School Arts

So I'm handing in some projects this week and I'm happy enough with them that I want to put them up on my blog.

This first one is for my core illustration class, we were told to write up a list of "guilty pleasures" and then to select one and create an illustration out of it. Needless to say many of my guilty pleasures should not be seen in the light of day so I went with "smelling books", which actually got me quite a few stares in class. Go figure

The second is for book illustration. We were told to illustrate an event either from the media or from our personal lives. I chose to draw up that one time I was on the register for 6-and-a-half straight hours with no break and no end to the line of customers.

There was a caption to go with this one but I left it out. Might re-add it later.

Dungeons and Malareth

I and some chums are trying to get into Dungeons and Dragons. We've only just finished the Red Box (starter set) and already I'm finding it amazingly fun to be the Dungeon Master. 

Anyway the Big Bad of the adventure that comes with the box is this necromancer guy, Malareth. The wizard of the party mixed some chemicals by way of levitation on Malareth's workbench, they exploded and the necromancer turned into two face. Oh yeah.

Game of Thrones

Over the summer I finally jumped on the Game of Thrones bandwagon, I enjoyed it so much that I bought the book the other week. Both are absolutely amazing. To a nerd I would say it's the politics of Dune mixed with the adventure of Lord of the Rings and to a not-nerd I would say it's like the Tudors, but better and also snow zombies.

Anyway school started and one of the classes I'm taking is Book Illustration, I was sitting in the first class when I doodled the images bellow: 

Eddard Stark, Warden of the North is my favourite character with the most awesome of titles. I feel really sorry for him throughout both the show and the book, watching him struggle to keep doing the right thing is heartbreaking at times. The fact that he is also Boromir helps.

I feel like there is a jingle in here somewhere. 

Oh god I hope whoever is looking at these has already watched or read Game of Thrones...

This is only somewhat of a spoiler.

And now, for your viewing pleasure:

The last two are by no means my favourite part, just the images I felt worked really well in that kids booky style.