illustration from the book

scene one


shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead bluebottle on the window-sill. “Nothing there!” said Peter, and they all trooped out again—all except Lucy. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily, and two moth-balls dropped out.

C. S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kindle Locations 84-88). HarperCollins.


scene 2


He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and he carried over his head an umbrella, white with snow. From the waist upward he was like a man, but his legs were shaped like a goat’s (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goat’s hoofs. He also had a tail, but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was neatly caught up over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow. He had a red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too. He had a strange, but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead. One of his hands, as I have said, held the umbrella: in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels. What with the parcels and the snow it looked just as if he had been doing his Christmas shopping. He was a Faun. And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all his parcels.

C. S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kindle Locations 110-116). HarperCollins.

scene 3

The rising of the sun had made everything look so different—all colors and shadows were changed—that for a moment they didn’t see the important thing. Then they did. The Stone Table was broken into two pieces by a great crack that ran down it from end to end; and there was no Aslan.


They looked round. There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.

C. S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kindle Locations 1489-1491). HarperCollins.

these are the scenes that I have chosen to illustrate for my Final outcome. I have chosen them because I found each scene very interesting and important to entire book. I believe that these scenes captures the crucial parts of the book. 

Futher development from self portrait

As to go beyond my previous experiments, I copied the self portrait of me that I previously done and drew the outline. The aim for this was to keep the drawing as simple as possible. So I scanned the outlined drawing and brought it to Adobe Photoshop







  After opening it up in Photoshop  I opened the colour pallet that I made on my mood board . The reason why i used these colours was inspired by Julia Potts. Her used of colours really makes her characters different hence why I tried using these calm light colours. I believe that the simple the illustration the better.

 here are the steps I took
1) click the pain bucket tool
2) select which colour to use
3) apply it to portrait

This was the final outcome. I like the use of the colours and how they all work well together.

Lion Drawings

the image on the left was create mt Man-Tsun. Man-Tsun is an Illustrator and a Graphic Designer. His work is truly amazing, most of his work uses some form of swirls and the colours he uses to illustrate his work make it unique and different. His website http://manxtsun.com/.
This work has inspired me to do my own. below shows how i developed a previous drawing into a digital image.












This is a drawing I done before.  I scanned this into Adobe Illustrator














After scanning I then used the Swirl Tool on Illustrator to form the swirls. I adjusted the rate of the swirl and the size of the brush. this gave me this effect which i really liked.

I then took the Lion into Adobe Photoshop to place a gradient in the background. I used calm colours to set a mood to the lion especially when the outline is in black. I think it has worked well.

Digital collage inspired by Ciara Phelan

this is a collage that I made. I got inspiration from Ciara Phelan who is freelance illustrator . Her use of layering different images and altering the image inspired me to create my own work for my illustration about Narnia The lion, the witch and the wardrobe 

I used a tutorial to start my collage which Ciara Phelan created 
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/vintage-look-collage-techniques/ 

Mixed media collages

To try out new techniques, we were told to create four different mixed media collages.

Below are those four collages that I created. Now the main purpose for this was to draw over the stuck on collages. I had to get inspiration from what ever was inside The Photographers Gallery. The drawings on each collage is from work pieces found within The Photographers Gallery.

My thoughts on this task were that it was strange as I had never used this type of technique before. 

Photographers Gallery

Here are some pictures that I took whilst visiting the Photographers Gallery.

The Photographers Gallery Review

After visiting The Photographers Gallery on the 6th of March, there wasn't much to say about the whole exhibitions. The works that were displayed didn't impress me to an extant to inspire me. Although Laura Letinsky's work was the most interesting out of all the other artist that I found (Geraldo DE Barros and Clunie Reid). Her work was truly interesting. The colours that she uses in her work really catch your eyes. What is also more interesting is the objects she uses to portray multiple collages. She has said that the objects she uses are left overs that are found at a dinning table. She would take pictures of what ever was left on the table and the way she takes the photos is truly amazing, she would use a really old camera where she could adjust the lenses. By doing this, it gives the effect of the image of being really flat. I found her work interesting and colourful.

Now, the rest of the exhibition wasn't inspiring. I found some of Geraldo DE Barros’s work very dull. It was just photos that had cut outs. Although the way he developed his photos was interesting. He would cut out of the negatives and then use this to print out this work. Even though, this exhibition wasn't even part of the type of art I was after. It was just photographs. It looked like any one can do this. On the other hand the way he left his work was inspiring. It seemed like a mystery, it was left on a cliffhanger. It seemed like he worked till he died and that gave a whole new story about his work.
Clunie Reid’s work was just mess. All I saw was scribbles and doodles on white pieces of materials placed in columns. There were some aspects of her work that I found intriguing . for example on the left is a drawing she created. It is representing a woman. The way she drew this fascinates me, it resembled the body figure of a woman but what makes me curious is why there are smiley stickers stock on her head. It looked too much of a draft, sketch. Other people also agreed with my opinion.







The workshop I attended was enjoyable. They had a lot of materials that I used to make my collage. Also staff that led the workshop gave us a few ideas of what kind of collages that we could do. I found those ideas interesting and I really wanted to try them all out but time got the best of us. That was the most memorable moments out of all the trip to the gallery.
Here are the collages that I created
The first collages we did was called Exquisite Corpse, the aim was to have different body part to form one body. As you can see mine consists of a bird,a wing from an eagle, an umbrella and an old style photo of a lady. Also I added a few tissue paper to resemble clouds.
The second collage was merely a simple collage but had to be related to my chosen illustration for Narnia. I felt that using these found images were appropriate as they were related to the era where the story took place.

Digital Collage

This is an example of vintage collage, it was a tutorial that I followed.

below is my own vintage style design of a lion

http://www.iheartteachingart.com/2012/07/tutorial-vintage-collage.html


These are some of the collages that I created. I used a tutorial to create this collage. The main purpose of this was to try make the collage have a vintage effect. hence the noise was added to a few layers within the work.
What I like about it is the effect the noise creates with the collage, it makes it more elegant  and bring out the vintage effect.
What I don't like about this work it the red rays, it was meant to be like rays on the example given above but I think it is too bright and off sets the balance of the colours.