A recent advertising brief we were given required us to create a new and different "Stop Smoking" campaign including posters, leaflets and other informative yet creative publications. Being the only person on Foundation to actually have applied for an Advertising BA course I felt under more pressure to get these pieces into my portfolio to take to interview.

I wanted to avoid the popular gory photographic take that uses cancerous organs and blocked arteries to persuade. I also wanted to avoid the other popular tactic of playing on second hand smoke and children as weapons.

As we come to the end of the second phase of Foundation and I have some rare spare time on my hands I thought I'd write a series of posts about my work so far!

As seen in a previous post I have been illustrating the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. My sketchbook work was all simple, picking out key imagery from important chapters. After lots of photoshop trial and error I produced several minimalistic title pages for the book, each displaying a recognisable silhouette. 

As we have now specialised in our subjects at Foundation we have been set our first project to work on over the Christmas holiday. The brief we have been given is to illustrate a chapter of a book we had to choose from a given list. I had never read any of the books on the list we were given so I got straight to it and bought myself a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird. To my surprise it is actually a fantastic book and I'm really excited to illustrate a chapter.