Blog

I recently re invented my blogs appearance as it was such a basic layout and was sky blue and girly with awful typography. I think that having a visually attractive blog is a key element within design so I altered the blogs appearance in colour type and pt size added links and then added a visual header which makes the blog really cool to look at.

www.c-matthews0811fmp.blogspot.com/

Sixpack clothing

I contacted sixpackclothing and got an email back from a nice man named Matthieu (who I assume is French) he asked me to send him a few images of my work, so I sent it out to him and am now waiting back for a reply as to wether or not they are interested in purchasing some of my designs for their website.

Graniph

Si Scott recommended contacting this company: Graniph

I basically filled in all my details

Then added three images set to 72DPI and 400x400 pixels in Jpeg format.

Then I received the confirmation informing me that I would be entered into the monthly selection to see if they would like to purchase my work

Portfolio Surgery

I had my surgery with Si Scott, his feed back basically resulted in me gaining a series of websites and illustrators to check out and gain contact with, I learned about Graphic novels and to possibly explore them, also to check out some clothing sites such as Granoph, Threadless and 6 pac clothing . also to check out Del Naka and insect 30 design. I gained a stronger market and got a lot of inspiration and some interesting companies to contact and possibly get some prints done.

The works

The reply

the works

I just emailed a local skate park to gain some photographic research towards my skate brief and to get an idea for lay out and the context my work will be featured

skate decks

I currently produced a design for a skate deck for one of my briefs and I have contacted all the big name companies who sponsor pro skaters asking them if they could have a look at my designs, one company got back to me instantly namer popcorn skate are based just out of Leeds and I am currently waiting on a response/ feedback from them on my illustrations and there is another company that has contacted me called route one who have sent my designs to the people who produce the decks and the designs, I now am in the process of just waiting to get an email back to carry out the next stage.

Business card

Currently I wanted something to create a real impact upon my illustration skills and for it to be presented in a business card which was a little cheeky and left a impact.

I produced some of my realistic illustration work for this card to show that I can draw.

This is the outcome so far, I want to change the back round so it fits in and looks better and more legible.