EMELBI
Digital Artist and Illustrator
I have recently been working with the Pupil Referral Unit at Bradley, Huddersfield, delivering a series of digital illustration workshops using photographic manipulation and computer aided illustrative techniques. The children created some brilliant images. Here are some of the portrait illustrations from the workshops. Some lovely work and some great expressions!
As part of North Huddersfield Community Arts Week I ran a series of mini workshops today working with young people from Ashbrow School and Birkby Junior School.
The workshop was based on creating digital graphics that would work well on skateboard decks. Mostly working in pairs, the pupils only had about 20 minutes to create these wonderful images.
They listened well, worked extremely diligently and had a lot of fun in the process. I was super impressed with the images that they produced. Awesome stuff!
Birkby Junior School Images
Carolanne and Ushna
Kian and Nabil
Ali and Reggie
Zahra and Raheel
Iqra and Allysia
Esha
Atika and Sadia
Faiza and Bilal
Ismaeal
Muskan and Calvin
Ibraheem and Asad
Birkby Decks
Ashbrow School Images
Amber
Grace and Burhan
Zain and Jake
Jujhar and Troy
Kieren
Ellie-rose and Tayba
Pharrell and Armin
Ashbrow Deck
A group of Gomersal Primary School pupils from years 3, 4 and 5 have just completed a workshop creating digital self portrait illustrations with some very striking results.
Based on photographic images of themselves, the pupils skilfully created these digital illustrations using a series of layers and other digital tools.
An alternative colour pallet was also explored for some of the digital colouring, which made for some very interesting imagery indeed. Further layering techniques were also looked at with the introduction of textures and various other incidents and elements adding further depth to their images. Here are the brilliant illustrations that they created.
Digital Illustration Portraits
This project formed part of the celebration of Gomersal Primary Schools 100th year anniversary and also the pending move of the primary school up to the site of the middle school.
This was a brilliant project that involved the entire school. Over the course of two days, every child from every class from each and every year group was armed with a digital camera. With cameras in hand they were then asked to take photographs of the exterior buildings of both Gomersal Primary and Gomersal Middle School, paying specific consideration to aspects of structure, colour and building materials. Thanks to the efforts of the staff this logistical challenge during such tight time constraints went like clockwork. Not only that, it was a massive amount of fun. The children managed to take a whooping 4138 photographs.
There were then a series of workshops where the children came and discussed the photography and took part in the digital manipulation of the photographic imagery that they had produced. During this time their own ideas, personal stories about the school and the graphics that they created formed the idea for the banner graphic.
The ideas that solidified were:
Energy bursting out of the school
Something fun because school is fun.
Robot characters that represent the children.
Making building out of photographs.
Images that look busy.
A collage of the school made entirely from photographs.
Banner Detail #1
Banner Detail #2
Banner Detail #3
Banner Detail #4
Banner Detail #5
Photo Robot #1
Photo Robot #2
Photo Robot #3
Photo Robot #4
Photo Robot #5
Photo Robot #6
Photo Robot #7
Photo Robot #8
Photo Robot #9
Photo Robot #10
Photo Robot #11
The banner is now on permanent display in the entrance foyer of the school.
Here are a handful of illustrations made by year 4, 5 and 6 children from Birkby Junior School.
The project was to create digital character illustrations from simple beginnings and then to situate the characters in specific environments. In doing so each illustration took shape forming a basic narrative. It was really great to work with such an enthusiastic bunch. They bowled me over with their ideas and creative flair. I think their illustrations are fab.
This was a fabulous project to produce two large graphics that would form a permanent display within the school that celebrated the local community.
Firstly I spent a day with two large groups of children and parents photographing the local area and all the places that hold significance for the local community.
Thereafter, the children and their parents took part in a series of workshops exploring digital illustration and design techniques using simple design software. During these workshops they deconstructed the photographic imagery that they had produced and from these elements made a series of fantastic digital graphics.
The photos and graphics that were generated during the project made up an integral part of the final design outcome and were used to create two large images to accommodate two separate alcoves, which are now on permanent display in the school entrance hall.
A fabulous project! A lot of fun was had indeed.
Here are a series of digital images created by year 3 children from Ireland Wood Primary School in Leeds.
Using a pen and paper the children were asked to draw recognisable objects such as a bowl of fruit, wine bottle or a vase of flowers etc. These drawings were then digitally scanned in order for the children to further manipulate the images using a computer.
After digitally colouring and deconstructing the scanned images they then set to rebuild them in a different way to form interesting patterns and designs that would work well in repetition. I think some of these would make great wrapping paper designs.
