Feel My Raygun

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

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.