just a test

when I mean old – these were done after college, around 1997-98 and some are later when I started plying around with photoshop for the first time, I actually ended up malingering around my old college helping out teach Photoshop

I hope I have improved somewhat, but it is always good to look back, some of the digital work was done later when I was preparing for an interview to do another course in 1998 which I decided would be a waste of time …

Wow, no posts for a long time …

I have been working on a number of projects, couple of websites and I have been doing a lot of outsourced retouching and web projects which I cant really post on here, hence my lack of activity.

So, this is a shoot that Stuart Hendry did a while back, which we decided to try to have a play around with, I have a lot of pics on my hard drive and my intention is to try several different illustrative styles purely in the interest of seeing what I can come up with, this was the first

more to come (hopefully I wont leave it a month though)….

LINKS:

Stuart Hendry Photographer website

Photofixer London Creative Retouching and Illustration

Stuart Hendry sent me some photos from a  recent shoot called ‘Free Runners‘ to have a play with, which you can see in more detail  on his photographic blog here

I wanted to create a kind of grungy feel, hence the textured background and the usual paint splatty thing, this was just my initial play with the image and I plan on developing it more.

Stuart Hendry is a London photographer based in South London and recently burnt a number of recent pieces to disc so that we could have a mess about and see if we could come up with some interesting illustrations,

the originals came from a shoot Stuart did here:

http://www.stuarthendry.com/blog/2010/06/07/we-have-it-covered/

take a look at some more of STu’s work at:

http://www.stuarthendry.com/

This is my initial work, pretty happy with the concept which was to make something reminiscent of a Rorschach pattern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAaFUoiOM-Y

Butterfly with a bomb!

In preparation for a wordpress driven website for Luke – details coming …

I created a series of illustrations from photographs supplied by Inga, using a restricted colour palette and some vectorised conversions of paint splatters that I have previously created.

For more illustration and photographic retouching and illustrative projects take a look through this blog or go to my photographic retouching site at http://www.photofixer.co.uk

woof woof bite bite

someone asked me to do some similar illustrations for a project so I grabbed a couple of snaps lying around and mixed in some vector graphics of paint splashes

I shall be setting up a new gallery of photography and illustrations shortly, otherwise – click the illustration category on the side to see some other doodles or take a look at my retouching site at http://www.photofixer.co.uk

also need to update that …

Going to have a big revamp of all 3 of my websites – starting with this blog – possible logo ?

answers on a postcard …

I cleaned this image up and removed the original background and then put in a couple of illustrative elements, this is definitely the sort of direction I would like to be going in terms of mixing photography and illustration/design – i hope to add some more stuff shortly.

For more retouching, illustration, fashion retouching and beauty retouching visit my main photgraphic retouching site at http://www.photofixer.co.uk

LINKS:

http://www.photofixer.co.uk

http://www.styleanicon.com (Jemimah’s site)