Heady Leggy plans

Heres the plans for the heady leggy book
He goes on a nice walk through the park and things happen
It should be good

Completed Cat zine

Here is the completed cat zine based on my screen printed cat comic from Foundation.
I'm happy with how it turned out because I retained what I liked about the old image whilst updating all of the imagery so that I'm happy with it.
As well as changing the compositions and style of the imagery I had to change the text to past tense (which was very depressing) and change the appearence of the boyfriend.

I think it will be well suited to Thoughtbubble because people like cats and will pay attention to things they recognise, like cats.

I particularly like the cover, it's bold and decorative with slight tombstone-esque morbidity.

grand budapest

dont think i ever actually posted this
anyway heres the poster i made for the film societys first event, we started with grand budapest hotel, i couldnt really remember what happened so i just spliced two images together from the movie that seemed memorable, kinda lazy but i just wanted to get something done, and i did, and i think it went okay

statement of intent and briefs

Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION	Level	06
OUIL603 Extended Practice	Credits	60
STUDIO PRACTICE Statement of Intent

Name	Hollie Smith	http://h-smith1316sp.blogspot.co.uk
Date	19/10/15
Rationale
I want to make silly funny pictures to make me happy and make other people happy. This will make people more inclined to buy my work, or hire me, as people like to be happy. As a result I will get the money they buy my work or employ me with and can use it to enrich my life with the joy of pets and an elaborate home library with a rolling ladder.
Themes / Subjects
Silliness, humour, irreverence, narrative based mostly on the banality of existence, character, observation, whatever subject is interesting me most at the time
Products / Methods of Distribution
Zines, comics, printed media, posters, postcards, ephemera, crafts, badges, stickers all selling at table top fairs and conventions Also online distribution via social media
Practical Skills / Media / Formats
Mixture of traditional and digital, some all of either, some mixed, Photoshop for creation or titivation, watercolour, gouache, other paints, pencil, pens, ink and brush linework, collage, Whatever seems most appropriate and/or enjoyable for the brief Occaisional straying into video/gif format with animated work, would much like to further this

Brief 1: Thoughtbubble	Deadline	14/11/15
Rationale: I want to make zines, prints and ephemera to sell on my table at Thoughtbubble. This will aid me in networking and building a presence in the community as well as allow me to sell my work to the right audience, and as a result I may become more known in the field over time as well as making money from sales to recoup my costs and enjoy some tasty profit.
Brief 2: Album Re-Covers	Deadline	19/05/16
Rationale: I want to re-design the covers of the homemade CDs I found in Poverty Aid because some of the music is quite good but the badly handmade covers make them look dated and unappealing. This will make them appealing to a wider modern audience and as a result the CDs will become more marketable and I can send the new covers to the people who made the albums, which might be a nice surprise, and if they so choose the album could be re-distributed with my new cover.
Brief 3: YCN	Deadline	tbc
Rationale: I want to enter an applicable YCN competition because the deadline is after January so it will be less horrendously stressful than others, and because winning would potentially provide further opportunities and a widened audience. This will make it easier for me to get a job as I will have that on my CV.
Brief 4: Macmillan Prize	Deadline	Tbc, May
Rationale: I want to make and propose pages of a children’s book because I think it would suit my work and I haven’t done anything specifically for children yet. Also I would like to further explore the heady-leggy character I’ve been working with but in the form of a full narrative. This will give me a product I can add to my portfolio and as a result I can pitch the book to publishers, or even win.
Brief 5: Board Game	Deadline	19/05/15
Rationale: I want to collaborate in making an illustrated board game because I have an interest in this but feel often the imagery is unappealing. Also I think it would be very enjoyable to make and there will be few if any opportunities to do this in future. This will give us a complete functioning product that can be played and pitched to shops and companies, and as a result the game may be manufactured or sold, and failing that we will have something fun to play with and to attempt to sell ourselves.
Additional Project Proposals Film society posters – regularly Illustration Friday – regularly Threadless competitions – when applicable Art cat café business proposal – dependent on input of others Fumetto Comix – dependent on free time before deadline, 4/1/16 Working Toy Theatre – potential board game substitute Musical comics -  perhaps in conjunction with toy theatre, or smaller scale if needed/if time

recoverin zines

so to minimize my work load im recovering lots of my old zines cos theyre not bad but the covers suck
heres some sketches for bad trends

i went with this one, which was one of the plans i had way back in first year, so it made sense i guess

here is where im at so far

working from this image

also i was looking up bad trensds again to try and incorporate some that happened since a wrote it (what a weird thought, time has passed) and i found this esquire article

http://www.esquire.co.uk/style/article/6087/worst-mens-fashion-trends-in-history/

which i thought was funny, as it encompassed all of history, which made me think about a sequal
somehting like
Bad Trends 2: The Revenge of the Ruff
or whatever

i dont have time now though
but it would be funnnnnn

maybe if i find time somewhere

nah theres no way i have three weeks

bleh

later

cat zine progressin

Making some headway with the cat zine.
I guess it helps that its already written for me by past me
Thanks past me
anyway I'm about halfway through.
I'm using grayscale because it'll be printed in black and white.
Drawing with textured brushes straight into photoshop.
It's much quicker this way

finally finished travelling man

it is done
eeeee
ugh

pastel palooza is my new tool of choice, thanks kyle webster

we had the palette of travelling mans branding to stick to, which are basically my favourite colours anyway

my planning was minimal because i wanted to get it done soon but that kinda backfired cos i got really into it

also since its in keeping with the context of the heady leggy comic im making for thoughtbubble I'm going to give out postcard prints of this with purchases of the comic, hense it is part of my 603 brief

I'm really happy with how it turned out
The pinks work well, even if they do look more like blossom than autumn
I think the extra time I spent on it paid off
as did the decision to use a lot of reference imagery for the backgrounds
Not sure why i don't usually do that but i think i will

I really like the posture in the third panel, i got it exactly how I imagined it

I am annoyed however that I didn't realise I'd written glorious twice until after printing
It was meant to be fabulous
oh well

Cat Zine Process

I'm using different textured brushes, mostly a combination of Kyle Websters Pastel Palooza and Chunky Charcoal to get the digital analogue hybrid aesthetic I like.

I'm working in monochrome so nothing is lost when I print it out

This means heavy importance on the balance of black white and grey, notan and whatnot

I'm doing one panel per page to pace it evenly.

Here's page one

 Heres the first stage, black outlines, loose textured ones.

 

Then going back over with grey to denote backgrounds or shadow 

Then writing, I'm all about cursive script at the miunte, it's improving but there's a way to go. 

And all together

Yep I think it's going alright.
It's pretty simple but it does the job, I like it
And it's a nice change working in monochrome, not done that in a while. 

Cat zine

So i'm remaking a screen print i did in foundation about my cat, but as a zine now, because he died and the end was about that so it seemed kinda relevant, also my mum kinda bullied me into it.
..but cats sell at thoughtbubble, and this may end up being my zine brief zine, or maybe ill still make that a sketchbook one and ditch all the fan art I was gonna do. Stupid fan art.
Doing digital due to pressing deadlines
At time of writing T minus 24 days
i can do this
yeahhhh
last year i did it in a week
it was terrible, but this year i have like 3 weeks and ive already started
so it'll be fiiiiinee

front cover
(trying to put more work into my covers than last year, covers are important)

inlay pattern

Travelling Man

this is where im at

its taking forever

this is a sketch

i am so sleepy

Heady Leggy Plan

For my comic I just want a simple story, like the poster but expanded, where he's just going about the world discovering things humourously.
I don't want to make a rigid panelled comic, mostly because it takes literally forever so I'm going to go for a looser sequential arrangement with no real borders, a little bit like Dotter of her Fathers Eyes, but much less lovely probably.

EG

I like how it clearly flows in a direction and order but looks like one cohesive image on the page, not broken up like panelling.
Let's have another one

mmm tasty
I want to read this again I read it when it first came out but I don't remember much of it except the panelling, im not sure i fully appreciated it at the time, i remember being a bit bored by it. I must've been wrong

Campaign is liveeee

My picture went up on the guardian website today
isnt that exciting
my parents are well proud

heres it is on the website 

i am art student

 here is andrew telling me its on the website

and heres an email i got telling me to do the thing my work is telling me to do

now theres a weird feeling for yer

Cat zine plans

Been planning the cat zine
It didn't take much planning because I already have the whole framework from foundation
It's just compostional tweaking because some panels were a bit iffy

Cat screen print

Found this screen print at home
Made it in foundation about my cat
well my mum got it out cos the cat died and she thought I might wanna sell them/see them, and she wants to put one up now
There's so many horrible errors in it though
So I need to remake it
I'm going to make it into a zine to sell at thoughtbubble, people love cats. 

Old work to reprint

So because I had such a short deadline I'm going to reuse some work I've already done to pad out my table.
This includes my comics from the previous thoughtbubble, Bad Trends, Gianttess, Pegasus, Stupid Deaths and Men of Tinder, as well as my Posters from Responsive last year for Ferris Beuller, Cabaret and Harold and Maude.
 Here are these things

 

Guardian successes

so at first i got this email saying they liked my set
which was cool

nice to know innit

and then i got this email today

so wooooo

im gonna be famous looool

and PAIDDD

sick

definitely worth entering

Stuff to make

Heady leggy comic
Heady leggy print/postcard
cat zine
new covers
that weird picture my friend asked for once of mulder and scully busting walter white and jesse and theres a meth addicted trex bursting out of the rv and the tardis flies past. (i think its moronic genius)
dr manhattan elsa crossover
buffy postcards
print film posters
zine of sketchbook work

That should do it 

Thoughtbubble Plans

We've just been informed that due to a cancellation we have a table at Thoughtbubble this year
Woooooooo.
Well it's four weeks away now, would've been nice to have that a little earlier, but anyway yay.
So this is going to form my first brief for 603.
I will be making new zines and prints to sell
Not sure if I will succomb to fan art yet.
I'd rather not but it might be necessary.
I'll also use the zine Matt's brief requested to sell on my table, so I'm going to make this a more involved piece of work than I previously intended. 
Very concerned about how this may affect cop, being at the same time as it, but I think there is just enough time to manage it.

third guardian

forgot to blog it the third guardian
here it is

revival of arts and crafts in a digital world
i got pretty literal
hes sweeping away computers with a brush
makes it okay cos theres a heady leggy so im allowed to be heavy handed and stupid cos hes so silly

pile of computers is hard to draw
i had to use sooo much reference so closely
this is the main one i used
can yer tell

i used another texture on the bristles.
im still not sure if it fits with the image
mightve looked better drawn
but its good to try new stuff

is it ironic that this illustration about the revival of craft was made entirely digitally?
yeah thought so

accidental illustration friday

i was going through my sketchbook to find stuff to scan in and digitize, make some finished looking stuff with minimal effort and that, so i was doing this one

and while trying to decide what he should be falling past i remembered illustration fridays theme this week was

STARS

so i drew him falling through the night sky and entered it

here it is

treespiration

Been looking at pretty tree pictures to fuel the creative fire.

So many so pretty

Travelling Man Plans

These are my rough sketches for travelling man.
I havent thought much about it because there is no time and I'm also trying to do cop so yeah I'm just going straight for it with this one.
He's walking through the woods all bendy floopy and enjoying the nature and some leaves fall on him.
It's basic as hell it'll be great.



I'm working digitally for speed and also I'm in love with this Kyle Webster brush Pastel Palooza
It builds the perfect texture
Look how cool

I'm using the palette in different opacities to allow me an array of pinks
I'm sure this fits in. If they were the ink colours in use it would be no extra inks, so it's fine.

 

This is the first panel so far.

Im making the trees all fluffy and pink like blossom trees but not blossom cos thats spring and it is autumn

 This is the first panel done
Really enjoying this, like it a lot, its the best looking thing I've done in a while

 This is my sketch
I used a lot of reference for the angles, that's something I don't do a lot but I think it has helped the backgrounds significantly. Background seems to be becoming a focus in this drawing. 

These are the reference pictures I used for the trees