Travel Sketchbook/ Paris, 2015

Travel sketchbook I kept for a few days in Paris. All drawings shown were drawn in the Natural History museums, both the stuffed animal section and skeleton building. Both definitely worth visiting. All wet media was used in the hotel room in the evenings, and photographs added in later! 

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Artist Envy/ Portraits with Ina Stanimirova

Artist/ Ina Stanimirova
Website/ http://inastanimirova.com/

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

John Lennon Portrait/ Rough Trade Exhibition

The Beatles, 'Revolver' Album Cover, 2016

By Shannon Woodfield

Brief:
Level 1 university project to create an album cover for a given band to be shown in an exhibition in Rough Trade, Nottingham. Given album: Revolver, The Beatles.

Concept:
Portrait piece inspired by the colours, patterns and automatic drawings made whilst listening to the album on repeat.

Solution:
Silhouette portrait piece in contrasting colours, yellow and purple. Using handmade mono-printing textures for the overlay pattern, border and in the text. I chose John Lennon for the iconic portrait figure as a starting point but I'd have liked to create portrait images for all four members of the band. I used cut-out type for a handmade feel to the finished album cover.

John Lennon Portrait using acrylic paints.

Portrait piece combined with handmade mono-print textures.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Artist Envy/ Iced Tea with Marijke Buurlage

'Iced Tea Packaging' for Nongfu Spring, 2017.

By Marijke Buurlage - All images belong to Buurlage, found on their portfolio, here.

Artist: Marijke Buurlage
Agency: Horse Agency (UK)
Brand: Tea Pi by Nongfu Spring (China)

View this portfolio work on Behance, here.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Underdogs/ Zine Workshop Pieces

 'Underdogs' Zine Illustrations, 2017.

By Pete Abrahart & Shannon Woodfield

Brief:
To create a handmade zine, we were given the word, 'Underdogs'. 

Concept:
Illustrations of objects under underdogs then given the name '*Object* Underdog'.

Solution:
...Dogs! Hand-drawn looking illustrations made using felt pens, alcohol markers and pencil, & tags made with black paper and white Posca. Collaged together on kraft paper to keep the 'handmade' feel to it.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Butterfly/ Digital Illustration

'Butterfly & Flower' Illustration, 2017.

By Shannon Woodfield

Personal Brief:
Break away from drawing accurate details in flora and insects, instead making a digital illustration that mimicked the flow of using a brush and ink traditionally. 

Concept:
To use the digital tools in the same way I would with materials traditionally, whilst using the advantages of digital art and adding in tiny details later to bring the piece together

Solution:
I used a 100% opacity ink-style Photoshop brush that varies in width with the pressure you use on the pen of the graphics tablet. I also used a range of brushes that mimicked real effects such as watercolour blobs and spray paint to create a more textures and an abstract feel to it; then zoomed in to draw tiny areas of highlight, shading and detail. I like the blackest-black lines and bright colours that I can achieve easily with digital painting - although I tend to fall towards traditional means of illustration, it was a fun personal project to practise.

This piece can be found on stickers, notepads, mugs & more here!

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

The Lonely Crow/ Experimental Illustrations

 'The Lonely Crow' illustrations, 2015.
Shannon Woodfield.

Brief:
During my foundation year, we were given a brief to explore 'Layers and Edges'. We could explore different materials, techniques and subject matters within this and have 2D outcomes to present within two weeks. 

Concept:
I wanted to create page spread illustrations for a mock-up of a storybook for older children. I loved dark and creepy themes when I was a child so I used these as inspiration for creating more individual and exciting illustrations for children with the same interests. 

Solution:
I put a lot of research into facts and information from real life that I could incorporate into my story. I watched a lot of documentaries and read books and articles about crows; I was really interested in how they recognise human faces, and once they see a face they recognise from days, weeks, months before, they call out. I created a story about a young girl who loses her parents and finds herself lost in the woods, the crow 'caws' when he see's her and helps her find her way home. 

I explored layers and edges through both traditional and digital illustration work. I made monoprints, paper-cuts, ink drawings using both Indian inks and ball-point pens, and ink washes to create separate elements of the illustrations; I then used Photoshop to manipulate and layer the pieces together to form these final illustrations.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.