Icons of Rome

Sounds of the City - an illustrated interpretation of urban sound

My entry into "The Prize for Illustration 2017" in association with the AOI and London Transport Museum. The theme was Sounds of the City, so my interpretation was inspired by the sounds of both night and day in the big city. 

Rome, Sweet Rome

Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2014

I notice it's been nearly a year since my last post! This is pretty disgraceful. I update my actual portfolio but less so this. I guess because I have no idea if anyone actually reads this, but ho hum.

My latest edition to this blog is the news that I have been selected to be in the Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2014 annual. Yay! I entered the competition in June (I think...?) I was informed that out of 700 entries, only 60 will be represented.

The brief was "Being Human", and below is my entry

Chum Salmon Run!

Last week I was lucky enough to go and visit the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year award exhibition. Obviously inspired by the photography on display, I set about creating some illustrations based on what I had seen. One such photograph was of a bear thrashing about in the water with a salmon in its mouth. This made me want to create my own little image based on the great salmon runs around the world, and the long journey many salmon make, only to wind up jumping into a giant bears terrifying jaws.

Here be the outcome...

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop

Christmas Cards!

Here be a collection of Christmas greeting cards designed by yours truly, including classic Christmas characters such as Rudolph, tired old Santa Claus, Some kinda rabbit who doesn't like the cold and of course, the North Pole Christmas Pudding Hill.

£2.25 each or pack of 4 for £7.50

Back with a new post!

So it's been a fair while since I last updated here. Wow, 4 months in fact! There are a few reasons for that. Firstly, I'd just graduated so took a little break, then moved out to a place with no desk to really do my work on. Secondly, my PC was on a downward spiral so using it for drawing was a pretty pointless task, so having moved again to London, I now have a new PC that can handle running Illustrator and Photoshop without suffering a hernia. Yay!

So to celebrate, here is a new bit of work I've just finished. I'm hoping to maybe get some work done for adverts at some point, so am trying to make a few portfolio pieces for that. This is inspired by an advert I saw in a magazine, which was done using photography, for New York Bakery bagels.

It's good to be back :)

Behance gallery is now up and running

You can now see my work and projects on Behance.net. Go take a peak. Most likely better than facebook for this kind of thing.

My page can be found here!

Society6 shop

I've recently uploaded a few bits and bobs onto the Society6 site. Here you can buy my designs on a variety of different products, such as T shirts, pillows and iphone cases.

Humanely Illustrated T shirt

My "shop" can be found here --> http://society6.com/IanTiseo/Humanely-Illustrated_T-shirt#11=49&4=16

I mean business...cards. I have made business cards...

Little Moo, as the site  likes to call it, emailed me the other day and told me that my business cards are ready to collect. So Friday I popped to London and went to Shoreditch to find the MOO shop was located in the hipster, container made 'Boxpark' shopping complex. It was actually a perfect little shop for it. Nice size and had everything on display.

The super friendly woman or "elf" as she referred to herself, handed over my business cards in a nice little box saving me £1! I had been nervous about the fonts, but I think they came out great. Perhaps the full stop in my email address could have been a slightly bigger size, but on the whole I love them. The printing is great and the card quality is excellent. I shall no doubt be getting stuff from http://uk.moo.com/ again in the future.

                            
             
                  

Gallery added!

Just a quick little update here. I've just added a link at the top of this page next to HOME which will take you to my illustration galleries at my Facebook illustration page.

Digestive System Illustrations

Two posts in two days, what madness is this?

So as some people are aware, I have been working on a children's book based on the Digestive System for my uni project. It has taken way longer than I originally anticipated, but have got it all done now and off to print. So here I will share a few select pages for your viewing pleasure (whoever it is I'm actually talking to...). All done in Adobe Illustrator, then slightly tinkered with in Adobe Photoshop as I'm still getting used to Illustrator. Very pleased with the final designs, so hopefully y'all like them too.

Now I just have to wait for my book to get here and see what it came out like! 

I'm a professional, so make me some business cards!

Wow, it's been a long time since I last updated here! I guess I've been a bit busy, but I shall rectify that with a surge of new images and ramblings.

Seeing as I think I'm an illustrator, I felt I should get myself some cute little business cards made up. After searching for what felt like an age, I found a site that I was happy with, which was MOO ( http://uk.moo.com/ ). Nice and easy to figure out and put my designs on, plus it had 20% discount for students. I haven't taken enough advantage of student discounts since returning to uni so it made sense using it this time.

Anyway, here is the finished design...

I've ordered myself 50, and because I'm a cheap skate I will be picking them up from MOO Headquarters in Shoreditch instead of paying for shipping. Plus that means I don't have to rely on a postman!

Rather pleased with the overall design, but part of me is worried how well the text will come out. Only time will tell I suppose! I kind of want an ice cream now though...