ECA Illustration

麒麟 / keileon / qilin / kirin

And Then There Were None, book illustration.

Here’s how my scrap book is looking! ✂

I’ve been doing this French film competition thing every year, though this time was slightly different in that instead of a poster for a specific film, we got to choose from a range of Cannes film festival posters and create our own versions of it, whether inspired by the original or something completely new. There were certain years we could choose from, and when the lady flicked through the slideshow and the 2006 poster came up on screen, I knew that was the one. 

The 2006 poster features a still from Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love / 花樣年華, which is a Hong Kong film (you might have heard of Chungking Express / 重慶森林, another film by the same director). You can probably guess why I made my decision so quickly. 

So I ended up doing another screen print of the woman from the film holding the thermos which she used to bring back noodles from the street noodle stall (actually the motif of noodles is pretty important as that was the origin of how the main characters started developing a connection, from their brief encounters passing by each other on the way to the stall).

(analyses aside I just really wanted to draw 1960s Hong Kong and also cheongsams are so visually cool)

the final finished spread from the Home project! click for more detail :)

#ordinarydaydreams Project about an extraordinary ordinary things. 

http://ordinarynadee.tumblr.com

#eatsleepdraw #ดีใจเบาๆ :))

gouache / sketchbook 

currently on display at Edinburgh College of Art for their ‘Shaping the View’ exhbition 

The book will be launching tonight at Paradise Palms, Edinburgh, and will be for sale there from 7pm onwards, and available to buy online as of tomorrow. Come on down for a pint and a peruse if you’re in the area!

do I ever actually listen in lectures? some recent journal pages.

suminelse little + quick . . . #collage

afloat

Polaroids documenting the street outside my studio window, during my Summer residency at Freehaus in Llandudno.

Our exhibition opens this Friday 6.30 -11 pm (see details here).

And there are loads more events happening as part of LLAWN04 Festival (have a look here).

Illustration this week for AIGA Eye on Design to accompany an article examining the links between creativity and depression.