A L I C E C A T T E A U

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Personal Branding - 2021 - Alice Catteau

One of my goals for 2021 was to gain a deeper understanding surrounding branding. I loved developing my shop over lockdown last year, and felt I had the potential to improve my marketing skills further. Because of this, I wanted to create a branding mood board to keep track of my colour scheme, fonts, inspiration, and patterns that represent my brand. I found that visualising my brand into one file helped to define my idealisations of my image as a professional.

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Pancat - 2020 - Alice Catteau

Pancat was created as a joke illustration to celebrate Pancake Day. Many of my peers loved him as a character so I decided to make him into a sticker design for my shop. 

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Christmas Cards - 2020 - Alice Catteau

The christmas card designs were a personal project created for my online shop. I wanted to create two designs, both with a christmas theme in mind. I aimed to have one design explicitly for Christmas and one that could be used throughout winter for those who don’t celebrate. I had a positive response from my peers and from those who purchased the cards. It was a great way to practice typography and understanding the design layout of greetings cards.

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Bournemouth Town - 2020 - Alice Catteau

This was responding to a brief set by the Sunday Times.  The Sunday Times were looking for an illustrator based in Bournemouth to create a piece that represents what it was like to live there for a student. From researching previous entries, I realised that several aspects of the seaside town had been overlooked, such as the classic cliff lifts that worked along the coast, and the Lower Gardens that connect to the beaches. For my entry, I wanted to highlight these areas of Bournemouth as I believe they show a beauty that was, without hesitation, the Bournemouth I lived in. Many students would work retail and hospitality jobs during their education, so they would often walk through these places every day. I loved the process of this piece as it reminded me of my last three years within this town.

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Tiger + Star - 2021 - Alice Catteau

This piece challenged my ability to focus on the tonal values of an illustration. I wanted to illustrate an inquisitive character with only one colour. I picked a tiger as I believe it would be the perfect animal to show off different tones through their bold stripes. I later printed this image into a vinyl sticker with an added pink outline for my online shop. I’m really happy with this piece; it was a fun process and I am satisfied with the final outcome.

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Class of 2020 - 2021 - Alice Catteau

Class of 2020’ was a personal project that brought to light the influence of the pandemic on those in education. As a 2020 graduate myself, I felt lost as lockdown was set into place. My final graduation show, a major networking event, and my own graduation were cancelled, leaving me with only myself, a computer screen, and an unfinished Final Major Project to finish off my three years of university. It was hard to express these feelings when I felt very lucky to not be directly impacted by the ongoing pandemic. I initially constructed this as a stationary piece before later experimenting with the animation tool in Procreate to turn it into a looping GIF. It garnered a positive response from peers from my course, as well as students from institutions. In May 2021, it was longlisted for the Newcomer’s Editorial Award for the AOI’s World Illustration Awards. This response reminded me how important it is to employ my personal vulnerability into my work and to embrace the feelings that inspire me. It not only made me understand what I was feeling, but helped others come to terms with how they were feeling also.

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Flowers + Ceramics - 2021 - Alice Catteau

A minimalistic design for a print in my online shop. I wanted a monochromatic design for several pots of varying size. I would like to return to this design and sculpt my own physical versions of these ceramics.

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A Winter’s Night - 2021 - Alice Catteau

An experiment with different brushes, creating sharp gradients with levels of noise. 

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King Alfor - 2019 - Alice Catteau

Venturing into something a little different, I created this piece after watching the reboot of Voltron, a sci-fi fantasy show. I wanted to draw this particular character with a semi-realistic twist using my background in life-drawing. I used Paint Tool SAI to create this piece, and it took 12 hours to complete.

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Save Our Seas - 2020 - Alice Catteau

A risograph print highlighting the impact of plastic pollution within our oceans. This was an A3 fold-out print that was revealed from an A6 zine. I originally carved a linocut that was later separated into two sheets for the two tones of the risograph print. Risoprinting uses less ink than inkjet printing so it was the preferred choice of medium.

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Tote Bag Competition Designs - 2020 - Alice Catteau

These designs were created for a Graduation Show Competition. The brief asked for a two toned design on a background colour of our choice. I aimed to utilise the background colour as part of the design, therefore adding more depth to the illustrations. 

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Nine For A Lover - 2020 - Alice Catteau

This piece led to the final outcome of my Final Major Project of my Bachelor’s degree in Illustration. I researched how magpies presented themselves and learnt how to incorporate their anatomy into my own style.

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Good News - 2020 - Alice Catteau

This piece responded to the brief ‘Good News’, a reflection on what positive change had occurred during 2020. I wanted to highlight how the atmosphere had drastically improved during international lockdown due to less co2 emissions from planes and cars. It also gave us the opportunity to take a break from online presence and to enjoy the world that surrounds us at home, through indoor plants and daily walks in the park. 

This piece was also an opportunity for optimising my experience with looping gifs. I would like to continue this venture into motion image.

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One For Sorrow - 2020 - Alice Catteau

This was my Final Major Project for my final year studying BA (Hons) Illustration at Arts University Bournemouth. I responded to the magpie poem ‘One For Sorrow’, illustrating the narrative of a magpie foraging for material for his nest, and in the process, interrupting other folk tales. I aimed to contemporarise classic stories I grew up with, so they could be told to a new generation. I also wanted the unlucky stigma surrounding magpies to be removed through the personification of our pesky, feathered hero 

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Laurel The Cat Clay Pins - 2020 - Alice Catteau

This was a Halloween 2020 exclusive series of Laurel the Cat Clay Pins. Each were sculpted, painted, and cured by hand and were later sold on Etsy. This project encouraged to revise uniformity in traditional illustrative practice such as sculpting and painting

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Snakes + Swords - 2020 - Alice Catteau

Limited colour palette and simplified pattern design. This piece took inspirations from Inktober 2020 and tattoo designs.

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Social Media Campaign Banner - 2020 - Alice Catteau

This was a banner commissioned by an emerging film company for one of their productions. It reflected on a woman coming to terms with their identity as a member of the LGBTQI+ community