Friday 26 November 2010

MONSTER MUNCH

I was never a huge fan but i'm quite partial to a pack every now and again, although I haven't had them since they've been redesigned. Anyway, new uni brief involving relaunching the brand and so here are my ideas so far.
I prefer the monsters that were around in the 90's so they're the ones that I am mainly using, so to get people thinking of the 90's again I thought why not bring back some of the best characters that I remember seeing around. I've been sketching out the pickled onion monster in battles with said characters, such as monster vs pacman and monster vs scooby and the gang, not perfect but i'm still thinking! I also have a rough sketch of the monster with the goonies but might end up drawing it doing the truffle shuffle, not quite sure how that'll go down when I have to pitch it but hopefully everyone has seen the film otherwise it could be abit awkward!

Everything so far

So 2 months down and we've covered things I never even thought we'd be doing. We've had assignments on wirework, animation, architecture, dip pens, 3D work and more, most of the things i've never really worked with before.
We've just finished a brief about British wildlife, and are moving onto character design. This led me to an artist that I recently found and already love. I bought his book, "The Daily Zoo" and the illsutrations are ACE!

The artists name is Chris Ayers and he has some crazy talent! http://chrisayers.blogspot.com/

Start at the beginning

Im currently a first year, studying general illustration at Glyndwr university. Nearly 2 months down and time has already gone soooo fast. I'm loving the course so far, not so much the workload but i'm managing.
Coming to Uni I thought i'd be out of my depth having not done an art foundation before hand but i'm hoping i'll be able to keep up.
It's cool to see how others on my course work though, it's so mixed but I like that. It amazes me to see how we are all good at different things: some are sooo good at using photoshop and how others can just draw whatever's in their head at that particular moment; both things I need to try and improve on. But i'm trying and hopefully i'll get there.
So yes, basically this is the beginning of my blog. Here we go . . .