Being Human - Competition Entry

I had time to fit in one last project before our final hand in date, so i decided to take part in the 'Being Human' competition from Cheltenham Illustration Awards. The brief is essentially to design an illustration based around your own perceptions of what it is to 'Be human'. I had to work fast due to a looming deadline, so quickly mapped ideas out on paper, eventually, i settled on this more thought provoking idea, something different for my portfolio.

to begin, this was my first brain storm sketch, I had to get the idea down in some form to see if it would even work, and although it is strikingly different from the final result, it was an important step in the process.

This however is the final product. I eventually went for a more 'evolutionary scale' type of look, and added in the quote to fill the dead space. I'm really pleased with the outcome, for an idea i was so unsure about seeing the result was a pleasant surprise. The ropes in the design represent our mistakes, and how we can't allow them to drag us down, eventually the figure uses the ropes to pull himself from the depths and casts them off behind him. Metaphorically representing our ability to allow ourselves to grow from our mistakes, and make us stronger.

Enhanced Illustration: World Space Week

Heres the final animated product. This brings the 'Enhanced Illustration' series to an end.

Enhanced Illustration: World Space Week - Colour

All the colour is finally down for the World Space Week animation, the next step is to get it animated, expect to see the final product soon!

For now heres the finished coloured product, including logos and tag lines.

I tried to keep a purple/red gradient across the entire image, it really helps to lock down the other colours used, keeping a nice colour consistency, rather than a mis-match of colours. This can be an issue when colouring something with such a wide colour palette. My choices where to either use a smaller but incorrect palette, or try and lock all the colours down using two, more dominant colours. I decided on the second option, using a purple/red gradient layer on 25% helped create this effect, whist keeping the scientifically correct colours.

Enjoy!

Enhanced Illustration 3: World Space Week - Sketch and Ink

Preparation for the final animation in my 'Enhanced Illustration' Series has begun. I've decided to bundle the sketch and ink work into this post together in order to show a better comparison. So this final animation is to advertise 'World Space Week' another annual event, i felt it fit the theme of the previous animations and also had a lot of interesting things to work with, what with space being so.. vast!

Theres not a huge difference between sketch and ink here, as I was actually rather happy with how the composition came over in the the sketch, see for yourself:

And heres the Ink work it later developed into.

Enhanced Illustration: National Forest Week

As promised heres the final video

Enhanced Illustration 2: National Forest Week - Colour

Heres the final coloured version of the NFW Enhanced Illustration, complete with the official logo!
I've now started on the Animating process, should have the final video up soon.

New Project: Enhanced Illustration 2: National Forest Week

I've decided to move forward with the idea of making the Enhanced Illustrations into a mini series. Hopefully I should get three finished in time for my deadline. The second of which will be for 'National Forest Week'. This time the original sketch changed drastically from what the final product became, so I'll include both for interests sake.

The first sketch turned out to be too ambitions in terms of what I then had to achieve during animation, which is the main reason for the change.