Major Improvement Project

 Heres a few screen caps of some of my double spreads for this years final major project. I decided to improve on my children's book. I enjoyed the idea of continuing with the narrative  because of the amount of images i'd have to make for it all. Sadly I didn't get it finished in time for the crit but i still found doing it hugely beneficial!

Pick Me Up 2014

I got a unexpected email a week or two before pick me up started, asking if i'd be willing to help out for a few days at the Pick Me Up Radio space ran by Comms Bureau. It was a great to work a few days at the festival! Thanks to Ed Cheverton for putting me forward  and Joe Rogers for getting in contact!

Puffin Children's Book Award

In follow up to my last post about submitting to the puffin book awards competition.... This was my finished submission! Sadly I didn't make the cut but congratulations to any body that did!

Puffin Children's Book Award

 At the start of this term we were set the Penguin Award book brief. I decided to take on the cover for the Puffin award. This year I'm planning on actually entering the competition. Above was the finished image for Universities deadline and bellow is one of the pencil sketches for the possible submission for the actual competition.

Adobe Creative Jam

About Me — Adobe Creative Jam, London 2014 from Nicolas Ménard on Vimeo.

Last night I was invited to Adobe Creative Jam. It was a very good evening lots of drinks and good food.  It was nice to see a bunch of Animators and Illustrators try and complete a brief within three hours. it was especially nice to see my good friend Doug Hindson participating in it all. The Animation above was the winning Animation, all of it was created in three hours which is truly mind boggling. It was really nice to be head hunted by It's Nice That to take part in the event just a shame that i didn't make the final cut none the less it was great evening surrounded by some very talented individuals!

Children's book Brief

A week or two ago Ben Newman illustrator/art director for Flying Eye Books came in to run the children's book brief with University. Here are two finished double page spreads from that brief. I won't bore you with the ins and outs of the narrative.

More Collecting

Picked up a few more books recently. I really would recommend getting your hands on a copy of Dahlov Ipcar's I like Animals from Flying Eye Books, the illustrations are simply beautiful. You can keep up with my hoarding of things on my Instagram.