BA(hons)Illustration at Plymouth

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival - Mural Project

Peninsula Arts invited the course to create a mural to publicize their contemporary music festival 'Music & Evolution 200 years of Darwin', there will be 17 events and 4 world premiers during the event which takes place from 27th of Feb to O1st March. Students from all years worked together over the past two days to make the mural and even roped in three tutors to contribute a creature to the tableau. Its amazing what can be achieved with imagination a little enthusiasm a huge roll of paper and a very large bucket of black paint. The mural is located in the south east window of the Roland Levinsky building and will remain on display right through March until after easter. If you have a project that needs publicising or a mural that need painting or any other form of illustration project please contact us through the link on the web site.

 

Sam Weber - Just keeps evolving

Sam Webers work just keeps getting better ! I first became aware of him a couple of years ago and his work really stood out then, but looking at this image i can see that he has been refining and expanding in really interesting directions.
His site is very well set-up and has some more great examples of his work

Mark Ryden - Drawing

I think i prefer Mark Rydens drawings in pencil to his final art-work, this is a lovely  example. See more
here 

Tadanori Yokoo

In a tutorial with Rob in Y2 this year and he showed me great work by a Mr Tadanori Yokoo, he's the same vintage as Keichi Tanaami the guy Pete Fowler is working with and equally surreal and unique and well lets face it wonderful. here's the film by him that Rob showed me, thanks Rob.

Brian Bolland tutorial - Digital Comic Book Work

One here for all you old school 2000AD fans ! So detailed !

http://www.shortandhappy.com/gk37/index.html    <<<<<< Click the Link <<<<<<<

link courtesy of Pete, cheers Pete : )

Keichi Tanaami

Pete Fowler - Flyer

HUbert Borys - Polish - 1978

Hubert Borys - 1978 - Polish

Students collaborate with designer Mervyn Kurlansky

One of the most ambitious live briefs the course has worked on, has just been successfully completed. Dartington Hall Trust contacted us to commission 3 illustrations hat communicated the relationship between sustainability, social justice and the arts, a challenging brief that presented a great opportunity for the students to create images that connect and explore the future growth and development of the trust. The icing on the cake, was that we would be working with Mervyn Kurlansky   founding partner of the Pentagram design group and a seriously experienced graphic designer and author of several significant books on graphic design and typography. A team of students that wanted to consider the commission took a trip to Dartington and were given a tour around to experience the work of the trust first hand. Then working to a really tight deadline, they created rough concepts for the three interactions to show to Mervyn. Fortunately Mervyn was able to come to our studio and speak directly to the students about their ideas, a great experience for them that also served to push the project forward rapidly.

Four students, Jack Gingold, Mark Smith, Hannah Watkins and Ciaran McFadden, worked on three final double page spreads that then went through a tough selection process at the trust. Unfortunately real world briefs come with real world breaks and only artwork by Mark and Ciaran made it to press, although Hannah was given a fresh commission to produce end-papers for the review. Heres one of Jacks images , we all thought it was a bad call rejecting his work BUT rejection is, unfortunately a  part of being an illustrator.

The final book looks amazing, clever design and great illustrations working very well together to create
a futuristic ambitious feeling publication.

Download Final_16pp  download the final publication as a pdf here.

Mark Smith

Ciaran McFadden