Just a wee obsession at the moment. Laserbird started as an imaginary bird/type of bird, based on a sound. It's been rolling around and getting some shape to it but one incarnation is definitely this crested pigeon-turned laser/cock-eyed crazed and camp thing. TBC, for sure.
Okay, so I am waaay out of whack, time-wise. This was done yonks ago, but ended up as a graphic in something I didn't like the overall look of, so I forgot about it. I discovered it again the other day, and I still really like it. I'm keeping it on it's own!
So I designed these wedding invites for friends, and sadly, but not unexpectedly, they went with the one I liked the least... all's not lost: I had a lot of fun doing these and learned a thing or two about illustrating in pshop to boot. Peacocks, watercolours, sunny bright Autumn wedding themes, yum. I know which one I would have picked. Also the typeface treatment is deadly!
There's this great little app doing the rounds at the moment: it's called poladroid and (in the cutest way possible) transforms your images into polaroid style pictures - awesome. The white borders, the messed up colour, the slight vignette, it's all there. Just make sure your friends haven't seen the original images or they won't be fooled! It's such a nostalgic look.
Over the last two Sundays I've done a screenprinting intensive course through the CAE - it was great fun, especially after I got the technique right! It depressed me no end to find out how hard it can be to drag some ink across a screen! Anyway, my style came good in the end and by the second weekend I was printing some stuff with pleasing results. The above image was part of the work I prepared for the course, but really it was way too complicated for a beginner, so I resigned myself to some technically easy pieces while I practiced the process. Oh well. One day these pretty Rosellas will fly, but for now they'll have to sit tight.
