I had a few naughty days off College last week. Stress + housing issues + head cold = self pitying, stay at home loser. I was back in schule today though and remembered how much I like it and how much I want to be there so I thought I’d share a peek of what we’re working on.
Above is from the dreaded ‘Coast’ project, the only sketch I actually like from the lot although it’s technically not the best.
Below is a progression from my favourite class :)
The project’s called ‘My Space’ and is pretty open to interpretation, choosing an initial object and working out from it. I pulled a goldfish bowl out of the air – feel like I cheated the sketchbook a little bit because I went down the route of the first, immediate idea I had, which I’m sure I was supposed to avoid.
Anyway – here’re some random pages from the book:
1. This is the first thing I did with the object that I liked - bowl head!
2. Tried something a little different, still with words and colour.
3. Decided that bowl head peoples were the way to go
4. At this stage I realised how much I blatantly nicked the idea from Dave McKeans "the day I swapped my dad for two goldfish" illustration - I DIDN'T MEAN TO :(
5. Scene - nearly ready for adding newspaper/magazine goldfish bowl peoples.
6. Another scene idea for goldfish bowl peoples, not really sure how to finish it - scenery/media etc and if I take this scene on to develop, I have to remember that the trees are supposed to make a bowl shape and not a squidged pumpkin shape.
I’m doing a gazillion other things at college too but don’t have any of the other sketchbooks handy to photograph – Scultpure is fun, my analytical drawing sucks but my life drawing isn’t ‘too’ bad, it just takes me a really really long time. My drawing and painting skills are pretty poor all round to be honest but getting noticeably better.
