Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Sketches...
After posting my latest illustration yesterday, I later thought some of you may have been interested in seeing the original sketches for them, and so here they are...
Monday, 10 October 2011
The Wally with the Brolly
After publishing my previous post featuring a slightly new
illustrative direction for me, I was over the moon with the positive
feedback I received for it.
Personally I was really pleased with how it has developed and really wanted to try another composition, which leads me to this post.
This new composition is very loosely based on the infamous photo of ex-England football manager Steve McClaren watching his side fail to qualify for the 2008 European Championships. I have always been intrigued by the shot, as it holds such emotion and portrays a man who is simply watching his reputation and career fall apart in front of his very own eyes. It was this photograph that earned McClaren his unwanted title of 'The Wally with the Brolly'.
When creating the image, I deliberately avoided branding it with the English FA crest and decided against making the character look like McClaren (apart from the hair colour), as I wanted to keep the illustration quite generic, but more importantly, I didn’t really fancy getting in trouble with The FA or Steve McClaren.
This will be the last of my illustrations in this style that I post up for a while, as I have a few other illustrations and project that I want to show over the next few weeks which will be back to my more recognisable look.
This image will be available to purchase from iStock within the next week or so.
Thanks for dropping by.
Personally I was really pleased with how it has developed and really wanted to try another composition, which leads me to this post.
This new composition is very loosely based on the infamous photo of ex-England football manager Steve McClaren watching his side fail to qualify for the 2008 European Championships. I have always been intrigued by the shot, as it holds such emotion and portrays a man who is simply watching his reputation and career fall apart in front of his very own eyes. It was this photograph that earned McClaren his unwanted title of 'The Wally with the Brolly'.
When creating the image, I deliberately avoided branding it with the English FA crest and decided against making the character look like McClaren (apart from the hair colour), as I wanted to keep the illustration quite generic, but more importantly, I didn’t really fancy getting in trouble with The FA or Steve McClaren.
This will be the last of my illustrations in this style that I post up for a while, as I have a few other illustrations and project that I want to show over the next few weeks which will be back to my more recognisable look.
This image will be available to purchase from iStock within the next week or so.
Thanks for dropping by.
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Some guy...
The style is a little different to my normal work, but to be honest, I have watched my illustrations evolve over the years and I can see how I have got to where I currently am.
That’s not to say that I have moved away from my old style, as I haven’t, but I am just having fun exploring and producing work which is a lot less vibrant and offers a lot more simplicity in respects to the construction of the characters. As you can see, I have purposely moved away from having too many colours and have resisted the use of highlights on the character.
I just wanted to make the figure itself as simple as possible and I wanted the form of character to leap out at you, rather then the bold palette or the incredible detail.
I hope you enjoy the piece. I am a little unsure whether to make this available on my iStock portfolio, but I will keep you notified if I do.
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
USA
September was a month that I had been looking forward to for a
long time, for years in fact, as this was the month that I finally got
to live out one of my dreams and go to New York City. Not only that, but
I was also lucky enough to experience both North and South Carolina
along the way too.
I know this is generally a design and illustration blog and so I won’t bore you with a ‘Wish You Were Here’ style review on why you should travel to these States, but I did want to share just a few of my photos from this adventure.
Don’t worry, I won’t make you sit through the 700+ that I put my family and friends through, but I did just want to post a few.
I won’t show you any of North Carolina, as to be fair, I didn’t see a great deal of it. We were staying there with friends and despite seeing some of the area, we never got to experience a vast amount of it.
A lot of my favourite pictures were taken in South Carolina, in the Isle of Palms, where we were staying along the beach in a Condo. Every day, me and my girlfriend would get up early and walk along the beach to watch the sunrise and every morning we would be blown away by the beauty of it. It really was stunning and one of the most breathtaking moments in my life.
After spending the first week of our holiday in the Carolina’s, we then went to the complete opposite extreme by traveling on to New York for a few days.
In hind sight, having the beach holiday after New York would have made sense, but to be honest, the holiday was absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world.
New York was everything I hoped it would be and more. There is this beautiful anticipation surrounding the City, as everyone around you has different expectations for their experience there. There is just so much versatility to New York and I truly cannot wait to go back, it is just such an inspiring environment to surrounded by.
I hope you enjoy these photos. I will be back uploading more of my art soon, but I do have some big and exciting projects to finish off before I get back to it and so you may have to be a little bit patient with me.
I know this is generally a design and illustration blog and so I won’t bore you with a ‘Wish You Were Here’ style review on why you should travel to these States, but I did want to share just a few of my photos from this adventure.
Don’t worry, I won’t make you sit through the 700+ that I put my family and friends through, but I did just want to post a few.
I won’t show you any of North Carolina, as to be fair, I didn’t see a great deal of it. We were staying there with friends and despite seeing some of the area, we never got to experience a vast amount of it.
A lot of my favourite pictures were taken in South Carolina, in the Isle of Palms, where we were staying along the beach in a Condo. Every day, me and my girlfriend would get up early and walk along the beach to watch the sunrise and every morning we would be blown away by the beauty of it. It really was stunning and one of the most breathtaking moments in my life.
After spending the first week of our holiday in the Carolina’s, we then went to the complete opposite extreme by traveling on to New York for a few days.
In hind sight, having the beach holiday after New York would have made sense, but to be honest, the holiday was absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world.
New York was everything I hoped it would be and more. There is this beautiful anticipation surrounding the City, as everyone around you has different expectations for their experience there. There is just so much versatility to New York and I truly cannot wait to go back, it is just such an inspiring environment to surrounded by.
I hope you enjoy these photos. I will be back uploading more of my art soon, but I do have some big and exciting projects to finish off before I get back to it and so you may have to be a little bit patient with me.
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Wolf Blass Visuals
I know I have been promising this for a long time, but finally I have posted some of my more recent design projects I have been working on.
I know it seems that I favour my illustration, as I always seem to blog about that rather then design, but that really isn't the case. I tend not to post too much of my design work immediately online, as I generally like to wait until the product/promotion has been fully launched before I do so.
There are some people who like to work on a job and post samples of it immediately in their blogs etc, but it can be a risky thing to do. If I am honest, I don't think doing this is particularly fair on the client who has no doubt spent a lot of money on the project and would certainly not want to have anything leaked online before they launch the product/promotion for themselves. You could also find yourself in all kinds of trouble for doing so, which is why I like to wait.
The project I have posted below is something I worked on at a London agency earlier in the year for the wine brand Wolf Blass.
The brief for this project was simple, they wanted to create a new way of promoting offers on their bottles of wine, which go beyond the more conventional neck labels.
I have included a few of the early scamps I worked on before I went ahead and created the final Mac visuals.
Here are the mocked up Mac visuals for each of the concepts I created.
The final two designs shown above were something which were a little
more adventurous. The first is a silicon collar that is placed on the
neck of the bottle which changes colour depending on the temperature of
the wine. The second design is a bottle wrap, which I feel could stand
out quite well, as it is something rarely seen on a wine bottle.
I could go into further detail as to why I approached the brief in the way I did, or how I created certain parts of the design, but unfortunately time is of the essence for me tonight (and to be honest, I am sure you aren't really that bothered). I will be happy to answer any questions you may have on this project though.
I know it seems that I favour my illustration, as I always seem to blog about that rather then design, but that really isn't the case. I tend not to post too much of my design work immediately online, as I generally like to wait until the product/promotion has been fully launched before I do so.
There are some people who like to work on a job and post samples of it immediately in their blogs etc, but it can be a risky thing to do. If I am honest, I don't think doing this is particularly fair on the client who has no doubt spent a lot of money on the project and would certainly not want to have anything leaked online before they launch the product/promotion for themselves. You could also find yourself in all kinds of trouble for doing so, which is why I like to wait.
The project I have posted below is something I worked on at a London agency earlier in the year for the wine brand Wolf Blass.
The brief for this project was simple, they wanted to create a new way of promoting offers on their bottles of wine, which go beyond the more conventional neck labels.
I have included a few of the early scamps I worked on before I went ahead and created the final Mac visuals.
Here are the mocked up Mac visuals for each of the concepts I created.
Some of the concepts were purposely based on the more conventional neck
labels that are available, as it is a design that Wolf Blass do favour. I
did try to make them a little more dynamic by adding die cut elements
to the designs to help them standout in the what is already a very
competitive market.
I could go into further detail as to why I approached the brief in the way I did, or how I created certain parts of the design, but unfortunately time is of the essence for me tonight (and to be honest, I am sure you aren't really that bothered). I will be happy to answer any questions you may have on this project though.
I do hope to post some more of my design concepts and visuals on here soon, but in the mean time, why not check out my site by clicking here.
All designs and concepts are strictly ©Dan Bailey 2011.
Doodle
I have just randomly found this scan of some doodles on my desktop and thought I would share it with you.
It isn't anything particularly exciting and is probably of no interest to you, but hey, if you like penguins then you may like this.
This is what I normally end up doing whilst I wait for Photoshop to finish saving some ridiculous 3gb file I am working on :)
It isn't anything particularly exciting and is probably of no interest to you, but hey, if you like penguins then you may like this.
This is what I normally end up doing whilst I wait for Photoshop to finish saving some ridiculous 3gb file I am working on :)
Commission
I have recently been working with a client on a set of poses for a character I created for them a few years ago now.
I have been lucky enough to work with this client on quite a variety of their projects now and have created numerous characters for them.
Below is one of the latest illustration for their 'Mrs Sweepstake' character. I am currently working on various poses for two of their other characters and will upload those as soon as they are completed and have been launched.
I have been lucky enough to work with this client on quite a variety of their projects now and have created numerous characters for them.
Below is one of the latest illustration for their 'Mrs Sweepstake' character. I am currently working on various poses for two of their other characters and will upload those as soon as they are completed and have been launched.
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