Greek

For this illustration I took two separate Greek illustrations on the side of pottery & combined them to show a soldier attacking a civilian whilst he only records and doesn't fight back. Playing on the controversy of modern attacks, where many just film rather than doing something to help.

Mayan Tumblr

I got this idea as Tumblr is seen as quite an old social media site, and when people think of old dead civilisations the usual one is the Mayans, so I used a template/reference image of a Mayan carving from a temple and drew the circular based illustration with the Tumblr logo in the middle. Again only using simple two tone colours & erasing small chunks to add age to the stone. 

This is the piece i am most happy with as it came out the crispest and cleanest, which i what i was aiming for, crisp, clean and neat illustrations that work on my style

Roman Selfie

This illustration started out as a simple photoshop edit of a Roman statue holding a phone (rather than the original spear). However, it did not fit with my other illustrations with it being purely photoshop work. So, I took it back into photoshop and drew it up with the help of my graphics pad, keeping simple two tone colours and only adding shading to add definition.

I am proud of how illustration turned out, you can tell it is stone and the rigid yet bold shading/shadow compliments the image well, although I do think i should've added more detail to his chest as it looks a little bare.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This was my first illustration in the series. I combined Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Instagram, Spotify and iPhone.

However, I did not like this illustration as it looks pretty bad and 'naff', so i used the image below as reference and created the illustration below that.

This illustration is of a higher quality, fit my theme and style better and just generally looks more professional, although I feel I should've experimented with shading/colour more as it looks a little too bland.

New Idea & Quote

I decided my idea wasn't working like I wanted so I sat down and re-thought everything. I looked through quotes for research ideas and found this:

From here I looked into the combination of old and new, looking into animation, illustration, game design and interactive design. I ended up starting to do illustrations in a similar style to that of my Being Human project.

Presentation

Experiments

A series of photographs that show my designs, experiments and thoughts throughout several weeks

 This video shows an early prototype on how I could start the machine, with the string being attached to the bike like in previous images

An early design sheet I used to get my thoughts down.