Hello from the illustration team and introduction to this course mag.
Future Proof. Year 3 work with personal reflections from their final year.
Interview Relay. Year 2 reviews and responses to Year 1 Q&A relay session.
Peek at Processes. A look at some Year 1 studio projects and processes.
Growth and Change. Year 1 work with personal responses to the theme.
Spotlight Alex Rose
Contact Us
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Each year group is at a different stage in their journey to becoming professional illustrators and creatives.
First-year students have learned a variety of new skills and processes this year, incorporating these into project briefs that mirror the real-world experience of being an illustrator. These projects have covered 2D, 3D, print, and digital techniques.
Second-year students have begun exploring their personal strengths and stylistic preferences. They have worked on a variety of projects, including children’s books, vlogs, websites, and numerous real-world illustration briefs.
Third-year students have focused on defining their professional futures, creating work in response to a range of live, professional and self-initiated briefs. They have been working toward building a portfolio for future client work and employment opportunities. These students will showcase their work at this year’s Degree Showcase in May.
With thanks to... Mark Buttree, Adam Rushton, Susan Watkins, Helen Makin, Ailsa McWilliam, Rob Hamp, Sarah Coleman / Inkymole, Fig Taylor, Catherine Miller and ALL the students.
Remi Cloud
HELLO!
from the illustration team
The concept behind this magazine is to provide students with an opportunity to create a publication where illustration takes centre stage, showcasing some of the fantastic visual work they’ve produced throughout the year. It features students from all three years of the BA (Hons) Illustration course at Coventry University, highlighting a diverse range of work from various briefs undertaken over the year.
This year has been particularly busy for the course, with students involved in a range of live project briefs, such as creating large-scale murals for a new office complex, designing theatre posters for two productions, producing coffee shop interior signs, and participating in a live drawing event for the Swan Orchestra. Students have also undertaken competitions such as the Batsford Prize, D&AD, Macmillan Children‘s Book Prize and the international Animayo Competition for which one of our students was shortlisted.
Additionally, we’ve had the pleasure of hearing from a variety of professional speakers across multiple creative disciplines, including children’s book illustration, editorial illustration, comic books, games design, graphic design, writing, creative technology, and theatre-making. Illustration is approaching nearly 20-years at Coventry University, and we are proud to see our graduates go on to thrive in their creative careers. Many of them return to give back to current students by sharing their experiences. This magazine offers a glimpse into some of the remarkable work students have done this year, but each year brings something fresh. We look forward to seeing what our next intake of students come up with.
Andrew Spackman, Joy Monkhouse, Jay Taylor, Alex Rose
Danielle Burgess-Rollason
Lucy Schedlok
Lake Felton
Lake creates artwork inspired by vintage and academia styled aesthetics that is the perfect antidote to the fast paced nature of social media in the modern era.
Their work often focuses on moody and expressive character art, with an emphasis on melodramatic and gloomy atmospheres.
Over the past few years they have been developing a small cast of characters that frequent their art. Each piece is a small glimpse into their world and lives. I plan to one day tell their story in the form a graphic novel.
“It’s great to be shortlisted for live projects such as Animayo” - Lake Felton
“The course allowed me to express my own ideas and story”
Danielle BurgessRollason
Danielle Burgess-Rollason
Danielle is an illustrator based in the West Midlands and finishing her degree on the BA (Hons) Illustration course at Coventry Univeristy.
She enjoys creating surrealistic and aesthetic pieces with expressive and vibrant colour palettes. Their work focuses on drawing digitally. Their work is inspired by a variety of topics, but mostly draws inspiration from the media such as films/tv shows, fashion, music and books.
A peek at processes
During the first year, students explore a variety of media and materials within the Processes module. Here’s a peek into what they created...
POT-TRAITS
GELLI PRINTS
Karime Proano, Daniel Turvey and Liv Dudzinska
Liv Dudzinska
Solomon Babola
Louis Lines Gelli prints
Lucy Schedlock Clay Pot-traits
MUGSHOTS
Kate Hall Sublimation printing with digital colour portraits
Erin Urquhart Pot-trait from slip-cast clay pot
Gloria Yucheng Shi Glazed clay pot-trait
Lili Mai Barker Line and collage portrait
Cerys Winterbottom and Lili Mai Barker
With my growth and change project I wanted to expressed the changes one will go through, in terms of their behaviour, personality and overall approach to life itself. I wanted to portray the different phases one may go through in their life, such as happiness, mourning, ambition. Moments everyone will face in their life. The fluidity of man and our ability to adapt to our environment is a powerful attribute of being human and I wanted to show that being good or bad or a set way isn’t the case when you’re human and how we are this loose mix. I used a variation of textures and colours and fluid movements to express this, using myself as a base of self expression of my own personality and traits. I created a chaotic image that allows us to see what could make someone human.
Kate Hall
Change and Growth may seem scary to all of us, however it is so important to experience. This is because it allows us to blossom as we grow older into our best and happiest selves. Therefore, we’re able to appreciate how far we have come in life when we forget.
Lili Mai Barker
Spotlight: Alex Rose
memeber of the illustration teaching team. I create bold, expressive art with funky lines and bright colours. My goal is to reinterpret the world around me through my own creative lense, influenced by my love of music, movies and TV shows. My constant desire is to make everything colourful as well as inspiring
