Sunday, 27 February 2011

Imagery

 Illustrations for the leaflet/poster jazz
first time ive used oil pastels to any great affect i think, i usually avoid them like the plague but it think this is the exception that proves the rule.


poster
with text
i went down the traditional route last time around (the map)so this time i wanted something more colourful/modern


Victoria peak
Ocean park aquarium
Po lin buddha

Mong kok markets

Light display


more markets
more...


fishy
lion rock

Starting to think about character design aswell so stay tuned.

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Tourism Posters









Some cool tourist posters ive stumbled upon
I especially like the Korea one
May try out some hand drawn font on my poster side

Friday, 18 February 2011

Attractions

Things to do and see
or rather things id do and see

Ocean park -aquarium and theme-park with added pandas
I'm a sucker for fish and crazy sea creatures so the roller-coasters just a bonus.
plust you can choose to take a cable car into the theme-park entrance

Lion rock
a rock shaped like a lion
'Nuff said



Giant buddha statue (the largest in asia i'l have you know)
and you cant visit it without posing like these two muppets.


Hong Kong wetland park
the calm eye of the storm in the chaos of Hong Kong city
The symphony of lights
Take a tram ride to victoria peak
the views are good
Mong Kok markets
one of the few places left in Hong Kong where you can still get a taste of traditional life before the city really took off

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Old Stuffs

So having a trip down the ol' memory lane here.
A fair bit of work has been influenced by traditional far-eastern art in the past...

From waaaaaay back in the day, this is my version of st george and the dragon

chinese fishys in ink





The next few are from last year when we had to make a typeface based around a word, i got 'dance'
So i was influenced by Chinese ribbon dancing


 










Sunday, 6 February 2011

Tell a story

Okay, so i got an email from Malcolm last week pointing me in the direction of 2 books that would be useful for me as a good way of telling a story. so i promptly ordered them  and they have arrived....

Forgotton voices of Dunkirk by Joshua Levine Tells the story of the evacuation form Dunkirk through first hand accounts made by the soldiers themselves. entirely made up of little snippets of information from the troops. an interesting way of telling a story indeed.it includes some nice reference photographs as well.

The second book is Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock, and its a real visual treat. The story is told through fictional post cards sent between these two people. theres even envelopes and stuff you can pull out and interact with. Some nice illustrations as well (and theres a fair few books in the series).

On another note im also reading Dracula atm (read it if you havn't) and i guess its told in a similar manner - through letters, journals and newspaper reports.

Ideas coming to mind for the graphic novel is perhaps a Japanese soldier looting the corpse of a dead guy and is looking through his personal correspondence (letters from home, diary, picture of wife and kids, thats sort of thing you know?) and it tells the story of this guy hes killed.






 so as you can see Griffin and Sabine is visually appealing with plenty to look at but with a quite intriguing story to boot so its well worth a look.




also the new map pack for Call of Duty includes a map of Kowloon