Jessica Bartram Design & Illustration
This is a blog on which process shots and final versions of both personal and school-prompted projects appear, as well as selected photographs (many from my phone - only the good ones, I promise).
If you have any questions/are interested in a commission for either art or design, please email me at jess [at] thecommonwealthstudio [dot] ca.
Storyboard assignment from Communication: Time, Motion & Media - full story/script is below, illustrated with a limited palette of watercolours. I’m exceptionally happy with how this turned out - it’s possibly my first really successful graphic novel-esque layout!
{Click to enlarge the storyboard & check out the details a bit better, or click here to see it really huge!}
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SARGASSO
I never meant to fall in love with her.
We met at work - I noticed her right away
her hair
her delicate hands
her beautiful smile
While I worked, I couldn’t think of anything but her. Even when she wasn’t there, I could feel her presence just over my shoulder.
She began to creep into my dreams, bringing the smell of the sea into my bed. I woke every morning with salt upon my lips.
Whenever I dove I wound up by her side, my work forgotten. Who could collect specimens with such a beauty nearby?
As the months went on, I began to forget the world outside my sun dappled sargasso forest. My work went untouched. I often forgot to eat.
Every night, the sea rocked me to sleep and whispered strangely while I slept, suggesting I join my darling beneath the water.
One morning I woke and walked to the railing. The rising sun had burned a path along the surface of the sea and its orange waves lapped at the side of the boat, telling me to follow.
One step. My dive suit left behind, I sank down through a conflagration of bubbles into the turquoise deep.
Face to face with my love, I leaned in, grasped her hand, took a deep breath and.
