Update

Sorry I have not been uploading any work on here but I have been busy setting up my
proper website which the address is below. On my new website, you can view my university projects, illustrations, sketches/prep work (more will be added soon) and also photographs which I have taken in my spare time.

As from now on, I will be doing more illustrations, and I have lots of ideas and I just need to get them on paper!

If you want to see my new website, please feel free to do so.

http://francineiqbalillustrations.weebly.com

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March 2010

Past Uni illustrations

These are my illustrated pieces which were submitted in competitions YCN and Ellesse 50th Anniversary.

latest illustration

This illustration is based on Lewis Carroll's Nonsense Verse's Humpty Dumpty's Recitation which one verse reads "In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight"

My final uni project completed

These are double page spreads for a children picture book. Its called "The Three Growing Pigs" they are having fun outside then their mother calls them in for a meal, they ate pies! They then got bigger and then they moved out and lived on their own. Its such a sweet story which I made up myself, I was inspired by the story called "The Three Little Pigs" I think this is the way of teaching children that they have to move out one day, and telling the story this way through pigs is a good idea. I painted these illustrations with acrylic paint on acrylic paper. It was fun to do!

Current Semester B work

Above, this is one of the illustrations which I have just finished for D&AD Student Awards 2009 competition. This is for a smoothie drink called PJ's who have sponsored for D&AD Student Awards 2009. On the actual piece(s) of work (which now have been submitted to D&AD) had the actual PJ's smoothie bottle on them which they wanted the entrants to do. Now I have to hope for the best and see whether the judges will like them or not. I hope I win but you'll never know. I can't wait.

These illustrations took me ages to finish because I was painting with acrylic paint on top quality acrylic paper. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I never wanted to use Photoshop for my work because that isn't me. Painting is always my favourite way of working. Once I have finished painting them, I scanned them onto my computer (once the illustrations have dried from painting) and then I put PJ's bottles on each illustration.

Semester A works

Below, this is one of my pencil drawings I drew for my Paintbox People project. Paintbox People is a children poetry and this project was enjoyable and fun to do. These drawings are unfinished final pieces. I was going to paint them in nice bright colours. When I handed in all of my work including this to my tutors in the last semester, they liked them all and told me that I was on a 2:1 grade level (60%) which is really good. When I graduate I really want to go into children's book industry but I probably won't go into that straight away. I am quite open to all jobs like advertising and greeting cards (which I'd like to go into one day) except editoral which I have no passion for.

This is an illustration based on a story called City of Glass by Paul Auster. It was painted on chunky canvas. It is a very sad story, and I didn't want to produce gloomy and sad, boring pieces of work to go with a sad story. I always wanted to produce happy and cheerful work because that what I am about.