Buckle Tongue - A KING IN ALL OF US (update)

So the E.P's arrived along with some Wristbands I helped design, heres a look at the final products!
the E.P is available to buy digitally September 1st and will also be available physically September 13th at the E.P Launch gig at the Liverpool O2 Academy!
For more info on that, and the band, check them out HERE!

Buckle Tongue - A KING IN ALL OF US (Final Artwork)

The Buckle Tongue commission is complete, and since the E.P has been announced I can finally show off the Artwork. I love the final piece just as much as the Buckle Tongue guys and I'm really pleased with the outcome. Heres a look at the cover, and the back panel too.

Buckle Tongue - A King in All of Us (Alternative covers)

I was commissioned to design an E.P cover for Buckle Tongues new upcoming E.P, naturally this lead to a number of choices, here are some of my favourite that never made it:

I Love Ellesmere Port Music Festival

Another commissioned poster for Cheshire West/chester Council, for a government funded festival.

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!