Laura Mallaghan Illustration

I have graduated yesterday! I did it! Bachelor of Arts Honour in Illustration with 2:1! Three years of hard work in university, now i've got a degree! Yay. I was quite nervous in the morning, thinking i have bit of stage fright, worrying i could trip over, might forgot what i was suppose to do? But it was all great! Done well. The ceremony was in the morning and it was about an hour long. Getting ready in the morning in my bedroom, hopped into my mum's car and drove to Park Campus, fetched my gown and a hat. Brushed myself up for the photograph, looking fine in this photo below here. Photo done, went outside, get some photos with my mum and little sister. Photos done, hopped into the shuttle bus, drove to Royal & Derngate where the graduation ceremony hold. Here's some photos of me walked onto the stage to handshake the Chancellor and received my degree certificate. The hood was a bit annoying, it won't stay in place... Once the ceremony w...

 The show had been done and had launch party yesterday, it was good, the show was brilliant. I took some photos of my best work, both Illustration projects and Final Major Project, being in the show. "Working drawings for animation : Animating takes a certain type of passionate obsession! Laura has a natural affinity with moving images and seeks every opportunity to bring her illustrations alive. Her dedication to detail is seen here through a glimpse into her working drawings - the movements which has brought her birds to life in her animated gif." Captioned by proud lecturer. " The Firetails Nest - Tweet pipes the robin as the cat creeps bye Her nestling young that in the elderns lie And bluecap tootles in its glee Picking the flies from blossomed apple tree And pink the chaffinch cries its well knows strain Urging its mate to utter pink again While in a quiet mood hedgsparrows trie An inward stir of shadowed melody While on the rotten tree the firetail m...

Finally finished the animation and is ready for the show. I even got a little emotional at the end, i thought this will be good in show, hopefully.

Scene 7/9. The quickest scene out of all. Now i'm off to bed.

Scene 6/9. I'm taking a little break, just writing this blog, it's nearly midnight, i'll probably be done by 1 o'clock and go to bed.

I have been get every work together and checked if i have everything ready for final assessment, plus i had presentation to my lecturers. Everything is done, now the next thing is build the show for Degree Show soon.  All done for summative assessment and presentation is done today. 👏👏👏

Starting the second A2 drawing. Done in about 3 hours. 👌

I finally started the first A2 drawing, so 3 more to go.

Half way to completing this animation for fmp|degree show. This actually taking long time to make each scene. Yet, i haven’t start 4 A2 drawings. 😰

I did some photoshoots of my sculptures, so i can use this professional look photographs for my portfolio.

On the day i took it day, here's some more photos.

The kind of commissions I want to work are any roles relates to nature, it may be packaging designs for nature theme design, it may be editorial in nature topic articles, it may be window display, and so. Though I would like to work with the nature charities, which are RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trust, etc., that I could do with my fabric sculptures, animations and any others I can do. However I have been commissioned in 2011 and 2012, from my graphic course.  As in course-group, we were commissioned to design logo brand, in 2011, and to design website, in 2012, for Centara, the neighbourhood association in Corby Town. Yet it was not my kind of idea to work. As mentioned why I chose illustration over graphic design. Even so I did have a look at the agencies, the one I came across for years and simply useful was Illustrationweb. I looked through the illustrators that I was familiar with are Sarah Beeston, Jacqueline Bissett, Oliver Hasselluhn, and many more in there. I beli...

The world of the printed word may be in decline as digital technology expands. However, this is not a total decline and may be an essential, and even complimentary evolution. After all, print has largely replaced illustration as members of societies have become more literate. Books, papers etc are stable and reliable - not prone to the unreliable nature of internet connections. They are tactile (consider also pop-up books for children) can be shared and sold on. On the other hand, digital is immediate, fast and can be manipulated to improve access. Thousands of ebooks on one slim devices. However, they are knowledge, taxable, a tax on print and digital imitate and complement each other - e.g. ‘paper white’ readers. Digital presents endless possibilities for illustrators and both print and digital are evolving and may have different purposes. They back each other up illustrators should embrace both formats. Audio/taped books have not replaced vinyl. They can coexisting harmony so l...

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...