I recently created a poster for The Novl Cuisine Challenge, an experimental project by Craig Burgess and Dave Pannell, where they have designed a poster a day for 365 days. Crazy crazy. I tried to do a slightly modernist illustration, using few colours and basic composition. I added texture via Photoshop brushes. I used Dinner Deals as the theme as it a topic I do a lot of commercial work on, so taking another angle like this was refreshing for me.
I like these 365 day challenges people do, they’re great practise, really pushing creativity as you are (obviously) doing something everyday and forced to think of original concepts.
I have thought about doing something similar – maybe not for a whole year, perhaps a month. An illustration a day – that sums up the main event of the day, or feeling.
Another couple of projects I would like to do are a set of ten illustration based on The Brothers Grimm fairy tales, or short stories + illustrations of famous battles for children.
Both of which I will probably not get round to doing – damn my motivational levels!!!
