Hi, I'm Jess, I am a freelance illustrator with experience, and a degree in graphic design, mainly focusing on logo design. My illustration experience is more varied, I have illustrated 6 books in a watercolour style with an author I am lucky to know, alongside this I have always created realism portraits of pets and people.…

Jess Hawksworth

Hi, I'm Jess, I am a freelance illustrator with experience, and a degree in graphic design, mainly focusing on logo design. My illustration experience is more varied, I have illustrated 6 books in a watercolour style with an author I am lucky to know, alongside this I have always created realism portraits of pets and people.…

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Hi, I’m Jess, I am a freelance illustrator with experience, and a degree in graphic design, mainly focusing on logo design. My illustration experience is more varied, I have illustrated 6 books in a watercolour style with an author I am lucky to know, alongside this I have always created realism portraits of pets and people.

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German
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Education

Masters at Staffordshire University
September 7, 2022 - March 15, 2023
This was Masters by Negotiated Study where as a student I wrote my own course and focused on the work I would like to progress in which was app and web design, in which I managed to incorporate branding and illustration
Degree in Graphic Design at Staffordshire University
September 7, 2019 - December 15, 2021
This was an extremely varied course in which I gained knowledge in many different aspects of design such as animation, photography, illustration, branding, app and web design

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Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet
    uniE621 Ants to Zebras A Bestiary of Animal Facts
    As a final major project at University, I designed, illustrated and made a book based on animal facts. During this project I Illustrated all the animals, one for each letter of the alphabet, then composed the animal facts for each in the style of Otto Storch. I also then bound this book myself for my degree show. illustrator graphicdesigner designer…
    uniE621 Self portrait
    I also like to create more graphic illustrations to practice more cartoony styles. This was created in Adobe Fresco using the vector brushes. illustration illustrator designer…
    uniE621 DJ Booth Graphics
    I have been regularly working with a DJ creating graphics for some charity events he has organised. Many graphics I have created have just been still illustration for this, but he mentioned some animated, especially having the dripping smiley faces. This allowed me to learn and take advantage of Adobe Fresco's new animation feature. illustrator graphicdesigner animation illustration…
    uniE621 Benson
    I have always worked on commissions over the years, mainly of pets or family members. They also vary from digital to traditional, this portrait was created in Adobe Fresco using the live oil brushes, I really enjoy creating portraits like these, I am always thinking of more ideas I can try. I also know this illustration is currently hung in the living room of my client.…
    uniE621 Blue Teaches a Lesson
    For a while now I have been working with an Author to Illustrate children's books, many of these books have included small lessons for children either life lessons or being caring for nature. This book is about a badger mother (Blue) teaching her three cubs that sometimes you need to do the important things in life before going to play. These illustrations were created in Adobe Fresco using the live watercolour brushes along with some FX brushes for textures and foliage. Along with the illustrations I normally illustrate a create the front cover and depending on the book/ setting the back cover too. Illustration Art Design Children'sBooks Watercolour illustrator…
    uniE621 Gingerbread Phonecases
    This project included designing a collection of phone cases, to be released as a Christmas collection. This was a competition brief with Oditi (Prospect 100) and Casely. I created a series of gingerbread cases of different things associated with Christmas, using Adobe Fresco I illustrated vector graphics to go on the phone case, each illustration you see in this image was also a phonecase design unto itself. graphicdesigner illustrator designer vectorgraphic adobefresco phonecases design…