Editorial illustrations - War of the worlds and the encyclopaedia of how long things take

Here are the 4th and 5th briefs from our set of editorial work.

First one is based on the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. It was first broadcast (Directed and narrated by Orson Wells) in 1938 with a series of news bulletins.
Many American's thought it was real and it caused widespread panic! Great story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama).

Here my 4 drawings show Orson reading the broadcast, then vacated places; a pub, a house and a train (might want to click to view larger)

The second set is about the encyclopaedia of how long things take, I chose how long a Polaroid takes to develop

 

Captain Kidd's buried treasure on Gardiners Island, NY

Speech is silver, Silence is gold

Another one of our quick few days briefs, this is illustrating an article about how we all have increasingly large vocabularies from a young age, but as we get older the percentage of words from our bank we use declines.

Here are the useless words he knows pouring out of his head

Alex.

Smoke filled room

This brief was designed to produce an outcome similar to editorial illustration in the Radio Times, here is an example by Anne Clegg.

We were asked to make an image 37.5 x 71.5mm, not used to working that small! But here's my shot:

I've also been working hard on my brand and fanzine with Dan Duncan called 'Get better'. I'll be printing very soon so keep an eye out.

Alex

Shed project

Its been a while! Sorry I haven't posted much, been working a lot on projects and a brand which I am soon to bring out called 'Get Better'. Hope Christmas and New years were awesome!

Anyway, art and that. So this project we were asked to produce a portrait of our ideal sheds. So I thought, what do I like? Friends and alcohol.

I think I prefer the guys isolated on white though.

Sorry Greg for making you look like more of a psychopath.