Procrastination

So at the beginning of all this decomposition stuff I was pretty sure I could somehow beautifully illustrate decomposition in humans. Boy was I wrong. After seeing more photos and videos of death than any normal person should I've decided decomposition in humans is probably the worst kind. I am not including photos because I may loose several followers etc etc but human bodies seem to distort far more than the animal decompositions I've watched. The bloating seems far more severe, and the body breaks down in sections and far less rapidly.
So as I don't want this to be a shock piece of work at the end, I am going to play around with drawing human decomposition in different conditions, (but the lack of footage is holding me back) but I am looking into pigs and other medium sized mammals, and maybe even food.
I did venture to some exhibitions, the hunterian again of course, and I am looking into taxidermy again, but this embalming process defeats what I'm trying to explain, at the same time it is interesting that we fight signs of aging beyond death, maybe thats something for another project...
Anyway, so I am rather stuck with billions of notes and little sketching, fingers crossed I can pull something out of the bag.

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(p.s anyone interested in some footage of human decomp can look here and I also found this article super helpful, but I warn you it is not for the faint hearted!)

FACT- The Decomposition of Mammals

5am

So its 5am and of course, I can't sleep. So instead of scouring youtube I decide my time would be better spent looking at art and inspiration. I was really happy to find some great little blogs and the artist above, Joao Ruas. Really yummy work. His link is here, I hate to share these finds really but I know I should really! And I believ he does work for the Fable comics, so hes far fom unknown.

I've also decided I need some nice colouring pencils, so I can ween myself off fineliners a bit as theyre just as easy to travel with as a fineliner. I should probably also organise this space a bit better and maybe seperate my work from this stuff, or maybe just get round to finally making an online portfolio.

Anyway all feels good in my sketchbooks, and I'm currently feeling positive about the work I'm producing, and enjoying it instead of pulling my hair out.
Expect a much more frequent poster.

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Girl from "The Werewolf" images.

Fringe magnetic- twistic

another project I worked on over the summer, and just got back is the new fringe album. It isn't released until February but it's nice to have a printed copy in my hands. Well a couple, i had to use indesign, and while it was an eye opener, I am definitely no graphic designer, but drawing pretty pictures I can do!

Tinseldayer 2

While Christmas seems way off and knowing it will, somehow again, catch me off guard I got this commission for a mini festival in folkestone. the guys are super nice to work for and open to ideas but i tried to stick with the themes i had used with them before. While fitting 22 band names incorporated into an image was tricky, it was well worth the challenge. dead fun, and dead colorful. So I apologize to a certain bear friend about the lack of posts of my own work, rather than cool found shit.

Just checking out some book covers. Been also looking at some insane comic book covers, but that was just be becoming distracted by fire and awesomeness. Ooops!

Massive

this well massive rabbit is how big the rabbit in alice in wonderland should be, BEAST.

Am redoing my Alice in wonderland book cover. So expect bare images.

destroy

Gawjus

Decked

This post has been a long time coming, but I promise I've been very busy! I have alot of work to shove up on here and can't wait to do so. One of the projects I was working on was part of the Decked exhibition, it was really fun to work on a piece like this. It was a bit of an experiment, and while it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. It was very personal to me. A big thank you to vicky and ej for letting me put it up at the show, you can see the other decks (some are dead awesome) here .So dedicated to all my dead cats...

Cannibal Holocaust

Awesome music to insane brutality- love it.

Pigeons, Sewage and Collage

So I had a dream where a large number of pigeons were sexually attacking me, like they were in heat. It was really strange but definately had some great imagery. There was sewage too. Been trying to collage a bit more as I felt a bit creatively stuck. I think Ive been too concerned about the audience I'm illustrating for, rather than making something I like and want to enjoy. So now isnt a great time to challenge myself with the amount of work I have on- but I have to!

PS- Photo by Roe Etheridge.
PPS- I promise to post more work soon

First Illustration for Book Cover

So heres what I came up with so far, today I also laid it out in indesign. But I can't upload a indd file so heres the basic illustration I'm working on at the minute. I may take it further but I'll decide that tomorrow. Also experimented with the colour of it.

Alice in Wonderland Book Cover

I decided to design for Alice in Wonderland. I thought this may be a mistake due to the imagery already surrounding the story being so famous. But I tried to use this to my advantage.

I want to create a darker version of the cover, to pick up on the adult fans of the book. I want to echo the style of the famous illustrations as ignoring them would be stupid.

Heavy Pencil

So on Thursday (1st) I went along to the ICA, with a bunch of great people to have an awsome night. Infact the night was so awesome I could have not taken my friends and still enjoyed it, but its best to have company when your getting drunk and avoid the regular drunk label. Anyway the event was Heavy Pencil, its a monthly event(shamefully this was the first one I'd ever been to) and it was also the first anniversary! YAY! Well done heavy pencil!
There was mucho drawing, on big projectors (artists and designers were invired to draw live under cameras which was then projected, I got a go at it and it was super duper fun), there was a large drawing table with a few sheets of paper that covered the whole table and a live band, Django Django, and DJs! Django Django were great, and as I got ore and more drunk, the more and more I danced, they really complimented the activities...not that slugdy death metal wouldn't have but Django Django were most definately a good choice. Now onto the photos...

Stuff I Like

Well I've been working on stuff, in general, I also spent a while feeling sorry formyself and watching the entire sex and the city dvd collection, followed by the movie, thats right- I'm lame. So while feeling sorry for myself, I've been planning stuff and looking at stuff and working on a metal logo (fun and not what i usually do) so heres some stuff i like.

Just some new work , I be a workin' on

So yeah number 1 is an unfinished painting, but its getting close to being completed now with just some line work to go...
The queen bee piece is in the process of being painted (extremely early stages!)
ermm..the robot was a thing i sketched out while doing a toy for my friend chucks birthday present, I'm thinking of taking this further...very anti-eco but I'd been bombarded by eco friendly artwork just before at an exhibition I went to.
Ermmm also some colour test on cryig kids faces, for another piece I'm slowly working towards...yeah! I think thats all I need to explain!

Don't Wait For Your Ship, Swim To It...

This was my piece for the JUMP THE SHARK end of year illustration show....rockin...

New sketch stuff

I've promised myself to be a bit more patient with my work. So everyday (as long as I'm not hungover, dead or in a gutter)I will be ding a heavily detailed drawing in my sketchbook. Mainly just to see where it will take me and hopefully have some profound effect on the way I work. Who knows? Anyway, heres 2 so far, unfortunately the sketchbook i piced for this project is rather awkward to scan, but a lovely size if I do say so myself!

Puppet Head

My johnnie puppet so far, made from fimo.