My Paper Boy

My Paper Boy, who needs a little help standing, created from the Matthew Robins talk. Robins was extremely easy to listen to which made his work very interesting and invigorating.

'looking extremely handmade appeals to me'

Said Robins and that's why I like his work because I like to use traditional techniques.

Top Trump

My Top Trump on Tomislav Tomic

I found it hard to choose one image that explained his entire works, and felt like the catergories that were provided needed a slight adjustment. For example 'humour' I felt could be adjusted to 'amusement' for the child reading the book and combining that reading and understanding with the illustrations. How much amusement are they getting out of it, or how much amusement am I getting out of it, which would have been a higher rating that what I gave it for 'humour', which was 3.
Popularity was another hard caterogy to work with because it is quite hard to measure the popularity of an illustrator, because you may think he is popular but others may not. But as this top trump card is based mostly on opinion I felt that due to the clients he has worked for, for example the royal mail, which is seen by nearly everybody, that his work was well known.
Also this being about opinion I had to give Tomic's work a 9! I think that his work is beautiful.

Blue Moon Mountain, Top Trump Research

When thinking about my top trump research i firstTomislav Tomic started looking at surf illustrations, but then remembered that it would be perfect if I looked at my favourite childhood book, and the illustrators that went with it.
The book, Blue Moon Mountain is a beautifully illustrated book about a girl who finds a blue path that only appears every blue moon and leads up to the blue mountain where she finds mythical creatures. She meets this unicorn who flies her home.
The illustrations are beautiful and I have treasured them ever since I can remember.
The two illustrators that crafted the illustrations are Nicki Palin and Tomislav Tomic. Looking into other work by Tomislav Tomic I fell in love with his work. He uses pen and ink drawings and engravings.

Some of his clients include ;

Macmillan Children's Books
Museum of London
Oxford University Press
Puffin
Royal mail
Templar Publishing

 

MYTHICAL BEAST STAMPS

Commissioned by Royal Mail.

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