Continuing work with linoprinting, the school assignment asked for a poster to promote a piano concert. They asked for abstraction and something aimed at a ‘grown-up’ audience (a not-so-subtle jab, I suspect, at my tendency to turn everything into rainbows and kittens).

Here’s the linoprint, a vague attempt at turning Norwegian nature into something sufficiently abstract:

And here’s how the poster turned out, complete with inadequate typography and colour (because colours, as it turns out, was another requirement):

This was the last assignment this semester, meaning I am near the end of my first year as a lazy illustration student – just some frantic final portfolio work left to do. Bring on the coffee!

Lino printing is so awesome. My fingertips are bleeding due to clumsiness with the cutting tools, but I had so much fun! I’ve never done any kind of printing like this before – now I’m excited that I get to spend all of next week working with it. I would devote the whole weekend to it, if I hadn’t made plans to go spend my birthday with the Clever Smut Poet and other friends.

Here’s the doodle I doodled! Or, actually, carved into a piece of linoleum, then threw paint on.

Just a quick one for the Illustration Friday topic, “electric”. Apparently, electric cats dream of electric mice.

School assignment; a cd cover for a local band. The whole thing was a sort of musical about suns and moons and hearts and trees and blah blah blah. They were looking for “naive and cartoony”.

This thing is meant to be folded and stuff, so just the bit with the girl sitting on the branch would be the actual front cover. No typography because I dread it!