I finished my 3 month internship at The Studio 4 (design agency) today. I’ve basically been working non-stop, posting blogs, writing SEO reports, designing logos, editing photos, laying out pages, writing editorials, illustrating bits and bobs - everything. Here’s something I did today for the company’s 2012 Christmas e-bulletin. Working at a design agency has taught me a number of things: 1) Everyone always expects you to do everything at once. 2) Everything will only take you ‘5 or so minutes’ according to your manager 3) Clients are idiots. To be honest, it was a great experience. I loved the people I worked with, and I got a lot of illustrations and designs accepted/published, so it’s helped me with my faith in myself, and it’s also make me work a LOT faster.

I finished my 3 month internship at The Studio 4 (design agency) today. I’ve basically been working non-stop, posting blogs, writing SEO reports, designing logos, editing photos, laying out pages, writing editorials, illustrating bits and bobs - everything. Here’s something I did today for the company’s 2012 Christmas e-bulletin.

Working at a design agency has taught me a number of things:

1) Everyone always expects you to do everything at once.

2) Everything will only take you ‘5 or so minutes’ according to your manager

3) Clients are idiots.

To be honest, it was a great experience. I loved the people I worked with, and I got a lot of illustrations and designs accepted/published, so it’s helped me with my faith in myself, and it’s also make me work a LOT faster.
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19 Dec 2012
3 May 2012
Working up some initial sketches and FINALLY making a proper start on the kids’ story I’m illustrating to be published in the summer. Just some flat colour drawings of ‘Isabella the Fairy’, I’m going to add textures and a little extra shading here and there in the final pages. ALSO, I now have a facebook page for my work over at http://www.facebook.com/EmmieMcKeeGraphicDesignAndIllustration - so if you like my work, a ‘like’ for the page would be GREATLY appreciated. :)

Working up some initial sketches and FINALLY making a proper start on the kids’ story I’m illustrating to be published in the summer. Just some flat colour drawings of ‘Isabella the Fairy’, I’m going to add textures and a little extra shading here and there in the final pages.

ALSO, I now have a facebook page for my work over at http://www.facebook.com/EmmieMcKeeGraphicDesignAndIllustration - so if you like my work, a ‘like’ for the page would be GREATLY appreciated. :)

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20 Apr 2012
26 Mar 2012
One of the double page spreads for my negotiated project at university - ‘The Zombie Survival Sketchbook’ - a 10 to 20 -page booklet of illustrations, notes and advice for surviving the zombie apocalypse based on the ideas presented in Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide. The premiss here is that it’s being produced by an individual who’s gone a teeny bit insane during the apocalypse, and their inflated ego deems it necessary to record the information they collect for anyone who should be lucky enough to find it. This particular spread is made to look as though it’s being recorded over the top of existing ‘family record’ pages from a local church. The messy, scrawly handwriting is my own. Currently working on pages like ‘DIY Weaponry’, ‘hideouts’ and ‘first aid’, too.

One of the double page spreads for my negotiated project at university - ‘The Zombie Survival Sketchbook’ - a 10 to 20 -page booklet of illustrations, notes and advice for surviving the zombie apocalypse based on the ideas presented in Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide. The premiss here is that it’s being produced by an individual who’s gone a teeny bit insane during the apocalypse, and their inflated ego deems it necessary to record the information they collect for anyone who should be lucky enough to find it. This particular spread is made to look as though it’s being recorded over the top of existing ‘family record’ pages from a local church. The messy, scrawly handwriting is my own. Currently working on pages like ‘DIY Weaponry’, ‘hideouts’ and ‘first aid’, too.
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24 Jul 2011