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Final project of the year!

Its been a couple of months now since I have posted so I thought it was about time I gave a little update! Since posting about my Social awareness project, I have submitted my final body of work for the year, which means that my second year is over which is crazy because if feels as though it was only yesterday that I started. Following on from the Social Awareness project, we were set a new brief called 'Bookworks', which was essentially a book making project, and turned out to be quite challenging. Here are some images of parts of my final submission, a buried crate full of explorers books/objects, and an insight into the discovery of dinosaurs! 

A double page spread from the finished book - A visual journal from a female explorer travelling the Amazon in the early 20th century, who has stumbled across prehistoric creatures! 




These were some early dinosaur sketches that were a result of my experimentation with different illustrative styles that I wanted to incorporate into my travel journal. 


This was a little concertina book that was actually part of the final crate submission. It is a book of reportage sketches of dinosaur eyes created by cellulose printing some my sketches. 


A little mix of print and ink, highlighting the paradoxical themes that ran through the project, (the 20th century interacting with the prehistoric world). 


Heres an image of the first page in the travel journal, which was taken actually as I was creating it. It shows the character's thoughts and feelings when embarking on the journey, and her first steps towards delving deep into the Amazon rainforest. 

Thanks for reading/taking a look! 

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