Weekly Affair - Week 14

I'm a bit annoyed at myself really, I had managed to complete my target of doing one of these a week up until my christmas trump illustration. This determination seemed to disappear in January. Although we did have COP3 hand in which seemed to take over my life for a strong two weeks, I could have kept this up if I tried harder, which is frustrating.  From now on this will never happen again!!!!

This is my first illustration since Trump has been in power, although I told myself I don't want to be known to be the Trump illustrator, I felt like it was necessary for this weeks affair. 

How could I not do my weekly affair on Trump when this is in the news... 

I just couldn't resist, getting my inspiration from a well known romantic scene

I have NO idea why I made the background purple it should be blue it would work far better with the orange top!! I also should have worked more with darker lines around the nuke clay sculpture to emphasis it more. But apart from that I quite like this illustration, I particularly like the likeness of the figures, you can tell who it is straight away. I also like the nuke in the image, I think it gives it more context rather than them just sharing a romantic moment. I would want to rework this image to make it stronger. 

Commission part4

This is the part I was looking forward to the most in the commission, the vegetarian protest poster! I had a look on pinterest first to see if this would help generate some ideas. Most of them were quite shocking ones showing the reality of the meat industry with dead cows everywhere, which isn't really what I wanted to go for... This is the only one which I liked and is similar to what the client asked (spot illustration with a small piece of text), this was my main inspiration for my work. 

I wanted to do pigs because it would link to doing the pig women that I did previously, I also use pink and blue a lot in my work so a pig also seemed more appropriate for my colour scheme. I wanted the pig to look like it had been trapped in chains or like it was a literally a pig in a blanket. I wasn't too sure what it was going to look like but wanted to get the message across that it's a prisoner of what it produces for the carnivores. I feel very hypocritical saying this, but I also wanted to put across the idea that most meat eaters seem to block out the fact that bacon comes from a pig so I wanted to the two to be together in the image. 

Final image!! This is what I ended up with, a pig wrapped up in bacon, made to look like the bacon is trapping the pig like chains. I am pretty happy with this poster, I think it speaks the message the client wanted to put across using simplistic imagery so you can understand what's going on in the poster straight away. The 'Carnivores, be conscious' is another pointer for people to realise where meat actually comes from, that it comes from animals and not just the supermarket. 

Most importantly, the client was very happy with the final results and happy to pay me. Actually getting paid to paint and create work I enjoy doing is such a great feeling, making me remember how much I want to do this for a living. 

Commission part3

After doing the first illustration this one didn't take too long to do either. Honestly, I don't really like these illustrations. I don't know whether it's because it's not in my style or they're just not great character designs in general. It's made me realise I don't want to do commissions if the client wants me to draw in a certain style that is nothing like my work, they need to look at my portfolio and see if I am good for them and if not find someone who works for what they want. Because of this I don't feel like I can put it in a portfolio of my work, it wouldn't fit in and pretty irrelevant. Although the most important thing I suppose is that the client was really happy with them.