Laura Mallaghan Illustration

An experiment for animation, for FMP. Now I’m choosing to use the waterpaint, fine line pen, colour pencils and pencil.

I took a picture and set up frame portrait (the vignette filter), to make this looks more appealing. I was thinking using this photograph for Deaffest , as i am applying to exhibit my work for their exhibition, for deaf people. I hope i get submitting… This is what i have done over the Christmas break, for an experiment, this is a ‘air-hardening’ clay sculpture of a fox. The size on here is 17cm long and 8cm height, a small sculpture for a starter. The first 4 photos, that’s before dry and solid settled. Then these last 3 photos, became white , dry and solid, ready for the next stage. The next stage is colours and some details.

This is part of Illustration projects 3, for Text, Image, Narrative project. I chose to do the competition from House of Illustration/Folio Society, the task is to create cover for 3 ghost stories, which are The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M.R. James, A Tale of an Empty House by E.F.Benson and The Upper Berth by F.Marion Crawford. I had some thought that i could do my illustration in such a dark eerie way, massively different as my style is nature, an innocent illustration. Even though in my spare time, i do watch some horror films, with my younger sister, and she had some horror books as well. Which i'll be getting more concepts for this project before sent off in final. These concepts i did when i judged from the titles, before i read through. Some concepts after i read through these three stories. So what i did on here, illustrated the cover for A Tale of an Empty House, that i was testing on the adjustments to these two, pencil sketch (soft) and charc...

Some swallow flying movement, i sketched it out from youtube in slow motion because it’s easy to watch their wings goes in slow way, even swallows swifts around. Then use these to experiment into gif. For the FMP, i decides to use John Clare’s beautiful english countryside poems, i have selected 5 of his bird poems and two of his animals or woodland animals poems, and also other poems of more birds, woodland animals and including countryside landscapes from different or random poets. Reason of using poems text that i will illustrates it from text, an imaginary as what i see in my thought whilst read these poems. So the gif will be includes for FMP, one gif from any poems i will select. Swallow gif experiment. Left, HB pencil and right, heavy black filled in. I actually put together from the sketches i did in my sketchbook. I took this short scene from my moving image project from 2nd year. I tweaked a bit by using the colour range, selected it and filled bold colo...

Now i'm in my final year in university, that means the big Final Major Project, Degree Show and graduation. Anyway, this is the first project this year, it's simple two weeks, same thing as last year for 2nd year and final year putting together for this project, of course, it's an editorial, this time it's called The Wisdom of Crowds. I get that thoughts of will this article be a difficult for me to understand, will my illustration looks good, will i get some more concepts from last year? To my surprise, my lecturers came over to me and mentioned that i can do moving image in this editorial project if i want to (to remind you, they know my work and how good my moving images are and they loves it), so i went for it. When i read through the article, yet again, find it difficult to get some illustrate concepts from these words. However i picked some small sentences from simple words such as " being perforated by “black holes” " which i was thinking to use...