YCN awards entry

Sent off my entry to the YCN competition today here are a few of my illustrations.

The brief was for Hovis who wanted new material for merchandise.
I worked along the theme of 100% British

 There is nothing more British than a lovely cup of tea....

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life!

I have never heard of this story before but now I really want to see the whole movie after watching this short clip. Meryl Streep is an amazing actress!

Info:
This animated short, based on the book by Maurice Sendak, follows Jennie the terrier's surreal, suspenseful journey to gain new experiences and realize her dream of becoming the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre.

In this clip, Jennie first learns of the World Mother Goose Theatre... and her lack of experience.

Alma

Alma is a short, sweet and slightly disturbing animation. 



Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Book Cover Project

This will be an on going project where I will redesign the book jackets of every book I read. Been doing a little bit of research for inspiration and found some wonderful things...

Jon Klassen BBC ad

Winter Olympics are over and Im gonna miss this off the tele.
Im a big fan of Jon Klassen's work anyway....



Some of his lovely illustration work...

And now for something a little different...........

Just finished reading The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent. Amazing book about the Salem witch trials from the point of view of a little girl. Very harrowing book about an infamous period of American history.  After putting it down I decided to set myself a little project, creating my own bookcovers.Until now ive just been playing with my watercolours so for this I took both organic and digital elements and had a little experimentation. Im really ecstatic at the finished look.

Little Bit Dashing

Drawing based on vintage photo of a woman dressed as a man.