Skyla Rogers
Portfolio
Chidhood and Nature
Fine liner and Watercolour
21 x29.7 cm, 2023
Childhood and Nature
This is the final outcome for a tryptic I made about the human connection to nature in childhood. It follows the girl’s emotional journey as she meets the tree: from curiosity to awe and ending on freedom and understanding.
Watercolour and colouring pencil study of my cousin
Childhood photos of myself
Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker
Childhood and Nature
These are my initial ideas and inspiration for my tryptic. I based the character of the girl off of my cousin and childhood pictures of myself.
Childhood and Nature
This is my development, figuring out composition and looking at John Tenniel and Apel les Mestres to decide how to draw the trees.
Pierrot le Fou Playing Cards
Acrylic Paint and Digital Drawing
2023
Playing Cards
This is the final outcome for a project where I had to design a pack of playing cards. I chose the theme of the French New Wave film Pierrot le Fou because I was drawn to the colour scheme and visuals of the film.
Pippy Longstocking by Lauren Child
My design inspired by Kevin Sabo
Playing Cards
Initial ideas and Research, I used scenes from Pierrot Le Fou to create the visuals on the cards. I was inspired by Lauren Child for the use of patterns and Kevin Sabo for the composition.
Life Drawings
Pencil, A3
1 hour, 2023
Pencil and Watercolour, 2024
Watercolour, 2023
Charcoal, (All 1 hour, A3)
2024
Charcoal, 2023
Infancy and Nature
Air-dry Clay
1.3 metres, 2023
Infancy and Nature
Final Outcome for a sculpture that explores nurturing connection between nature and humans that begins the moment we’re born, mixing the female form and a tree, with an infant nestled in the roots.
Observational drawing of Untitled, Cravings White by Lee Bul
Tree at Kew Gardens
Tree at Kew Gardens
Infancy and Nature
Initial ideas and Primary Research for the Infancy and Nature sculpture, taking inspiration from Lee Bul and the shapes I saw in tree trunks and roots at Kew Gardens.
Air-dry Clay and Acrylic Paint, 30cm
Pyrography, 25cm
Soap carving, 8cm
Air-dry Clay, 1.3 metres
Infancy and Nature
Experiments with to decide what material to use and how to paint the sculpture. I found that soap carving couldn’t create thin branches so used air-dry clay because it gave me the most control. I looked at the painting styles of Ishibashi Yui and Lisa Wright.
British Library Main Logo Digital Drawing, 2024
British Library Fantasy Exhibition Logo
Digital Drawing, 2024
British Library Fantasy Exhibition Poster Digital Drawing, 2024
Museum Rebrand
Final Outcomes for a my brief to do a feasible rebranding of a museum or collection and I chose the British Library, focusing on the Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition. I created a main logo for the library and a version of this specified for the fantasy exhibition as well as a promotional poster that is my interpretation of concept art by Brian Froud that was in the exhibition.
Photos I took at Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition
Observational drawings with added watercolour
Museum Rebrand
Primary research at the exhibition, using the observational drawings I did to form my initial ideas for my logos and posters.
Babybell Girl
Risograph, A3
2023
Pencil
Colouring Pencil
Digital Drawing
Babybell Girl
Process of creating the risograph print. It began as a collaborative exquisite corpse which I then drew in my own style and converted onto a digital format to print.
Biro, 2023
Digital Drawing, 2024
Digital Drawing, 2024
Self Portrait, Digital Drawing with photos of my hair added on Photoshop, 2024
Exploring self-portrait
A personal project where I was inspired by the biro characters I drew over the summer to draw self-portraits that expressed feelings of vulnerability. I experimented with Lauren Child’s style, photoshopping images of my own hair into an illustration.
Old Age and Nature
Thread
61 x 91cm, 2023
Old Age and Nature
Final Outcome for a piece that explores how our relationship with nature deepens as we age. I created a frame of willow with thread woven through it to further demonstrate the deepened intertwining of people and nature as we age. I photographed it in nature to see how the natural frame helped it appear part of the natural world.
Adam Riches artist research
Old Age and Nature
Artist research and idea development for the Old age and Nature piece.
Etching, 10cm
The Shroud of Turin
Wrinkles and tree rings on Photoshop
Old Age and Nature
Explorations into how to express wrinkles with different mediums, trying etching and some photography. I found that the string didn’t give me enough control to create detail. I was inspired by the Shroud of Turin to use fabric to express a blending between the faces and nature.
String, 15cm
Thread, A4
Old Age and Nature
I found that using the sewing machine gave me the most control to create detail. I also explored ways to use watercolour as a background, deciding not to create a strong pattern with the watercolour because it distracted from the stitching.
Thread and Watercolour, A4
Thread and Watercolour, A4
Artist study of Princess Thumbelina
Artist study
Watercolour and Pencil
The Secet Lives of Princesses, Rebecca Dautremer
Watercolour and Fine liner
Watercolour and ink, 2024
Current work
I was inspired Rebecca Dautremer’s absurd proportions in her illustration of Thumbelina to create my own character that explores the shapes a crinoline can create, and how an exaggeration of the crinoline can be used to express a character’s emotions. I plan to continue developing this character, giving them a storyline that their crinoline is going to visually express.