It's A Shape Christmas - A Sneak Peek

Recently, I was very honoured to have been chosen to submit for this year's It's A Shape Christmas!

It's A Shape Christmas is an interactive advent calender, in which 25 creatives (illustrators, typographers, designers and photographers) are each given a particular shape to work with and give a Christmas slant to it. Each day a different creative's piece of work is revealed. There's a very cool video with more info on the It's A Shape Christmas project, created by Made By Shape and produced by Beata Sawka here.

There are some ridiculously AMAZING people featured this year: Lydia Nichols (Philadelphia, USA), Barney Ibbotson (Manchester,UK), Alan Heighton (Doncaster, UK), Chris Madden (Manchester,UK), Dave Raxworthy (London, UK), Emil Paun (Manchester,UK), Oliver Sin (Cheltenham, UK), Katie Daugherty (Kent, Ohio, USA) , David Ryan Robinson (London, UK), Timothy Joe Reynolds (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Tom Nicklin (Chesire, UK), Mathew Lucas (Macclesfield, UK), Isabel Foo (Toronto, Canada), Dean Zappy (Manchester, UK), May Ninth (Manchester, UK), Laurie Pink (Manchester, UK), Cintia González (Málaga, Andalusia, Spain), Michael Thorp (Manchester, UK), Kat Loveday (Manchester, UK), Brandon James Scott (Toronto, Canada), Rui Almedia (Lisbon, Portugal), Daren Newman (Manchester, UK), Luke Drozd (London, UK), James O' Connell (Manchester, UK) and yours truly (Cape Town, South Africa represent!).

SO very honoured to be featured alongside such talented people!! They've all set the bar very high!

The Made By Shape team have also done such a sterling job on the design of the website - so functional and beautifully designed! Go check out their site for yourself!

Here's a sneak peek of a piece of my submission - I had so much fun creating it!

Can you guess what shape I was given and what I illustrated for it? ;)

I'll keep the full image a surprise until I have been featured on the website - they've actually kept our reveal date a surprise for all of us involved, so I'll wait in suspense with you! So very excited to reveal the final piece!! :)

Aphrodisiac - Work in Progress

The first digital rough of the Aphrodisiac lettering. Still needs a lot of tweaking!

Testing out the Aphrodisiac lettering (as it is so far) on the CD cover, which is also still very much a work in progress.

Playing around with some effects here - just getting a sense of what it would look like with more muted tones.

What do you think?

Some More Lettering - Aphrodisiac

Amongst a bunch of other things, I'm busy working on some more lettering at the moment. This is for a very good friend of mine - she recorded a CD single called "Aphrodisiac" a few days ago, and this is the lettering that's going to go on the cover I'm busy creating!

Never Stop Dreaming

A self-initiated piece I'm working on at the moment :)

Work in Progress

Not sure yet where I will go with this..when I'm feeling a little bit more inspired I'll finish it up properly :)

Saturday Doodling

A bit of a lazy-Saturday-doodle :) There's still a lot more I want to change and add to it, so still very much a work in progress!

Illustration Friday - Water

My submission for this week's Illustration Friday topic of "Water". Forced to take to living on nearby land when his little patch of sea mysteriously disappears, Marvin seems to be making the best of a bad situation!