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
1 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
I’ve been working on assignments for about 4 weeks straight now and none of them have been particularly blog-worthy, so I took a couple hours out today to do this for myself (it’s actually a cropped version of my new desktop wallpaper, which you can look at here). Inspired by vintage cameos/victorian silhouettes - which I’m a sucker for - and skulls. Love me some skull imagery. It’s a shame that this is a little too late for Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead and Halloween, two of my favourite festivals/holidays. Oh well! Sorry about the watermark, too, but it had to be done.

I’ve been working on assignments for about 4 weeks straight now and none of them have been particularly blog-worthy, so I took a couple hours out today to do this for myself (it’s actually a cropped version of my new desktop wallpaper, which you can look at here). Inspired by vintage cameos/victorian silhouettes - which I’m a sucker for - and skulls. Love me some skull imagery. It’s a shame that this is a little too late for Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead and Halloween, two of my favourite festivals/holidays. Oh well! Sorry about the watermark, too, but it had to be done.

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4 Nov 2011
So for one of my negotiated assignments at uni, I’ve been wanting to do some sinister-looking illustrations as title pages for some of the Grimm Brother’s original fairytales. I’m pretty set on crafting and using puppets (influenced by Idonesian shadow puppetry) to use for the shady looking villians.. and then crafting more solid, colourful puppets for the stories’ heroes and heroines. This is the first design I’ve come up with for the wicked witch - of Hansel & Ghretel - and will hopefully be crafting it with moving joints soon to test out. I kinda like this one the most so far. Drawing up sinsiter and twisted looking characters is really quite fun. Can’t wait to make this and test it out with some spooky lighting!

So for one of my negotiated assignments at uni, I’ve been wanting to do some sinister-looking illustrations as title pages for some of the Grimm Brother’s original fairytales. I’m pretty set on crafting and using puppets (influenced by Idonesian shadow puppetry) to use for the shady looking villians.. and then crafting more solid, colourful puppets for the stories’ heroes and heroines.

This is the first design I’ve come up with for the wicked witch - of Hansel & Ghretel - and will hopefully be crafting it with moving joints soon to test out. I kinda like this one the most so far. Drawing up sinsiter and twisted looking characters is really quite fun. Can’t wait to make this and test it out with some spooky lighting!
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2 Aug 2011
24 Jul 2011