hey guys it's Alice again so today as
you can tell from the title I am going
to show you through my third year
university degree portfolios so for
those of you who don't know I studied
media production at the University of
Lincoln last week I got my University
results I got a first class honours
alone still so wasn't about I don't
think I'm ever gonna get over it if you
want to see my like reaction to opening
my results there were tears it was
dramatic it's very cute I'll leave that
linked on screen and down below but a
lot of you guys have asked to see my
work over these past few years so I
thought I'll start it off with my year 3
work so the final year the biggest year
the most stressful year and then if you
guys would like to I'll show you my
second and my first year so I'm kind of
working backwards but just let me know
but I thought third year would be like
the most prominent and most like
relevant and interesting one for right
now oh my god look I've scratched my
neck and it looks like I've been savaged
let's just ignore that so I'm gonna get
straight into it I'm just gonna flick
through my portfolio you're gonna see me
really small in the corner of your
screen so you can see the most out of
portfolio and we're gonna get straight
to it so basically my degree is split
into two semesters once before Christmas
and ones after so we submit two
portfolios so this while I'm showing you
right now is semester eggs and then I'll
get onto semester B's I'm hoping I
don't take too long doing this because
this could be a long video because these
are really really like lengthy
portfolios I got 74% in both of them
which is a first so excited so happy
about it and all the hard work paid off
so this is me and it's on the front page
you always have to include like the
media media the module codes and all
that kind of jazz so for our course we
have to present our portfolio in an
aesthetic manner we get marks for that
so I think I improved this is obviously
first semester semester age one but I
think when you look at the next one
you'll see so we have a Content page so
this is all work I do they ask you to do
three briefs I did
two three four five six seven you know
they want a minimum of three and they
have a range of different things so they
have in three categories self-initiated
client and competition and I just did an
extra few client ones as you can see and
so if my self initiated one I created a
children's book and a lot of you guys
have already seen this I have it here
this is the finished result but I'll
show you how the process kind of
happened so for my children's book I
needed to do market research so I looked
online mainly on Pinterest for like
covers and styles and different things
that I like the look of any ideas on how
I was gonna draw it like what methods I
was going to use and then it also
purchased a whole bunch of children's
books to actually physically look
through they were so helpful if you're
thinking of doing something similar
definitely head over to like wh sniffs
and just buy some so I looked at them
how many pages they had whether it had a
content page like really looked deep
into them and added little sticky notes
then I looked into artists again this is
another like requirement so I looked to
people who had already published
children's books so I looked at Helena
Duggan Keith
Ned Ned Lee Begley and Kail Atkinson and
these are just people I found online who
have a really really cool work and did a
little bit of research around them and
then layout and format so I needed to
know how to lay it out so I didn't
really know how to do the storyboard and
I actually have found something quite
interesting I found these which are the
original drawings from when I first had
the ideas and you can kind of see from
this one I'll show you the spread later
on but this one is really similar to
what it turned out like and like this
was my initial sketch very very very
very like crap but it all made sense in
my head and it was kind of my way of
visualizing it and so yeah that's quite
interesting to see how this turned into
this which is quite cool
it took me ages as well like literally I
never have worked so hard on anything in
my life so then I used some inspiration
there was a fellow student who'd already
graduated who did a book and he was
called Jamie Hammond I really liked his
book so I took a lot of inspiration from
him and then looked in the library at
for various research because obviously
it's a uni degree we need to have like
written literature research so character
development this was when I was getting
on to my characters and it took me ages
to decide what my character was gonna be
called I decided on peterpanda and so
this is Peter this is the process as you
can see he looks a bit dodgy to start
with and then I refined him and he had
everyone told me he had scary eyes so I
made his eyes a little bit more
welcoming and that is Peter and I wanted
to keep him really simple obviously I
could have gotten into a lot more detail
with him but I think the whole point in
me doing this was to keep it quite
simple and then mummy pander which is
quite similar bit of blusher some
eyelashes and a bow and Freddie frog and
then these are my other characters who I
never actually named and we always like
to say that this little tiger man looks
really hench like he looks ripped but
yeah these are my characters so again
just showing you how I made them so then
for this storyline I actually wrote that
storyline myself I made it ended up by
me and I don't know why but if you want
to pause it and read it that's the
actual full story and then I split it
into pages so I kind of sectioned it off
and decided how much of each bit was
gonna be on which page that didn't make
any sense in it no and then there's the
storyboard look this is this so that's
my first sketch and then this is when I
took it into my computer so I did it all
on Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
mainly illustrator and I kind of laid it
all out and just drew everything by hand
I actually use a Wacom tablet which is
buried currently is this thing I've just
unplugged it but it's a little drawing
tablet and it comes with a pen and I
draw on that and it draws on my screen
for me really really good definitely
recommend I think they're about fifty
pounds they're not that expensive at all
and I've definitely it's definitely
ain't it's money let's just say that um
so yeah I've got a few different spreads
so this is that the story but I've just
shown you where for the house and the
moon so that's how that one kind of
turned out and the classroom and this is
just you can see the different layers
and how it all built up and adding darts
and I didn't each leaf in that one I
added the leaf um by like step by step I
had to create every single leaf it was a
long process and then I asked for some
feedback so I actually got my friend
Jade to look at it and give me some
feedback
I had my tutors giving me feedback my
classmates so I could go back and make
any changes because obviously once I've
said it for that long I just kind of get
numb and don't really see any changes
that needed making so from there I test
printing it and again I have these here
I found them all so these were just not
to scale but these were just an idea of
what it kind of looked like this was the
first time I'd ever physically printed
it I think this was about two weeks
before the deadline maybe so I was
pushing it quite thin and I needed to
send it off to the printers like ASAP so
I was very very pushed for time you can
say because I needed to get this one
sent off so yeah this this was like the
final review we kind of looked at the
Spelling's and made any last-minute
changes so then for printing I actually
got it printed at Docs direct in the end
and the final product these are like the
flat images that created the book and
then the printed product I did two
different bounds so this is a perfect
bound and then this one I've got in my
hand is a saddle stitch bound I forgot
what that was called then basically the
saddle stitch has staples in the middle
and the perfect band doesn't it's kind
of glued in
I like the saddle stitch better because
it lays flat that's basically it I was
gonna get a hard book one printed but
let's be real the really expensive I
couldn't afford that on my student
budget so I just did a mock-up I kind of
cheated and that's it
so that was the first project and then
the second one was my merch and I didn't
actually realize at the time that this
could become this could be considered as
part of my degree I did this in summer
but then I might you to find out found
out that I did merch he was like that's
design why haven't you submitted it so I
added this to my portfolio a lot of you
guys have probably seen this it is still
up for sale but I made merch so I made
little digital designs kind of inspired
by the quote be fearless in the pursuit
of what sets your soul on fire so that
was the quote that inspired me so this
card says be fearless and then I've got
one that says shine bright and they're
all kind of in my pink marble and black
aesthetic which I really like and so you
can get a note cards which obviously
have printed products of notebooks in
the same patterns and then a hoodie
loved the hoodie wear it a lot obviously
not in this weather though so yeah my
tutor was really impressed with that and
the fact that I do my own merch over
summer so it was really nice to be able
to include that with my degree and then
during my final year I actually made the
desk planner so this was a process that
I actually did whilst at uni so I looked
up original desk planners kind of
figured out what kind of layout I wanted
and then started piecing together my own
and then that was the file for that and
then obviously you guys have seen the
desk planner I have it somewhere should
be on my desk but it is it's on the
floor so yeah that's the final product
and then I showed them all in my shop as
a like another thing that I designed I
obviously designed my own website so
client briefs I did a few you'll
probably see a few familiar faces so I
actually did a poster for Brandon so
what he was doing open mic nights and he
wanted a poster that they could put up
in the pubs so I decided to make a
poster for them and it was really fun to
do actually it was the first kind of
creative II client thing I'd done other
than like the digital portrait so this
was what I did I had to digitize one of
the logos on illustrator because it was
really pixelated so I had to make my own
version of it and then I used a load of
layers and different things in Photoshop
to create this and I made two in the end
so we had the orange one and then the
green one and they were very very happy
with it
and yeah I still really liked those
designs actually I think they they
worked really really well and brief
number two was for a homeless charity
and a wonderful girl called Rima emailed
me and she asked me to create something
so it was a charity called Street safe
and they wanted a new logo basically
they didn't have a logo they want a
little more professional so these were
my first drafts and when you see these
are actually pretty much how it finish
like how it ended up looking in the end
and so yeah we went from those drafts I
did a little bit of research on the
color we changed the colors a lot like
there was a lot of back and forth so you
can kind of see the behind the scenes
again we've gone back to the normal
colors and then more colors and then
more like fonts and different styles and
then we ended up settling on orange and
blue and with a like skinnier font and
then the little s symbol because I
thought it looked nice having an
intertwined SS for street safe because
it's a homeless charity so I wanted to
kind of symbolize that made all this on
illustrator and that is the final logo
so then what designers tend to do is use
mock-ups so you can download Photoshop
mock-ups like if you search in Google
PSD mock-ups you'll be able to like
superimpose a design onto a t-shirt or a
book cover onto a book like different
things so this is a stationary set that
I used and then you could obviously do a
Twitter account and then different
things you'll see a lot of mock-ups as
we go through brief number three was
portraits so again this was something I
was doing over summer so I included a
few of my digital portrait client
as I did so these lovely people
contacted me and asked me to draw them
so this is one and again there's a
mock-up and then we have Chester
Bennington which was another one done
for a really big fan of him again a
mock-up and then this lovely couple with
a mock-up you get the theme and it's
nice to see the photo like in its
digital version but then when you see it
in an actual frame there's something a
little bit different about it so
definitely bear that in mind if you're
wanting to be a designer and then
finally that one and I think that's the
last one
yeah and then briefly before was
actually run by my university so my
tutor got directly in touch with me and
he saw the Open Mic poster I did and
liked the look of it so asked me to do
one for an event at the Uni so this was
the poster I created to start off with
the one on the right hand side is the
one that they use the year before and I
I think you can tell it needed a bit of
a refresh like that wouldn't catch my
eye in a corridor if that was on screen
on screen on the wall so the one on the
left was the one I created initially I
didn't send this to the client in the
end I wasn't a hundred and happy with it
but I kind of liked the vibe so then I
adapted it and I put a filmstrip in they
wanted to include photos of the people
that were going to be at this event
so I added a film strip and then sent
that to the client for approval and then
they wanted another filmstrip so we kind
of adapted it and then added one in the
background changed the opacity like mix
them around a little bit and then that's
what it turned out like and on the right
you can see that it was put on the wall
there was like huge prints of it around
the university which was really cool to
see and the event was actually really
good so yeah that's the poster in a mock
up version and I'm really happy with
that once again and my tutor and the
client who was also a lecturer at the
Uni was very happy and then competition
brief was another category that we had
to do fun story about this one I
actually did the main drafts of this
whilst on the train on the way to London
sat next to a extremely chatty
middle-aged man who was driving me
insane and he was just asking me a
million questions do you know one of
those train rides when you just want to
sit in silence in your own company I
wanted
this guy was having none of it he was a
lovely but just I just needed some space
you know so yeah I did a wallpaper
design for a John Lewis like mock
breathing so again market research
headed over to Pinterest love Pinterest
so much and then did some drafts my idea
was to do something around like monsters
something that makes monsters quite fun
I know that children quite like monsters
so I did some paint splatters and then
scan them in and the plan was to kind of
make them like googly eyed monsters and
see where it went but I didn't like that
so I went back to the drawing board and
tried again so the second one actually
turned into animals so these were things
that I had made again over summer and I
found them in like my archive of designs
that I have and I was like right I'm
gonna make the most of these because I
really like the texture
they used watercolors and I think it
just looks really cool so I kind of
adapted how I did it and made a collage
so I basically put it in Illustrator and
made a repeating pattern played around
with it so you'll see it kind of changes
I got rid of that branch cuz it's weird
and then I changed it again and then I
added a bit of a texturing background
you can kind of see the process I went
through and then I thought it looked a
bit busy so I spread it out and then the
final design had a plain background and
I just spread out the animals a little
bit and then that is put on a mock-up
again so you can kind of see what the
wallpaper would look like in an actual
bedroom and I think it looks really cute
I'd love to have that wallpaper in my
child's bedroom so yeah very happy with
that
and that is my first year product
product project so this is semester B's
project so this is the project I did
from January until April so again cover
page with all my information on and a
content page so this time I did one two
three four five six seven briefs again
but one of them had like stub sections
so I kind of cheated but first one was
website design so I actually redesigned
my entire websites I thought it'd be
quite cool to include that
me and I had a few ideas I'd never used
WordPress before and I will say I'm
doing a design degree nor web
development degree but I thought it was
quite cool to include this so I included
the photos that I edited for the header
for my website and then showed the final
thing so this is what my website looks
like I think it still looks like this
actually I've not changed it since and
then I included a link as well so you
can click on it and look through it and
then the shop page so you can see the
merch from last semester and again the
mock-up so I searched like PSD laptop
mock-up and then this came up so yeah
and then my teacher actually wanted to
see a different idea so if I could
design my own website from scratch what
would I do so this is my design so I got
rid of the gaps in between the photos
and I kind of made it a little bit more
streamline so then the next project is
lino kitchen and I loved this I need to
get back into doing this and and it's
basically like potato printing if any of
you guys did that when you were younger
so it looks kind of like this again I
headed to Pinterest got some inspiration
and you cut out little rubber stamps
because basically and like stick them on
so these were the first ones I did I did
little cacti and a little fox and you
can see it got quite messy and I just
kind of rolled some ink onto the stamps
that I carved and printed them along and
kind of went from there and I really
enjoyed it you know I'm such a crafty
person I want to do more of this so
those are the foxes which I think look
really cool I like that each time you
print them they look different because
I've obviously like how the ink is and
then I developed it more so I ordered
some colored inks and I did some fruit
patterns so you've probably seen these
again if you don't follow my design
Instagram account I'll leave it linked
on screen and down below but you've seen
these prints I'm sure so I did some
strawberries and made that pattern which
I love that's my favorite and lemons and
limes or oranges depending what color
ink is and did that pattern so I
basically did the initial print on an
actual just a four
or regular piece of cartridge paper and
then I scanned it into my computer and
turned it into a digital thing and if
you look closer you can kind of tell
that it's digital so then I did
pineapples again scan them to my
computer and arranged it into a pattern
and then I did some mock up so again the
PSD mock ups and these are aprons I
thought it'd be quite cute too do you
like fruit print aprons so I did a bunch
of those again like book covers and then
my tutor asked me to do some greetings
cards and again you guys probably have
seen a few of these and I love them I
really want to see how I can go about
maybe selling them or designing cards
for like Paper Chase or something I
don't know how to do that so if anyone
does let me know and but yeah these are
some of the designs I really like the
one on the left I think that one's funny
I did some flowers change the colors and
again it's just a mock-up and I just did
the flat image for the front and then
made it look like a card so yeah I
really like these and I'm very happy
with all the pony cards that I made this
one's very cute as well so the next one
is social media so as you guys know a
lot of my friends are in the social
media world and they asked me to create
banners for their YouTube channels or
like logos for their blogs so I kind of
gathered all this up together and put it
all into my portfolio because again it's
experience and it's a client work so I
did the research I went to the library
got some written material and I actually
kind of tied this in with one of my
future briefs which is about mental
health and so this is kind of like
linked in with that one so the first one
I did is for Sophie Sophie Foster what a
babe I love her a lot she's gorgeous
love her videos definitely recommend
checking her out she asked me to make a
banner for her which I was very
flattered to do so I made a portrait of
her and this one was kind of more a
cartoon style portrait like I wanted to
keep it simple I didn't do too many like
shadows I literally wanted to keep it
very simple so that when it got made
smaller and put on her channel it still
kind of retained its quality you could
still see who it was and so I did that
and then we looked at different fonts
for the name and different background
textures in different liked compositions
but so if we really liked the one that
was underneath so we used that font that
she liked the best and we put it
underneath her with a little bit of a
shadow on it and then added the Twitter
and Instagram handle which I think looks
really really cool and this is the final
product
I actually made an end card as well so I
used the same image with the phone and
put some like social icons so she uses
that on her end screen and then this is
the banner on her actual channel it was
super cool to see it on her channel and
I'm pretty sure she still has it on
there as well which is amazing so yeah
thank you safely if asking me to do that
for you I still love it and so yeah
that's that one and again look a mock-up
which makes it look really cool you can
see it on the phone and on the laptop
which I think adds a bit of dimension to
it so then the next one is Lauren Harden
and I love this one this one was so much
fun to do it was super difficult but
really really satisfying ones and
finished it so Lauren had a blog and as
you can see it didn't really have a logo
or a brand of sorts to it so she asked
if I could make one so she sent me a
bunch of existing blog banners and
headers and stuff that she liked the
look of for inspiration and I kind of
went from that she was a really lovely
customer to work for because she kind of
let me take the reins and just trusted
what I was saying so she let me kind of
use this vector style like flat cartoon
image style thing so I came up with this
she says she really liked her cat and
really liked T so I thought write a
little blog thing sit having a cup of
tea with your cat that was the idea that
was in my head so I made this like
vector image out of little shapes added
load of shadows and we got there
eventually like the first draft on the
left was something was missing and I
couldn't work it out and I'd been doing
it for the entire day so I left it I
went to read slept on it woke up the
next day and realized it needed shadows
a lot of you guys replied to my
Instagram story as well telling me that
exact same thing I think had just like
gone a bit tunnel vision from staring at
it for like 12 hours so
went back added some shadows and then
the third one I added the cat which I
love the cat I think he's so cute um and
then this we changed the color of the
shirt scene which fun we liked for the
name of the blog kind of went back and
forth with Lauren to decide what we
liked and then these were the two we had
to like decide from and in the end we
went for the pink shirt I think it
looked really nice with her hair we made
her hair a little bit more copper
colored and I think it looked really
cute and we added little shadows
underneath the cat and underneath her
and that's what it looks like on her
blog and I think you can tell that it
just brings a bit of life to the blog I
think it looks super cute and again did
a little mock-up just to show it in kind
of situation what it would look like on
a business card and that is Lauren's
feedbacks if you want to read that you
can then the next one is Chloe someone
there and she asked me to do a youtube
header she'd seen Sophie Fosters and she
wanted one of her own so I did a digital
portray and this one was quite difficult
because it was a like profile one so I
did it and it was also in black and
white which I've not done before the one
thing I didn't do is the hand because
hands are notoriously difficult to make
look right and I just got rid of the
hand because it was just it would just I
think it would have brought the image
down and I don't think it would have
looked good
I did try multiple times but I often out
of doing the hand and then we added a
little background so we wanted to keep
it simple she chose the font for her
name and the little words that she want
on the bottom and we opted for the
purpley blue one which I think looks
really lovely and I'm actually now
developing a new updated version of
Chloe's banner now we're gonna do a
little bit of a refresh for her channel
anniversary so look out on her channel
for that if you like to see that and
yeah so again Chloe was a pleasure to
work with that's what it looks like and
she was very very happy and I'm buzzing
because I think it was it was super fun
to do that and then finally my pal Molly
wanted a header as well she sent me a
bunch of photos of herself I'm sure she
won't be showing you she did say I'm
sorry for how posing these photos are I
think she looks beautiful but I made a
caricature portrait
of her again quite similar to Sophie's
this took so long because Molly's hair
is such a strange not strange it's like
it's such an interesting blend of colors
that it was hard to find a match that
looked like Molly you know so I think we
got there in the end and Molly chose the
font that she already had on her channel
which I really like the look of I like
that it has a little like accents on
either end and then for the background I
thought I'd do something quite geometric
she wanted it pink because that's the
color she'd used on her like intro card
and stuff so I used pink triangles
change the opacity of them all and I did
this part of it in Photoshop
so yeah Molly really liked that you have
to make sure with a channel header it
works big and it works like really
narrow as well because it depends on
which platform you view in YouTube on as
to which version of it you're gonna see
so yeah that is it in full and that is
it on the channel and I think it looks
super cool again did a mock up and Molly
seems really happy with it so yeah oh I
did another one as well and then Jack
Biggs also asked me to do another one so
again I did a banner thing caricature
and I loved this caricature it was a
really good photo to work from because
it was so high quality and the colors in
it worked really well so I did a
caricature of him and then he kind of
sent me a screenshot of Joe sucks
channel header I don't know if it's
still the same and said I like this one
but do whatever you think so I used my
iPad actually my iPad pro and kind of
used the textures in procreate and the
different brushes and this is what I
came up with
he liked the color orange and then the
font at the bottom is the one that we
went for I really like it actually I
think it looks quite powerful but
nothing too fussy so yeah
Jack was again very happy with that I
think it looks really well in the big
format and the thin format yeah that's
it on his channel oh I'm gonna lose my
voice at the end of this video so this
one is my magazine and I did have in
mind to do like a full-on magazine with
the words and get it printed but
unfortunately I was about to mystic with
the time frame and I didn't have enough
time so I did a magazine supporting
mental health that was the
of it so that's kind of where it links
in with the previous ones that I was on
about
and so again research looked at books
looked at existing magazines went to the
library it did all that jazz and then
got straight into it so Molly and Hannah
actually came to see me which timed very
well with my work and we had a little
photo shoot again you'll have seen these
photos I took a bunch of photos of them
both bless them for being my models and
I used these in my magazine so I added
them all as you can see that is them
having a bit of editing and then I put
them into the magazine so I used my iPad
Pro and used Adobe comp mock-up if you
have an adobe cloud subscription or is
it Adobe Adobe Creative Cloud I think
it's called
make the most of it it's amazing and
this software just helped me kind of
visualize it without having to like
redraw it physically I could just do it
judiciously so these were my initial
ideas I I didn't love them like I didn't
like the blue color on them so I kind of
went from that I got rid of the blue
block and I ended up just doing kind of
simple black/white and a hint of blue
like not too much different cover I
ended up using this gorgeous photo of
Jordan Brown in like lavender fields
which I thought worked really really
well yeah like that's pretty much it and
I used a bunch of different influential
people who have spoken about mental
health pinched their photos and I used
them I would have loved chickened out
and taken photos of everyone but
obviously time frames wouldn't let me so
this is kind of the final draft
I love the font I love how it turned out
I think it looks quite professional and
sleek and to say I've never really
designed a magazine before I was pretty
impressed with myself and then again a
mock-up said that's what it would have
looked like if I'd have had time to get
printed and there is it kind of laid out
and then you could actually also see it
online so I uploaded it to a website and
you could physically flick through it so
that was another way of might you to
kind of imagine in it if it was printed
so even though I didn't print it I was a
way around still showing my teacher it
you know and then mural design so I
actually as probably you've seen again I
did a mural in the city of Lincoln
and this was fun majorly stressful like
we knew about this mural for a while and
it took a while for us to get it sorted
myself and my friend Leonard who you
guys probably know kind of got drafted
in to do this and these were the black
windows and doors that we were tasked to
brighten up which was quite tricky
because it wasn't just one big flat
canvas there was there was like six all
separate so again we hit the research
Lana is like the best at research I
looked at different artists looked for
inspiration and actually Lenna found
this drawing somewhere along the lines
with her research and this heavily
inspired what we did as you can probably
tell if you know what the final ones
look like and so again we hit on the
research thing again I asked some
questions on my Twitter account and
luckily from me asking that Paulo my
Twitter account a wonderful artist
called Andy got in touch and he came on
board to help us actually physically
paint it because me and Lana are good at
designing things on a computer but we
aren't good at or didn't trust ourselves
and actually physically painting it on
well we didn't want to do that but this
lovely artist approached me and we
managed to work together to do it so
these are our designs and you can see
that they changed a little bit as we
worked that orange one got changed from
the windmill
to the castle and the other one got
changed from the bandstand to the
University but you can kind of see the
vibes we went for we did all this in
Illustrator between ourselves and then
obviously Andy got involved super lovely
guy amazing work and he got to work with
stencils and we kept visiting him it was
a super hot day as well I don't know how
he did it but he did it and it looked
wonderful this is it kind of work in
progress and then he put varnish over it
so it kind of popped and shined
we actually had photos taken by the
press which was hilarious and super
awkward so we are featured on the link
and I we got kind of shouted out
everywhere about brightening up what is
called the glory hole in Lincoln and
yeah I think it looks really cool and
I'm very proud to be part of that so
this final wall I think it's the final
one I hope it is this video is so long
is a watercolor element for like a men
so this was a brief that I found online
it's a fake brief just so designers can
practice things so it was basically to
create kind of food based watercolor
icons to represent cocktails so I went
for mojito this is my mojito one so I
did three different ones I did
strawberry lime and mint I did
pomegranate orange and lemon I think and
then watermelon apple and celery I
Carmen but I cover all the cocktails
with but this is what I came up with I
did the initial drawing on my iPad I put
that onto my laptop I then put it into
Photoshop and added some texture to it
and then I also drew some watercolor
splashes scan them in and kind of
layered them on it's really hard for me
to explain I'm sorry but yeah I kind of
added some texture did some different
effects over the top and this is what I
came up with and I'm very happy with how
these turned out and I actually added
them to a menu so this is just a menu I
found online again it was another PSD
mock-up file and I replaced the icons
that they had with mine just to kind of
get an idea what I look like on the menu
I don't love this menu design but I
gained I was getting pushed for time so
this was this was what I had to deal
with oh my god there's another one why
did I do so many briefs so this last one
again I had a last-minute panic and I
thought I've not done enough work I need
to do some more so I decided to do
another children's book because I loved
making peterpanda so this time I wanted
to do an actual like watercolor drawn
wall was the initial idea I really like
sean's and videos and drawing she's
amazing and her work as you can see is
incredible so I wanted to do something
along those lines
did emit more artists research gained
and found some amazing artists which you
know they're just incredible and looked
at a story so I actually asked you guys
for someone to help me out with the
story and a lovely girl called Alicia
got in touch who would was willing to
help me with the story so she sent me
this story and I've split it up
where I've kind of highlighted it is a
different page and I worked on it so
it's called Tommy doesn't want to go to
sleep and this is the first storyboard
again I'm making use of that mock-up
software so this was kind of the first
page I did an initial drawing on the
iPad and then the plan was to go back
into like the watercolor idea and use
some textures and kind of layer it up so
these are the characters and Tommy
they're the monsters and kind of that's
where I stopped I just lost all like
Drive and motivation and kind of
inspiration and confidence in myself to
even continue this I don't think I
realized how much time it required I
think I forgot how hard it was the
Dhupia Panda and because I was doing it
in a different technique I didn't
realize that that took even more time so
yeah unfortunately I didn't get to
finish it I managed to make the book
cover which I do actually really like I
hopefully will be able to finish this
book one day or at least do something
similar and yeah Alisha's story was
amazing so be sure to read that go back
a few slides and read it and yeah this
is the book in my cup I'm so upset I
didn't get to finish it but I do really
like characters that I went for and the
monsters I think they're quite cute and
yes so there's me talking about how I
didn't get to finish it and that it's
the end of this video oh my god I didn't
realize how much work I'd done so like I
said at the beginning I actually got 74%
for both of those portfolios my final
degree result was a first class honors
which is so exciting
alongside these we also did group work
modules and we did our dissertation so
it wasn't just this got me my degree we
had a whole bunch of other like
stressful things to deal with but yeah
that's it so like I said it beginning if
you do want to see my second and first
year where I have that not quite sure
how good it is but I mean I can show you
it so you can kind of see how I've
developed if you have any questions let
me know if you would like me to do some
like design tutorial e things let me
know hats off to you if you got to the
end please do let me know if you got to
the end I'm gonna be impressed
and now I'm gonna go and drink a lot of
water and hope have not lost my voice
completely thank you so much for
watching this video and I'll see you
soon up for another one bye
