Showing posts with label selfportrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selfportrait. Show all posts
Friday, 30 September 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Online Apology for missing this week's Skal.
I've come down with the worst case of flu in over 5 years. Couldn't even get out of bed yesterday to put the apology note up :/
Incredibly frustrating to be ill.
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Monday, 16 August 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
Possible page 3, first scan.
Getting started with the monochrome figures.
Frog perspective is pretty much my idea of HELL.
One of the first rough concept sketches of one of the characters. (without including the weapon)
And a random sketch of my 'dress up' stuff while my brain was dead.
Frog perspective is pretty much my idea of HELL.
One of the first rough concept sketches of one of the characters. (without including the weapon)
And a random sketch of my 'dress up' stuff while my brain was dead.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Self portraits. 8th - 11th
Oh dear! Just noticed the picture I took of this one was flipped. I'm actually left handed. Fail!
Friday, 8 January 2010
Monday, 4 January 2010
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Self portrait doodles from the Italy trip!
Pretty much all of them are an afterthought, but I'll be damned if I am to give up on this challenge! Rawr!
Sunday, 20 December 2009
The last portraits before Italy!
Eek. Yesterday's meetup with friends and family.
Today's portrait of a very cold UK.
Tomorrow we will be off to Italy, and will stay there for over a week. How I'm supposed to be able to do daily portraits there remains to be seen... Maybe I'll lock myself up in the loo for 10 minutes everyday and just use the mirror there(!)
Hopefully the family won't think I'm strange. Or vain. Err. I'll have to explain the challenge to them, I think :D
Today's portrait of a very cold UK.
Tomorrow we will be off to Italy, and will stay there for over a week. How I'm supposed to be able to do daily portraits there remains to be seen... Maybe I'll lock myself up in the loo for 10 minutes everyday and just use the mirror there(!)
Hopefully the family won't think I'm strange. Or vain. Err. I'll have to explain the challenge to them, I think :D
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Yesterday's incredibly ugly portrait! :D
Bwahaha :D To celebrate getting my lovely period with all its accessories, I have a portrait which shows how beautiful I am.
Very busy today with Tom's family and will be busy until it's time to go to Italy over xmas and new years.
Very busy today with Tom's family and will be busy until it's time to go to Italy over xmas and new years.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Post dissertation portraits.
Day after dissertation.
Draaained.
Might start including hands more. Always need to practice hands.
Draaained.
Might start including hands more. Always need to practice hands.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Today's (Weee!) portrait.
A doodle portrait today, showing my feelings after handing in the dissertation.
Excuse the language, but I felt it was needed :D
Excuse the language, but I felt it was needed :D
Monday, 14 December 2009
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Discovering a written down speech by Neil Gaiman.
Full speech can be found here: Click me!, and I highly recommend reading it if you're interested in the world of comics/graphic novels.
Here are some outtakes that made me sit up a bit straighter in my chair when I first read them.
"My first piece of advice is this:
Ignore all advice.
In my experience, most interesting art gets made by people who don't know the rules, and have no idea that certain things simply aren't done: so they do them. Transgress. Break things. Have too much fun."
The last short sentence really got to me. I've received comments that I can be a bit 'too' energetic in my approach and that I don't know when to stop.
Although I will listen to advice while I am still at Uni (I mean, why am I there otherwise?), it remains to be seen whether I will do something completely different when left to my own devices.
"As a solution to various problems you may encounter upon the way, let me suggest this:
Make Good Art.
It's very simple. But it seems to work. Life fallen apart? Make good art. True love ran off with the milkman? Make good art. Bank foreclosing? Make good art.
Keep moving, learn new skills. Enjoy yourself."
I've been very self-conscious about creating a 'proper' comic of my life. I've done a lot of small separate ones that depict little events, but never anything that shows -everything-. The more I itch to draw, the more I think: 'Let's just do it. fuck what other people might think.'
Easier said than done, obviously. Hence why nothing's been done. I don't Keep Moving on that front.. :P Perhaps it needs to be done in a sort of David Mack 'Kabuki' way. Where he uses metaphors to allow himself to draw his own thoughts and diary.
"Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them.
And, more than that, and more important than that, make them.
Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.
Critics will grumble. Of course they will. That's one of the functions of critics. As an artist it's your job to give them ulcers, and perhaps even something to get apoplectic about.
Oh god! I just want to get going already!
*stares at dissertation*
.... Sigh.
Here are some outtakes that made me sit up a bit straighter in my chair when I first read them.
"My first piece of advice is this:
Ignore all advice.
In my experience, most interesting art gets made by people who don't know the rules, and have no idea that certain things simply aren't done: so they do them. Transgress. Break things. Have too much fun."
The last short sentence really got to me. I've received comments that I can be a bit 'too' energetic in my approach and that I don't know when to stop.
Although I will listen to advice while I am still at Uni (I mean, why am I there otherwise?), it remains to be seen whether I will do something completely different when left to my own devices.
"As a solution to various problems you may encounter upon the way, let me suggest this:
Make Good Art.
It's very simple. But it seems to work. Life fallen apart? Make good art. True love ran off with the milkman? Make good art. Bank foreclosing? Make good art.
Keep moving, learn new skills. Enjoy yourself."
I've been very self-conscious about creating a 'proper' comic of my life. I've done a lot of small separate ones that depict little events, but never anything that shows -everything-. The more I itch to draw, the more I think: 'Let's just do it. fuck what other people might think.'
Easier said than done, obviously. Hence why nothing's been done. I don't Keep Moving on that front.. :P Perhaps it needs to be done in a sort of David Mack 'Kabuki' way. Where he uses metaphors to allow himself to draw his own thoughts and diary.
"Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them.
And, more than that, and more important than that, make them.
Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.
Critics will grumble. Of course they will. That's one of the functions of critics. As an artist it's your job to give them ulcers, and perhaps even something to get apoplectic about.
Oh god! I just want to get going already!
*stares at dissertation*
.... Sigh.
Friday, 11 December 2009
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