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Lucy-Ann Moore is a freelancer and goes by the name “Walk In The Forest”, which focuses on illustration and graphic design. Lucy-Ann is also a TAFE graduate of “Advance Diploma of Graphic Design” and is currently a second year “Bachelor of Graphic Design/Multimedia” student studying at University of Ballarat. Remember the good old days in the 1950’s and 60’s when space toys were all the rage, soft serve ice creams for 10c and the many household appliances that made the old metre long radio shake in its boots? Lucy-Ann Moore wasn’t there, however she’s bringing the easygoing, nostalgia back and mashing it up into colourful, bright and bubbly illustrations, logos, posters, t-shirts and packaging similar to the time. Lucy-Ann is passionate about helping with the clients needs, in order to deliver exactly what they ask. Plus don’t feel that she can’t help you because she is a student who might be busy with homework at one in the morning, go to the contact page with an inquiry and Lucy-Ann will respond. Sincerely, Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest) SPECIALIZES IN: Posters: Band, Exhibitions, Film & Theatre EP design T-shirts Branding/Logo design Packaging PROGRAMS: Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Flash QUALIFICATIONS: Advance Diploma of Graphic Design – 2010 Currently studying Bachelor of Graphic Design/Multimedia Walk In The Forest

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30 January 12
Illustration a week“Orange and blue”Illustration 3930/01/12Hello folks! How are you all today? Getting ready for the uni year? Or work? Maybe both?I thought I would change this week’s illustration and create a landscape instead. What do you think? Personally I’m quiet happy with it, took me a while to create with a ridiculous amount of layers but I like the shape of the trees and mountains, plus I feel a sense of warmth when I look at the picture. Makes me want to print out a wallet size version and save it for a winters day.Well for Walk In the Forest TV, I’m on the search for a local printers who can print out my forest background for a reasonable price. I was going to print it myself, which will probably still happen and will just look like A3/A2 paper stuck together, but I’ll see what I can find and hopefully have a background to film with, very exciting! As for the microphone, I’m still on the look-out. I was thinking about buying this particular lapel microphone from a music store, it’s wireless and come’s to the price of $199 from what I can remember. At first I thought the price was high, but because I’m not buying a camera this time round, I didn’t see any harm in buying it. The only thing I need to find out about the microphone, is whether I can work it into my laptop, and if I can’t I’ll just have to keep looking. If any of you can save me the trouble and tell me whether wireless lapel microphone’s work with laptops, let me know in the comments section.So that’s it for this week, write down in the comments section about the landscape illustration or my microphone problems. Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Orange and blue”
Illustration 39
30/01/12

Hello folks! How are you all today? Getting ready for the uni year? Or work? Maybe both?

I thought I would change this week’s illustration and create a landscape instead. What do you think? Personally I’m quiet happy with it, took me a while to create with a ridiculous amount of layers but I like the shape of the trees and mountains, plus I feel a sense of warmth when I look at the picture. Makes me want to print out a wallet size version and save it for a winters day.

Well for Walk In the Forest TV, I’m on the search for a local printers who can print out my forest background for a reasonable price. I was going to print it myself, which will probably still happen and will just look like A3/A2 paper stuck together, but I’ll see what I can find and hopefully have a background to film with, very exciting! As for the microphone, I’m still on the look-out. I was thinking about buying this particular lapel microphone from a music store, it’s wireless and come’s to the price of $199 from what I can remember. At first I thought the price was high, but because I’m not buying a camera this time round, I didn’t see any harm in buying it. The only thing I need to find out about the microphone, is whether I can work it into my laptop, and if I can’t I’ll just have to keep looking. If any of you can save me the trouble and tell me whether wireless lapel microphone’s work with laptops, let me know in the comments section.

So that’s it for this week, write down in the comments section about the landscape illustration or my microphone problems. 

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

23 January 12
Illustration a week“Cactus Family”Illustration 3822/01/12Hello folks! How are you this fine monday?This week’s illustration was inspired by the promo I created for Walk In The Forest TV, which has a little cactus sitting on the desk. My aunt who was watching the promo noticed the cactus and thought it was cute, so I decided to illustrate a cactus garden for this week. I’ve changed my technique just a tiny bit by adding eye brows to the face features and I feel they look much better, and for some reason they seem to ground the face more on the head. Also another thing I’ll be trying out is to experiment more with the head shapes, my illustrations of people (and another good example of this is the promo) are starting to look like lollypops, so if I change the shapes of the heads then they won’t look like clones and each person will have their own unique personality.Here’s a link to the video if you wanna see the cactus or if you haven’t seen the promo yet. http://www.youtube.com/user/WalkInTheForestTV?feature=mhee . While I’m on the subject, you guys haven’t said anything about Walk In The Forest TV. What do you all think of the promo? Are you excited? Bored about it? Having trouble trusting me because you feel that the channel might turn out like my shop from last year? Post in the comments below, I really want to hear what you have to say. Now moving on to the technical woe from last week, which has been resolved by using the laptop to film the episode. As for the microphone side of things, I’ve returned the other mic and it’s out of my life for good, buy sadly doesn’t take away the fact that I need a microphone clip, so I’m still on the search for one. I decided not to buy the other mic as it would’ve been a waste if I wasn’t able to use it later on the life, maybe I’ll buy it another time when I do need it. Gee you’d think I’d be turned off by all this organising and electrical drama, but to be honest with you I’m not. I’m looking forward to making videos about a subject that I’m inspired about and giving you some knowledge on what’s happening in the world of Illustration. In some ways I have mixed emotions about it, when I think of what I just mentioned it’s like “Oh this is actually happening” in a happy emotion, then it may change when I think of speaking in front of a camera and sending it out to the world I feel “Oh this is actually happening” in a nervous emotion. But none the less I am genuinely looking forward to it, and I hope you all are too.Well that’s it for this week, please post your opinions about Walk In The Forest TV and I hope you liked this weeks illustration.Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Cactus Family”
Illustration 38
22/01/12

Hello folks! How are you this fine monday?
This week’s illustration was inspired by the promo I created for Walk In The Forest TV, which has a little cactus sitting on the desk. My aunt who was watching the promo noticed the cactus and thought it was cute, so I decided to illustrate a cactus garden for this week. I’ve changed my technique just a tiny bit by adding eye brows to the face features and I feel they look much better, and for some reason they seem to ground the face more on the head. Also another thing I’ll be trying out is to experiment more with the head shapes, my illustrations of people (and another good example of this is the promo) are starting to look like lollypops, so if I change the shapes of the heads then they won’t look like clones and each person will have their own unique personality.

Here’s a link to the video if you wanna see the cactus or if you haven’t seen the promo yet. http://www.youtube.com/user/WalkInTheForestTV?feature=mhee . While I’m on the subject, you guys haven’t said anything about Walk In The Forest TV. What do you all think of the promo? Are you excited? Bored about it? Having trouble trusting me because you feel that the channel might turn out like my shop from last year? Post in the comments below, I really want to hear what you have to say.


Now moving on to the technical woe from last week, which has been resolved by using the laptop to film the episode. As for the microphone side of things, I’ve returned the other mic and it’s out of my life for good, buy sadly doesn’t take away the fact that I need a microphone clip, so I’m still on the search for one. I decided not to buy the other mic as it would’ve been a waste if I wasn’t able to use it later on the life, maybe I’ll buy it another time when I do need it. Gee you’d think I’d be turned off by all this organising and electrical drama, but to be honest with you I’m not. I’m looking forward to making videos about a subject that I’m inspired about and giving you some knowledge on what’s happening in the world of Illustration. In some ways I have mixed emotions about it, when I think of what I just mentioned it’s like “Oh this is actually happening” in a happy emotion, then it may change when I think of speaking in front of a camera and sending it out to the world I feel “Oh this is actually happening” in a nervous emotion. But none the less I am genuinely looking forward to it, and I hope you all are too.

Well that’s it for this week, please post your opinions about Walk In The Forest TV and I hope you liked this weeks illustration.

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

16 January 12
Illustration a week“School of Fish”Illustration 3716/01/12Hello folks! How is everyone’s monday?Well I’m guessing I’ve definitely exploded on textures in this week’s illustration. Originally, I was about to leave the ocean completely blue with only the basic texture I use in my works, but then I created some white and blue streaks behind the fishes and I’m glad I did because it’s given the ocean a sense of flow like it’s moving around the fish. In the mean time, I must find another colour to use, other than “blue”.On YouTube side of things, I’ve been getting ready for the first episode of Walk In The Forest TV, and it’s been rather eventful. A few days ago, I got a tripod and microphone clip then found that there was no microphone jack in the video camera. So I experimented with the sound of the video camera and a few other video recording devices, but the sound and eventually quality of footage was not up to scratch. Then Christopher suggested that I use the laptop to film and attach the microphone clip to the laptop, but the microphone or microphone port wouldn’t work (which was my fault because I bought it for $10, mental note: never over-estimate cheap electronic products!).So Chris and I went internet surfing for a microphone clip, which I later found out the technical term was “lapel microphone”, and came across this: http://www.amazon.com/Samson-Mic-Compact-USB-Microphone/dp/B001R76D42/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326690006&sr=8-2 . It’s not a clip-on, but it’s great sound quality, compact, connected via usb, and you can either clip it on the top of your laptop or on the desk. The only problem that had risen was that I’ve been told that you can plug in an actual microphone like a lapel into SLR camera’s, so I wanted to buy an SLR Camera some near future to film episodes with But I wouldn’t be able to use the Samson microphone because of no usb port in the camera (well not to my knowledge anyway). So I thought I’d be wasting money if I bought the Samson microphone if I couldn’t use it for an SLR camera. Before I ask you people to post in the comment section, yes I am probably creating these problems myself. But hey, tell me what you would do in this situation or suggestions on what I could do. Know any SLR camera’s at a good price range? Post them here!So that’s it for this week’s illustration, most likely I’ve complained through this whole post but I’m sure you’d do the same thing if you were in my position. See you all next week!Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore

Illustration a week
“School of Fish”
Illustration 37
16/01/12

Hello folks! How is everyone’s monday?
Well I’m guessing I’ve definitely exploded on textures in this week’s illustration. Originally, I was about to leave the ocean completely blue with only the basic texture I use in my works, but then I created some white and blue streaks behind the fishes and I’m glad I did because it’s given the ocean a sense of flow like it’s moving around the fish. In the mean time, I must find another colour to use, other than “blue”.

On YouTube side of things, I’ve been getting ready for the first episode of Walk In The Forest TV, and it’s been rather eventful. A few days ago, I got a tripod and microphone clip then found that there was no microphone jack in the video camera. So I experimented with the sound of the video camera and a few other video recording devices, but the sound and eventually quality of footage was not up to scratch. Then Christopher suggested that I use the laptop to film and attach the microphone clip to the laptop, but the microphone or microphone port wouldn’t work (which was my fault because I bought it for $10, mental note: never over-estimate cheap electronic products!).

So Chris and I went internet surfing for a microphone clip, which I later found out the technical term was “lapel microphone”, and came across this: http://www.amazon.com/Samson-Mic-Compact-USB-Microphone/dp/B001R76D42/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326690006&sr=8-2 . It’s not a clip-on, but it’s great sound quality, compact, connected via usb, and you can either clip it on the top of your laptop or on the desk. The only problem that had risen was that I’ve been told that you can plug in an actual microphone like a lapel into SLR camera’s, so I wanted to buy an SLR Camera some near future to film episodes with But I wouldn’t be able to use the Samson microphone because of no usb port in the camera (well not to my knowledge anyway). So I thought I’d be wasting money if I bought the Samson microphone if I couldn’t use it for an SLR camera. Before I ask you people to post in the comment section, yes I am probably creating these problems myself. But hey, tell me what you would do in this situation or suggestions on what I could do. Know any SLR camera’s at a good price range? Post them here!

So that’s it for this week’s illustration, most likely I’ve complained through this whole post but I’m sure you’d do the same thing if you were in my position. See you all next week!

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore

9 January 12
Illustration a week“Chocolate Chip Happiness” Illustration 3608/01/12Hello folks! How are you all?A lot of things have happened since the past illustration, I’ll just start it off with the fact that the promo animation for Walk In The Forest TV is finally complete and on YouTube as we speak. With the promo, you can get more of an idea on what to expect with episodes and such, but don’t forget you can have a say on what’s presented on the show. Comment here or you can comment on the promo video, Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Here’s the link to the channel, you’re welcome:http://www.youtube.com/user/WalkInTheForestTV. What I need to do now is get ready for making the episodes. I’ll make a background, buy myself a tripod and microphone clips then I should be set. Keep an eye out for episode 1!So that’s it for this week, hope you enjoy the illustration and the new promo.Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Chocolate Chip Happiness” 
Illustration 36
08/01/12

Hello folks! How are you all?
A lot of things have happened since the past illustration, I’ll just start it off with the fact that the promo animation for Walk In The Forest TV is finally complete and on YouTube as we speak. With the promo, you can get more of an idea on what to expect with episodes and such, but don’t forget you can have a say on what’s presented on the show. Comment here or you can comment on the promo video, Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Here’s the link to the channel, you’re welcome:http://www.youtube.com/user/WalkInTheForestTV. What I need to do now is get ready for making the episodes. I’ll make a background, buy myself a tripod and microphone clips then I should be set. Keep an eye out for episode 1!
So that’s it for this week, hope you enjoy the illustration and the new promo.

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

3 January 12
Illustration a week“Fire Water tank”Illustration 3503/01/12Hello folks! How were the New Years Eve celebrations?I celebrated with my family including Christopher Frith, which involved him, my sisters, and myself jumping on the trampoline and me running around saying “Yippy-I-Yo-Kia-Yay! I am the New Years gnome!” See picture here: http:// walkintheforestdesign.wordp ress.com/2012/01/03/illustration-35-happy-new-year-2012/Moving on to this week’s illustration, chose to make a dog’s great moment of playing with water running out of a hose , into his worst nightmare. I swear that Dalmatian dog will not be doing volunteer service with the fire brigade ever again, his choice but also the firefighters orders which the dog had no objections to.So that’s it for this week’s illustration, remember to give feedback for Walk In the Forest TV on what I could include on the episodes. I’m still making the animation promo which is taking a while, so it’s still going ahead, TRUST ME!Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Fire Water tank”
Illustration 35
03/01/12

Hello folks! How were the New Years Eve celebrations?
I celebrated with my family including Christopher Frith, which involved him, my sisters, and myself jumping on the trampoline and me running around saying “Yippy-I-Yo-Kia-Yay! I am the New Years gnome!” See picture here: http:// walkintheforestdesign.wordp ress.com/2012/01/03/illustration-35-happy-new-year-2012/

Moving on to this week’s illustration, chose to make a dog’s great moment of playing with water running out of a hose , into his worst nightmare. I swear that Dalmatian dog will not be doing volunteer service with the fire brigade ever again, his choice but also the firefighters orders which the dog had no objections to.

So that’s it for this week’s illustration, remember to give feedback for Walk In the Forest TV on what I could include on the episodes. I’m still making the animation promo which is taking a while, so it’s still going ahead, TRUST ME!

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

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Illustration a week“Poodle Parlour”Illustration 3402/01/12Hello folks! How were your holidays? Exploding with happiness?For Christmas, I received a 2 year subscription to Frankie magazine and a 1 year subscription to Desktop magazine (this should be great since I’ve moved a fair way out of town), some illustration books from Amazon plus some more once I use my Christmas money, and season 3 of The Mighty Boosh on DVD. Christmas family get-together was at our house this year because we had recently moved, usually at dinner our family throw napkin planes with prawns in them at the ceiling fan, but never happened this year as mum didn’t want to destroy the new fan But a great Christmas none the less. Then on Boxing Day, the 5 of us went to Jeparite, which is around 15 minutes from Horsham, where we had another Christmas dinner with more family then went back home for New Years.With this illustration, I decided to create the scene with a poodle going to a beauty parlour. Very pleased with the poodle’s texture, it almost gives you the impression that it you poke the arms, you’ll feel the puffyness. I’m starting to enjoy making textures like this one to the illustrations, it definitely adds life to them.So hope you enjoyed “last weeks” illustration, I’ll show you the books I got from Amazon when they arrive. Illustration 35 will follow shortly.Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Poodle Parlour”
Illustration 34
02/01/12

Hello folks! How were your holidays? Exploding with happiness?

For Christmas, I received a 2 year subscription to Frankie magazine and a 1 year subscription to Desktop magazine (this should be great since I’ve moved a fair way out of town), some illustration books from Amazon plus some more once I use my Christmas money, and season 3 of The Mighty Boosh on DVD. Christmas family get-together was at our house this year because we had recently moved, usually at dinner our family throw napkin planes with prawns in them at the ceiling fan, but never happened this year as mum didn’t want to destroy the new fan But a great Christmas none the less. Then on Boxing Day, the 5 of us went to Jeparite, which is around 15 minutes from Horsham, where we had another Christmas dinner with more family then went back home for New Years.

With this illustration, I decided to create the scene with a poodle going to a beauty parlour. Very pleased with the poodle’s texture, it almost gives you the impression that it you poke the arms, you’ll feel the puffyness. I’m starting to enjoy making textures like this one to the illustrations, it definitely adds life to them.

So hope you enjoyed “last weeks” illustration, I’ll show you the books I got from Amazon when they arrive. Illustration 35 will follow shortly.

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

19 December 11
Illustration a week“Book Club Meeting”Illustration 3319/12/11Hello folks! How’s life treating you?Illustration 33 has taken a little while to be posted as I’ve been giving the Walk In The Forest website a makeover, with a new background and header (on website here: http://walkintheforestdesign.wordpress.com/), plus a new “Hire Me!” button with the help of Christopher Frith. So if you’d like me to help you with an illustration and such, click on the “Hire Me!” button and get in contact. This week’s illustration, along with a logo design, is also being used for Wordsmith Book Club in Ballarat.Christmas is also upon us, hope all of you are organised with everything and haven’t made the mistake of buying a gift for someone that another person is also giving them, which has happened to me this year with my boyfriend and mother both giving me a Frankie magazine subscription. If you have had that experience, post in the comments below! Well that’s it for this week, Walk In The Forest TV promo video should be in animating stage soon with the illustrations to animate being almost complete. Have a safe holiday and a happy new year. Remember to post ideas for the YouTube channel!Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Book Club Meeting”
Illustration 33
19/12/11

Hello folks! How’s life treating you?
Illustration 33 has taken a little while to be posted as I’ve been giving the Walk In The Forest website a makeover, with a new background and header (on website here: http://walkintheforestdesign.wordpress.com/), plus a new “Hire Me!” button with the help of Christopher Frith. So if you’d like me to help you with an illustration and such, click on the “Hire Me!” button and get in contact. This week’s illustration, along with a logo design, is also being used for Wordsmith Book Club in Ballarat.

Christmas is also upon us, hope all of you are organised with everything and haven’t made the mistake of buying a gift for someone that another person is also giving them, which has happened to me this year with my boyfriend and mother both giving me a Frankie magazine subscription. If you have had that experience, post in the comments below! 

Well that’s it for this week, Walk In The Forest TV promo video should be in animating stage soon with the illustrations to animate being almost complete. Have a safe holiday and a happy new year. Remember to post ideas for the YouTube channel!

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

12 December 11
Illustration a week“Cuckoo Boy”Illustration 3212/11/12Hello folks! How is your monday this week?I’ve actually had to post illustrations at uni instead of posting them at home, as the internet is rather unbearable. It won’t be long until the internet picks up again soon. I’ve completed the intro Walk In The Forest TV, which will debut with the promo video. I have also been watching some tutorials on how to animate in Adobe After Effects created by Ryan Boyle, and it seem easy enough by using puppet tools and separate layers for limbs. It may take a little while but that’s fine, I’d rather the animation take a while and look great at the end, than done very quickly and literally show that it was done quickly. So hope everyone is well, and see you all next week. Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Cuckoo Boy”
Illustration 32
12/11/12

Hello folks! How is your monday this week?
I’ve actually had to post illustrations at uni instead of posting them at home, as the internet is rather unbearable. It won’t be long until the internet picks up again soon. 
I’ve completed the intro Walk In The Forest TV, which will debut with the promo video. I have also been watching some tutorials on how to animate in Adobe After Effects created by Ryan Boyle, and it seem easy enough by using puppet tools and separate layers for limbs. It may take a little while but that’s fine, I’d rather the animation take a while and look great at the end, than done very quickly and literally show that it was done quickly. 
So hope everyone is well, and see you all next week. 

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

11 December 11
Belated movember with me and chris (Taken with instagram)

Belated movember with me and chris (Taken with instagram)

8 December 11
Illustration a week“Würste Polka Band”Illustration 3107/12/11Hello folks! How are you all? I was meant to post this yesterday but living out away from town slows down the internet, and ultimately slows down WordPress to a point that the website doesn’t show up. But here it is everyone, say hello to this week’s illustration. Yep you heard right, I have finally caught up with the illustrations, now I can get back to just posting one a week. This illustration is quiet similar to illustration 21 in terms of subject, the only difference is I feel that I’ve used a background for the scene so it doesn’t seem that the characters are floating like the previous illustrations.Well I’ve made a start on the Walk In The Forest TV intro music, I played a little tune on the guitar (after cleaning it from dust), and then I need to do a bit of animating with the logo. I will be creating a promo video for the channel as well, so I’ll illustrate some stuff for After Effects and hopefully brush up on some animation skills.So that’s it for this week, I’m going to start posting the illustrations on the monday from now on. So until then, post comments on ideas about Walk In The Forest TV and I’ll speak to you all on monday.Happy travels in the forest,Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Illustration a week
“Würste Polka Band”
Illustration 31
07/12/11

Hello folks! How are you all? I was meant to post this yesterday but living out away from town slows down the internet, and ultimately slows down WordPress to a point that the website doesn’t show up. But here it is everyone, say hello to this week’s illustration. Yep you heard right, I have finally caught up with the illustrations, now I can get back to just posting one a week. This illustration is quiet similar to illustration 21 in terms of subject, the only difference is I feel that I’ve used a background for the scene so it doesn’t seem that the characters are floating like the previous illustrations.

Well I’ve made a start on the Walk In The Forest TV intro music, I played a little tune on the guitar (after cleaning it from dust), and then I need to do a bit of animating with the logo. I will be creating a promo video for the channel as well, so I’ll illustrate some stuff for After Effects and hopefully brush up on some animation skills.

So that’s it for this week, I’m going to start posting the illustrations on the monday from now on. So until then, post comments on ideas about Walk In The Forest TV and I’ll speak to you all on monday.

Happy travels in the forest,
Lucy-Ann Moore (Walk In The Forest)

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh