Aren't you pretty? JOKING!

This is an experimental poster about animal testing, this is my scanned in picture and then I edited it on my computer using Gimp 2.1 to add colour and emphasise the image each time so I had three stages, after reading my semiotics books I have learnt that there are three stages to a humans perception, I was really inspired by that and decided to make a more literal experiment stages..

1. Thought - what you think when you think of the issue, in this case being Make up testing.

2. Expectations - what your expectations are for that situation when you look further into it.

3. Reality - the truth which in most cases are devastating.

These 3 different stages run a lot in the state of a human mind but are often known as ..

An Oblivious state, a state of Denial and a state of Acceptance.

I am really proud of these final posters although I want to further edit them and add a background, they were meant to be just toughs but I got a bit carried away with them.

I didn't go for the too literal approach as in the lab's where they carry out animal testing they obviously don't have the final make up products like the lipstick shown here, it's all in tubes and containers and are squirted and rubbed into there eyes and shoved down there throats, but I was worried by doing that version that people might not understand what exactly the products were and so I made it a more commercial - visual image.

Number 3 is my favourite because of the over use (not exaggeration) of make up I got to draw, it is really upsetting to see animals being tested on such as the picture below and people need to realise the harsh reality. That is the aim of my posters.

Paint it..

This is an interactive experiment where people can get involved and show what there perception of beauty and animal testing is, it's a test of heart and sights! To see what people do think about this issue, how they perceive it and what they believe.

I edited my monkey image putting black crosses over its eyes and mouth, to essentially show how animals are seen, it's a test subject, then I made slightly bigger to 'exaggerate' the make up amount and damage.

This is one of my favourite experiments and I think it's a really good way of showing awareness.

I added the over exaggerated hand with lipstick as a kind of curser so it makes it feel like YOU are inflicting the damage and pain. So you can feel more involved.

Don't loose your head!

This is a rough piece for a poster idea for delicacies inspired by Indiana Jones Temple of Doom (see delicacy page).

Daniel Racoon

Inspired by a fashion illustration featuring a Racoon wearing a Man skin cap, I wanted to play with making things more interactive so here is a puppet experiment that moves slightly, but it's head and tail comes off to become a hat!!

Demented Bear in a Book

This is a book put together from the demented bear experiment I did, accompanied by a hand made book mark featuring the full length image itself and a professionally printed guitar pick/plectrum also featuring the demented bear illustration, ordered from AwsomeMerchandise.com.

Final Fashion Cruelty Book!

This is all the fashion illustrations put into one book, accompanied by a badge I made of the front cover image.

Will work for... Life

This is such a sad advert, it is serious, to the point and I feel it is very effective.