Dan Tobin Smith

not really a design strategy... but it reminded me of some work we did on art foundation at leeeeedsville. This is by Dan Tobin Smith, and I found it on Tigerprint's twitter :D

Brooklyn fare

Bit of clever word play... I quite liked it ;D

Himi Kozue

LOVE this illustration. Thanku to Mr Chapman for sending me this, appreciate it matey :D It's a beautiful soft, and overly cute panda illustration by Himi Kozue

Bull. Dog.

Right... I apologise for the shitty quality of this pic... again but my scanner is somewhat knackered and I don't have my camera with me. So... it's a photobooth shot of it... sorry. Anyway.... I was looking at the Best of British tigerprint brief a while ago and whilst I quite liked it, wasn't sure where to start with it. So didn't. But today I felt like drawing a bulldog for some reason. I figured I'd draw it while I had a little enthusiasm. I've had quite a bit on my mind these last 3/4 weeks and have found it difficult to focus on 1 thing. But today, after starting the day hating graphic design and pretty much everything about it (I realise this isn't a good attitude for a graphic design student but I'm trying to be honest with myself as well as anyone reading this), I sat down and drew something i'm actually quite proud of... which doesn't often happen...

Lately...

Lately, I don't know why but I just can't seem to find a lot of illustration that I really like. It's proving a bit annoying because usually if I fnd something I really like, I feel inspired to do something in reaction to it... but this hasn't really been the case just lately. :(

I think these are pretty interesting... by ESENHO FRITO... found on flickr

aaaaaand as a papercut

taking a bit of inspiration from Mr Chapman doing a papercut... quite like the outcome but won't be doing another in a hurry... it hurts too much... have officially experienced scapel finger for the first time in a loooooong time. Will stic a better picture of this up when i locate my camera... this is just a scan and looks a bit shite to be fair...

Tiger lily

Hand drawn lyrics from la roux's 'Tigerlily'... i traced the text and then just drew the flowers around it... the text looks a bit lame because the weight of line is inconsistent... i always have this problem whatever i draw... it's annoying. Also the text doesn't show up so well.... photoshop attempts at colouring it looked horrendous... as you can see here