White Sage/ Wallpaper Brief Proposal Sketch

Brief:
I was asked to design a wallpaper pattern for a bedroom feature wall. The chosen colour scheme was to be light and airy, using sage greens and silver foiling.  (Something about nature and old-fashioned illustration) Beatrix Potter and William Morris are two artists that the client mentioned to be her favourites.

Concept:
It was a pretty open brief so I started by researching into plants and flowers. I put a lot of research into 1920's botanical illustrations and took these as inspiration when creating a more modern style of plant illustration. I tried different materials, techniques and styles, also trying out more simplified pieces along with more complex and ornate illustrations too.

The clients favourite artists really inspired me during this project as they're both two of my most favoured artists too. This gave me a lot to work with and I really enjoyed working on this brief. After presenting different styles of illustration and pieces I'd made, the clients really loved the 'white sage' piece and was keen to see more work similar to this and for me to begin creating a pattern from it.

Solution:
The clients favourite artists really inspired me during this project as they're both two of my most favoured artists too. This gave me a lot to work with and I really enjoyed working on this brief. After presenting different styles of illustration and pieces I'd made, the clients really loved the 'white sage' piece and was keen to see more work similar to this and for me to begin creating a pattern from it.

Updates Soon.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Ink & Red Acrylic Paintings

 'Little Blood Riding Hood'

 'Evil Pinocchio'

 'Wicked Witch'

 'Ophelia'

'Victorian Bunny'

Inktober work, 2017

Brief:
Inktober is a drawing challenge where you spend every day in October drawing using ink and a paint brush. It was designed to improve your drawing skills and get away from digital art and painting.

Concept:
Some were based on a horror version of fairy-tales, and some were illustrations I've been wanting to make in my free time for a while now. 

Solution:
I used black Indian ink and red paint to create some different pieces of work. I used black ink both pure and watered down in different levels of ratio to create watercolour-like effects in some of the paintings, using the red paint only for small highlights to bring a bit of colour back into them. I used the same red throughout all of the pieces to bring them together at the end. 

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Delicate Digital Drawings/ Foxglove & Wasp Moth

Foxglove and Wasp Moth digital drawings
by Shannon Woodfield

Brief:
I'd been trying to extend my drawing skills using my Wacom graphics tablet since I'm very much used to traditional techniques. Here are two simple pieces I made before the project started.

Concept:
Very simplistic drawings, focusing on line work and limited colour.

Solution:
One illustration of a Foxglove, and one of a Wasp Moth. I'd like to continue making illustrations in a similar style as I feel they'd look good as a series of illustration work.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Jamaica Inn Book Cover/ Djanogly Exhibition at Lake Side

'Jamaica Inn' Book Cover Design, 2017.

By Shannon Woodfield

Brief:
To design a book cover sleeve for the Djanogly exhibition at Lake Side Arts, Nottingham. 

Concept:
My chosen book was Jamaica Inn. I hadn't read the book previously to the project or heard too much about it, so my work was based on my personal reflections from reading the book myself. Since this is a book for an older audience, I wanted to show this through the cover design, through materials, colour and type.

Solution:
I chose the blue-green colours and watercolour waves based on the coast setting in the book. I made monoprint textures which I overlayed through the cover and the back, showing the grittiness and dark elements of the story, as well as the time period that it had been set in and the background of the characters in the book. I wanted to focus on making my type follow through with the textures and illustration of the background as if it were floating alongside the water, rather than just being placed on top. I also silver foiled the front cover title text, and the book title on the spine too, to represent the purity of some characters and the treasure they are trying to find. I was really happy with the outcome of this project.

SHANNON WOODFIELD.

Harley Quinn Portrait Illustration

Harley Quinn Digital Portrait Illustration

Concept:
Practising digital portrait illustrations using limited tone and colour. I wanted to portray Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn as the 'sweet side', as a contrast to the character in film and comic books.  

SHANNON WOODFIELD.