For this brief we had two illustrations to create for a ghost story, I had Martin's Close, a story about a man in the 1600s who was trialled and executed for a murder of a young girl and is subsequently haunted by her before his demise. I actually ended up really enjoying the story told and I was excited to come up with drawings for it and come up with ideas and research. 

My first thought went to Junji Ito, one of my favourite horror artists of all time, he is amazing at conveying all sorts of horror from the macabre to the psychologically disturbing and I wanted to take influence on his expressive characters and haunting drawings that often times send shivers down your spine. 

Here's some more work I took influence from for my work, I like the mistiness of the watercolour effect.

This project was the hardest one I have ever done and I struggled throughout it, I struggled with both research and coming up with ideas for it. I think I found that conceptual illustration really isn't for me. 

this was the article i was given, it is about the recent GameStop stocks fiasco where many people from Reddit decided to up the stocks to an insane degree to stop rich men getting richer. It was a genius use of anarchy against the 1% which I always appreciate. I really enjoyed the whole ordeal as well as the subsequent memes that came from it. It really showed how easy it is to stop the big guys by using all the little guys they can to put a stop to something. And it also showed the hypocrisy of the stock market how everything is "free" and people should be allowed to do as it pleases but as soon as someone takes advantage of it, suddenly it's something that needs regulation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/29/gamestop-tulip-mania-16th-century-dutch-bubble-internet

I created a pinterest board with different conceptual illustration ideas to get me started on the ideas and what kind of vibe I should be going for:
www.pinterest.co.uk/Pibis__/conceptual-illus/

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I was asked to do two illustrations, a headline one and a spot illustration to go somewhere in the middle. These were all the ideas I managed to come up with and I went ahead and did my final illustrations from that point

I also did two mockups where the illustrations could be placed on the article.