Amelia's Magazine - Green Power

Doing a load of extra work for uni. This is a brief where I had to design a greener form of energy.

I chose a fusion reactor as although it takes a lot of energy to create and maintain the energy it produces is far greater, essentially using the same reaction that takes place in the sun to make an endless source of energy. And I had to illustrate my imaginings for a reactor.

much research followed and after a long week of drawing, printing, scanning, photo-shop and colouring and repeating all that I've finally come to a design I'm happy with.

And obviously I had to colour this and as I had gone for a steam punk style I had to use lots of coppers and brown colours, using a colour pallet pretty much of just orange and purple after hours of working today I'm finally set on my final image.

Spiders

Spider 1

Spider 2

Spider 3


I am currently working on a non-fiction book cover, at uni. the requirements were a list of animals/ topics and a restricted colour pallet of 3 colours not including black.

I chose spiders as I noticed not many people in my group chose them, most likely as they are pretty offensive creatures and arachnophobia is common.

I have progressed 3 sketches into a photoshop coloured and acrylic and brush pen colour studies.

I Want You Parody

Since finishing my 9 page comic brief, I have been working on a new brief. Based around a toy of our choosing I needed to research and make a poster to do with climate change using the toy as inspiration.My choice was a possibly war hammer ogre that had been left in the student house I currently live at.From there I linked the ogre to Uncle Sam posters by J.M. Flagg:

Thinking he could be a earthy monster (with much reference to shadow of the colossus, PS2 game) and that he needs us to look after the planet. Then on thinking of his character I came to the idea of him being Atlas from Greek mythology. my final piece i think brings together these 4 elements into a poster, based at teenagers and you adults.

Concept Comic Art

Page 2Page 3Page 6Page 7Wow! entire day of colouring and after starting at 11:30am I have finally finished at 1:00am

this is my entire story. if your read it in order it sort of makes sense but its really not.

Page 1 : Man goes to front door, unlocks door with a Click, and goes up the stairs to his apartment.

Page 2 : He he washes his hands.

Page 3 : As he washes his hands his hands deform and an explosion from the sink pushes him away.

Page 4 : The explosion from the sink trashes his apartment leaving him in an empty room in shock.

Page 5 : A broom falls over notifying Man that there is a giant set of pure white curtains.

Page 6 : He investigates the curtain.

Page 7 : He opens the curtain and dark red liquid pushes him.

Page 8 : He falls to the floor and he drops a bottle of pills and a gun.

Page 9 : he takes the gun and puts it to his head alone in the empty room, Click.

More Comic Work

Have whizzed through 5 of the 9 pages of this comic book brief. unfortunately the next 4 pages are a set of 2 double page spreads so i can't imagine them being the easiest... hence being last to be done. this is the first time i have properly used photoshop to colour work and so far I'm impressed at myself (I had imagined a far worse turn out)

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Page 8

This has been a very influential brief and I have been enjoying it and can only see it opening new doors to explore for my late work. I shall most defiantly be using photoshop more, and getting a better graphics tablet.

Back to work on these double page spreads...

Comic Art Last Page

This is page nine of my comic/ concept art.

to be honest its a very simple page and didn't take me very long to do for obvious reasons the hardest decision with this page was background colour, my brief did not allow dark atmosphere limiting my use of black. this lead me to take a leaf out of my sisters work for kronos city and work with dark reds.
If possible I will post the rest of my pages along with some rough work (if my A4 scanner works for a change that is)

Pen Work

Considering this is the first time I've used a brush pen I think that it turned out quite well this is the first and last pages of a 9 page comic.

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