Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Happy Easter! What are you planning today for Easter? Egg hunt in your garden? Eat all of the chocolate eggs? Cooking Easter Sunday Roast? Baking Easter cake? My day will be water painting another rabbit and chick, relaxing in the garden and listening birds tweeting, having roast dinner and eat some chocolate eggs! My water paint illustration of Easter Greeting. I was a bit displeased with the Easter eggs, though it's not my forte. And the mess of my handwritten on "Happy Easter", I used too much water from the water brush container and dropped on the spot. On the other hand, the chick looking splendid, my water paint skill always better on animals.   Lastly, I like to talk about rabbits again, even I did from the previous blog "I'm not an Easter Gift" , here's this article I came across a couple days ago,  Heartbreaking Comic About An Abandon Pet Rabbit By Artist Jenny Jinya , the truth about domestic rabbits left to fen...

Now that i'm in second year in this university, feel like i'm half-way through to graduate. So this is the editorial project, we were put in group with the 3rd year, as we are looking at how 3rd year do with the illustrations, i'll be in 3rd year next year, just getting some ideas.  We were given to read the editorial article called In Each Other's Shadow, i find it difficult to understand what was really going on and working out to make illustrate. So far, i sketched some ideas, mostly to combine a person and nature. I actually did three attempts to makes it consummate, the 3rd illustration works better. 1st attempt 2nd attempt 3rd attempt I can't see myself doing the editorial illustration as a job in the future, unless if there are any editorial/articles have the nature-related really. Full article of In Each Other's Shadow : http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/05/they-know-where-you-live