Save The Cheese: A Daily Illustration Blog

New Blog

2009-12-01T05:39:00.000-08:00

As i Mentioned in my previous post I am relaunching my blog somewhere else for all that follow me I thank you for continued attention.

My 100 day pledge to update my illustration blog starts today at

Drawing Rayguns

I shall be discontinuing my posting this blog but it will still be sticking around as a note to all who follow, Thank you again for stopping by.

Signing off

Laura Armstrong

100 Days

2009-11-25T05:13:00.000-08:00

I am going to be taking part in a project to renergise my posting in my blog it's called

100 days to make me a better person

I feel it's time to a relaunch of my blog so I will be announcing that shortly on here FYI of people who stop by.

Looking back

2009-07-10T03:05:00.000-07:00

Seen as my work has often been quite loose and messy I took much inpiration from artists who worked in come similar ways. One of my favorite imagemakers is Sabrina Ward Harrison. She creates alot of mixed media work with collage, paint and photographs. Elements of her work I've tried to replicate in my own way, and you can kind of see it in some of my rough work and final imagery to. If you look back towards my bondage work, the third image is an example of it then you can kind of see what I mean.

I own one of her older books Spilling Open which is quite a moving book where she talks very forwardly about her feelings and indecision of how her life is going, about her appearance and I could relate very well to the feelings and ideas she put down. Being in early twenties is a scary part of life because your not longer young but your definetly not old and there is still not always clarity of where your life is heading.

I just wanted to show you her as shes been a big influence of alot of my very past work and I still referance here in a lot of more recent things as well. If you click her name it will take you to her website which has some pretty interesting stuff to.

Zero Punctuation

2009-07-02T02:52:00.001-07:00

Zero Punctuation has to be one of my favorite video releases on the net, it's a games review but with a difference as the host Yahtzee Cronshaw talks at high speed generally ripping games to shreads.

He also has a blog at:
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/

This week he reviewed Sims3, I would definelty check this out.

Around and about

2009-06-27T05:48:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, just to let you know I've not been about lately I went home for a while and i'm recently back. I did plan to keep updates coming when I've been at home but the internet spent a lot of time messing up so I couldn't upload. Please stay tuned as this week I will be getting back on the horse and bringing you some more recent work.

I have some steady comic book work that's really starting to come along, every time I do a page it has a better feel.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dresden Codak

2009-06-16T08:30:00.000-07:00

I was recommended this webcomic a while ago and haven't got on to doing it until recently I have so far found that it seems pretty awesome. The website has tons of content and interesting links.

I found this image in the gallery and liked it alot so I thought I'd share this great little site.

http://dresdencodak.com/

Illustration Friday - Unfold

2009-06-15T11:01:00.001-07:00

The plot thickens as the tale unfolds, thinking about old people and the stories they tell of memory and youth and sometimes you wonder if some of the elements are fantasy or true.

Illustration Friday - Craving

2009-06-09T10:10:00.000-07:00

It gets late in the day and you have a taste for so many different kinds of food that to combine them would be something obscure, possibly revolting. Today I have the cake, giant cookie, vegtable pie, carrot stick and apple combination. What combinations would you have, beans on broccoli? lemonade and salad cream on salmon?

Thanks for stopping by!

My face

2009-06-08T07:54:00.000-07:00

A quick digital drawing of my face. I'm currently designing my website and thought about doing roll over image for when I hover over different hot spots. I realise digital doesn't really associate with my work so much so I don't think I will use it, thought it was a fun little images though.

I am enjoying doing little bits of digital work a lot. I know I have mentioned previously but it's really good fun.

Thanks for stopping by

Three Panel Soul

2009-06-06T15:24:00.000-07:00

Three panel soul is another of my favorite webcomics, this one always working in three panels but has lots of different jokes and styles of drawing that I really enjoy.

Lately I've been trying to get my stuff together task wise I am sorry for not post yesterday, I hope to make up for it with some great content this week that I hope to be working on. I hope your all well.

Thanks for stopping by!

Illustration Friday - Adapt

2009-06-04T03:12:00.000-07:00

I haven't done a lot of digital work and I've just started trying to get the hang of my graphics tablet so I just played at making something really simple but using a few different brushes in adobe illustrator. I guess I'm trying to adapt to a new medium for drawing. Been testing out my Bamboo Fun Wacom tablet. I've been drawing some line art just developing it as I go and it's starting to look interesting. I think Illustration Friday may help me develop some more digital work. Last week I did a digitally coloured image and have since learned to colour it better with a bit of guidance.

Thanks for stopping by!

HALFPIXEL and Webcomics Weekly

2009-06-03T12:09:00.000-07:00

Halfpixel.com is a really great site run by four cartoonists who all do there own separate strips online. They have a number of resources on creating comics including articles, a book, videos and my favorite which is the podcast they do Webcomics Weekly which goes from story writing, technical tips, listener questions all the way up to creating a business model on the web. Very interesting stuff. Also the guys are really funny and have been most have been doing there strips for nearly or over ten years. On the page the links to all the strips are the first things you see.

I would urge you to listen to the podcast if you want to hear interesting tips and advice for creating comics but also apply to work generally or if you really just want a laugh and hear some great stories.

Thanks for stopping by!

Unique

2009-06-02T07:29:00.001-07:00

The phrase in this piece was said by Alex the other day and I saw some small girls in the blue and white check dresses about thought about school uniforms and school and how they don't really encourage individuality in some cases and take into consideration the different levels of learning and put children in lower sets even though in reality they are bright kids.

I also drew a lady who was at the crossing. I remember positve things getting out of school and feeling more freedom to be myself though who I was and the clothes I chose to wear.

Candi

2009-06-01T10:09:00.000-07:00

Another webcomic I am following is Candi. It's a slice of life comic that follows Candi a female art student through her trouble and joys. I would definitely recommend reading through it. I think it works really well if your reading it as a whole thing and I am still quite enjoying it as a read it as it updates.

It isn't my usual kind of comic but I think it definitely has merit. I feel that the creator Starline Hodge (that is her real name by the way) has put a lot of herself into it but you can never be certain what is real and what is fiction so it makes it even more interesting to consider.

I hope you enjoy this one to.

Thanks for stopping by!

The Botanic Gardens

2009-05-31T06:17:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a super day. One of the most fantastic and beautiful days I've seen. I really wanted to go just to see the gardens and maybe collect a few sketches along the way as I had never been. Which is exactly what I did. We took lunch with us as some juice and about 4 litres of water and had a nice walk up there and then back again. Overall I well exercised day.

I definitely plan to go back there in the future. The place is pretty big and there are so many interesting people, plants and birds that I could spend all day there. Here is a double from my sketch book with a few little sketches I did. Next time I will go well equipped with inks and pens and hopefully have a really productive day, it was great to discover such a great place down the road.

In the evening I went to a barbecue at a friends and had lots of tasty food and some nice cider. Today. I shall hopefully be having more adventures, still taking advantage of the sun whilst I still can and tomorrow cracking on with some work.

See you tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by!

An epic journey.

2009-05-30T03:35:00.000-07:00

Today I'm going to take advantage of the beautiful weather here in Edinburgh and take a trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens. Me and Alex have been meant to visit it as we have never been and it looks awesome.

I hope to get some sketches done and to eat delicious sandwiches and enjoy my day!

If your in Edinburgh I urge you to go out and enjoy this day whilst it's here. If you can't my heart goes out to you.

Thanks for stopping by.

P.S. sandwiches are good for your health, eat them. A lot.

I was kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outerspace

2009-05-29T08:34:00.000-07:00

I had to link to this comic (first comic) because it's one of my favorites and one of the rescources that helped me come to the conclusion I really wanted to do a science fiction themed project. The comic is currently of hiatus but there there are a number of issues uploaded on to the website to look at.

I've been really interested by Buck Rodgers which we had been watching at the series night at sciffy and other horribly cheesy science fiction. Also films like Barbarella as they include ideas of sexual awakening which I like to incorporate into my own work.

A quote from the about page

"So what is this comic about anyway?

Really? You want to know what it’s about? You’ve read the title and you still think it might be about two guys who sit around playing video games and making fun of everything in the world? Seriously, it’s about a woman who gets herself kidnapped by lesbian pirates from outer space. It’s funny. You’ll laugh."

Megan Rose was inspired by old 1950s pulp novels that often included science fiction, aliens and lesbians but they were often really sexist and so she formed a parody of this style of genre. Very engaging and humorous enthuses on the faults of this style of story telling like giant plot holes. Also looks at the importance of the fact the woman are all different sizes shapes and also that people enjoy this kind of fiction.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Thanks for stopping by.

My New Dissertation Blog

2009-05-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

printmaking-dissertation

I started planning my dissertation a while and ago, and wanted to do a printmaking based one, it is early days yet so I am going to explore learning screen printing as a solution. On my new blog it should hopefully develop in a very useful documentation of resources and the development of my project after I've been inducted, so there should be some new work showing up on this blog as well as the new one and I'll make a new link my my sidebar for future.

Thanks for stopping by.

Warmth, Passion

2009-05-27T09:19:00.001-07:00

I have been looking at the different kinds of patterning lately I have seen some interesting examples of in Art Brut books. Using quite quite solid colours. Some of the work I've tried to work with quite closely. This is a very much edited version which has changed it to be a bit more bright and colourful.

I experimented with a different means of colouring which was felt tip pens, a bit of an unusual choice for me and it gets quite sketch and textured. I use a lot of fluid inks to get more solid block textures and sometimes coloured pencil but its quite easy to judge the pressure to get it looking a bit more even.

It wanted to come up with something that was nice and bright and loving. I just wanted to create a fairly passionate image, trying to see what kinds of moods I can create.

Thanks for stopping by.

2009-05-26T10:37:00.001-07:00

A comic book cover I created for the science fiction comic ideas I have had going round in my head.

Illustration Friday - Cracked

2009-05-25T07:44:00.000-07:00

A small illustration here that I quite enjoyed doing. I drew it scanned into photo shop and coloured it digitally, which since I'm pretty new to doing is still pretty fiddly. But I think it was overall pretty successful, I need to practise more. This was done without my graphics tablet also making it a bit more tricky but I had fun and that's what counts, right?

Today has been pretty productive by the end of this week I shall hopefully be inducted in screen printing and starting work on my project based dissertation. I need to create a body of work and then write about it. I am thinking at the moment of experimenting as much as I can with the process and how it applies to different mediums, like t-shirts, packaging and as flat pieces as well. First I have to see if I like the process enough to do a whole dissertation on it and if not then change to a different technique. Overall I am pretty certain I want to do printmaking I feel it is an area I want to feel more experienced in.

I applied for a few jobs as I am staying in Edinburgh over the summer and that requires rent, so generally and steady but productive day. Tonight I am likely going to the Edinburgh B-Team, which is the B-Movies night that runs every Monday evening at Jekyll and Hyde which is much fun.

Hope your all having a good day. Thanks for stopping by.

A race against time

2009-05-22T15:10:00.001-07:00

Here is an example of forgetful behaviour. Today has been spent trying to sort out my unfortunate ear situation which involves two cotton buds and compressed wax resulting in poor hearing. I only remembered earlier in the evening that I'd promised to deliver a daily post so here we are.

This weekend I am taking the annual science fiction and fantasy society trip to Cramond Island. So I will not be able to put up a post but I will supply some links below to some interesting things to make up for it.

I was linked to this website by a long list of forwards it seems but the website was very interesting. The name of the person is femke de jong. She is from the Netherlands and studied in Bristol and works there now I assume. Her work is textured, with some collage and things. Some of it has a really great contemporary/oldie feeling to it that really interests me.

Anders loves Maria. Here is a webcomic I just checked up on again after a long time of hiatus due to family difficulties of the author and artist the comic seems to be getting back on track. Some really interesting, definitely worth flocking back to the first comic and reading through, it does have a bit of a slow start but I found a few beautiful, emotional and sexual elements to it that I personally really enjoyed. Hope these keep you busy.

Have a great weekend.

Illustration Friday - Contagious

2009-05-21T03:28:00.000-07:00

I decided to draw a quick sketch and post it as an Illustration Friday entry because it reminded me of a song by Lovage called Book of the Month. It means a lot to me as my partner and lover gave me an album by them because it was some quite fun and also sexy music. The CD is called 'Music to make love to your old lady by.'

It has been a while again since my last entry. I proudly announce that I am going to chance my posting schedule to being a post a day, it may be an illustration or a sneak peek at some developmental work, or a blog, artist or image I've found that I like and would like to share.

I really enjoy blogging and would like to keep this up.

Thank you for stopping by!

Lifedrawing

2009-03-17T05:01:00.000-07:00

Here is some life drawing I did the other week, not had a chance to upload it to now but I was really happy with the sessions I felt really productive after doing it. I used a calligraphy pen for the line work and coloured it with some Indian ink with quite a lot of water to give it some depth.

I tend to often get frustrated in life drawing and not structure my work and end up doing a lot of random splatters that can turn out well but I never feel satisfied with the work, where as this session I felt really happy and look forward to doing some more.

Thanks for stopping by.

Feel My Raygun

2009-03-09T10:49:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been looking at old science-fiction and space opera,TV shows and films to go along with my current self-initiated project to create a sci-fi/fantasy graphic novel.

Finding bad science fiction becomes a lot easier when you hang out with sciffy, the science fiction and fantasy society at Edinburgh University and I go to a weekly B-Movies group as well at Jekyll and Hyde (Monday nights 7.30).

I looked at some image of ray guns and thought about the random skimpy outfits you get in series such as Buck Rodgers and also webcomics like I was kidnapped by lesbian pirates from outer space. Also thinking about films which incorporate sexuality like Barbarella and Rocky Horror Picture show. So I did this image very very quickly and soon I shall hopefully be uploading more interesting stuff and will put up some of the final imagery.

The Selfish Giant

2009-02-13T05:28:00.000-08:00

Good afternoon, dear people of the Internet. How are we? Well it has been a while but today we finish a project with Jill Calder. She set us a project to make an A2 poster for a play of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde. It has been a good few days and overall I feel generally happy with what I've produced though there are a few extra things to do to it before it's perfect, it has a nice bright crisp feel to it, reminds me of sunny Edinburgh days in winter where it's blisteringly cold but then the sky is clear and the suns out in the distance and you can see it over Holyrood Park walking home.

I haven't really done an actual collage for a while. I tend to use a lot of build up elements in my work, so it was quite therapeutic to get back to it, I often make coloured back drops with acrylic paint layer on paper or mixing colours I saved them and started cutting them up. Then I also drew some trees in ink and cut them out. To describe the state of my desk is piles of paper and bits of rainbow scraps, not to forget the bread crumbs.

I just realised once I put it on the wall for the crit that this kinda of collage, the colours and thinks esepcially the used of white and black goes back to some other collage work I did when I was on the Graphic Design degree in Blackburn, it was kind od a mini shock once I put it up on the wall, with my previous work though I still keep the knowledge of my previous projects in the back on my head when it came to the end od 2nd year illustration I deleted all my gallery because I wanted a fresh start for 3rd year and didn't want my mind sort of...to firmiliar with what I used to do and what I was doing now.

Christmas at Dr Sketchy's

2008-12-16T05:31:00.000-08:00

Dr Sketchy's Christmas session was a lot of fun they had four models for posing which made it abit of a challenge for my messy ink drawings some are a little unlcear but I was really excited that I won the prize of the Dr Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book! If you look below you'll see the image with the donkey head and thats the image that got me the prize. I also got a picture of my image taken which should go up on the website.

I have a lot of other work to upload as well as I have several projects now completed but I may not get a chance to upload them until a bit later on. It has been full steam ahead the last term and I look forward to more of the same when I start back again in January.

Hope you have a good holiday.

3rd Year so far

2008-10-29T06:50:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome, there has been a gap over the summer and between now and my last post, I've settled back into the course again and just completed my first project, called "It's good to talk" with the lovely Jim McBride. The task was to find a script from somewhere, from a real life conversation from films, books, television, plays and many other things.

I chose Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett. I was thinking about ways to apply the imagery in a way that was different from the actual play itself, I didn't want to tribute it, i was thinking about doing a conversation between two birds on a branch or not really having images but having the type as a decorative image, in the end I threw it out the window and drew rope bondage, something that I'm interested in.

I went about looking for pictures and I found some lovely artistic ones on a website called Beautiful Bondage. and did some rough initial sketches.

Next I decided I need something to take and make my own at this point I went to Twistedmonk, Monk is a gentleman I much admire and he makes and sells rope and is also a big name in that scene, I follow his blog check it out. Monk does some great instructional videos so what I did was as the video played in my browser and the screen shot the images, and then used them to model my own images, just so i could get the figurative aspect relatively clear. Traced the images back on to an acrylic background and used ink to go over the lines and white acrylic to highlight certain areas and pencil to gave it a bit of shadow and applied typed digitally. The last image is a scan of one of the final images. You can also see some more images on my deviantart .

I would really like to do some life drawing though I haven't found anyone locally that does it, may Dr Sketchy's Scotland will do it at some point and have sent them a message, about if they will do it or if they know of anything else like it. If anyone else is interested in doing this kind of drawing get in touch and then I can get in touch with the right people.

Illustration Friday - Clutter

2008-09-10T04:12:00.000-07:00

Can I hear you mutter clutter? I dunno this picture was fun to do and concerned some happy accidents and messy fingers. The ink splatters in the background was a sheet I was using to mix ink on and it, and though i was cluttered with colour I decided echoing the word might be nice.

I shall be start University again soon and I am looking forward. Over the summer I did some work to hand in and then started enjoying myself doing role-playing, board games and lan parties. I have started flicking about with some new ideas and I hope to find away to make it flourish and so I can be used in a personal future projects.

Overall I feel bright and shiny and looking forward to getting back to Edinburgh.

Goodbye Kim

2008-07-20T08:28:00.000-07:00

I'm back. I hope your all well. I have been moving and also having computer problems. I returned to Edinburgh on Friday so I'm just about settled down again. I love train journeys because you get to see such changes over the day and all you have to do is sit and eat expensive chocolate from the on board shop.

Anyway, my friend Kim had her goodbye party last night, I love her so much I haven't known her for all that long but shes such a lovely girl that you can't help but once to pounce on her. Here is a picture: from left to right, Dean, Kim and Benn.

Anyway Kim rocks awesome and I hope she stays well in Switzerland and comes back in two years for Uni.

Goodbye Kim we love you. xxx

Monster Mash

2008-06-21T07:48:00.000-07:00

Digging through some old work and I came across this fella. This guy was inspired by the work of Chiu Kwong Man. I did a few others but this is my favorite. It was drawn with a a felt tip or fine liner and just wiped over with a wet brush.

It was part of the work I did for a small story I made last year about a child scared of monsters eating his stuffed toy. Ummm tentacles...

Maybe I should give him a name? Sponge maybe? Just because it sounds so cute and fluffy. I can imagine him slivering about in the dark, eating the dog food and leaving it's greasy trail on the carpet...

^_^ Thanks for stopping by.

Look a post!

2008-06-17T03:53:00.000-07:00

Yes my blog has been somewhat neglected lately. I have been spending my time tidying, vaguely doing essay word and eating Ben and Jerry's.

This is a piece we did for Jonathan Gibbs the head of the illustration course. I thought I'd add a bit of colour to my blog.

We were given two articles one was an review of a book about bears and one of about magic shows. We could choose which was going to be an editorial illustration and which was going to be a book of observational drawings. I really enjoyed it as I produced tons of work for it and felt that it turned out OK at the end.

It's entering the summer time now and I can feel it the weather is warm and I hope to do some more illustration Friday entries, research and general prep for next year as I have passed all my assessments, yay!

I hope your all well, if you reading this please tell me what you going to getting up to over the summer. Thanks and I hope your all well this lovely day.

Webcomics

2008-05-23T03:21:00.001-07:00

If you read the last post you will remember mentioning that me and my friend Benn have been throwing about our webcomic ideas again.

So here are some roughs, we aren't up and running yet but we have over 20 thoroughly planned strip ideas. You won't be able to tell whats going on and that's the way I like it, it maybe that I'm inherently evil.

People keep asking me "So whats your webcomic about" and it's a tough question. Though the way Ross described it to someone he knows is, "Shes making it with someone who runs Unknown Armies, that gives you an idea of how surreal it will be." Benn the guy who is primarily doing the writing for the comic is a superb bloke from New Zealand who I met via ORC: Open Roleplaying Society that runs every Saturday at Caffe Nero on Rose Street.

If you also look in my side bar you will see a small list of webcomics that I read. I also listen to a podcast called Webcomics Weekly with some pretty experienced cartoonists, Scott Kurtz of PvP, Kris Straub with Starslip Crisis, Dave Kellett with Sheldon and Brad Guigar with Evil Inc. So this really made me want to get back into working on the webcomics. If your thinking about getting into webcomics I would seriously recommend it.

You may have gotten the idea by now that I am in love with webcomics, though when it comes to printed it comes down to three words for me.

Calvin and Hobbes.

Thanks for coming by for a gander.

Cramond Ahoy!

2008-05-21T03:53:00.001-07:00

I thought about uploading some more sketches but I thought I'd show you this picture of me on Cramond Island. As I mentioned in my last post. From left to right, there is me, my boyfriend Ross and Vix. This is also proof I do actually talk to socialise and don't just act creepy drawing in the corners of coffee shops all the time.

Yes we all look a bit out of it, I am doing that sideways look and generally looking a bit sinister where as Ross is actually posing for the picture, hes such a tart.

It was a really good trip, though I was awake all night and by time I got back to my flat I was ready to fall over.

There have also been interesting developments between me and my good friend Benn is the way of comics so we are going to start putting those into action soon. When we eventually get it up then I will post the link. So watch this space.

Thanks for stopping by, Laura xx

Hands

2008-05-17T03:55:00.001-07:00

Hand have always been a problem from many artists including myself.

Last night I was at a friends Birthday party and a girl was playing piano so I tried to sketch her hands. Trying to get the tone ofthe arm right and how crooked or uncrooked each finger is.

I also met Richard who is a student at Edinburgh University doing Greek, we had a chat about webcomics and anime it was pleasant. His webcomic is The Burnt Fen Maunderings.

This weekend i'm going to Cramond Island with Sciffy (Edinburgh University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society), who are an absolutely lovely bunch of people. This is end of the year thing and then alot of them are all going home which sucks, you suck guys! Not really I love Sciffy now, even though i've not been around till very late in the year I think I will join next year, the library is so cool >_<. Anyway I hope to maybe get some sketches and if I can get hold some, mulled wine.

In a couple of weeks me and my class are going to be at the Meadows festival so more information about that coming soon! So stay tuned.

Here we go - sorry for the wait

2008-05-09T11:29:00.000-07:00

Well here we go finally some sketches from the other week when I was workinging towards the 'wrinkles' image for the illustration friday piece I did. I enjoyed illustration friday it will be a good thing to try keep up doing over the summer to keep my creative juices flowing. I hate that expression.

Anyway sorry it took a while. I have accessment work to do that has to be handed in monday. Though It's good to look over some of my old back up work for projects again, I think I have have abit of development these last few weeks and I have started to actully feel settled in to the course. It took all the way to the last term. The fact that it is the last term surprises me. 3rd year is on the horizon (I hope).

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the sketches

Harder Better Faster Stronger

2008-05-06T03:00:00.000-07:00

I was thinking of uploading some more sketches of last weeks projects but I found this one on my deviantart and I did this last year just for the hell of it and thought about making a little series of discussions between this tall Robot who speaking in 'beeps' and the small one who was quite angry a lot of the time.

One day I did a random doodle on a stick note, with these guys and the phrase 'Harder Better Faster Stronger' from Daft Punk.

Then I did another similar but with this. I scanned it into photoshop and opened it in illustrator and improved on the line work a little and gave it background keeping the robots the same colours as the sticky and it gave them a bit of variety from the creased paper.

This week is preparation for hand in so I am going to be busy cutting paper and all that jazz. So next week you may see some older and more recent work after I am through fiddling about with it. I hope your all well and have a great week.

Illustration Friday Entry - Wrinkles

2008-05-01T05:09:00.000-07:00

Here is my entry for Illustration Friday this week it was enjoyable but ended up with me spending a lot of money and the Elephant House again. Oh well, I saw a couple of ladies talking and they spoke in whispers and "bitchy" from what I could tell. So I did an ad-lib of sorts. I hope you enjoy this, I most certainly enjoyed doing it. I may upload some of the other sketches soon as there are quite a few I'm quite happy with.

I had been doing lots of just black drawings some with a fine liner and some with a dip pen, this was fine liner. I hasn't used any colour really so far so I decided to test it on a throw away sketch I did earlier on and then I applied it carefully to these drawings. The ladies weren't really this horrific looking but I extenuated and added the words to make it look like it could either be a thought of one of them or them talking amoungst each other.

Thanks for visiting any feedback would be appreciated!

Wrinkles - Illustration Friday

2008-04-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

Monday was a day of mystery not knowing what wonders we would behold as we were given our brief. So this week I am taking part in Illustration Friday, the theme is wrinkles so here is some of my sketch book ideas. I wad trying to get away from the idea of old people and try something that was a bit abstract but now I think I am going to give it more of a narrative feel and I enjoy drawing people so I went for a wee trip out of the studio. We are doing this with Jill Calder and I feel that it is unfortunate that we haven't seen so much of her this year because she has set us some really interesting stuff. (p.s. this is rehearsed compliment designed specifically to get brownie points because she is probably reading this)

I went and hung out it Elephant House in Edinburgh as it's always very chatty and busy, so I drew some people, if you ever go the Elephant house try the mallow delight it's really nice I don't really like hot chocolate but ummmmm. Anyway look at the image and see how deep and meaningful it is. Stay tuned. ^_^

The First Drop

2008-04-23T03:32:00.000-07:00

Good morning, and welcome to my blog. Making the first mark on a sheet of paper is tricky. So here is is first drop.....

Here is an image of a project I am quite proud of, I made a graphic novel esq solution for this. It was to be a relationship between two characters. The project was called 'Double Act' and it was set by Jim Mcbride.

I looked at graphic novels, things that would be considered gritty like Sin City and also more colourful and lively graphic novels like V for Vendetta. Also I read alot of manga aswell.

So I pulled up my sleeves and cut loose stencils the whole thing was made from stencils and I applied the type on the computer. Then i got sponge and caked it in old Black arylic paint and it ran under the lines and generally I was happy with it. It may need work with the type though, but I like the imagery. I need to work on the type abit more and eventually make it it into a small book. I'd maybe consider doing some more of this stencil work because I really enjoy it.

Hope you enjoy it to.