This is a simple pencil line drawing conglomerate of machines found in the Science Museum in London. I have just finished an etched version of this drawing that I will then print and add the head of the museum, Chris Rapley, striding purposefully from left to right.
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Saturday, 23 February 2008
What next?
Well I've pretty much finished my publishing project and dissertation without the help of anyone else haha - better not live to regret that! So what am I going to do now with all my free student time? I've got a retro 1960's rugby film poster to finish which I will put up as well as my next project to get cracking on with. I'll put up some of my working sketches for that too. Basically I'm looking to illustrate at least 6 articles from magazines/newspapers that are all different in subject. So yesterday for example, before my sketchbook got locked away (long story), I was working on an article about American sports coming over to Wembley and the impact the commercial success in the US has had on British sports, particularly football. The idea was a stereotypical NFL fan in the midst of an English football crowd, you'll see what I mean when I get my sketches back! Oo and I've just bought some vital equipment to set up a little home drypoint printers - its going to get messy, but in a tasteful way.
Nagilmund watercolour
This is the proposed colour cover for 'The Dragonbone Chair.' I referenced a castle nearby where I live - slightly changing it of course but the figures and rocks are out of books and magazines. The weather conditions are supposed to be at night but I had to lighten it to actually show what's happening and make sure I left enough space for title and blurb. It was great fun just throwing the paint around wet on wet in the open spaces in the top left!
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Hunen
This on is a bit different as its the drawing and print before I've added the text and cropped it. I thought I'd leave it and put it on my blog because I really like the texture the ink as created on the outer reaches of the print. This was because the paper was almost the maximum that the press could take so its really had to work hard to get the ink down.
Study & Text
Here are even more from my set of illustrations on 'The Dragonbone Chair.' All of them incorporate a hand drawn text that hopefully compliments the image.
Monday, 28 January 2008
Bukken Attack
If you haven't read Tad Williams 'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn' series then go out and get a copy of the first book NOW! I've recently done a few black and white pieces based on the first book, this image shows the main character, Simon, in the midst of a Bukken attack. Bukken according to Williams are creatures similar to trolls that live underground and have a taste for flesh - yum!
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