Tag: 4th year

upcoming graduates – Ann MacLeod

Having always been a bit preoccupied with magazines and food I thought that now would be a good time to do something with all those years of research I’ve amassed. And so, I’ve been developing a magazine about food called Frankly which is about talking honestly about our food and how it’s sourced. It’s based on conversations I’ve had with various people who are involved in eating, producing and cooking food.

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In terms of my materials, I do love black ink, big paper and a big brush. But when sketching out and about that doesn’t always prove to be the most practical or discreet, so in those circumstances I use bright crayons and brush tip pens instead, with a tendency to use a lot of orange.

I enjoy listening to people and what they have to say, especially if it’s something they’re passionate about. I always find that if someone is interested enough in what they do they’ll have something interesting to tell you. I also quite enjoy a good sketching session in a coffee shop (this is where it comes in handy to be a little more discreet), and tend to quote the occasional person I might be drawing. The only place I think you could hear more interesting stories than in a coffee shop would be a hairdresser.

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Ann Macleod

instagram: ann_macleod_illustration

website: http://annnicleoid.wixsite.com/annmacillustration

Upcoming graduates – India Pierce

My work is a fun mix of bright colour schemes and dynamic shapes. I like to work digitally, using illustrator to draw out curves and angles within a scene and then add digital textures on top to give depth and perspective. I am a problem solver. My work naturally falls in to a more commercial scene, and I enjoy getting a brief and trying to find the most imaginative solution to the problem. These innovative ideas are often resolved in to large scale illustrations, as I enjoy working on bigger scales. I would love to be able to create shop displays and murals that inspire people and I hope to work in a visual advertising career in the future.

During my fourth year I have concentrated on finding ways to create really impactful work. This has lead to large laser printed murals, as well as colourful, graphic letterpress projects. Most of my projects centre around clear environmental themes, touching on global warming and conservation, as well as endangered or threatened animals.
You can find most of my work at www.pearce.studio, and I post daily projects on instagram under @pearce.studio
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Upcoming graduates – Arran Stamper

I’ve spent the last twelve months creating and developing creatures that live on the Moon. My degree show will feature an encyclopaedia that contains everything you would ever need to know about each of these species.

Their characters are based on behaviours that I’ve seen and recognised in myself and other people. This project has forced me to pay closer attention to the way people act and ask why that is. The characters are aliens, and some of them only have a close visual resemblance to humans, but they are based entirely on the worst and best aspects of human behaviour.

I have always considered drawing by hand to be absolutely central to my practice, using biro pens as my preferred media.

I have recently tried hard to break away from using biro by screen printing, ink and watercolour to try and inject some colour into my work. However, the struggle served to prove that, at least for my creatures, biro is best way to tell their stories.

Alongside my encyclopaedia I’ve been working on monochromatic, wordless comics, in which my aliens are going about their daily routines. I try and tell the most basic of stories with intense mood and drama, just to see how far it’s possible to dramatise the mundane.

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Arran’s instagram – @azzastamp and website –  www.azzastamp.com

Students’ summer travels

Our 4th year Illustration students Ann Mcleod and India Pierce are taking over the blog this week to report about their summer travel/illustration experience:

Ann and I went to Malaysia for three weeks and travelled across the north of Borneo (Sarawak and Sabah). We mixed it up by staying sometimes with my relatives and sometimes in hostels, but we experienced pretty much everything from the busy cities to the remote tribal villages.

The highlights for us were probably staying in Gunung Mulu National Park where we went caving and trekking, and also diving on the coast of Sabah. We both sketched loads along the way, and learnt a lot about the local art too, which has definitely influenced our work for going in to fourth year!

Ann Macleod

India Pierce