This is my final illustration. The concept is much similar than the other designs. I took the two words that come to mind when I look at the article 'music' and 'science'.  How could I simply put them two together in an illustration. So Jimi Hendrix and sciencey stuff and put them together. The symbols were a good idea a simple way of getting the science bit of the article in. I'm very happy with the final  design. It looks strong and understandable. I think the drawing of Hendrix is looks slick and the logos/symbols bring it closer to the article.

This is one design where I stripped away all references away and went purely from imagination. The idea behind the illustration is the scientists in the back of the picture are trying to work out what the man is listening and so they have him in their testing facility. I think this Illustration is fairly successful. The context is good, the design looks neat and its not to overcrowded. I played with several other different types of display on this illustration such as colouring in bits of the drawing; overlaying colours and patterns; and changing the negative space to black. My favourite was still this one though adding more stuff just clogged up the page and kind of lost the original drawing.

This was my first solid idea for the article. This came from my very first thoughts when reading through. The idea being different people listening to music that you wouldn't think they would normally listen to. So I have Miley Cyrus listening to church choir and the computer being the sciencey bit of the article and she has a mind helmet thingy on her head. The idea already sounds messy and the illustration doesn't look quite right. There's to much going on and its not displayed very well. The drawing of Miley is quite nice and the composition I think is good on the page but its all a little random. The message isn't coming through that strong.

Top left is the student I found who went to falmouth Harry Tennent. I loved his work mainly because it was so similar and close to my own but just that step up. The base drawing so fine tuned and the colours so perfectly placed and selected. F****** gorgeous!! There's something great about looking at art like that. Like a feeling that I could do that if I did a few things. If I pushed a little harder. I think its safe to say though that I was truly inspired by this guys work.

The work at the in the bottom left is just from a google images search on editorial illustration. These were just some of my favourites that came up.

More practice with the Wacom tablet trying to get a very casual but professional line on the colours I added to this drawing. Totally unrelated to the project in context but the technique and practise is very useful.

Here I'm looking at adding colour to life drawings I've done using a Wacom tablet on photoshop. I was mainly thinking about highlighting bits of the picture. Not just painting/colouring the whole image in but just one element. A jacket, shoe, or negative space. The bottom section of this picture is multiple doodles placed on top of each other in photoshop. I did this so there's more control over the composition of the other all finished piece. I think adding the colour to small sections here is very successful and It adds an extra layer to artwork. The inspiration for this piece comes from a student I found on the falmouth website. He had a very similar drawing style to mine and I was looking for a little direction and his work gave me that.