Mr Benn and the Magic Carpet.avi

Editorial in Context

Final Stages

This is my editorial image, using print textures. Got a feeling its missing something....whether it needs detail in the background or his face its strong enough for my liking.

Editorial

I am finding making this figure difficult, I actually think I'm trying to hard and I need to let him go. In all my research and favourite Illustrators its the free-ness of the figure I admire, the simplicity and the creative shapes, so I don't know why I cant accept that in my own work. 
My guy so far :

 

I'm starting to have a soft spot for him now, my Mr.Benn look alike.

Jing Wei

Jing Wei- Chinese born illustrator.

Here Wei uses a simple colour palette and informative shapes.

I want to aim for a similar illustration for my editorial, in terms of composion, colour, print textures and simplistic style.

Editorial Development

For this brief I was asked to choose a newspaper article to illustrate it to a given layout.
I choose and article about game shows being like a child's toy played by adults.

I decided to base it on a child's toy car (the red and yellow one we all owned in childhood) and to exaggerate an adult using it, my chosen media will be paper collage and to concentrate on shapes.

These are my current development stages: