Postcard outcomes for my 'Love Letters' to Italian cafes in Leeds. Left: watercolour and ink. Middle: lino print. Right: digital drawing.

The beginning of my 'Love Letters' project; I mind-mapped potential subject matter, then decided on cafes and did observational drawings in them.

After narrowing my subject down to to Italian cafes, I did ink and watercolour observational drawings in one, of the food and my friend eating. A Q&A led to imaginary drawings of the previous opera-singing owner.

Drawings from life in the two more Italian cafes, exploring the friendly atmosphere as well as the food.

I developed the observational drawing of my friend from the first Italian cafe into a mock-up poster and magazine page. I then used my previous primary research to plan outcome ideas, deciding on three postcards aiming to advertise and celebrate the different cafes. 

The process behind each postcard. These could be given for free to a customer at the end of a meal.

A5 children's book cover, using gouache, for a project where the task was to create a character inspired by a visit to a new place.

The beginning of 'This Could Be The Place'; observational drawings in Kirkgate Market, with quotes and details about the atmosphere. 

I chose one of the quotes I overhead at the market ('Ey up! How we doing?') and explored who might have said it, then generated character features based on these ideas. 

I developed a character based on the features exploring the quote, aiming to create a children's-book character working at the market.

I explored a potential story about my character interacting with a mother and child at the market, then experimented with colour and medium for my final book cover.

Imagining 100 potential uses of a key. 

Imagining what objects would look like if they were all illogical and surreal, which finished with two gouache paintings. 

A drawing project where I explored surface textures, resulting in the A1 outcome to the right, which used pin pricking and pen to communicate a 'jagged' quality.

Exploring how to use imaginary marks and symbols to evoke the chaotic experience of driving a bumper car, resulting in an A1 charcoal, ink and biro outcome.

'What Does Music Look Like'; I aimed to communicate a song (Malukayi by Mbongwana Star), ultimately creating psychedelic lino prints to reflect the hypnotic elements of the music.

Communicating 'You're' by Sylvia Plath; the quote 'moon-skulled' led to a clay outcome of a moon-fetus, which I took stop motion photos of to potentially develop into an animation.

'Waldeinsamkeit' is the German expression for the sublime-ness of being alone in the forest; I explored ideas and characters for this, along with mono and lino prints.

Watercolour and charcoal imaginary storyboard for a film noir screenplay I wrote, about a woman being investigated for the murder of her husband. 

A-Level exploratory work, and two A1 oil paintings exploring my relationship with my mother and melancholia. 

I used a magazine I made for my EP on 20th-century makeup as a starting point to create an illustrated advert for rouge.