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Alice in wonderland encount project 1

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  This whole project is about how Alice goes through Wonderland and meets a variety of different characters in Wonderland. ​ The final product will be an art book that the audience can tear each page out and frame on their wall. They also have text on the back of each print quoting how she meets these characters from the book. What I did first is to pick scenes from the book that I could illustrate for the final product. These are the mood board I made to help develop the illustrations. Concept art of what the illustration will look like. Finale sketches to be printed and transferred to watercolour paper. scraped this illustration as I didn't have enough time to finish but it was Alice's first meeting with the ribbit.  This painting was done in a3 and pained in gouache and coloured pencil, there redone I went with couches was I couldn't erase carbon paper transfer from the watercolour paper and my best way to save this painting was to paint it in gouache but I think this wh...

Serenity Blooms project 3

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This project was originally a Batsford prize based on the "at peace" theme. I wanted to try and make an illustration showing a figure relaxed and at peace with the body and mind surrounded by flowers. I researched a bunch of flowers I could use to show my idea. I also started taking reference images of the flowers and images of people relaxing, trying to combine the ideas, and producing the sketches.​ It then evolved into an aromatherapy-type company that helps promote different flowers that help reduce stress, which is why I called it Serenity Blooms. These are the flower I have chosen and researched.  These are the figures and portraits I used to help develop my concept more as well as I wanted to do more on plus-size body type as when I was looking for elegant type imagery I only found there isn't any plus-size artwork that fall under that so I thought I should try and show that in my work. Victoria Gedvillas is another watercolour artist who created the...