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So here's mine, it's an editorial illustration for an article titled '‘Women: Work, Home, Multiple Roles and Stress’. I was inspired by the idea of a paper doll that you can dress up at your will. The 'doll' in this instance is a working mother, who has to don any number of roles at the drop of a hat, and often has these imposed upon her by societal expectations. I also wanted to illustrate the sometimes stereotypical aspect of women's roles and how modern women can often feel pulled in a myriad of directions. What I like about it: The concept, that it's all rendered in analogue media  - the costumes are ink and watercolour, the figure is ink and acrylic on acetate, like an animation cel. What I don't like: the crap photography - I really wanted to capture the shadows of the costumes as they've been cut out individually - and the fact I didn't put it into a layout context for which I think I lost marks. Overall however I'm pretty pleased with it, even if it did prove to me that I work much quicker digitally and to leave more time for analogue work next time!

Tell me what you think!

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I want harsh feedback, so do not hold back okay? :D
So all I am going to say is that this was intended to be a 2-page spread for a  children's book:

‘Shita-kiri Suzume (Translated literally as Tongue-cut Sparrow)
Once upon a time there lived a poor old woodcutter with his wife, who earned their living by cutting wood and fishing. The old man was honest and kind but his wife was arrogant and greedy. One morning, the old man went into the mountains to cut timber and saw an injured sparrow crying out for help. Feeling sorry for the bird, the man takes it back to his home and feeds it some rice to try to help it recover. His wife, being very greedy and rude, is annoyed that he would waste precious food on such a small little thing as a sparrow. The old man, however, continued caring for the bird.

The man had to return to the mountains one day and left the bird in the care of the old woman, who had no intention of feeding it. After her husband left, she went out fishing. While she was gone, the sparrow got into some starch that was left out and eventually ate all of it. The old woman was so angry upon her return that she cut out the bird's tongue and sent it flying back into the mountains from where it came.
The old man went searching for the bird and, with the help of other sparrows, found his way into a bamboo grove in which the sparrow's inn was located. A multitude of sparrows greeted him and led him to his friend, the little sparrow he saved. The others brought him food and sang and danced for him.

Upon his departure, they presented him with a choice of a large basket or a small basket as a present. Being an older man, he chose the small basket as he thought it would be the least heavy. When he arrived home, he opened the basket and discovered a large amount of treasure inside. The wife, learning of the existence of a larger basket, ran to the sparrow's inn in the hope of getting more treasure for herself. She chose the larger basket but was warned not to open it before getting home.

Such was her greed that the wife could not resist opening the basket before she returned to the house. To her surprise, the box was full of deadly snakes and other monsters. They startled her so much that she tumbled all the way down the mountain, presumably to her death.’

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The Secret Edit by Jacqueline Simester

Hi guys, here is my project illustration.  It was an editorial piece to accompany the article in the New Scientist magazine and website on the Chinese biologist who broke with international protocol  by editing genes in secret.  Maybe you can spot the clues!

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This is just no where near how I imagined it in the beginning! Due to the complete lack of time, it was a 'it will do' situation.

It was supposed to be the header image to an online New York Times article about cleaning your home.

I was going to have the woman and her cat stay in the same place and the background slide from one to the next, being cleaned with a click of her fingers. I would of done a lot more with the scenery too, and probably would have done another room or two. The woman also moves slightly... plus other mistakes...very imperfect but I just needed it done!!

I don't hate it... but I would certainly want a good few hours more on it to be actually happy with it.

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Hello gang! I chose to make a comic about communication tips for people with hearing loss. This came about from being without my hearing aid for a couple of weeks and getting so stressed and frustrated that I couldn't communicate with people properly and vice versa. It was so lovely to do and it's also my first ever comic! Hopefully the first of many! I am so excited to see what you all did :-)