The Kraken - Maybe a bad idea...

Considering the deadline I have and the work output I've managed to make in the time I've actually had time to put my head around this project, I don't think I'll be able to finish this book for this unit. I'll have to change to a photography style if I want to keep the deadline and my hair, because this project is not giving me any room to move and do my other 3 units-worth of homework. I hope I'll be able to change, seeing as I don't have much time to finish this, but I really, really need to change this. I'm just falling behind because I'm concentrating on one thing and spending the rest of the time stressing and procrastinating because of the work load. But here's the work I've done, which isn't much.

I just felt I needed to change once I realised I had spent 4 hours on a Big Ben drawing for a book set in 1840...

I hate InDesign

Enough said.

Finalised cover art - The Kraken & The Angel

Now imagine a massive brown stripe down the middle, and all the pencil in sepia tones.

I don't even know if this is good or not, I don't want to be judged by the printing company or my tutor ;_; The clouds look more pencil than clouds, but I have no idea how to draw them properly still. I'll probably end up redoing this in a week or two.

Learning a LOT today

Never knew I could draw mountains, never knew I could draw water. Now I'm going to see if I can learn to draw clouds and a nicely gradient-ed sky. Really impressed with myself so far!

I hope this actually looks good to other people... I kind of just clumped together a bunch of different ideas from reference photos, I hope I got the 'reflectiony ripples' pattern right. I know the perspective is WAY off, but hopefully it's just the idea that matters. I REALLY hope the scanner picks up all the detail in this or I am pretty much just wasting my time with the project so far. I should look up how Shaun Tan managed to do The Arrival...

So apparently Tobuscus is making a book...

And is searching for the illustrators of the cover via twitter's #TobuscusBook hashtag. This is me joining in - thought I'd upload the pics here as well. Toby's face sketches were done at the start of this year, and the tentacles with the mountains are for the cover of the book I'm making for Publication design. I don't know if this sort of sketchy drawing is what Toby fancies, but I hope he at least gets to look at them... //fingers crossed for my first illustration commission

CinnamonToastKen Lino cut!

Finally, pictures! I'll definitely make this a series, I like this Youtuber portraiture idea. I put it on my twitter account, linked it to Ken, hopefully he enjoys it.

Now, back to actual art and things I'll get marked on...

Another tatted cactus!

So this is a completed doily on another tiny cactus. I do not know what I am doing with my life, or what made me think this would be a great idea, but it wasn't hard (or painful, as you might think) to put this un-set doily on the cactus.

More Youtuber Linocuts

Turns out this is really good practise for stylising lino... I'm going to keep this up, and try to not let it eat into the curriculum I'm actually paying for. Photos in next post!