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Crappy Illustration Morning

Sat down after a couple solid hours’ housework to draw Drake and Antonia in their classic halloween outfits. Did warm up drawings of the view out of my window to get my eye in and scribbled a bit to loosen up my hand. Found a good reference and made a good sketch. But when itContinue reading “Crappy Illustration Morning”

Drawing Workshop – Hands

A Short Stay in Hell: Full Zine

Click HERE to view the full art-directed zine taken from Gabby’s original. Once you’ve taken a look at it, come back here. This is a very small version of all the pages together, to refer to if you’d like while you read my notes. NOTES. The narrative that started speaking to me in this zineContinue reading “A Short Stay in Hell: Full Zine”

Women Drivers…

This one is a mixed bag, but I learned a lot from it. Trying to colour tonally and THEN colour as well as that seems to dirty the piece overall. I’m going to have to take my skills one step further and simply pick tonally correct colours to complete the composition, which I look forwardContinue reading “Women Drivers…”

Nieves.ch explorations

I was sitting down to work on my zine – I’ve actually started referring to working in my head not as work, but as “Fucking around and finding out” – and I hopped onto Nieves.ch to take a look at some examples of good and interesting composition. I particularly liked Perks and Mini’s 100 pageContinue reading “Nieves.ch explorations”

The Littlest Knight

Did some sketches of Techo to get an idea for a lovely clunky Knight with some good shapes. I actually had an illustration by Chris Riddell in my head when I drew, from last year’s ditching trip, of a knight on a horse. You can see I chose my favourite image for composition and workedContinue reading “The Littlest Knight”

Martha’s Gift – Elves and Food

For Martha’s birthday I drew us as Elves, an image that’s long run between us due to our love of LOTR and exchanging simple baked goods. With as simple a background as possible, I really wanted to get across the leafy, green and orange, autumnal feel. I’ve always associated Martha with these colours. I thinkContinue reading “Martha’s Gift – Elves and Food”

Drawing Workshop – Groups

Absolutely amazing drawing workshop today. You can track so clearly how my eyes and hands warm up. Really interesting talk from Jeremy about how figures can be tied together, made to sing and work together. Similar objects of attention, similar lighting, interacting poses, creating this sense of oneness. I loosened up throughout the session andContinue reading “Drawing Workshop – Groups”

My Watch is Two Days Late!

I had this idea when I worked the Wonderland Ball at the Grand, a very luxurious charity event decorated to become wonderland. There were many actors who greeted the guests, such as an Alice with her looking glass who asked if I was a henchman for the Queen of Hearts (we were obviously staff). IContinue reading “My Watch is Two Days Late!”

“Open Work” Notes

Typed up from my notebook. Umberto Eco – philosopher and semiotician. Italian, b. 1932. “Encyclopaedia” – the transfer of meaning through signs. Eco sees art as a performance because each reader finds a new interpretation. Information theory. The amount of information contained in a message depends on the probability of the reader’s already knowing theContinue reading ““Open Work” Notes”