an extra colour. 

Its colour theory I guess, the grey colour looks darker next to the black of the basket

Log cushion

I never even thought before of using screen print on fabric to create an entire texture. This opens up potential for so much printed fabric products. I like how its in the style of some thing very comic illustrated. The lines are thick and distinctive shapes show you what it is. Seeing these lines on a 3D thing gives it a pop art effect. Really eye catching, I think this is something that would sell well because it has a practical purpose as a cushion/ home decoration.

Eiko Ojala

This paper cut piece is by Eiko Ojala. I like how the white acts as the main part which makes the colours really stand out from the paper. The process of cut paper means that the lines are satisfyingly crisp. The composition of the piece is interesting because the line of sight is drawn to the middle because thats where all the colour is but then you are led up and down by the smaller details of the birds and the house. I think this piece really uses its negative space as more mountains have been created using the white base paper and over laying the coloured mountains. I like this way of thinking; getting more detail in without adding too much. Simplicity is the way forward.

Caitlin Mcgauley

This watercolour painting is by caitlin mcgauley.

I like this piece because the subject is one of reminiscing and childhood. A friendship bracelet is such a charming idea and the watercolours suite that perfectly. The control of the brush is a bit wiggly but I think a higher sense of hand made is working for this piece because the bracelets it showed are the ones you used to make by hand for each other. The bright colours give it a happy feel. I feel this is something that would work being sold as a single print because the connotations of the image is enough to draw peoples attention if only to remember fondly for a moment. 

Petit Jardin

Terrarium postcards by Petit jardin.

I like that the colours are of a low saturation but not so much that it would look greyish just leaning more towards pastel. This light and cool colour vibrancy creates a sense of charm. I think they work well as floating spot images because the sense of it fitting on the page makes it seem small and cute. Whereas if it was an off the page illustration I'd feel more like I should be impressed by it.

Michael Deforge

Michael Deforge was the other illustrator who's comics I bought over the summer. I kind of just went crazy on him and jesse jacobs and no one else. The thing I like most about Michael Deforge's work is the detail in the line work. Nearly every space is filled with little lines to describe what the texture and shape is like. I liek how the wiggly lines can make it look so repulsive you can almost imagine the squishy, slimey texture of it. I want to be able to acheive this level of repulsion yet intrigue because of the detail and the bright eye catching colour pallet.

Jesse Jacobs

I bought more comics over the summer but my main interest was Jesse Jacobs. I even managed to get the travelling man in York to let me have the last copy of safari honeymoon he'd been saving for himself although I think that was more down to me being a girl than my persuasive skills.

The comics I bought by him were :

Even the giants

I liked this one because of the simple progression from panel to panel. Some of them are almost like stills of animation. This leaves lots of panels to explore the line as texture he does.

The story has breaks in it of random pages that just have other comics on or poems. The panelling structure in his one million mouths run is really interesting instead of being separate images it is just a stack or congregation of boxes with characters inside each speaking one line of the thought/statement. I liked how this made written word more palatable alongside the drawings. Each imge can just hint at what its saying, it's overall the images/characters work together to create the tone of the piece. The colours as ever are minimal. He uses other colours to make lines, each choice seems to be based upon the colour scheme of the image. Colour is a consideration in every page. I think this is something I should work into my own work as its very heavily line based and this could be a good way to get a balanced colour pallet that works well on the line work.

By this you will know him

For this story it was the concept that I enjoyed the most it begins with creatures who are creating worlds and universes as part of an art project. One is making carbon nased life forms and he basically makes earth. It's like a whole new look at a creation story, thinking outside of the box. I think the key to a good story like this is taking something normal that everyone knows, like the origin of species/ creation theory and look at it in a different way. His narrative skills are impeccable and I couldn't put the comic down until I finished the story. This also contained some of my favourite drawn images. There is one panel where one child has smashed the other over the head with a log and the panel shows his brains mid splatter. The wiggly lines and detail inspired to get down into the gross. I think that images has been one of the biggest influences on my visual work all year.

Safari Honeymoon

This book was super nature. i really like all the wiggly shapes and flowing lines. This comic showed me that nature is an open book, like you can pretty much draw anything and its possible in nature because nature is crazy like that. The narrative to this story was another impressive one. I like how Jesse Jacobs narratives seem to dart back and forth between different parts instead of just religiously following one character through the narrative which I think is a bad habit I've picked up. 

Networking: The Plan

The Poetry Collective

When I was at thought bubble this year I spent most of the first day sat alone at my table because Hollie had to still print out some of her work at college. The tables were quite large and so I was sat relatively far away from other people. It was also quite loud and crowded in the hall so I just assumed since I couldn't really distinguish what anyone else was saying that no one could hear me either. I then spent the next 2 hours or so singing parts of songs to myself repeatedly. Mainly man or muppet, I found out around the time that I'd exhausted the chorus of that song  that I was not in a sound proof bubble.

Dilraj Mann was sat next to me and it was around this point he leaned in and spoke to me. It turned out he'd been able to hear me singing the entire time. I was suitably horrified but it led to a very fun and interesting conversation. We chatted throughout the event. It was chatting to him that pushed me to approach other people at other tables and just generally get out there in the illustrative community.

This gave me my networking plan

It started as I would send a short illustrated poem about how I met the person, for Dilraj it would be about my terrible singing. I want to send out poems to lots of different illustrators and just see who has time to send one back. I'm not looking for high quality, I just want to open up communication.

Then the ultimate plan:

At thought bubble I talked to a lot of people who were in a similar position to me, early in the business and not long out or in uni. I want to get to know those people because in ten years they are going to be my competition, my community.

So Thought bubble 2015 I applied for a table and didn't get one but I'll still be attending the event and I've been offered some table space form other people in our class who did get a table. 

I'm going to use my time at thought bubble as networking time. I want to talk to as many people as possible concentrating mainly on the fresh faces and  ones who are relatively new to professional illustration. Basically people who I feel are at a similar level to me. I want to invite them to have a dialogue of silly poems. Something I would make into a zine and pitch to travelling man or other local comic shops to sell in their small press section.

I want to build a little community of up and coming illustrators. An open contact book of potential collaborators. And just generally having people in a similar position that I can ask questions to. We can have a facebook group and use it to notify each other of events coming up and any meet ups or work people want to collaborate on. It should be something that everyone can get something out of. 

Personal practice: The pack

WHY SHOULD KIDS HAVE ALL THE FUN?

A mock up look of my professional pack

I plan to use my summer to make my pack to a professional standard and start using it to network. At this point I haven't left enough time to do a final pack but this mock up gives an accurate idea of what the final product will look like.

So with making the box I was trying to make it resemble a 'Happy meal' box, originally it was going to be all in the green paper or in a pattern time permitting. But I was looking through my old thoughtbubble stock which I have an abundance of and I found that there was work in there that I liked. I think that work represents me as an illustrator better than some of the stuff we did for modules because it was totally self driven. I picked all the topics and the colours etc. 

At this point it is sealed with a peg with 'why should kids have all the fun?' this is just a temporary measure since I didn't have the time or the digital programs at home to make the logo to act as a handle, similar to the macdonalds M working as a handle on its happy meals.

I would attach my business card to the front so that it is immediate what this is about. The letters on the logo would be cut out to make room for finger holes.

The opening mechanism isn't  as neat as I would like and in redoing it properly I will find nets of happy meal boxes to get that sloped roof top right.

The frame of my box is made out of mountboard since the paper wasn't strong enough to hold the contents on it's own. I like how it frames the top of the box, makes it look like a goody box. Invites a sense of childish excitement.

The contents of my pack:

Droopy peeps and Saggy teets : a set of stickers that are devilishly childish. Perfectly sized and transparent for playful photo pranking. 

Note books: Coloured mini notepads with cut out covers to show the colours complimenting each other.

Mini Crossbow: This is my toy, the free prize at the bottom of the cereal. It's purpose is just for fun, its a simple design made out of a peg as well. But it fires matches which makes this strictly adult toy. Which fits in with my whole why do kids get all the fun thing.

Business card: With pull out tongue and links to tumblr and facebook page.

Jump: A small comic demonstrating my sense of humour

Not so pretty things: Just a collection of the kind of drawing I do

Procrastination: Demonstrates I can use other medias and also because its a narrative that I'm proud of for its sense of light humour and relatableness. 

The droopy peeps and saggy teets are my favourite part of my pack. Their just so deliciously naughty and childish. They are hand drawn onto sticker paper at this point but since I enjoyed them so much I plan to make a set and print copies onto sticker paper. Maybe trying some on opaque so I can add colour. The potential for sickly greens and mustard yellows is limitless.

Personal Practice: Business card

So I made this business card quite early on. I wanted to run with the nature theme  in my work recently but I also wanted it to convey my style and what I like to do. I think the plant monster works because theres room for saliva and lots of texture with the natural bits. I made the tongue a pull out tab that would display the Illustrative name. On this mock up it just says Rowena Sharp Illustration but on a final product it would say Big Ween Illustration. Information on how to get to my blog and facebook page would be on the back. I made the design go over the edges of the business card template. 

I traced over the business card design digitally because my original mock up got bent in my bag. But it's always an issue that I don't like the quality of my line work once it's scanned in. By tracing I've managed to get the same shape with clearer lines. Although at this point I can only do it on the cintiq where I have direct contact with the image whereas with a tablet I'm still a shaky tracer.

I changed some of the colours because I think that there were a few too many in the old one. Also I've changed my hair colour since then, this one fits really well with the colour scheme. But I think that that's a detail I could change each time I send them out so that it matches the current colour.