Melancholy

"Tortoise-shell butterflies burst from the chrysalis and pattered their life out on the window-pane.."

Torn n Frayed

Did these two paintings the other week of the Rolling Stones. There done on massive bits of paper (bout half my height). The Keith Richards one is for me aunty and the Mick Jagger one is for my sister. I love Exile on Main Street so both photographs are from '72.

I've been getting a projector out over Easter, and for a while had been thinking it'd be good to try tracing an image off it onto the wall. The Keith one I did first, and I just straight up traced it. Altho I like the pic it felt a bit pointless doing it. Might aswell just print off a large picture of the photograph. So by the time I got round to doing the Mick one I wanted to do something a little different, hence the multicolour. I really like the colours, very fitting to my memory of the Stones.

cheeky bit of animation

A test for the Royal wedding animation:

Am diggin the look of this. Think it looks a little like a fashion illustration

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Just found this, so will be attempting a watercolour effect shot for the next one.

Thom Yorke painting

I did a painting of Thom Yorke the other night while drunk.. had a lot of fun doing it, but knew that when I woke up, it may not be the image I remembered from the night before...

I woke up and im not sure how much I like it. The actual painting was a bit off, chin was too sticking out and you didnt get a massive feel of who it was, but I was very happy with colours i'd used.

Anywho, I had a mess with it in Photoshop yesterday. RadioHeads art work is all very 'photoshopped'. If you check out the cover for OK computer you'll see what I mean, you can see digital scratchy paint strokes all over it. So using Photoshop in an obvious and digitised way made sense. Check out the video for House of Cards too.

So yee see what you think, it was an experiment and I will venture down that avenue once again.

Update

I think i'm repeating myself, but since I bin at uni, i've been drawing alot. One a day atleast. I find whenever I draw a picture, it's usually the best picture i've ever drawn. So I find i'm always getting better which is why I guess I keep going. I wonder when i'll hit the roof n' my drawings will start to become worse than the last...?

Anywho, keep optimistic. There is no roof.

I bin hanging out with my girlfriend in Swansea over the last weekend, and am going up to London to see her in a couple of weeks when she gets back from Cuba. This information means nothin to you i'm sure, but you gotta love your girl!

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Here's some drawings from the last week or two.

Ralph Steadman & Hunter S Thompson. This is the first Ink i've ever done

so I thought it'd be fitting to draw Ralph Steadman.

Answers on a postcard as to who the first and last are please.

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Last night I had this idea when I was in the shower(the place all great ideas come from) to make me a stencil and have a go at trying something out with it. Well, 24 hours later the stencils cut & the animations done. It's a bit of a test really, i've never used acryllic paint before & I've never painted on my shower wall before either... so a learning curve. I'll update tomorrow with the finished work, I'm gunna play some guitar to it & get my flatmate to play violin on it too (Hopefully...).

While talking about ye ole guitar, I got me mate Nick down this weekend for a good ole' jam. My last night before uni me n him stayed up till 5, got drunk and jammed our little socks off. The weekend calls for a repeat. Back to the old 16 hour jam sessions that fly by.... TIME FLIES WHEN.

Ciao ~

Old blog reborn

Wow that's a surprise, I never remembered I ever created a blog on this here blogger but there ya go I guess I did, and it was booming back in the day clearly, 1 post - 0 replies, Whoar!


So here it is reborn, and will contain all animation work, drawings, films, tiddly-bits of inspiration and whatever else is to grace it during my time at university.


To start off here's the first bit-of animation i've created since being here in Falmouth. I call it "A Smile not to disimillar to Dwight Yorke's", CLICK HERE to watch.

I've started using watercolours lately and am really liking them, usually i'd do a drawing, with my biro or nib-end, chewed up HB pencil; and once it's done, its nice but there's no where else to go. Watercolours add to that as I can get in there and simply make it alot better, It's good for shading and colour depth. So this is my fourth watercolour i've done, it's of my sister.

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That's all for now, expect more posts soon. Ta-ra!