I LOVE my Nikon. Yes I doooo.

Thanks to my friend Louise I was able to complete my project successfully, I had planned to do my own photographs for my final piece but as mentioned before was using other photographs to show the type of thing I was wanting to portray.  Luckily I am a very proud owner of a Nikon, and its my baby at the moment and kinda comes everywhere with me (kind of has to for the money it cost me!).  So prior to doing the final pieces I planned out a photo shoot and found my perfect model to do it with me, and luckily again I have Louise who seemed somewhat of a natural.  So a big thanks to her!  Hope you like them! I took hundreds and had to make some SERIOUS decisions in choosing which to use and of course put up here, as they were all so good!

OHHHH and DO click to make them BIG.

Model - Louise Aldred

Make-up and styling - Meeeeee.

Had to get a happy face in! Poor Lou wasn't allowed to smile through the whole shoot! I allowed this one! Beautiful.

Finito.

These are my final pieces, when I get my work back I'm going to take some photos of my mock-ups because I was especially happy with them.  

 

Front and back cover.

First double page spread.

Second double page spread.

Third double page spread.

End papers.

Title page and Copyright page.

Working progress.....

I haven't any photos of my sketch books that I have with this project as I have now handed them all in but these are my final working, just before I scanned them in for editing.  

Project brief was to Illustrate one of 6 stories/poems, so I chose Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath.  I worked really hard on getting the right mood through out the sketchbooks.  Being a very deep poem in which Sylvia Plath writes her persona to be a very unstable and emotion being, I had to really grab for what she may have being feeling, so that I could generate as such the fitting imagery.  We had to have a mock-up of the whole book which included front and back pages, end papers, copy right and title page. And then for the finals we had to fully finish all of these and 3 double page spreads.  EFFORT I know! But here are my finals as I said not edited or scanned in yet and laid out on my bed so not so clear....

Click to enlarge if you wish :)

I'm late...I'm late, for a very important date, with ones journal.

Well its been a long time since I've posted, excuses are.....final major project kind of got in the way and I got happily engrossed within it and of course my journal as well.  So much so that I finished my 2nd one of the year :)  A lot of people I know loathe their journal but I have learnt to love it.  And now I've handed in all my stuff (including new journal) I now feel a little empty.  Nothing special to write and draw in! so Keeping my self busy I've been drawing (nothing changes!) and I am going to make a surprise! 

Any way enough of that, I thought I'd post a few images to start off from my absence....

 

Top image is me working on the project I've been so engrossed in and bottom is my finished journal :)

I have been working in a different style to usual, building up my sketchbook work has been so much more fun working this way.  Instead of doing lots of drawings I have been colaging and painting and using dummy photos as my resources, to show what I will be doing in my final pieces.  As I figured out I simply didn't have time to be taking my own photos this early on in the project until I was sure on how it was going to work.