Kyokusen-Yokocho Illustration Website

I've been lucky enough to be asked to contribute some of characters to the new Japanese vector art site, Kyokusen-Yokocho. The website celebrates vector artists illustrations from around the world. I'm really pleased to have been asked to participate to the new site!

You can see my profile here: http://www.kyokuyoko.com/2010/06/chris-jevons/

Satellite - Illustration Friday

You'd think at least one satellite might have seen this guy coming...

I've finally got around to entering my artwork to Illustration Friday. If you're not familiar with Illustration Friday, the website encourages people to create an illustration based on a topic suggested by an illustrator and chosen by the website admin. Anybody can enter and it's all just for fun! If you fancy it, head over to http://www.illustrationfriday.com/

Mad Scientist!

This is my Mad Scientist created in Illustrator for a personal project. More images of the Mad Scientist to follow later!

Creepy Crawlies

I have recently finished illustrating a character mascot for Creepy Crawlies in York. Working with Acute Marketing, my brief was to create an energetic 9 yr old character leaping through the air. The character will be used on forth coming printed brochures.

Toe Fluff!

The talented artist Steve Rack (http://www.steverack.com/) has created a character called Toe Fluff. Steve has invited illustrators throughout the country to submit and contribute their own design that will be exhibited at a gallery in Swindon, UK.

Below is my submission to the exhibition.



For more info and to see the other excellent designs, check out: http://www.toefluff.co.uk/home/

Pictoplasma 2010

I went on a two week break with my girlfriend to Paris followed by a trip to Berlin this April. We attended Pictoplasma Contemporary Character Design Festival held at the Babylon Theatre in the heart of Berlin. The festival was excellent with fantastic talks and screenings from animators and artists from all over the world. The event was very inspirational and enjoyable and we hope to return next year. You can find out more info here: http://festival.pictoplasma.com/

Berlin was a great city to explore with plenty of things to do and see. The people are very friendly and the food and drink is excellent. I can't wait to go again!

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

I Illustrated a brochure and created the above logo for The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust working with UBD Studio. The artwork spreads across both sides of the leaflet and shows a beach and underwater scene.

Feedback from YWT was very positive and I hope to work with them and UBD Studio again in the future.

York Professionals Exhibition Stand

I recently collaborated with the good folks at United By Design to create an exhibition stand and leaflets for York Professionals VentureFest 2010 stand. The process involved creating different business characters such as IT Support, PR and Legal in Adobe Illustrator. The design was finished in Indesign by UBD Studio.

The exhibition stand and leaflets was very well received and helped York Professionals have a successful day at VentureFest event.

in the images above, you can see three of the vector characters, a photo of the various leaflets and a rather blurry photo of the stand taken on my iPhone at the exhibition.

Happy New Year!

A belated Happy New Year from Jevs Illustration! I am currently working on a slight website redesign with new content to be added shortly.

I'll also try to share more of my illustrations and include tips, tricks and perhaps the odd tutorial too.

Here is a recent character created in Illustrator to get the ball rolling...

Chris

Christmas Time!

Jevs Illustration has been very busy working on a few Christmas related projects this festive season. This includes a printed Christmas Card and animated web banner for Applied Web Analytics. Also, after the success of the welcome card created for YSJ University in August, I have been asked by the Vice Chancellor to create this years animated ecard. My brief was to create a cute and fun Christmas scene that YSJ can send out to all their important contacts.

The card has been a success and YSJ are very happy with animation. Below you can see an image from the YSJ ecard and the printed AWA card.

Merry Christmas!

YSJ University

I have been commissioned by York St John University to produce a welcome greetings card for new students starting this academic year. I had to illustrate the front of the card, design a map of York and include an illustrated bookmark. The card was then given to all first year students to welcome them to YSJ University.

Yorkshire Humberside Police

I've been working with friend and colleague Dhyan Design (http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/) to produce several Flash based games for the Yorkshire Humberside Police. I have also worked with Lazenbybrown (http://lazenbybrown.com)/ and Image Data Group (http://www.imagedatagroup.co.uk/) to produce several leaflets to accompany the games. The security campaign has been broadcast on both the TV and radio.

More leaflets and games are in the pipeline.

Small Planet

I created this illustration in Photoshop using my new Wacom Intuos 4 drawing tablet. The tablet is great fun to use and makes drawing and painting feel much more natural than any other tablet. I'm looking forward to using it more!

Freelance Illustration

I've been crazy busy these past few months, and had little time to post stuff on the blog.

First of all, I have taken the plunge into freelancing full-time which is pretty exciting. I have worked on some fun projects already and have also just launched my illustration website, Jevs Illustration.

I have also moved into new office space in the city centre of York and have met some really lovely creative people.

I will try and update the blog as and when I get spare time, adding both commercial and personal projects. In the meantime you can see my portfolio at: http://jevsillustration.com/

Chris

Happy Valentines Day!

I painted this card for my girlfriend for valentines day. Unfortunately my G5's hard drive just died, so I lost all the files aside from this Jpg. Thankfully I backed up most of my stuff so I haven't lost too much stuff. Looks like it's time to buy a new Mac.

Have a great Valentines Day and remember, always back up! :-D