First draft of Conscripts demo sleeve.

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Decided I should do some personal artwork in Photoshop as it's been a long time. This is a drawing I did a while ago. My photoshop knowledge has increased considerably just recently, particularly as I've been researching to teach it, and as a result my style seems quite different now, I finished this very quickly, it doesn't look amazing but I'm pleased I finished it in an evening.
I was naughty here and used a built-in Photoshop rose brush...but it's surprisingly nice!

latest drafts

Doing some t-shirt designs for Hybrid Arts' 'Extraordinary Cycles' event, to do with Flatland BMX...stuff. Here's one idea.
My work seems to be quite clinical lately. I don't know whether I should loosen it up a bit and add some hand-illustration.




BUT looky, I made a bike chain brush! ^_^ Haven't decided what to do with it yet, hence the shapeless curve...

I've just done some work for Karen at Kaos-Arts.com - I was recommended to her by someone from my work placement in Digbeth last year. Which is pretty cool.

I just traced some park signage into illustrator which she created with some children.
Bit of a learning curve in terms of working in Illustrator while someone's watching!
I had taken on WAY too much work that week and was falling apart a bit, so my first externally-referred freelance project was nearly a bit of a disaster, but in the end things were OK.

http://www.kaos-arts.com

I've managed to convince my friends The Conscripts to let me do various things for them in terms of design, including working on their logo and designing their demo sleeve. Yay!
Formerly Fade To Sepia, they're a very dedicated and serious band, sounding kind of like The Fall, Joy Division, etc. Particularly in their 1st and 2nd world war-related affectations.
So I've got the likes of Factory Records to have a look at.

Dave of The Conscripts showed me a logo he had drafted together, the silhouette of a hand with a cross through it, and said that he wanted it 'stark'.
Here are my current drafts which are more or less done I think.





The demo sleeve is going to be a war artifact.... you'll have to wait and see!

I met a girl at a party recently, she saw these pictures which I took of my friend Abi and gave to her as a gift, and asked me to take some of her.

My camera isn't that good, I'm not a photographer and my Flash kit is a bit dim.
But I do like to have a go! And Photoshop can theoretically fix all ills.
I think I may have overdone that a bit.... I accidentally took all of the photos at 72 dpi though and had to do a bit of airbrushing!!
Here are a few of the 13 or so that made the final cut.