aMUSE MAGAZINE - JONATHAN SAUNDERS SS12

As mentioned below, the pisces illustrations done for aMUSE magazine's horoscope page could not be used. However, as they had gone down so well with the office, I was approached with the offer to produce an illustration for the beauty page instead. This had to be based on the make up from the Jonathan Saunders SS12 show. 

I can't say that portraiture is an area I'm overly familiar with. But I thought it would be good experience/challenge to see what I could come up with. Below is the final outcome. It has been produced entirely with black ink, watered down into different concentrations. I was fairly happy with the result - but still slightly unsure as it was so out of my comfort zone. As it turns out the editor loved it, and there are now talks about it being a monthly commission for the magazine. Pretty excited!

aMUSE MAGAZINE - HOROSCOPES

I was recently asked by aMUSE magazine to produce illustrations for their horoscopes page (see below for more info). Having worked with one of their team before on illustrations for Borough Market, I knew the type of imagery they were after. Below are the 3 illustrations I did as examples for Pisces. They went down a storm in the office, but unfortunately the publisher pulled the whole page. Something else came up though - will post the finished result once it's done. 

aMUSE London is a brand new free high-end fashion/beauty/culture title for women launching mid April 2012. With a monthly circulation of 120,000, it will be distributed at selected London transport hubs and in key London shopping destinations. aMUSE is published by aMUSE Media and founded by Stephen Murphy, former founder & publisher of luxury lifestyle title Square Mile Magazine. The Editor is Sasha Slater   and her deputy editor is Stephanie Hirschmiller.

Just to clarify - the colour one is deliberately not matching to give the team more options.

DON GIOVANNI

We were asked to take the opera story of Don Giovanni, and manipulate into a different story (but keeping to the same general structure and course of events). I chose to give it a dark fairytale esq twist, using authors such as Angela Carter as inspiration.

DRAWINGS

Seemed only fair to put a selection of drawings up, especially as I am technically under the Illustration pathway. These are from a combination of uni projects, commissioned work, and personal sketch books.

MY LETHABY x RVCA x COLETTE PARIS

I was approached with the opportunity to sell some work at Colette in Paris, for 'Don't Call It Cool' exhibition, by David Mushegain. I was asked to created a book/zine based on the 'My Lethaby' animation shown below.

THE JOURNEY

Our brief was to illustrate a journey of any kind in 7 images. What that could be was entirely up to us. I ended up choosing to follow a fox, from the depths of the countryside, to the midst of the city. Instead of taking a fictional ‘disney’ slant, I wanted to show what the reality of this could entail. The images themselves were created by making gestural paint marks on scraps of paper, blotting them on other surfaces, then collaging these together to create the backgrounds. The foxes are monoprints, which were then scanned in and superimposed on top of the backgrounds to create the final images. Above is a selection of my favourite final prints.