Laura Mallaghan Illustration

I had showed my mum and younger sister of my design to hear their opinion and feedback, both loves it and my sister would love to have one as a wallpaper for her bedroom. It is definitely stressful project but overall, i am pleased. 

This is for competition project, for Cath Kidston. It’s not completed yet, still need to change few around then i’m done. This is really hard work to do, that i thought from the start will be simple but later it’s get really complicated and lots of stress. The colour choice is quite difficult but at the end, i am happy the choice of colours i chose.  I did some development concepts, some birds, plants, butterflies, etc. I did some drawings that i would use for the design such as the berries in ink and the soft outline butterflies. I drew three chosen positions that works well for my design. Then used the tracing papers for painting over the original drawings, scanned them and worked in photoshop to makes it more digital and in three colour versions. I did some experiment on pattern or surface design, as in another name, and hoping this will improves and giving me some more ideas. My completed design patches. ...

These butterfly illustrations are an experiment for my Cath Kidston competition project, i have to say, it's my very first ever to enter the competition and truthfully, i'm very nervous working on this project.  With this competition brief, i have to designs new prints for Cath Kidston. I do heard of Cath Kidston, i researched through Cath Kidston website to see their design range and styles, they have Cowboy range, Garden Birds range, Guard of London range, floral style, spots style, and so on. I thought that i want to design nature, such as birds, butterflies, berries and flowers. At the end i put together of butterflies and berries for my pattern design. An testing experiment from Photoshop, this is for the competition project. Female Clouded Yellow butterfly. I did the outline by handrawing with fine line pen and thought i did unexpectedly goood! An experiment of small tortoiseshell butterfly, done in photoshop, for the competition project. The competition ...