Mr.Baker

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Set of misfits!

Here are some images that I just finished this week from an ongoing character project. Decided to throw them through the photocopier to give them the worn-through look. Below you can see both the hard digital copies and the resulting photocopied versions. What I like about the photocopier is that when overlaid back over the original digital prints, a colour de-registration occurs creating a weird yet interesting effect. I can hopefully bring these through for T-shirt designs or flyer compositions.

Sneaky

Just a quick sneak preview from a set of images I have been playing with recently. Here are 2 from an ever enlarging set.

Technicolour Moon

After recently visiting the D & AD Exhibit in London me and a few other illustrators decided to get together and form a collaborative. This way we can create a little competition and some interesting collaborative imagery. After speaking to design agencies and design catalogues it seems there is more of a market for illustrators in groups...enter Technicolour Moon. Check it.

Get Black!

Degree Show 2009

Heres a couple of pics showing the preparation and deliverance of the groups exhibition. After some manly DIY hours spent sorting out the space with countless electrical power tools and white paint the exhibition looked rather nice. Still a bit gutted we weren't granted a creative license with the space...wanted a damn flower pot and pink walls. Credit to Mikey and Jenni for the photos.

Colourful Distortion Part 2

As promised I set myself the task of photocopying the set of images and then playing with colours that are re-applied over the top of the faces. I like this technique as it takes the edge of the digital work and provides a natural half tone grain to the picture - adding an organic feel and texture. When printed off the pattern overlay looks like it was always there and provides some intriguing and effective imagery. The only problem now is that I like all 7, including two almost identical images that I know have to reduce down to just 3 for the degree show.

Colourful Distortion

Carrying on from this post where I talked of developing a new style that used my previous Actionscript work and applying photocopying techniques, I created these images in preparation for the old 'copier. Here I took a couple of faces from my previous project and distorted them with generative script work, and then through overlaying gradients and colours to varying success. The images are only the basis for something hopefully more organic, but I feel that the overlaid colours produce pretty pictures that are interesting enough in their own right.