Kensington Palace (3 of 14)

(Post unrelated to the Queens visit... just odd timing!)

For one module last year we created a book based on Kensington Palace; illustrate it, write it and bind it... basically make a book from scratch. Unfortunately time got the better of me and I didn't have the resources to get good paper so had no other choice but to stick with inkjet paper (explaining why you can see the illustration from the next page behind the text) and a bit of bad luck binding (it tore a bit).

For the creation of the whole book I had the mental image of a book from childhood called 'Fluffy the Unicorn'... very plain and very avant-garde, and now that I am older I realize it was disgustingly full of innuendos, even though it was aimed at children. Something about a unicorn being kidnapped and then escaping... how enlightening! However, this was about 10 years ago and I can't remember the author, so if ANY of this sounds familiar to you please drop a comment as I've been looking everywhere for this series of books for the past few years!

I am determined to recreate this book this summer, but in better quality! (Poetry done with a LOT of help from Alex Chavanne-- kudos good sir!)

Paper Jam @ The Atrium

The second year Illustration, Graphic Design and Fibre Art students hosted their graduate show at The Atrium in Temple Bar last night. A good show-out (so good that the entire four stories of the building were almost impossible to move in), some freebies, cool people and a nice atmosphere! It was nice to finally get to properly see what the second years had been getting up to as well as a nice look at what the other two courses were doing. I made sure to be a detective and find out what the AIH2 work is like so I'm mentally prepared :D

Vertigo much?

Some stuff I nabbed from the exhibition (alongside the free wine!). The 'zine (top left) is produced by AIH2 students, displaying comics and prints that were done throughout the year. I grabbed a few business cards (to add to the ridiculously huge collection I already have) from some of the AIH and Graphic Design peoples' sections, some smaller versions of prints the Graphic Design students made and other cool postcards.

DURP!

Butchering Nara (envelopes)

College work tea break in the form of ripping off Yoshitomo Nara. Decided to put the pack of crayons that were gathering dust to some use and practice other styles!

Starting to fall in love with drawing on envelopes and using crayons! This is going to make growing up even harder! What's even more fun is that they only take around 5 - 15 minutes to do. Perfect for an ADD-er/Facebook addict...

The left and middle envelopes were just for fun, while the one on the right was drawn for a coursemate who loves trolls :D Only AIHers will understand the mushroom reference :'D

Oh yeah, and I WANT AN ORIGINAL WAAAAHHHH

Alphabet Spreads

Facebook VS college work... the greatest battle ever fought?

Recap: Each person in our class was assigned two letters from the alphabet and it is our mission to draw a spread for each letter (mine being M and O). Our tutor has it in her mind that after all spreads are collected and grouped they will hopefully be turned into a book, but as there are only 11 people in our course we were a few letters short so I took on another (the letter U) to fill it up a bit (as did another coursemate and tutor dearest herself)

Above is one of the drawings for the letter O-- the letter needs to be visible on the page (the O being one of the tentacles to the left) and the grid underneath the blue paper shows where the letter goes (a choice of top left or bottom right) and the dimensions of the drawing.

The final piece needs to be collage, and an awesome coursemate helped me out by allowing me to use some of her ocean life and aquarium photos (:

Final 3 pieces!

Pattonx4

Download 2009/Mr Bungle self-titled/90's Faith No More/?????

Pa-toon!

Computer Applications for Art & Design assignment work again, initial vector 'skeleton' based on Mike Patton.

Have another song-- and 50 points if you can guess who was in the crowd during this performance!

Table Quiz poster