Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Bells, Christmas, Club, Design, Illustration, Jingle Bells, Lights, One Leicester Square, Party, Photoshop, Poster, So Fresh n So Clean
Aaaand another project completed recently, just a little poster design for Uni Xmas Party. Never made something into so many different formats as I had to make a double sided flyer, TV ad and a web ad from this poster so I’m sure it was all a useful learning curve! I always find it a little bit of a struggle making posters when there are so many design specifications with all the fiddly little logos interrupting everything…
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Athletes, Bag Design, Big Ben, Britain, Cities, Cityscape, Design, England, Illustration, Kit, London, London 2012, London Eye, Olympics, Skyline, Sports
This was a couple of months back, but these are my finished entries for the Ally Capellino bag competition – brief was to create a simple graphic design based on London 2012. These got onto the website but didn’t make the final cut; think on reflection looking at the winning entries that these are a bit too complex. Have to bear in mind for future not to get too carried away when there’s a brief to follow…
Here are 2 versions of the ‘London Scape 2012′ design:
And this is the ‘Olympics Kit’ bag design:
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Cape Town, Drawing, Illustration, Mural, Painting, South Africa
This post is a little late but better that than never..
I said I would help my fellow illustrator friend out with a mural he had designed for our local (and my current place of employment). It was a lot of fun, especially getting to paint in front of people in a public place as normally illustration-ing tends to happen in dark bedrooms and studios! This is it from start to finish:
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Advertising, Antiques, Art, Birds, Branding, Design, Drawing, Frame, Illustration, Logo, Magpie, Mirror, Painting
So I have gone and finished a new project already! Without even posting one development post..! I will eventually get back to using this blog properly but for now I have very limited internet access so will have to carry on with the post-every-few-of-weeks method.
Anyway this was a recent commission to develop a logo and related imagery for this lovely company:
http://www.wearemagpie.co.uk/Welcome.html
I have completed some different designs based on one main magpie image, including variations on a frame/mirror idea. As the company spots new play scripts to research and develop, the frame acts as the boundary for the magpie, mirroring him back at us like plays mirror real life. The space created by the frame could also be portrayed as a stage.
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Drawing, Graduate, Illustration, Painting, Portfolio, Sarah Kirk, Website, Website Design
I now have a brand new, only-a-day-old website which was, with a lot of help, built from scratch! I’ll still be using this blog to show developing projects and general news but please also visit www.sarahkirkillustration.com for links to my shop and portfolio.
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Buildings, Cityscape, Crowds, Drawing, Illustration, Isolation, Journey, London, London Eye, Loneliness, Painting, Paths, Population, Roads
So pretty much finished my paintings for my landscape mini project… Unfortunately I didn’t really have to time to take progress pictures so these are the final things I’ve handed in for assessment. I’m really happy with the first and last paintings, I think the other two still need some work, but I will play around with them for the degree show I think:
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Afghanistan, Art, Atmosphere, Book Covers, Columbia, Countryside, Cover Art, Daphne Du Maurier, Drawing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Graphic Design, Illustration, Khaled Hosseini, Landscapes, Literature, Novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Painting, Penguin, Places, Publishing, Rebecca, Typography
So finally all finished for assessment! Here are my finished covers, pretty pleased with them overall:
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Batteries, Drawing, Editorial, Health, Illustration, Illustrator, Lifestyle, Magazine, Magpies, Media, New Scientist, Newspaper, Painting, Science, Self Promotion, Technology, The Guardian, Wired, World of Interiors
For our professional practise module we had to create a self-promotional piece which could be sent out to potential clients and employers, and as I hadn’t done any for ages I decided to do some magazine and newspaper editorial work. So these are the pages from my final piece, a mock-magazine consisting of a variety of different articles (from The Guardian, World of Interiors, Wired and New Scientist) that I have re-designed and illustrated to demonstrate that I could handle an editorial job. I’m happy with most of this, going to wait for the feedback before I consider actually sending this off to art editors, but any of your comments on it would also be greatly appreciated!
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Abstract, Art, BBC, Branding, Brands, Broadcasting House, Concept, Drawing, Flow, Illustration, Movement, Painting, Pen, Radio, Television, W1 Project, Watercolour
So had the presentation of my branding work for the new BBC Broadcasting House on Tuesday, and although it was pretty terrifying, it went generally well. They were very complimentary and seemed impressed, and even though the commission ended up going to a graphic design student, we still get to have our work exhibited by them and they are also planning to make some of our pieces into a set of give away postcards which is a good consolation prize!
This is the work I ended up displaying, which I’m generally pretty happy with. It’s all based around the concept of having a smooth and harmonious move of staff into the new building:
Filed under: PORTFOLIO | Tags: Art, Author, Children's Author, Children's Book, Children's Book Illustration, Cities, Design, Illustration, Literature, Monster, Typography
As the title suggests I am finally ahead of myself just enough to have 5 minutes to update this poor, neglected blog. Have been trying to complete my children’s book to an acceptable standard for about 3 months.. some pieces I am very proud of, some I am not so very proud of. Therefore I think that if I decide to do something else with it it’s going to have to undergo a little make-over in a few months when I can bare to look it again. However for now, here are a couple of the best pages:
