The Only Escape - Final Sequential Images

These are my final images for my Sequential Illustration project including my final protagonist image. The idea behind my sequence is to tell a story about a man who is suffering from depression  which forms into a feminine manifestation. This manifestation has become a love interest for him and finds himself stuck in a sort of abusive relationship as the manifestation feeds him these words of hatred and depression. Until he starts to morph as he takes it all in, going out of control and even considering suicide to escape it. This is when the manifestation starts to pull away as she refuses to let him escape from her, begging and pleading for him to stay with her as without him she is nothing. Eventually the protagonist gives in to her once again and starts to emerge from the depressive state.

Protagonist Image

Final 5 Sequential Images

The Only Escape

These are some ideas I create for my Sequential Illustration project which was my first project of the 2nd year of my Illustration course. In this project I had to create a series of 5 Images with a theme of my choosing in which I chose to base my project on the theme of depression. Something that myself and I believe many people have gone through in their lives, the aim was to reach out to these people and provoke a melancholic feeling within them. Which was very successful as I have gotten feedback from fellow students and peers stating it made them feel sadness and one person even said it made them cry. We also had to create a protagonist for our sequence of images. I loosely based the protagonist on myself in terms of looks, almost like and illustrated self reflection and I created manifestation of the depression represented as a love interest for the main protagonist.

A few ideas of how a protagonist and manifestation of depression could look like.

First initial idea for my protagonist

 Protagonist close up

 Manifestation close up

Voyage

My final project of the year was called "Narrative Illustration". In this project I chose to re-illustrate the children's book "The Jumblies" as my narrative. The short story is about these very tiny mysterious beings with green faces and blue hands set sail in a sieve to travel to an island. A very simple premise however the challenge for me was to make my illustrations suitable for children which proved difficult as my style is more for an teenager to adult audience. However I believe my final 2 narrative images were successful in  being suited to a child audience while maintaining my style which was the most important thing for me.

Final two narrative illustrations.

Keeper of Peace

These are a select few illustrations I created during my 3rd project of the 1st year of university which was called "Research Methodology". It was mainly a research based project where we had to select an animal of our choice, find out everything we could about the animal while creating illustrations of what we found out and by the end create an image of a representation of our animal. I chose the Giant Panda as I was interested in them during the time and was interested in their associated they had with Asian culture. I found our that the Giant Panda is the "poster boy" of china with folklore expressing how they are sad animals which rings true in current day due to loneliness caused by extinction. A very solitary animal precious to China. Also found out that Panda's represent nobility and peace whih was my starting ground for my project. 

 My Dog Sighs Workshop

Final Piece

Lost Identity

This is the final piece I created for my very first project "Identity through Print". In this project I had to explore my own identity through various printing methods. I had an issue with that as I was lost and confused, I had suddenly found my self in a more grown up independent environment and I wasn't sure if I had grown up to be a good or bad person. So the question of "Am I the hero or the monster?" became the premise of my project. For my final piece I used etching prints mixed with collage of comic book pages displaying a hero and a villain.

Re-imagining of the "Lord of the Flies"

Several sketches and ideas throughout my project of the Children

 and the Pig's head from Lord of the Flies. I wanted to capture the savagery on the children faces by giving them a more sinister appearance than you are used to seeing from existing illustrations and other media. These images enforce the notion of a loss of innocence and can be seen as disturbing as a child is a representation of innocence in which my illustrations heavily disregard that.

Swine Slaughter

This is an acrylic painting I did for one of my projects last year in which I had to make a book cover for a classic novel. I chose to create a book cover for the very popular book named "Lord of the Flies". I created several different experimental pieces in response to reading the book and this is one of them. It is a representation of what the children see as the "Lord of the Flies" the pigs head that they severed and impaled. It also displays the gradual descent into savagery, half of the head being clean and visible (innocence) whereas the other half being covered in blood and very hard to distinguish (savagery).