Long time no see! I need to make sure I keep myself in the habit of updating, eh?
So, I'm starting a new, and more sequential illustration project. The opera illustration project was short lived, unfortunately.
I'm sorry for not going very far with it, but I have been making plans for a small printed experimental comic for a while now, and decided my bi-weekly illustration projects could become a part of the time I take to work on it. This also gives me a chance to show another side of my illustration work which doesn't go into practice much- that is my interest in paper craft, audience participation, and how the form a story takes can use these two things to it's advantage.
Enough talk, here's the first page of my new project!
One of the key ideas of this particular project, is the nature of how I will present information slowly with each separate image, hopefully to the point of encouraging readers to explore the image and story further. As such, I won't explain much right now.
If you're curious about the title, go and explore, type it in on google, discover and imagine what the story could about! And expect the next page of the story in two weeks! :)
I've been lucky enough to actually have time to work on my webcomic. You can read the update here. Things are getting tense, I enjoy reading peoples reactions to moments like these!
My blog posts have been a bit delayed, as I was having issues posting images, but that seems to of been fixed now!
Here are two select images from my sketchbooks. I go through one every two months or so, I doodle a lot, but hardly ever finish any of the tons of images I have in my books. So I've started picking out a few select images and making them a little more finished. I thought I'd share them here too!
The top image is of the character Sebastian Flyte, from the wonderful (and muchos reccomended) book, Brideshead Revisited. The bottom image is a quick observational drawing I did when I went to St Pauls in the summer last year.
Over the last week I've been working on a rather cute illustration job for the blog section of a children's science website, Science With Me. Go check it out!
Its always fun trying to draw cartoon versions of real people and simplify them, I wanted to make everything especially simple and light hearted for these articles.
Last year I entered the annual comic competition 'Manga Jiman', which is ran by the Japanese Embassy.
Much to my delight and surprise, I discovered that I was one of the shortlisted winners (11 in total ) and last Friday I went to the competiton ceremony, where I had so much fun catching up with fellow comic artists, and reading all the other wonderful winning entries.
Anyway, all the winning short comics are being exhibited from now until the end of Feburary at the Japanese Embassy in London. If you have the chance please go down there and have a read!
The exhibition is free and is open from 9:30 - 5:30 on weekdays. You can get more information on the winning entry, a list of the winners, and the adress of the Embassy (pretty much at the bottom of Picadilly Circus, or up the road from Buckingham Palace!)
here.
I can't post my short online until the exhibition is over, so I've cropped two images from the comic as a preview. I'm sure my comic looks better in print anyway! As you can see, my short was set in WW1. I actually based it around a real person, George Butterworth, who is one of my favourite composers and folk song collectors, and a soldier who died during the Great War.
So if you get a chance, get down there and have a read! I enjoyed all the winning entries for different reasons, there is a great variety of artists and stories, which is always lovely to see :)
