'What other thieving bird would steal such hope away...'

So it is the last term of first year and we are doing a digital project with a very open brief. I am quite excited about it we're having Photoshop and Illustrator workshops both of which I have little knowledge of.

So the title was 'Skin' and taking that in it's broadest sense I have begun looking at magpies, their feathers as a skin and the superstition that surrounds them as a skin as well.

Here are some of my initial sketchbook pages for this project.