Event Poster: World Goth Day

We chose a number 0-50 and we were given an event according to the list of numbered events. I got World Goth Day. We had to make a poster, flyer and a web banner for our given events but aim them to an unlikely audience.

Immediately I thought of chavs.

Below are layout sheets where I thumb-nailed various ideas I had.

I had collected a fair amount of photos in my research and on pinterest of chavs and goths and so I tried out some of my ideas in these digital mock ups.

Below I took inspiration from the Trainspotting posters by Lorenzo Agius.

I decided to revisit one of my ideas of basically sex sells, so show the chavs/lads something attractive but goth-themed.

As these photos aren't mine and the brief specified to create our own images.

So I took this:

(Original photo that I found from a pinterest search, I made some minor edits to it for the above mock-ups but this is the original)

And I drew these:

 (lineart with parts marked for cel shading)

(black and white copic drawing)

(black chalk drawing for texture)

My initial idea was just a lineart drawing with inks but then I thought about the textures I could achieve with the chalks. Then as an afterthought, I thought about using my new black and grey copics to produce another image I could work with. In the end I used all of 3 of these in a combination.

 plain lineart

 cel-shaded drawing

And this is the final image after all the editing, ready to be placed in my poster.

Inside illustration for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

An illustration for when Harold first meets the dog.

excerpt below;

"On the other side of the road, a dog had stopped and was studying the sky, panting, with his tongue its one side. It was a small thing, the colour of autumn leaves, with rough fur like a brush...

The dog tilted its head as if Harold had just told it something interesting. It trotted up to Harold, and carefully placed a stone by his shoe...

It sat on its back legs, looking up at him patiently, not blinking and not moving its head."

Gif brief complete

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How fossils are formed

How a boat floats

And grayscaled versions

More gifs

How does Gravity work

I grayscaled my gifs to see if it'd reduce the file sizes but it actually increased them, however I liked how they looked and so I thought I'd upload them anyway.

How fossils are formed

My final gif animation for How fossils are formed.

The original one (5mb in size), then a lower quality one that's below 1mb with reduced colours.

The Walking Dead tee

I printed a couple of t-shirts the other day with a drawing of Michonne from The Walking Dead.