Illustration Friday - DUSTY !

A dusty dream

here is the image i have created for this weeks topic on www.illustrationfriday.com which is DUSTY.
this image is a photograph of my old guitar that i haven't played for a good 2-3 years now, it reminded how determined i used to be to excel in my musical skills and how much i wanted to be in a band and live life on the road.
i have not edited this image at all from how it was taken and i have applied no filters, i simply added a statement to the image to enforce the meaning and changed some of the perspectives of this text to fit around the dials and switches on the guitar.

Group Crit comments :

• look at placement of type and consider a different approach with the type.
• make text easier to read

Illustration Friday - Chicken !

image producted from the topic of chicken on illustration friday.

i was looking at illusions at the time.

I am going to develop this image throught the use of stencils to give cleaner proportions and crisper fill colours as i can still see the brush strokes, this will also enlarge the scale of the image as this was produced in my A4 sketchbook and it will need to be enlarged to anywhere above A2 in order to produce the imagery to a good standard with a stencil. 

Have I been Greenwashed ?!?!?

Greenwashing is the invalid use of green credentials to market products.

http://blogfishx.blogspot.com

greenwashing has taken over our TV screens more and more over the past few years as eco products have become popular with the consumer market. many big companies have over exagerated, or even lied to thier customers about their green motives in order to get their hands on the so called "Green pound". this is then having a knock-on-effect to the coustomers as their trust in the companies and products is being deminished and this then sunders the real eco products from the gratification they deserve.

here is a simple guide on how to avoid the greenwashing scams ;

but dont forget that not all these products and companies are lying to you , some of them genuinly try to aid in the salvation of the planet.