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Mind-map exploring theme, style and influences

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Mind-map exploring theme, style and influences

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Frontispiece to Frankenstein, Theodore Von Holst (1831)

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Initial sketches to solidify and explore my idea

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Initial sketches to solidify and explore my idea

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Small sketches to continue my thought process

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Small sketches to continue my thought process

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My idea is based off of paracetamol pills, of which almost everyone is familiar with. I wanted to take something that gives comfort and relief and change its form into something dangerous or disgusting.

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An idea I had was to connect the two halves of a capsule with thread, attached with some slack to allow for a stretch and a twist, effectively letting the holder distort the capsule themselves.

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Planning pages -  brainstorming my ideas

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Planning pages -  brainstorming my ideas

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I wanted to create a little sketch of what my character would look like outside of a simplified style before I began to draw to ensure I kept his features the same throughout. The writing alongside is a small poem I wrote and originally was going to include in the final zine, but decided during the inking stage that I preferred the images speaking for themselves.

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Although I didn't end up using them, I wanted to attempt scanning traditional elements to be used digitally and create some marks for background usage. Even without being used in the final draft, this helped me understand how other illustrators work and get a good idea of the textures, colours and elements I wanted to include in my zine.

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To explore unfamiliarity in my chosen object I used a mirror to reflect the pills against a dark surface and create an effect like double-vision.

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I created the two halves out of a red clay slab moulded and put through the extruder to create a hollow circular tube. I filled in the ends with the same clay and rounded them until they looked pill-shaped. However they are purposefully not the same length, one is slightly longer than the other as originally I wanted them to fit together. I waited for the clay to become leather hard before beginning to add the nails.

This piece is process focused, I wanted it to have an air of performance art but without the actual performance. This is shown by the actual adding of the nails. The clay was so dry at this stage that adding the nails was causing it to crack, and with excessive pressure bits were breaking off of the body. I repaired these cracks slightly with building body clay, but of course it will never look the same as it did in the beginning.

This is the message I wanted to convey; that no matter how much you attempt to fix something, sometimes it only damages things further. And even if you do fix it, it will never be the same as it was before.

The use of a different clay for repairing represents a different approach to the original state, perhaps a different opinion of a person than you had at the beginning of a relationship.

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Top: A standalone image of the left side of the capsule.
Middle: Original shape of one of the sides, in the leather hard stage.
Bottom: A standalone image of the right side of the capsule.

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Considering fear, uncertainty and mistrust. Scanned in and altered in Photoshop.

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Considering safety, recovery and calm. Scanned in and altered in Photoshop.

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Left top - An old milk carton made of mouldable plastic
Left bottom - A clay pill shape used for moulding the plastic around.
Right - A section cut from the carton which will become the pill blister

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Recycled piece - Describing the process.

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Recycled piece - Describing the process.

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Using the plastic I had cut from the milk bottle, I moulded it around the clay pill shape to create messy indents in the plastic.

I went outside and collected cigarette butts from the tin in my garden and glued them into the blister so it looked like an ashtray. To make them look more uniform and make sense in the context of the piece, I painted the lower half of the cigarettes a dark blue to look alike to the paracetamol capsules.

To complete the piece, I used an old paracetamol box and glued a snippet cut from a tobacco packet to the front. In my opinion, this piece represents self medication and seeking solace in unhealthy things in the guise that they make you feel better.

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I wanted to create something semi pill-shaped to see how far I could push my concept. I struggled a lot with this piece, as I initially wanted to create nesting dolls but realised I could not due to the small time frame. Instead, I decided to reincorporate my use of nails into this piece and suspend the top half above the base using wooden dowels. This created a small window which I covered with nails and created an almost cage-like space.

The flowers on the outside are meant to look like daffodils, which were one of my favourite flowers growing up. Overall the piece for me represents feeling trapped or isolated and the deception of things which seem safe.

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https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pwoltergeist/references/

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https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pwoltergeist/style-inspiration/

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Includes layout tests, thumbnails and small sketches

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Watercolour tools scanned into photoshop

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Watercolour tools scanned into photoshop

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Layout tests made using cut bits of paper, arranged and photographed.

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Layout tests made using cut bits of paper, arranged and photographed.

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Colour Palette from a photograph (Album cover)

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Colour Palette from a photograph (Album cover)

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Colour palette and texture practice using lasso tool

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Colour palette and texture practice using lasso tool

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House created in the style of John Broadley

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House created in the style of John Broadley

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Including to show development, use of crop marks and understanding of how to lay out a document for printing.