Tank engine study

Tank engine study

Still working on mechanics.  This was a study I did mostly as an exercise in patience.  It was just about observation and modelling.  I could have continued to refine but i think I got what I needed from it.  This is a photo of a tank engine.  Massive.

Tank Study

Tank Study

This is the second in a series of get better at vehicles/mechanics.  This study took about 6 hours also.  I think things went a bit faster doing this.  

Helicopter Study

Helicopter Study

I decided to do a series of vehicle / machine studies to work on my edges and get some workflow going.  I have actually avoided doing these kinds of things but I want to start working on these kinds of things.  Because of the nature of these studies I am going to spend longer than the unusual 2- 2.5 hours I would spend on these things.  This one took about 6 hours I think. 

Bloodsports 12 Final

Bloodsports 12 Final

Here is the final label designs for the Bloodsports 12 challenge.  

Below are the 4 variants plus the labels printed on bottles.

What I learned - I should have printed these at actual size earlier to check readability.  The mountain images should have been larger, reduced the size of surrounding graphics and I probably put some white on the title text to make it pop more. 

Carrauntoohil

Carrauntoohil

Carrauntoohil  the highest mountail on the island of Ireland (3406 ft).  Number 4 in the series.  Now that these were complete I went ahead and completed work on the rest of the label.

Lugnaquilla

Lugnaquilla

Here is the third in the series.

Mweelrea

Mweelrea

Mweelrea (in Connemara) was the second mountain.  Both the previous one and Donaard I had made using a value study then adding colour.  Two more to go!

Slieve Donard

Slieve Donard

This was the second image I worked on.  I then went and started generating a mock up.  Not very exciting at all so I decided to change approach.

Devils ladder

Devils Ladder

Looking at the image ideas I had it became apparent that I would have to work really hard to give them visual impact.  I decided to take a distinctive feature of each mountain and use that.  The first was Carrauntoohil which has a portion of the path up it called the Devils Ladder. That's what I went for.    I did not finish this as I had a rethink on the whole approach. 

Bloodsports 12

Bloodsports 12 was a design challenge.  

 we are asking you to create a BEER LABEL to be put directly on a BOTTLE.

you get to choose what brand of beer youll be working with- or if youll opt to create your own. both are acceptable. the important thing though is that your label has an intended market, and a fitting style for that market. is this a fancy beer meant for upper class people? is this a trashy and cheap beer meant for college partygoers? is this a badass beer meant for biker gangs? its up to you. Choose a market, choose a style, and go to town!

 I have not done anything like this before so it was going to be a trip into the unknown.  

The first thing was to decide the theme for the beer.  It happened that a colleague of mine was wrapping up training for a charity event called the Four Peaks Challenge.  This involved climbing the 4 highest peaks on the island of Ireland. I figured this would be an interesting theme to play with.