Milk! Ad.

Advert for Dairy Farmers of Canada 'Get a Load of Milk' campaign.

Their logo would go top right.

New Yorker Cover

Brain was totally frazzled for this project but this is what I came up with. It's supposed to draw you in to work out what's going on. Is she one of them? Finished her mannequin shift? Ooh.

Fishy zine.

Final piece of work for my activism class. I made another zine. 

This time using the back poster as a way of giving all the facts information,

 allowing the folded story on the other side to remain more subtle and aesthetic. 

This also managed to resolve a project I worked on before summer on the same topic, where I couldn't quite find the balance of information and pleasing aesthetics. 

So the basic concept is the first page with loads of fish and the words "Plenty more fish in the sea" and as you turn the pages there are less and less fish until the last page where there is just one with the ending punctuation for the sentence, a question mark. The idea is that that would create enough intrigue to draw you in to opening it out and finding out more about what's actually going on, with a link to a website to further your curiosity on the subject.

I reckon it'd be nice printed on some sort of recycled paper. Sustainability! Yay!

If you actually do want to know more then have a look at endoftheline.com

What do you think?

Have a close look by clicking on the images.

Op-Ed

Little 2x2.5 inch op-ed piece to go with article on bullying.

 Made on Illustrator a few projects ago.

Jane Eyre

 

Jane Eyre book cover sketches. Various versions of silly poutiness. 

I was going for a pale gothic/vampire feel. Or something.

All you need is love.

Early sketch for The Beatles assignment.

Character Sketch

Little character sketches.

Fish!

Time to kill- drew some fishies.

Buy Nothing Day Sketch

This was my first sketch for my But Nothing Day poster. 

Quite like it in black and white actually!

Zine!

Our last Sequential Narrative class project was to create a little no-staple zine. It folds up into a book, with a poster on the other side when you open it out. So the first page is actually one in from the left, if you see what I mean! I went for drawing my favourite: a stormy sea! The idea is that we can use them to promote ourselves, so that's why there's a blog address on the back. 

I think it turned out quite nicely! 

Final zine with first rough on the left.

Give the pictures a click to have a good look.

On the Road

Need to make type for "On the Road" clearer, and should have hand drawn road dashes... but apart from that I'm pretty happy with the result of my Jack Kerouac book cover. I did the thing where you've been looking at something for far too long so you can't even see the flaws in it, which become oh so obvious during the crit! I printed it out on water colour paper which looked pretty nice. I was going for a screen printed sort of look, with the offset colour layers. Wish I could have actually screen printed it, but this has turned out to be a really good way of planning an image using layers, which could definitely be useful for future print making :)

Recent photos with Canon AE-1

Buy Nothing Day!

This is my poster for International Buy Nothing Day, which is happening on the 26th November in Canada... and presumably other countries internationally. The idea is that she can fly higher and higher by dropping the bags from her hot air balloon. A sort of metaphor for freeing yourself from spending and consumerism, which can really weigh you down. Medium-ly pleased with it. I'll scan my sketch for it in soon because I think I still like that more! Plus it's nice seeing the whole process. I have the crit for this tomorrow in Illustrative Activism so we shall see how it goes!

Here's a few other variations. 

Smaller text... better?

Book Covers! Work in progress..

Covers for 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac, for my main illustration class. What do you think?

I'm going to print it on some thick water colour paper so it looks like it's been screen printed! Obviously it'd be more ideal to actually screen print it but this is the next best thing! I've been looking at them for too long so no idea if they actually look nice or not.

Give em a click to get a better look!

Nightmare in colour

Voila! Colour. Not a total disaster...

Nightmare

My nightmare spread pre-colour. Much better flow in this one. Bit scared of putting colour on actually, but I really like how it looks like this. Prob should have penned on top of colour... live and learn. Scary?

Dreams/Nightmares

A wee first sketch for a spread with the theme of dreams or nightmares. This is the first nightmare I can remember having. Remember when you used to hide under the cover until there was no air left under there and you could bear the heat no more?

I realised I was supposed to include at least 8 panels, as this is for my Sequential narrative aka comic book class. But I like it like this so I thought I'd scan it for all to see :)

Click the sketch to zoooom.

Raft of the Gaia.

This is a spread I did for my Illustrative Activism class. The assignment was to create an illustration to go along with this article by James Lovelock, a climate scientist with controversial views about the state of the earth. He reckons that the damage we have done to the earth is now irreversible and in a matter of decades 7 out of 8 people will be gone with only the coldest climates at a bearable temperature to live. 

My piece references "The Raft of the Medusa" by Gericault, with a landscape over taken by windmills. Not sure this image really shows it's full quality. I added the nuclear barrels in there too as Lovelock figures it is the best way of powering our countries, windmills are not going to help, according to him, as it is too little, too late. I guess I was trying to create a scene where everything Lovelock has predicted has come true. We have tried in vain to save the situations by filling seas with windmills but it was pointless and the remaining few members of the population are out at sea.

Not sure if I agree with Lovelock or not, but it's definitely an interesting point of view.

Click on the image to give it a better look!


UPDATE: I got an A!!!

More Work in Progress...

Screen shot! The Beatles and Blur.

Current work in progress... Giving The Beatles a Julian Opie makeover.

I might paint it... but Opie didn't paint his so maybe it's ok. This is for my main illustration class. Our assignment is to create an illustration to sit in a magazine alongside this review by Chuck Klosterman
of The Beatles' box set that came out last year.
Can you tell who's who?

As usual.. Click image to enlarge.

BEATLEbum?

:)

Old Work: Portfolio for OCAD

Comic Jam

In our first Sequential Narrative class we did a 'comic jam'. Each person started off a six panel comic and passed it on. I drew my tiger in the grass and I love how the imaginations of five other people took it in a completely new direction. I love it!

Click on the comic to give it a closer looksee! 

Work in Progress...

Work in progress for the next comic. This time in colour, and on two pages. This is just two little character studies. I'll post the final thing if it's any good...!

Click image to enlarge!

Illustrative Activism

This is just a little sketch for another class I am taking called Illustrative Activism. The topic was on the de-forestation of the boreal forest in Canada. Didn't really like my final piece but it was a little like this. Next project is on the James Lovelock's 'Gaia Theory' of climate change.

My First Comic!

One of the classes I'm taking here in Toronto is Sequential Narrative, which is basically comic drawing! At first I was so unsure about it, I thought there'd be more on children's book, but there is so much freedom in comic design and it's something so completely different from anything we'd be doing back at GSA. So here is my first attempt! 

Click image to see bigger.

The final comic... there's a few things I'd change.

First sketch for my story... shoe is better on this one.

Earlier sketch of my snail!

Penelope stalks a butterfly in the long grass...

Another lithograph/screenprint I did over the summer at Edinburgh Printmakers.

Click on image to enlarge!

Madeline looses her boater...

This is a wee print I did over the summer at Edinburgh Printmakers, using lithography and a little bit of screenprinting! It was good fun to do and I was lucky enough to be taught by the best, Gill Tyson, who may or may not be my mother....

Click on the image to get a closer look.

HI!

photograph by Katie Connelly

Hi!

I am Ruth and I am planning on using this blog to show what I've been up to at art school until I get around to making some sort of website!

I hope you enjoy what is to come.....