*ART*

shark screen print on paper

study of theatre mask in chalk

Study of theatre masks in watercolour

The use of the red on the bandana breaks up the pages that would otherwise have been just black on white.

I worked through a few different designs for the zombie/alien like enemies called the Bystanders, eventually combining head design 2 and body design 3.

The shadow cast by the creature is very effective in showing the paper-cut medium I chose to use in the illustrations for the book

I have used Japanese characters to show sound effects as this worked best with the layout of the page

Cecil uses a giant pair of scissors as weapon as I wanted the protagonists to use seemingly ordinary objects as this seemed to work with the idea of the bystander effect (the project title)

As I usually find faces quite difficult to draw, I thought I would take advantage of the life drawing session to concentrate on specific parts of the body in more detail than I had been putting into the full body sketches.

Due to the model having to change positions, the sketches had to be quite quick. I found I was able to draw out the position of the model fairly easily however not so much when adding details

The task was to photograph what we had made in interesting ways using objects from around the studio

I chose the issue of transport, more specifically the reason for train delays. After looking at satirical cartoonists, this is what I finally produced