Urban Poetry

"When the trees dance to tune of wind, the birds singing to the nature's choir."

In this project we had to take lines from poetry, which specifically showed imagery of nature and display them visually with expressive text, then display them in an urban environment to give a contrast between the the text and it's surroundings.

Superstitious

To start things off, I think I'll post the first project that I really had fun with this year. Here are the final designs. It was an illustration project on the theme of superstition. The aim of the project was to focus on mixing image and text to convey the theme. Some, of course, were more successful than others.

First of all I thought I would make the images very unrefined and raw to represent how long these ideas date back, and how many of them are caused by fears. 

I took great inspiration from illustrator Nicole Lawson and the way she uses the 'grunge' and 'earthy' look. The colours I used were also there to represent the darkness that can be associated with superstition and the drawings are very harsh and messy to show the lack of control that our superstitions are created to ease. To create the images I used inks and tea stains on watercolour paper, then they were edited on Illustrator + Photoshop to mix them with appropriate text.

It Starts

This is my first serious blog. I'm planning to fill it with a log of artwork, inspirations and general musings. I've never really been good at blogging, as I don't often have the enthusiasm to keep them up to date, but I'm inspired by others to make a good webfolio, so it is my new years resolution to keep this up to date and get some good critique. hopefully I can keep it up. :]

I'm a Graphic Design student in my first year of university, but my taste in art is very varied and I don't really have my own style yet, or preferred way of working. I would just like to use this blog as a way of logging my exploration of different styles and maybe get some useful feedback on my work. So if you do have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them. Thanks for looking. 

J.R. x