Eugh, today we had to do laundry and it was fucking boring but I still tried to do some drawing there (see below) aside from that I did a weird collage thing that looks rough as hell and then coloured in one of my other sketches in photoshop. I wouldn't normally colour in a scanned image without redoing the line art but hey, experimenting is the point eh.
These are the first few pages of my a6 sketchbook that I'm using for the drawing approaches unit of my course. These were all drawn on location except the squirrel on the left because they just will not keep still as you can see from my poor attempts to capture them on the lower page. I snagged a photo and sketched it out quickly when I got in from the cold. Some of these pictures were done using blind drawing and then I scribbled some shading on afterwards. as well as watering the ink down in places. I'll probably use my a6 sketchbook for initial sketches and take those images into experiments in a larger sketchbook... maybe?
After a little tutorial with Matt, he explained that I shouldn't try to add too much information that already exists in the words I have written to the images that I produce so here are the next two. One more to go!
I'm not working in order at all here but here's another image for my short story... Hopefully it's pretty obvious what has happened here but if not I can summarise the image. The yellow light on the elderly woman represents his revelation/objective. The shape in the background is his other objective (the front door). The red circles obviously indicate blood and obviously she has an eye missing which just so happens to be in his beak... DO THE MATH(s) ;)
Messing about with drawings and photos taken from our recent trip to Weymouth. Nothing great but it's slightly different to the usual things I come out with.
I really want to go back to our old flat for a few reasons but one of them tops them all... I WANT TO PLAY GEARS 3 AGAIN! WAAAHHHHH!!!
Since the flea drawing I fancied doing more photoshop drawing but had noooo idea what to do. I just randomly started placing sketchy blocks everywhere which eventually lead to this old man island thing! How strange!
Since me and my girlfriend discovered fleas in our flat in Bournemouth our lives have been pretty grim. We were moved to a temporary flat by the agent until the place is gassed on Monday. Whenever I get an itch I check my body obsessively, whenever I see a small black speck on the carpet or bed quilt I get the hoover out. I love animals and find insects especially fascinating but for these little bastards I am willing to make an exception. I fucking hate them! The best way to deal with this current hellish situation was to draw and make a joke of it and so here is the evidence. The worst part is that they actually look like this (more or less). Happy itching!
so here he is, tweaked a little and almost ready to be submitted. I do feel a little shit at the fact that I won't be using my lovely horsey but it was fun to do and that's what counts RIGHT!?
Well I was fucking around on photoshop and thought this could make quite a fun drawing... If only it could be real though!
My lovely lady Kayleigh was complaining that I draw all the time and she wished that she did more textiles work, so I explained to her that setting up my blog page really motivated me into drawing more. It gave me a reason to produce work because I wanted to fill my page with my drawings. At that point we decided that she should set one up too in the hope that it would motivate her too, so she asked me to do a title for
This morning I had a go at producing my own cute-style animal using the techniques from yesterdays tutorials and considering this is my first attempt I think it isn't bad at all... I am relatively chuffed.
As I stated earlier, I needed to learn a lot of techniques from adobe illustrator again and so I spent an hour or so (maybe more, embarrassingly!) doing a tutorial on gradients and shapes. This horrible looking bunny is the fruit of my labours. More practice wouldn't hurt as you can see, but fuck, it's boring doing tutorials!
Well just as Matt had stated in one of his posts, creating abstract shapes in Alchemy is a lot like looking at clouds. I looked at his abstract symmetrical drawing and instead of seeing a queen with crazy hair and a fancy dress, I saw some sort of mecha. I TRIED to use illustrator to get the symmetry down at first but I really need to re-teach myself a lot of the techniques. Anyway, once I got the basic structure down (top left) I sketched a little bit over it to see where I could go with this design. I want to do more with this but because it's a robot I feel that crisp precise lines are going to be important and illustrator may be the program to help me here... watch this space!
Matt had been working on the concept of a guitarist who had lost his hand in some sort of drunken brawl. He sent me a picture of his concept and asked me to elaborate on it... Unfortunately, I went totally mental on it and practically changed the whole thing! I will have to talk to him about my ideas surrounding this character, such as the reason he now wears a bandanna on his face all the time and stuff. I had fun doing it though so I hope he isn't too mad that I changed so much :)
