About me

Hi there! I am an illustration graduate from Falmouth University, shortlist for the Penguin Student Design Award, and currently looking for work in the creative industry! I’m passionate about communicating stories and creating colourful artworks. My work is vibrant and has character, often whimsical and sweet, it is usually directed at the Young Adult and Children's markets. I also work on book covers design for both adults and children, and character design.

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• Looking for work to fill my schedule!

Projects

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  Insect CharactersInsect character designs I came up with while designing the characters for a picture book called "What does a Caterpillar do?" written by David McArthur and illustrated by myself!
• Character SketchesSome loose character sketches I did for fun during breaks from work.
• Character DesignsSome old character designs I have done!
• Coral ReefsA private commission for someone who wanted some coral reef illustrations with fish. Perfect for a children's book or commercial illustrated packaging to do with feed for fish.
• 'Noughts and Crosses' Book Cover RedesignA book cover redesign of the book 'Noughts and Crosses' by Malorie Blackman. I wanted to somehow blend in barbed wires into the design as a concept of the harsh reality of racism, with the barbed wire circling like a loop on the back as a hint towards the book's ending. I kept the typography harsh and crude like the world inside the book.
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  Collaboration Work - Riso Zine 'Little Red Cap'In 2019, I partnered up with a fellow illustrator called Sami Henry, and we worked together for weeks to produce a zine based on the poem 'Little Red Cap' by Carol Ann Duffy. We had to split up the pages and do one character each (I did the male character), and had to do a lot of meetings for feedback on our development of ideas. We decided to print in Risograph to experiment and learn a new skill, therefore chose to work in a limited palette of two colours only. Here are some pages from the com

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Work history

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Book DesignerBalbao Press
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019United KingdomFreelance
I worked for a month with an author for their upcoming book "Opening our Minds to our Brains' Potential" to design a book cover before it was published with Balbao Press.
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IllustratorSt Austells Printing Company
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018Falmouth, United KingdomFreelance
I was commissioned alongside other students to design an illustration for a month in St Austell's Printing Company's 2019 calendar under the theme of 'Progress and Innovation'. I illustrated the month January.

Skills

• Illustration
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Indesign
• Adobe Illustrator
• Character Design
• Character Concept
• Book Illustration
• Book Covers
• Children’s Books
• Childrens Illustration

Education

BA (hons) IllustrationFalmouth University
Sep 2016Falmouth, United Kingdom
I studied here in to hone my skills as an illustrator, and I developed in my specialised areas of book covers design and children's books.
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Art Foundation DistinctionPetroc Community College
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016United Kingdom

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Awards

Penguin Student Design Award 2019 ShortlistPenguin Random House UK
I was shortlisted for the Penguin Student Design Award in 2019 for the Children's Books category.