Degree show

https://radar.hud.ac.uk/directory/art-and-communication/illustration/2021/charlotte-whiteing/

In the summer, I finished my university course in illustration. This is the link to my page on the online degree show. Its a shame I didn't get to have a proper in person degree show but its nice that this online degree show lasts a long time. On the website, you can see a selection of illustrations i did for my final major project of Mr Badger's endangered expedition and there is also a link to a little portfolio of work I made. I am really proud of my final major project where I created a lift the flip book for children. As someone who didn't do well at school, I managed to excel at university and get top marks and for the first time ever in my life I felt like I am actually smart and that makes me for happy. 

 

felix and bolt the Huddersfield Station cats

This is a watercolour painting of the most famous names in Huddersfield. Its felix the cat and bolt the cat. They live at the train station and everyone loves them. I've painted them on the train station platform as a train is pulling in. The train station as iconic blue painted doors and big windows and is made of stone.  The front of the station is also beautiful. Its very pretty with tall pillars. 

flowers

This is another piece i did for uni in my first year. This is probably the project I liked the least but it turned out ok. The project was called drawing transformed and you had to explore mark making and different techniques and create a digital piece in the end. I focused on flowers to give my project some direction. The top flowers was doing by making little dashes, the middle one was with stick and ink and the bottom one was stitched. Then there is a selection of mark making in the background to add different textures. The coloured ones were coloured with watercolours. This project involved a lot of scanning in and a couple of stressed out gives up but it turned out OK and I came out of it with a lot of new skills.

vampire weekend album cover design project

For one of my university projects, we had to redesign an album cover and I chose to do one of my favourite albums- vampire weekend by vampire weekend. 

The album felt very happy and upbeat so I chose to be bold and brightly coloured. I added designs to every part of the record cover so it was all matching. 

I used coloured paper, acrylic paints, sharpie and an old vinyl. 

This was probably my favourite piece i did in my first year and had so much fun creating it. 

hello

since I have actually started posting some what regularly, I wanted to introduce myself a little more.

 My name is Charlotte Whiteing and I am an illustrator and designer from England. I am currently studying illustration at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire. As an artist, I tend to focus a lot on work aimed towards children with cute and playful designs, this passion for children's work will hopefully allow me to illustrate for children's books in the future.

As well as children's drawings, I make and design a lot of greetings cards for friends and family. Soon I plan on getting some of my cards professionally printed so I can sell them (if this interests you comment on this post or message me on my social media!!).

I mostly use watercolours and fine liner pens for my illustrations as I love the effect I can get with them. Recently, I have been experimenting with digital using Autodesk sketchbook on my laptop as I want to improve digital skills a lot as I know it is very for commercial work which I hope to do more of in the future. The self portrait above in an example of my recent digital experimentations. I am also a very big fan of different printing techniques like lino and Risograph as I like the more individual style of each print.

I hope this lets you get to know me a little more and if you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to ask in the comments on my posts or any of my social media accounts.  

Show reel

showreel from Charlotte Whiteing on Vimeo This is my show reel as of spring 2019 highlighting some of my favourite work from the workshop on motion graphics I have been going to weekly since September. The show reel shows lots of the techniques I have learnt.

Mitosis

Mitosis from Charlotte Whiteing on Vimeo.
This short motion graphic was made on after effects in around an hour and a half on the subject of mitosis using a colour scheme. This is part of a group project for the science school at my university.

penguin party

penguins from Charlotte Whiteing on Vimeo.
short animation made on after effects

turtle

turtle from Charlotte Whiteing on Vimeo.
this video was for a group project where the theme was under the sea. I chose to draw and animate a little turtle swimming a lot the sea.

illustration

illustration from Charlotte Whiteing on Vimeo.
this video was made on after effects using the boiling technique to loop 3 hand drawn drawings

sail boat

This is a short video I made on after effects. I drew out the same picture 3 times and scanned them in and looped the images to make this.


Sailboat from Charlotte Whiteing on Vimeo.

Hello!

Hello and welcome to my new blog. This is blog will hopefully be where I post my art, photos and my thoughts. I don't know how much I'm going to post but I will try and post somewhat regularly.
 

This piece is my first ever digital drawing done on sketchbook on my laptop. 

I was feeling autumnal and cosy so that is the feeling I wanted to portray in this artwork