Khon Dance

These new series of work was created because I wanted to explore more into Thai culture, particularly the beautiful traditional Thai dancing called ‘Khon’ that narrate the epic story of ‘Ramakien’ from Thai literature. This kind of dance consist of elegant hand and body movement and the dancer wears brightly colourful elaborate headdress, masks and costumes which I have attempted to capture in these series of illustrations.

D&AD Little White Lies entry

This was my unsuccessful D&AD entry for the Little White Lies magazine. Even though I didn't get though this brief was great fun and a nice little distraction from my EMP. It was also a good excuse to watch the top 5 film in aid of research.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Final design that I submitted for the Penguin design award 2012 for Puffin’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. I was very happy with the final outcome although I didn’t get shortlisted. I experimented with hand rendered typography combining it with my illustration and using dark purple for the dark stormy night sky that often depicts the mood of some of the stories in the book.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

I have decided to enter the Penguin Design Award 2012 as part of my previous uni project. The Brief that I took on was for the Puffin Children's book for 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ; students are invited to design a whole new cover look for this classic. Although this was the first time I have actually read this book from front to back, there was certains themes and story that I recognise weather it was from disney's adaptations or tales being told to me whiles growing up. These Illustrations and colour test that I created were just some experiments on ideas that I gather from reading the book.

sweet success

YAYY!! I got in with the top 500 out of 5000 plus entries into the pictoplasma missing link research project ( draw a yeti). my entry will be part of the main section of the exhibition with 499 others in a massive wall in the central exhibition as unique digital prints. If anyone is around Paris between December 7 - 31 go have a look at the new museum la Gaîté Lyrique! :)
also every thursday till the the end of december they are showing some of the entry on their website, click here to have a look at some of the other 499 fellow entries.

I have entered the Burnt Sugar competition to design a borough market bag and would love it if you could follow the link and look at my work. if you like what you see then please support me by clicking the ‘like’ button. :)

click here to get to my entry.

Is time to draw a yeti!

                                          

I feel ashamed as to my lack of posting this summer.. my bad excuse is I have been busy working full time at a retail store , was in thailand for a month and went to Glastonbury festival. I'm now entering my last year of university ( noooo , will miss this lifestyle) and will hopefully be posting more of my progress.

Enter the Yeti! I have decided to enter a lot more competition this year so to start of I looked into 'The missing link research project' organise by Pictoplasma production.

Character design is not really my cup of tea ,as in I have not yet enter into this area much as an illustrator. So I decided to see what I can come up with as this competition seems rather fun and spontaneous! I have tried many drawings that just end up looking like a weird ape so just decided to go with the unknown by paining first with just brush and water then drop some ink onto the area and moved the paper about, then with a scanner and some colour adjustment on photoshop.. Tadah!.. I have a shape that looks like it could be any large man beast thing. Then of course i draw some eyes,nose, hand and feet n that was the creation of my version of a yeti,big foot or abominal snowman.. how ever you want to call it. I must say I really like my creation to be real just so that he could live in my garden :)