Text as image brief - 'Somnambulant' concept

Basically, the brief is to alter words so they look like what they mean. Sort of a visual onomatopoeia (though I am unaware of an actual word for this), and the four words I chose, and am chugging along with, albeit not well as this feels graphics-y. Essentially I am sinking into the part of myself that is something of a soulless image-making robot rather than an illustrator. Boo.

I thought 'somnambulant' would be a good word to choose, as I am a sleepwalker myself. I was wrong. It took me ages to think of things that were relevant, and when I did, they were tough to convey as letterforms, and therefore I ended up with images with vaguely altered text in them, like so:

Then there's the bits for the word 'organic' which are going a bit better:

Colour is a bit off, I'll work that out later and re-upload. That's what I have so far. Hoorah! Or not.

Screen print tester

Print and process is stupidly good fun right now. I chose screen printing, and this is a one-colour tester of an image which will end up in two colours.

Apologies for the bad scan, my scanner hates colours.

The traffic warden for Changing Places illustration

The brief is to take an object or character that we sketched in the Good/Bad Cambridge project and place them in another setting, trying to make them appear integrated (e.g. not surreal, it has to be possible)

I'm planning on the grumpy piratey traffic warden from King's Parade in a desert setting, seeing what happens, but I may change my mind. I do only have until monday, so I should get a shuffle on.

Far too many words.

Pretentious words
Prolix vomit
Spews from the fingertips
Electronic crap.

Haven't uploaded stuff I meant to, so here it is!

My mum's birthday present, a portrait of our dog, in embroidery

Sketch for Print & Process, an Evian bottle for an etching, done with a lollipop stick & ink

Sketch of my housemate Jack for monoprinting, dip pen and ink

Screenprint concept, acrylic & tan thread

Screenprint transparency, alcohol inks on True Grain

Screenprint concept, papers and ink

There's a lot more where that came from, plus prints, but laziness beckons and my hands have scanner-cramp

Embroidery. So masculine.

Oh yeah, I'm manly.

Bobo the Homeless

Far too many influences to name, but based on my project work drawing multiple sides of Cambridge. This is for a screen print, so I'll be working colours into it soon, and seeing how that goes.