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James Shedden
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Hello, I'm James. I live in London and keep myself busy with illustration, web & graphic design, animation and the occasional bit of music. Have a look at my website to find out a bit more about me.
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did this the other day as well. a bit of an experiment. don’t think it quite fits in with anything but thought it looked nice.
And a CD cover I did for Victoria & Jacob a while back. Posting them here as otherwise I forget I’ve done them… They specifically didn’t give me any direction and asked that I do whatever I liked, so I took the opportunity to try some things out.
Some posters I’ve done, some recently, some a while ago. click image to see a larger version.
The finished big-cat-image. Was planning on doing the usual greenery and mark-making but the picture went in its own direction - after putting the starry background in, it was clear that this tiger was no longer destined to be in a jungle, or indeed be a tiger.
Today’s links
Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh, used from 45p on Amazon
Astronomy Picture of the Day ‘M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion’
Decided to develop the tiger idea from this morning. Model made, Photoshop time…
Resolved this image the other day. Was going to add lines and text but it seemed to say everything it was going to already and I think it has enough moments without adding any more. Might still put some text in the bubble at a later date, probably a band name.
I am 10 pages from the end of The Fabric of the Cosmos, and now know a lot more about motion, space, time, spacetime, entropy, gravity, cosmology and string theory (also reading The Trouble With Physics which provides an alternative viewpoint and is testing how much I’ve actually learnt!).
Anyway enough showing off about my reading material, the image above is from The Fabric of the Cosmos, and one I’m going to do my own version of, using 3D towers etc. It’s one of the only illustrations in the book I could consider reinterpreting. I think the others - the more diagrammatical, abstract ones - have been chosen quite carefully and serve their purpose well - I’d only make them more decorative and probably end up obscuring their meaning. Having said that I do like making diagrammatical, abstract images, so I might not be able to resist. Also probably going to have a go at my own version of the book cover.
Started the day with a coffee, Broken Bells, and a tiger in the jungle - sketch for a model/image idea.
