tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45896188523885360592024-03-13T14:49:10.747+00:00Dominique Byron IllustrationDom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-2044009382371159812013-08-02T16:11:00.001+01:002013-08-02T16:11:22.590+01:00Moving On...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After many a happy year here on Blogger, I'm moving my blog over to Tumblr to take advantage of the easier sharing etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Illustration print made as a present for someone who loves ice cream. all year round. </span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-80425598823569625562013-05-07T20:48:00.000+01:002013-05-07T20:49:06.489+01:00King Kong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will be 1 of a set of 3 prints along with work from the other Foursight guys; Kris and Jordan.</span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-16977523116387279912013-04-24T11:57:00.000+01:002013-04-25T20:50:56.259+01:00Pink Fury<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because I really want one of those fake garden flamingo's, and because I rarely use pink so thought I'd use up my quota for the year in one image.<br /></span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-25988098110791832712013-04-20T22:44:00.001+01:002013-04-24T11:58:15.824+01:00this and that...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Glimpses of work from various projects/personal pieces...</span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-70563245185240202012013-02-26T19:27:00.000+00:002013-02-26T19:27:31.203+00:00Sci-fi and Swords<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I recently did a Big Trouble in Little China themed stencil of Jack Burton's truck for a box containing a BTLC themed present...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I recently submitted a piece of work to a group exhibition hosted by Ben Kither and Sarah Stapleton of </span><a href="http://www.owtcreative.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">OWT Creative</a>,<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> at Vault/Cord Bar in Manchester.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The name of the exhibition was Manchester World's Fair 2012, and creatives were invited to submit a piece of work, in any form, on the theme of "the distant future of our planet"</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've posted the piece of work I submitted below, along with my initial drawing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The idea behind my image was about how our lives are becoming more and more intertwined with digital technology, so my idea for the theme was that we'd be experiencing the world through digital means rather than physically. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also wanted to throw in a few retro elements such as an old fashioned paper ECG machine and a slightly battered bed, as I like the idea that people would be creating their own illegal virtual reality set ups at home with whatever medical equipment they could get their hands on..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So last Wednesday saw the launch night for the first publication, entitled 'VS', by our illustration collective <a href="http://wearefoursight.tumblr.com/">Foursight</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The book is a set of 20 illustrations, printed back to back, of pairs of opposite words, each illustrated by a different artist. The aim of the book was to get illustrators to compete with each other, to provide a book solely promoting great illustrators and there work, and with the competitors being kept secret, to ultimately put on an event/exhibition where they could meet their opponent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unbelievably its been about 6 months since we started the project back in May with the help of the guys at <a href="http://www.owtcreative.com/">OWTCreative</a>, so it was great to finally reveal the book for everyone to see!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've posted some photos below of the book and the launch night, which had a great turnout and there was a lot of buzz about the book and the fantastic work submitted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The launch and book had a boxing/fighter theme, so we had some fun taking polaroid style photos of everyone posing as boxers, and then coming up with their own boxing names to win a competition; as well as setting up a live draw-off, again to win some classy prizes. Who doesn't want a can of hotdogs?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally I'm now allowed to reveal my submission for the book, which was for the word 'War'. I thought it would be fun to mix together ideas of both modern and medieval warfare, and put in more detail than usual to make it look a bit like an old portrait.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A huge thanks to everyone who has supported us as Foursight as we've worked on the VS book, and to everyone who came down to the launch night! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The book is now available to buy from the online shop for only £10 so go check it out at this link </b> </span><br />
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Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-77357397456613892822012-09-14T15:19:00.001+01:002012-09-14T15:19:18.592+01:00Poster: Magic Show<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've just finished working on a poster for a short filmed created by graduates from The Northern Film School at Leeds Met University, one of whom was my brother Stuart who was director of photography.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The film is entitled 'Magic Show' and is a dark comedy about a magic show in the woods, set in the early 20th century. The film was made for a competition about promoting multilingualism, for more info check out the site of writer/director Richard Wheatley <a href="http://cargocollective.com/writerdirector/MAGIC-SHOW">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The idea behind the poster was to make it look like an old fashioned magician's poster from around the time the film is set in the early 20th century. I liked the idea of having the poster black and white like a photograph and just keeping the red of the bow tie to hint at the sinister nature of the film, but I did a colour version also. I also included the smokey red lines to link to the idea of illusions and theatrics etc., and was also a good way to link the type with the image with a bit of an art nouveau flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Check out both colour and bw versions below along with my initial drawing...</span><br />
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<br />Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-40905556242709927562012-09-13T22:28:00.000+01:002012-09-13T22:28:20.779+01:00Christmas in Uganda Kindle Edition<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The children's book I illustrated last year, 'Christmas in Uganda', has just been released digitally in Kindle addition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can buy it on amazon for a small price (just under £2) with all proceeds going to the charity <a href="http://www.helpingugandaschools.org/">Helping Uganda Schools</a>. Check it out <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0099SH782/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_8wBuqb13TCQWR">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A while a go I was asked if I'd like to contribute a piece of work to a collaborative book project organised by illustrator <a href="http://benjamincarr.co.uk/">Benjamin Carr</a>. The given theme was 'Past and Present', and Ben chose a colour scheme of 4 colours for everyone to use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The idea behind my piece was looking at how we connect our past and present via memories. After doing a bit of research I came across the concept of Flashbulb memories, that are vivid memories we create when we hear "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">surprising and consequential (or emotionally arousing) news", such as during natural disasters such as tsunami's or hurricanes, or other memorable events such as the assassination of JFK or 9/11.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So a while back, some of our illustration class, including myself, submitted work to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UNLEASHEDBestintheNorth">Unleashed: Best in the North</a> Illustration competition. The competition is looking for the best student illustration in the North, and accepted work from 11 universities (ranging from Birmingham to Edinburgh), with a total of 138 submissions in all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The competition shortlisted 24 works to be sold at auction, and also puts all pieces in a catalogue to be sold to raise money for the Northwest Air Ambulance charity, as well as the students themselves, with the money raised from selling a piece of work being split 50/50 between the student and the charity; smiles all round!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All work submitted is currently in the exhibition at <a href="http://tomsmanchester.thevictorianchophousecompany.com/">Mr Thomas's Chop House</a> in Manchester, so get over there and have a look! All pieces are for sale also!<br /><br />I was really excited to find out that 2 of my pieces of work had been shortlisted and are to be sold in the upcoming auction on Thursday 19th July, and are also in the running to win bronze, silver or gold. Work by fellow Stockport students (now graduates) <a href="http://www.kris-sale.com/">Kris Sale</a>, <a href="http://hollymcloughlin.com/">Holly McLoughlin</a> and <a href="http://www.lauragilbertillustration.co.uk/">Laura Gilbert</a> was also shortlisted, and loads more from Stockport are in the exhibition and for sale in the catalogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />Anyway, I think us shortlisted folk will be heading down to the auction/award night, which is really exciting, and hopefully lots of money will be raised for charity (..and ourselves)!<br /><br />Check out the Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UNLEASHEDBestintheNorth">here</a> for more info on this years competition and exhibition!</span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-72970224458164874322012-07-08T19:51:00.000+01:002012-07-08T19:51:24.654+01:00D&AD New Blood: Stockport College<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So last week, a few of us recent graduates headed down to London for the D&AD New Blood exhibition in Old Spitalfields Market. The exhibition ran for 3 days (Tuesday eve - Thursday) and on our stand we had work from illustration, graphic design and moving image <strike>students</strike> graduates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lots of people from the creative industries came around to see the work which was really great, and there was a of of interest in our stand from various agencies and magazines. (My work was featured on the Digital Arts blog <a href="http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/?newsId=3366591">here</a>!) I also took the opportunity to visit <a href="http://www.ddb.com/">DDB advertising agency</a> which was really useful and gave me a better understanding of how illustration is used in advertising specifically.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D&AD were also running festival events, going out to visit various design studios, agencies and collectives. Whilst we were there I took the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">opportunity</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to go to 3 of the festival events with fellow <a href="http://wearefoursight.tumblr.com/">Foursightians</a> Kris, Jordan and Matt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally, on the last day there we went to a talk by a collective of illustrators and artists called <a href="http://www.many-hands.co/">Many Hands</a>, who have joined up mainly to sell their own work online and collaborate. They gave a great talk at a bar in Shoreditch (was nice to get out of the sun!), and then we split off into groups and could question various members of the collective to our hearts content about anything we wanted. This was really useful and they gave lots of great advice and information. We also managed to have a quick chat with them about our project <a href="http://wearefoursight.tumblr.com/">Foursight</a>, and they helped us out with some names of places we might be able to sell future publications. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Despite the rain, a good few people came out from local studios and agencies to see the work and chat to us which was really great. There's a couple of photos below of the place and us with our work. Many thanks go to the Grow degree team who arranged it all (including the 2nd years who got soaked for us!), and the tutors for driving it all there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also check out the <a href="http://grow2012.co.uk/">Grow degree site</a> for all the students work...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Photos borrowed from the Picture Box blog <a href="http://il-us-tra-shun.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-6432712094031179762012-06-10T19:01:00.000+01:002012-06-10T19:01:48.803+01:00Grow: Degree Show Preview Night<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Friday we had the preview night of our degree show at Stockport College, showing the work of all the design pathways; Illustration, Graphic Design, Moving Image, Surface Design, Photography etc., and it was a great success! It was incredibly busy and really exciting to have everyone together and showcase the culmination of 3 years work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For the show I put up 6 A2 size prints of some of my images from my FMP on space and underwater exploration. Here are the images:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a surprising turn of events, I'm very proud to have won 'Best in Show' for my illustration work! With so much incredible work on show (seriously...the show looked amazing..) I'm really proud and happy to have my name chiselled onto the shield this year to represent our illustration group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've posted some pics below of the goings on, and will blog again soon as the show will be going into Manchester next Friday for a one-day exhibition spectacular in the northern quarter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For now, the show is still on at college, Mon-Thurs 10am - 7.30pm, so come check it out!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">See the degree show website for more details/directions - <a href="http://grow2012.co.uk/">Grow Degree Show</a></span>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-65521913717020183882012-06-07T14:37:00.001+01:002012-06-07T14:37:28.430+01:00FOURSIGHT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So in recent news, I've recently teamed up with 3 fellow illustrators from my course to form a collective called <a href="http://wearefoursight.tumblr.com/">Foursight</a>. The collective consists of myself, <a href="http://cargocollective.com/krissale">Kris Sale</a>, <a href="http://www.jordanobrienillustration.com/">Jordan O'Brien</a> and <a href="http://www.mattbrayillustration.com/">Matt Bray</a>, and for our first project, we are working on a print publication with help from the guys at <a href="http://www.owtcreative.com/">OWT Creative</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We will be announcing details about the project very soon, so make sure you follow us over at our <a href="http://wearefoursight.tumblr.com/">blog</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/wearefoursight">twitter</a> to find out more, but not to be completely vague, it involves work from various fantastic illustrators, and we are working very hard to make it something special. Needless to say we are incredibly excited about the project! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can see you're intrigued, so go check out the <a href="http://wearefoursight.tumblr.com/">blog</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/wearefoursight">twitter</a> now, and keep your peepers open for updates in the next few days.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks!</span></div>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-88765817653847415282012-06-05T21:48:00.000+01:002012-06-05T21:48:13.371+01:00MT: Mindfulness<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did a few editorial illustrations in the not too distant past for the current issue of Managment Today magazine. I've post some pics of the images below along with the images themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The first was a small illustration for a piece about transparency in businesses, so I did a glass suitcase exposing important things such as money, identity (passport) etc.</span></div>
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We were set a brief to create our own alphabets, and this is one I did that I actually still quite like. This was in my pre-digital days when I actually did everything by hand so I think I painted this with either ink or gouache. Sitting down with a pair of sunglasses and trying to find a whole alphabet in them was a lot of fun...</div>
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<br />Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-23464477555246553492012-05-10T22:58:00.000+01:002012-05-10T22:58:00.487+01:00Final Project Animation<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As part of our final major projects, we were all given a brief to create a small animation on the theme of 'transformation'. We were given free reign to interpret transformation in whichever way we wanted in relation to our own projects, and the animation could be anything from a few seconds of an image changing from one thing to another, to a full blown animation that lasted a few minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think I probably aimed for somewhere in between the two parameters, as the main images I had at the beginning of the project were my astronaut and diver, so I thought they'd lend themselves to a change from one to the other as they were made with the same blueprint. But I also didn't just want to do a fade from one to the other, as I'd already done that with the 8x8 animation I did last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I talked with tutors about the possibility of making an interactive app for the ipad, but it became clear pretty quickly that doing that would take a lot of time and would be too complex for me to try and do for real. So instead we decided that it would be possible to make an animation in After Effects and play it through the ipad whilst filming someone faking the movements as if it were a real app. So the final piece is more of a proposal for a possible app that could be made with my work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Below is the animation on its own, and then the final video showing it in use...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of the things I probably should have thought about at the beginning of this was the fact that I don't actually own an ipad or iphone, so it made it a little bit more difficult to work out how it might work. So I did some research into the different interactive movements you can do on an ipad, and watched some tutorials, to try and get it to look somewhat genuine. I also wasn't able to make versions as I went along to try it out, so if I were to do this again in the future I think it would be best to borrow an ipad/iphone off someone to get it to look as real as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Another problem was working out how I could fake the movements on the ipad, without actually touching the screen (as it would brings up menus etc.) and then having to memorise the actions, needless to say it was a longer process than I was anticipating!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These problems were solved by some high-tech gluing of card onto the finger tips, and a good few takes of the filming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overall however I'm really pleased with the outcome and I think it was definitely worth giving it a go and seeing what happened. I'd definitely like to try and make a real app of some sort in the future as I think my work can be quite flat which probably lends itself to these sort of things quite well, and with the advent of digital magazines and ebooks (not to mention actual apps and touch screen games etc.), we'll probably be seeing a lot more of these type of things in the future.</span><br />
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Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-57427620940261081832012-05-10T01:25:00.001+01:002012-05-10T01:25:21.535+01:00MT Editorial<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
I recently did a small editorial illustration for this months issue of Management Today magazine. It was to illustrate the word 'Boss' from the given definitions. One definition of the word was that it was a synonym for 'superfly', hence the 70's guy on the left, and obviously a more standard office type boss getting a bit stressed on the right.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was my first proper commission so it was a bit daunting, but it all went really smoothly and I'm fairly happy with the outcome. Check out the image below, as well as a snippet of it in the magazine layout. Cheers!</span><br />
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<br />Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-40818096718400891872012-05-09T20:47:00.000+01:002012-05-09T20:47:03.198+01:00Draw North West Poster<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
I recently had the chance to design a poster for the next <a href="http://drawnorthwest.co.uk/">Draw North West</a> meeting in May, and its now up on the site, so I though I'd do a quick post about it.</div>
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Mr Alan Dalby was my AD for the week, and we had a quick chat about the sort of stuff that could go on it, and I settled on doing an biplane design as it's loosley related to navigation and direction and links with it being in the North West. Also I thought it would be fun to do aeroplanes as its not something I've tried before! Anywho, I've poster the poster below, and also my rough.</div>
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Cheers to DNW and Alan for asking me to do it!</div>
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</div>Dom Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774499463195203908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4589618852388536059.post-31363789889655531682012-05-06T21:03:00.001+01:002012-05-06T21:04:13.670+01:00Big Illustration Party Time Excellent Podcast<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was recommended that we listen to a podcast called Big Illustration Party Time, found <a href="http://www.illustrationparty.com/">here</a>. The podcast is recorded by illustrators <a href="http://www.kevincross.net/">Kevin Cross</a> and <a href="http://joshuakemble.com/">Joshua Kemble</a>, and consists of them talking about all sort of issues associated with being a freelance illustrator. The particular episode we listened to cover lots of things to do with getting work and self promotion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They started off by talking about cold calling art directors. Unless I'm mistaken, they were talking about cold calling AD's to talk to them and see if it was ok to email over work, and they came to the conclusion that sending a cold email was less annoying and probably a better thing to do. I don't think I'd ever considered really phoning someone up just to ask if I could email them my portfolio, but who knows, maybe speaking to them first might actually guarantee a response to your email? On the other hand, we've always been encouraged to try and speak to someone directly when it comes to portfolio visit meetings, which I think makes more sense as its quicker to get a yes or no, and arrange times etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They went on to speak about how to use email as a self promotion tool. Here are some of their tips for sending emails and compiling mailing lists:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Compile a list of art directors and send a first email to them all. Any that send you a reply, add to a separate mailing list to send your 'newsletter' to in the future.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Email every 3 months - to both 'fans' and prospective employers. 3 months gives you lots of time to come up with lots of new work.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add a ''remove from mailing list' option so they can opt out if they want</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Try using BCC for the mailing list to avoid spam filters</span> </li>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was interesting to here them talk about sending bulk emails via mailing lists, as it something we've kind of been old not to do, as it goes against the idea of personalising your correspondence. I think however that if your doing it in the for of a newsletter, its obviously accepted as standard that these won't be personal. Setting up a newsletter type email is really something to think about, as long as you do a good job, as you can embed links and images into the email so people don't have to waste time downloading and opening separate files.They recommended keeping the content short and sweet, and trying to make it look interesting with nice type etc. They also suggested sending a thank you email after a job is completed is a good thing to do as shows that you appreciated getting the work and are open to more work in the future. In contrast to the Charles Hively podcast, these guys seemed interested in the idea of sending out promo Christmas cards, although they hadn't tried it yet. On one hand, there is something a bit insincere about sending out a card that is also self promotion, but on the other hand, its seems stupid as an illustrator, if you are going to send out a card, that it wouldn't be something you've designed yourself. Maybe this would be best kept for clients you've already worked with rather than prospective clients, because....it's a bit weird anyway to send a stranger a card.</span><br />
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In the next part of the podcast, they spoke about social networking and portfolio sites. This was something I'd recently been involved in a discussion about, so it was interesting to hear what these guys had to say. Here are their suggestions:</div>
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<li>Things like <a href="http://www.illustrationfriday.com/">Illustration Friday</a> can be good for networking and also building your portfolio quickly</li>
<li>Putting work up on sites like <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a> can be good exposure and help increase traffic to your site</li>
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I definitely agree that networking and getting your work seen is so important. I'm already on a few social networking sites, but Flickr is something I'm definitely going to look into. Getting your work everywhere will definitely make your life easier and increase your odds of getting work, however I do think its good to edit where you put your work in one sense, and just stick with reputable sites and one with strong illustration communities otherwise its probably just making more work for yourself to update them. I think it's probably trail and error to find the places that work best so I'll hopefully try a few more places in the future and see how it goes. </div>
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Finally, the guys made a point at the end of the podcast about the importance of networking and keeping in contact with other students from your course. I definitely hope to keep in contact with students from my course where possible, and work together in the future. They also recommended getting involved with whatever you can, such as groups or podcasts, and to keep yourself involved and motivated if you want to make a career out of illustration.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overall, the podcast was really helpful and they had lots of good tips and advice that I can use. In contrast to the <a href="http://dominiquebyron.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/podcast-charles-hively-of-3x3.html">Charles Hively podcast</a>, their advice seemed to come more from an illustrators perspective, and even contradicted some of the things Hively suggested. I think from this I can draw the conclusion that self promo isn't a science, and some types of promo will go down better with some people than with others, and it might just be a case of giving things a go and seeing how it works out.</span><br />
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