Tigers in captivity Editorial

Back from New York! The overall feedback I received was that my music posters and album covers were my strongest pieces yay! However, this totally contradicts what my university course prefers, as even though these pieces would be popular in the real world of illustration, they aren't very conceptual, and that is one of the main marking criteria of my degree.

So, my cunning plan to get a good grade is to save all the music poster stuff for the summer and use the next week before the deadline to just make tons of really conceptual pieces and really push myself to experiment. At first I wasn't sure about this as it is totally out of my comfort zone, but I think it will actually be really helpful for me not to create 'perfect' artwork, and to concentrate more on the meanings and ideas of each piece.

Tigers In Captivity Editorial

Here's my first experimental piece based on an article about tigers in captivity being 'shadows of their former selves'. I used Photoshop and my Bamboo tablet to do a bit of digital painting for the first time in ages so I was a bit rusty. I really enjoyed being much more free with my strokes, as I didn't have to worry about messing up the painting as I would on paper. This is the first editorial piece I have done, and I'm surprisingly happy with how it turned out. So many more to do arhhhh!