Me

I am applying for your Graphic Design course because its my passion. I am always creating something or improving on my work to make it the best standard it can be. In the recent months I have began producing garment designs for my upcoming clothing line which started from a brief in my personal investigation unit for my Graphics Illustration coursework. Since I started I have sold a total of 80 t-shirts and I am currently planning new designs and have many ideas for other garments. Taking Graphic Design as a degree would help me improve my skills and learn new ways of creating.

First Advertisement for Clothing Brand

This is my first advertisement piece for my first design's crewneck jumper edition. I wanted to represent comfort and   imagination to promote values females are attracted to. Composition techniques used involve the rule of thirds, the combination of illustration and photograph and also a layout which easily loets the viewers eyes be guided throughout the image. Sales for this design ended up with 33 t-shirt sales and 2 jumper sales.

Owl Predator T-shirt Promotional Photograph

My first shirt's second female photoshoot out of the studio produced some very effective shots which could be used for future advertisements. This is one of them to show how the shirts came out.

The Beginning (Limited Edition) Design

My third design of the season represents the start of this side project. Sold as a limited edition design this only had 15 prints made and all were pre-ordered to guarantee a shirt.

Lizard Hunters Design

My second design for my clothing range started with two photos of different lizards at a zoo and the rough idea in my head of them combined into one design in the clean form of illustration. To contrast the neat line work and detail I used paint splatters to contrast the whole idea and displayed my brand name within the splats. 30 T-shirts and 2 Crew-neck Sweatshirts were sold.

Owl Predator Shirt Design

My first design for my clothing range began from a rough idea in my head into my sketchbook with pencil, this then developed into fine liner and finally I ran it through photoshop with a graphics tablet making sure every minimal detail was as sharp and accurate as it could be. My brand's logo is tangled into the owl's claws making a firm connection for the t-shirt idea.

Siamese Cat Portrait

During development of a range of designs I began for my future plans of creating a clothing range, I made a portrait of my cat done entirely on photoshop using soft, low opacity brushes on a high quality photo I took of her. Later on, I ended up using this piece in my personal investigation in my Unit 3 for Graphics Illustration.

Red Hair Splatter

This piece was produced in my spare time over the summer holidays shortly after getting my DSLR and taking a photo of my girlfriend. One of my first attempts at cell shading techniques and have been used a lot since.

Mountain Dew Competition Entry

This is my first submission to the Mountain Dew T-shirt Design competition I entered last summer. This shows another example of reading a briefing and then using methods of creation to produce a piece of work for a client. The first prize was £5000 and the 9 runners up could get their t-shirt printed and sent to them. This design came 2nd place in the millions of entries and they sent me my t-shirt.

Mountain Dew Competition Entry

This is one of my two entries to the Mountain Dew design a t-shirt competition last summer. This is an example where I read a briefing, used the necessary tools and took their requests into consideration to create a t-shirt design to promote their company. The first prize was £5000 and the 9 runners up could get their t-shirt printed and sent to them. This design came 8th place in the millions of entries and they sent me my t-shirt.

Vans Shoes Typography Design

This image was selected from my Unit 2 Graphics Illustration coursework. This was a typography piece I produced by combining three words related to my brief. It represents walking in the recycled shoes because all the materials used were natural resources and therefore the stride you walk will feel a lot fresher and kinder to the environment. I did this by sketching out the idea on paper and finished the outline with a graphics tablet. The cores of each letter were made by splatters of different colour inks merged together within the words creating a combination of natural colours.

Vans Shoes Promotional Image.

An image I selected from my Unit 2 Graphic Illustration coursework. The aim of this was to produce a unique and different form of advertising shoes which consisted of combining illustration with photography to get a message across to viewers. I started with the photograph I took of a guy in Vans shoes with a skateboard and then printed it. I proceeded to sketch over the photograph with pencils and fine liners to have a general Idea of what I wanted the illustrations to be. I then scanned it in and went over the illustrations with a graphics tablet and made patterns in illustrator to complement the focal point.

Vans Shoes Advertisement.

This is an image I selected from my Unit 2 Graphic Illustration coursework. My aim was to advertise a line of eco-friendly Vans shoes which are 100% recycled and made from natural materials. I displayed an illustration of a tree with shoes growing out of it in the left side of the image and then followed it with the iconic quoting I created towards the right. The image was then finished the image with the Vans logo in the bottom right corner finishing the "lazy z" composition for the most successful visual impact.