OKIDO workshop

The first class of the new term was pretty exciting, I've been looking forward to this workshop all holidays.
The workshop is taught by Rachel Ortas who started the childrens magazine Okido she is an amazing illustrator and her class was really enjoyable and interesting.

 

We were asked to create a character choosing their habitat as a starting point then using red and blue card only cut out a page to put in a concertina book with everyone else's characters. I choose the city and an urban fox cub called Ailsa who uses her tail to take away childrens nightmares and turn them into stars.

My original sketch

My cut out card piece

Here are some that the rest of the class produced:

 

This is just a starting point to get us thinking about how to create characters. For Friday we have to either develop these characters more or have ideas for a new one to work on for the project so it should be interesting to see what people come up with.

Happy New Year!

Well hello there,
So, College has started again after the Christmas holidays, whilst I was off I have mainly been:

Painting my flat:

My Bathroom is now a lovely green

Getting all Christmassy:

A friend remarked that my tree was "More of a constellation than a tree"

Getting all Unchristmassy:

Seeing my family:

With a substantial amount of working, eating, drinking and sleeping in between.



I don't believe in New Years resolutions but if I did it would be to be more conscientious of updating this blog, so hopefully that won't go the way of most resolutions and fail by the end of January,

Happy New Year!