Capture the Spirit of Halloween Brief.

I found this brief approximately a whole 3 days before the deadline so I had to work quick to submit something.

The brief was to capture the spirit of Halloween / Day of the Dead. I did want to look at the pagan connection to Halloween / Samhain - the Celtic new year & dead boy celebration. I found some instructions to make a blessed jack-o-lantern to guide spirits and thought it may be fun to make an instructional poster on this. I sketched out a couple of ideas but couldn't really get my head around the composition especially as I only had a couple of days to get it done. In the end I decided to include some sage in my image to still link it to Samhain.

I enjoyed making this, it was a good short brief to get the ball rolling on making art at the start of the year. It allowed me to experiment with a mix of traditional and digital media - adding textures, fiddling with stuff etc. I didn't want to end up just doing papercut over and over, this year I want to experiment with my process and tone of voice and such. Working with a range of media is something I find fun. This was a brief I was interested in too so it was easy to stay engaged with it. I enjoyed making all the pieces and compiling them - working in different media on brown paper made some really interesting textures and imagery.

I'm happy with how this turned out given that I finished it 6 hours before the deadline.