I decided i wanted the illustrations to be in a scrappy hand-drawn style so decided to go straight for pen to paper with not much digital editing, other than colour changes, textures, patterns and clean-ups. I wanted the illustrations to look almost 'child-like' as i felt that this would appeal to me target audience of students. When i was illustrating my original ideas, i decided to hold my pen looser than i would normally to create perfect lines. This way, the illustrations have come out the way i wanted them which was a little bit scrappy. Here are the scans of the first lot that i did...
Telephone - 'Don't Ring in Sick'
Books - 'Use The Library'
Pool Balls - 'Play Pool at Brudenell'
Macbook - 'Buy a macbook'
Screen Printing - 'Inductions/Experiment'
Hifi Logo - Places to go
Abu Bakar - 'supermarket to buy cheap meat'
Chopped tomatoes and pasta - 'cheapest meal'
condom - 'free condoms'
Printer - 'befriend james/get the most out of the digital dungeon'
Hyde Park Picture House - 241 Tuesdays
Cheap Bowling Mondays
Brudenell Social Club Logo (in the style of John Smiths logo)
Wire Logo - 'Don't Go To Wire'
Unhappy Eggs - 'Buy caged eggs/no morals'
Nation of shopkeepers - places to go
To Do List - 'Make Lists'
Trees/Path - 'Don't wonder through Hyde Park after hours'
Nation of Shopkeeper Logos
Credit Card - 'Hide Your Credit Card'
Stop Smoking Sign
Red Stripe - 'Sneak into Nation'
I Then took these scrappy illustrations and scanned them in to work back into them digitally. I didn't want to clean the lines up so i just make the background brilliant white and darkened my fine liner marks to brilliant black. I also decided to add a dotted pattern to the illustrations just to give them a little bit more tone and quality. I think it works well and creates a really nice style that would work in my booklet...
Work Illustrations
Play Illustrations
Domestic Illustrations
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