Samantha Landells

This blog was created to document and demonstrate my development and growth over the course of my years studying Ba Illustration. Over the course of the two years a lot has happened including the Covid-19 pandemic where it seemed the whole world was turned upside down. However, despite these external factors my growth and development as an artist has clearly shone through. I have really enjoyed the use of this blog during my time on my course, at the beginning of my projects I was excited to begin working on my blog alongside, as during my first year of study I found this really helpful for idea generation and identification of my strengths and weaknesses at the time. Due to this I was hoping to continue this throughout my second year. Unfortunately back in December I fractured my dominant hand which caused a lot of problems all round for the completion of my projects as I was unable to use my hand until late February. I was forced to take a step back from my blog and focus on my more ...

Following my explorations into the artist Wilmer Murillo from my review of the 'Pictoplasma: Character Portraits ’ book I decided I wanted to explore the creation of my own symmetrical character mask formed by inspiration from Native American tribal masks, as used by Murillo in his designs. I love how each of these designs shown in their Pictoplasma submissions have a face when the character is face both up and down. Through the use of symmetry and inspiration from Native American masks they have been able to create two characters in one and I found this extremely interesting and wanted to explore this myself. Although the colours used by Murillo are rather muted, I wanted to go with a psychedelic approach for my design as I felt I could create some interesting visuals from this. Originally I created the line work in black and converted it to white before adding the black background underneath as I wanted it to be clear against the vibrancy of the rest of the design. I create...