{"id":15005,"date":"2020-10-19T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/?p=15005"},"modified":"2020-12-29T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:06:57","slug":"rachel-pesterfield-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.london-artcollege.co.uk\/news\/2020\/10\/rachel-pesterfield-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Pesterfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My name is Rachel Pesterfield and I have just completed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. The images below were all from my final assignment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with a few photoshoots of myself, my daughters and my nieces. I asked them to pull faces and use lots of different facial expressions. I drew some more real style sketches to begin with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next I used Procreate to warp and shape the photos into various shapes. I worked in the sketchbook from these edits to develop ideas. I tried using tissue paper shape and biro. I am a member of a local pebble art group so decided to try painting with acrylic in shaped stones too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drew up and painted pieces in watercolour and coloured pencil. This was intended to be the final piece but I felt all the faces looked bored!
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I decided to try again and have a theme. I used a fancy dress party as the theme and wanted to have some interaction between them. This was painted in gouache with coloured pencil and edited on Procreate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Main Piece for the Assignment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I hadn\u2019t really drawn tortoises before so felt I needed to spend some time studying them first. A friend has a tortoise called \u201cFlash\u201d who was my model for the final tortoise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also visited tropical world in Leeds to take photos of the tortoises but also turtles swimming to help me draw the upright position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also took photos of birds at tropical world. The pink one on the tortoise\u2019s head was based on the Scarlet Ibis there but with the tail of another bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the location I looked at where the horse field tortoise original from.
During summer we went to Anglesey. I really liked a rock formation I found in Rhosneigr beach in Wales. This was the basis of the rock that the tortoise is posing on. I also used cable bay and the sand dunes in Prestatyn to design the scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have read the full book and know there is a mountain in the story, so I decided to add one in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final Painting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the final painting and the final design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video of Artwork Progression<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I created a video which you can see below of the process of how the artwork developed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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