If I was feeling cheeky, I could have stretched this over two days’ worth of visual diary. Lots of good fun work, getting back into the sketchbook to make some physical work. The ink loosens my hand and makes me happy. I think I’ll probably upload my writing on here in full today, because IContinue reading “Visual Diary – How do I wash my clothes?”
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Lo-Fi Printmaking – Lino Layer
oh YEAH babey! The image below is actually upside-down, and is all my test prints resting on our drying laundered bedsheets stretched across chairs. Just so you know what you’re looking at. So, registering the lino was always going to be hard. Because I was combining printmaking methods, one registration matrix would not be appropriateContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking – Lino Layer”
Lo-Fi Printmaking: Stencil Layer
I sorted out the stencil prints. I want to say I sorted them today for narrative points, but it was a couple of days ago. I took an A3 sheet of paper, and registered the cut acetate roughly to the center. This didn’t have to be surgical, because the lino layer will play the largestContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: Stencil Layer”
Visual Diary – Guide to my Page
For the new year on Instagram, I spent some time creating a baseline guide to identifying the characters I love so much. This is good, because I occasionally get new followers, and I know how hard it is keeping track of other people’s characters. This is a simple who’s who that you can hold upContinue reading “Visual Diary – Guide to my Page”
Visual Diary: Well, Well.
I keep meaning to make more sketches, but quickly colouring work to give it the sense of atmosphere I need it to have is quite good fun. I spent some time working with this one and I’m really happy with the mood it gives out in the end. The character speaking is the sword, WhackusContinue reading “Visual Diary: Well, Well.”
Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Cut!
Huge progress as I finished the lino cut! I am utterly sideways with excitement for how this turns out. I’ve actually done the stencil now but I’m making it two posts because I’ve been putting off writing this one up. And my bandwith is all tied up dealing with a drive video, so I can’tContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Cut!”
Sewing Project – Orange Jeans
At Oxfam the other day I found a pair of eye-meltingly orange jeans for £5.95. The only problem was, they were a huge size 14. Such problems no longer matter to me, since I own a sewing machine! Below are befores and afters. My improvement on the last project is already considerable: this time, IContinue reading “Sewing Project – Orange Jeans”
Visual Diary – Antonia – It Worked!
This is a good moment in the scene where Antonia and Mitzi try to break into the bath houses. Getting the pose right, keeping the composition interesting, and still keeping this faith to the image I have in my head is very difficult. You have to be very good at all this stuff to avoidContinue reading “Visual Diary – Antonia – It Worked!”
Visual Diary – We are Finding You Some Soap.
I can see my art tending towards slightly coloured monochrome recently – and this is because when I’m creating a whole scene, to fully colour it too would turn it from a practice illustration into a whole project. I’m pleased with this one! I drew it before I wrote about it, and I’ve written andContinue reading “Visual Diary – We are Finding You Some Soap.”
Visual Diary: So… You’re Whackus Bonkus…
Brace for critique. A big success. A good angle, helped considerably by four or five messy ink thumbnails in my sketchbook. You should really see them. You’re going to have to trust me that … oh, for god’s sake, hang on. honestly, I do so much work, and then I do even more documenting it.Continue reading “Visual Diary: So… You’re Whackus Bonkus…”
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