Illustrations

Hello all, 

I think I'm getting quite good at this whole blogging thing, so I thought I'd share a few illustrations I have produced over the last few weeks for By Brilliant London (the jewellery company I have been interning for - www.bybrilliant.com) the illustrations have mainly been for e-newsletter campaigns including Kate Moss, Elizabeth Taylor and a couple of randoms:

I've used pencil, collage, felt tips, water colours and inks over all. I've also been inspired to try my hand at some fashion illustrations through my research so I will update you with that when I get some time to give that a go.

If you are wondering any more about By Brilliant it is a beautiful sparkly jewellery store online and in Sloane Square, London. They specialize in amazing simulated diamonds at a fraction of the price of the real thing, however you can't tell the difference to the naked eye. Since working for them I have been obsessed with jewellery and diamonds, my favorite out of their range is this beautiful cuff!

I have also produced a few e-newsletter concepts for the company.

Other than By Brilliant I have also produced a few small bits for another amazing company called Bubbleology under the same project manager. Bubbleology is a quirky drinks company based in the heart of Soho, London and can also be found in Harvey Nichols stores. They specialize in Taiwanese drinks with gummy sweet tapioca balls at the bottom of the tea or milk based drink that you suck up through a large straw available in various flavours, I tried a coconut milk based drink which was very yummy, I had never had any thing like it before, it was like drinking and eating sweets at the same time. The brand has a very fun identity of a mad scientist type so it was very fun for me to get involved. They have also just won a Marketing Design Award!

 

 

Above are two concepts I have developed for an e-newsletter. The first showing the method of how bubble tea is made through illustration, with the second a quiz type mailer taking you to three different flavours and elements of bubble tea at the end.

Aspex Gallery's affordable art fair

I know I'm a bit late, however I have only just started my blog so I thought I'd share some of  the limited edition screen prints I exhibited at The Aspex Gallery's affordable art fair. I used an illustration from my sketch book from uni of various keys (I love keys), showing individuality and how each key is unique to it's specific purpose. I printed the key illustrations in silver and purple, gold and green, pink and gold and turquoise and purple.

 

 

I also printed some personal work inspired by Portsmouth and Southsea from when I lived there for uni. The first three show my print of a nautical knot design printed on off white paper in metallic green ink.

Another illustration exhibited was inspired directly by the surrounding landmarks in the area, printed in two different colour ways. I included the Spinnaker Tower, Skyways roller coaster and the anchor statues dotted about Southsea beach.

 

The final prints were illustrations of imagery associated with traditional sailor tattoos, obviously relating to the area. I printed these in three colour ways; mint green and metallic dark green, light pink and dark pink and light blue and dark blue.

 

I still have a few of my  limited edition prints available so get in touch if interested.

Here is a link to the art fair archive http://aspexartfair.wordpress.com/artists/

First Blog

Hello everyone, welcome to my first ever blog! Hopefully this will soon be filled with all of my updated work and progress, as well as things I love or have an opinion of some sort on.

I haven't got too much to comment on at the moment so I'm going to keep things nice and simple for this first post, and fill you in on the fact that I hopefully will have my new website coming soon to a browser near you. It's currently www.nikkimcbride.com (the domain will remain the same) but at the moment that one is pretty pants.

Well lovelies, that is all I'm going to leave you with for now, I will be back blogging very soon!