Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Hellooo. This blog topic is about... SNOW. Last week, from Monday, it had been snow for a week in England, that's where I lives. I did a snow day on Saturday and I had some fun with sledding, snow angel and snowball. While I was indoor, staying warm, I watched quite a lot of birds hang around some bird feeders in my garden. I have the bird fatball hanged from the branch, two seed feeders filled with sunflower hearts and a cake/scrap feeder filled with seeds and nuts in lard, that sits on the wall, surround with bushes' branch. This actually did bring a lot of birds such as black birds, blue tits, great tits, robins and even few pigeons tempted to eat from the feeders. Watching them inspired me to have an idea to illustrates, as I called Bird Feeders In The Snow. Though I was in the kitchen and birds fly around a lot, so I captured these moments to memorise, I ended up with only two. Then I drew this... Left: Two Goldfinches on seed feeder. Right: Dunnock stared at c...

This project we did experimenting on shutterspeed with lights. The studio had to be dark so we can make some lights. These are some photographs of what we have been experiment. I tried to do my name, it was so difficult as you had to do it backward, i was so lost. It was a fun photography, i like how these lights gives some shapes and the textures.

I'm in first year of BTEC Second Diploma in Graphic Design (and second year being in college), i was so nervous moving to new course, which means new people and some projects. My first project in this course is Persona, it's basically about myself, with self-portrait illustrations, sketches, collage, sculpture and doodles. Here are my self-portraits down below - Julian Opie inspired. The outcome of this project is that i have to design a book cover, a Persona of me, with 'epilogue'. My finished design is the first image at the top, i may have added the drop shadow far too much on vertical 'Persona'. I do have massively passions on flowers and the colour blackcurrent (or plum, whichever the colour that basically looks the same). When my lecture open my design up on whiteboard screen and called my name, i was so nervous to talk about my work, even i was just sitting on the chair and talk, this was my first ever talk presentation in ar...