Niamh Young
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Niamh Young

IllustratorEdinburgh, United Kingdom
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Niamh Young
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Niamh Young

IllustratorEdinburgh, United Kingdom
About me
I am a young but highly motivated illustrator who loves visual story telling. I love drawing people and within in that the female form! You can contact me at: nveillustration@gmail.com
Projects
  • Greek Mythology Tarot Cards
    Greek Mythology Tarot CardsI designed 12 Major Arcana tarot cards, for each one I connected the card to a god or goddess based of what the card and gods represented. I wanted to make mythology and tarot more contemporary so I modernised the designs and myths. This project for me was about reinventing two interests of mine for a newer younger audience. In the long run I would like to design the entire tarot deck (78 cards) but for the time frame I had I am more than happy with the ones I made. Below you can see my favo
  • The Folio Society x House of Illustration
    The Folio Society x House of IllustrationThese were my submissions for the Folio Society’s poetry brief, where you had to create three illustrations based of your interpretations of the three poems they provided. The poems were The Good Morrow - John Donne, Wild Nights! - Emily Dickinson, and The Trick - Imtiaz Dharker. I wanted my illustrations to work together as well as individually. This is why I went with cohesive colour schemes and elements of surrealism in all three.
  • Secret 7
    Secret 7These were three separate submissions to the Secret 7 brief, where they give you 7 tracks to choose from and design a record album cover for them. I chose Vampire Weekend’s Harmony Hall. I decided to make snakes a reoccurring theme because of the influential lyric “Of wicked snakes inside a place you thought was dignified” from the song. In the lyrics you can hear the band in singing about college institutions and the corruption within them. I wanted to create images that suggested that cor
Projects credited in
  • University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), BA (Hons) Illustration
    University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), BA (Hons) IllustrationEstablished for over 25 years, Illustration at UCLan in Preston is an applied course for image makers and artists of all kinds. Our aim is to improve both your problem solving skills and to help you hone your traditional and digital practice. This award winning course has great results in preparing work for a freelance career or for employment in the creative industries. We have great industry links, live project work and many competition successes. This is a small and friendly course with gre
Skills
  • Illustration
  • Painting
  • Digital Artwork
  • Character Art
  • Creative Design
  • Visual Communication
  • Storyboarding
  • Concept Creation
  • Sketch Development
  • Mark Making
Education
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    Illustration BA (hons) University of Central Lancashire
     - Preston, United Kingdom