OKIDO Mini project

My new project is with OKIDO magazine http://www.okido.co.uk/ doing children's illustration, For the main part of the project we have to design either a one page story or an activity on one of the themes on the brief. Which are all science themes as the magazine is educational for 2- 7 year olds.

But we also got set a mini project to do for tomorrow which was to make an illustrated origami book on one of the themes. I made mine about body noises!

Origami book: Burp and fart

Book number two for my mini project.

Reflection.

I have really enjoyed this project, and I'm actually a little sad it's done, I also feel that I have learnt a lot from it.

Before I didn't really have that great of an understanding of what editorial illustration was, what went into etc, or how it is dealt with in the industry but I feel I know a lot more about that now. I also feel that I have learnt a bit about myself through this project too, that I can work to tight deadlines being one thing! Which when I first signed up for the project was something I was a little unsure about. That I can produce more then one idea, even if some are stronger then others. So that has helped to up my self-confidence a bit.

Overall Im fairly pleased with what I have produced in the time given, obviously I would go back and adjust the pieces according to the feedback I got but on the whole I don;t think that I haven't done to badly.

Final All ears article week 4

So this my final illustration for week four and for the project. A mix of digital and hand drawn this week, all hand drawn but the twins where duplicated and coloured in illustraor to make them carbon copies. A little bit of collage as well as the twins are a separate layer and the window is made of tracing paper to give it a slight translucent look, I did try a wash first but it didn't work as well.

More tweaks

More fiddling about, changed the jam to purple and the hair definition to a dark grey. More pleased with it now, Just got to do the background.

Twins in progress

So I've done the Twins for this weeks illustration, Just been fiddling with the colours in the rough they have the same clothes but different colours, I've tried the same colours as they are identical twins but when i checked the article they are dressed 'Similarly' so in the end I think the green and red option works best, so they both similar and identical.

Roughs. All ears article, week four.

Ok so these are my roughs for the final all ears article :( Im quite sad as I've been enjoying the project. I was basing my ideas around the idea of human wasps for the first three sketches and the second one of the twins with wasp eyes and antennas is my favourite out of all the roughs, I had to back to it though and change the direction if the text as I re-read the article and they are outside the cafe and not in it DOH!. For the last two I looked at different parts of the text, the "surplus" amount of jam, which doesn't work well at all and the "symphony" of complaining, so I set the text to music sheet lines, I like it but im not sure it works?

FInal illustration week three