Laura Mallaghan Illustration

This project is practically same as i did 0-9 photography last year but this time in my name, again i chose the nature theme. Honestly, why i did pick this theme, it was so hard to find some letters i need, it was in November so it was so cold as well as wet outside that my left hand gone dried. We've told not to have same photo in the name, not to have different theme and you get the point. So this is my name in nature photographs, i actually have five As in my name, it was hard to find some different shapes from this, unfortunately, with the L, i couldn't find another two so i ended up take a photo of the pavement.

This live project, we have to design the leaflet for our local hospital, KGH (Kettering General Hospital), a leaflet full of information of Asthma. So, I started doing development to design the layouts and design the illustrating for the covers of leaflet. I chose to use Indesign rather than using OuarkXPress because I thought Indesign is easy to work on and also I don’t have Quark on the desktop I currently use, so I have to use Indesign. This background goes on both side. The front cover image is separate but is linked to the background, and also the field to link with. I used the gradient mesh tool to create the shadows and highlight on their clothes and hair, to make them look quite realistic. First thing I started to design the leaflet is the layout on every page, then added the NHS logo and then write up from the copy leaflet sheet. Then I used illustrator for the background, I planned to use a field with pale blue sky and clouds and at the front of t

This photography project we were taught to experiment the photomontage, stand in the same spot, no move, take a photograph of one part each and combine altogether. Here are some photomontages i've done. It was a long process but it was fun, killing some time while i worked on these.