One area of design that I enjoy more than others is the illustrations that I create, what I enjoy even more is manipulating hand - drawn imagery using different effects and applications as well as creating illustrations digitally from scratch, as you can see from the above image I have incorporated this into a logo design for my graphic design business, not only do I feel that it looks very effective and potrays the motive and representation of the image but I also feel that it looks extremely good with regard to other peices of illustrative work that I have done in the past.

As you can see above this is one of my favourite illustrations, this was done hand drawn from scratch in the space of 24 hours, I particularly enjoy the shading effects and the methods used to highlight certain areas. Granted there could be more improvement made but as illustrative work is quite a passion of mine I am pleased to show this peice of work as I believe it looks very effective.

My career in Graphic Design has developed drastically over the past three years, it has improved to the point where my enjoyment for the subject knows no limits. I have reached the stage where whatever activity I am doing, whether it be going to the liubrary to research or just playing pool with colleagues, I am constantly thinking about new design ideas.

When out performing certain tasks one of my main methods of gathering design ideas is photography, if I were to look at a building at a certain angle one thought that would pop into my head is to document the image I see before me and perhaps use it in a future design. once taken I may use these images as they are but most of the time I take enjoyment out of uploading the selected photographs and either manipulating them on certain applications or creating illustrative work using one of the images. Many of my photographs are of things that I feel are good to look at, of things that maybe mean something to myself as a designer.