29 October 2012

The Mini Coveteurs.

Not only is this adorable, but Mini Ann Wintour cracks me up. Enjoy!

25 October 2012

Kingston University: Animation Project, Walk Cycle.


This is my finished walk cycle guys! I'm pretty proud of it actually, and managed to squeeze in a wee pirouette! I'm not actually too sure what thing the character is...I just know she likes to dance.

23 October 2012

Kingston University: Drawing Day 7, Borough Market

Our first location drawing session was at Borough Market, just round the corner from London Bridge. I absolutely loved it, despite the grim weather. I didn't manage to finish my sketchbook, so I rather fancy going back at some point... Also, recognise the cover?







I have lots of pages left, so I reckon when I have time I'll pop down again. On a different note, I'm a little furious  because apparently I have no room left on my Blogger for more pictures! I am slowly looking into it, because I swear that is impossible....just because it's linked to Google Picasa doesn't mean I can't put more pictures on the interweb does it??

22 October 2012

Kopperberg Un-Establishment.

Barbara Ryan told us about an event in Shoreditch organised by Kopperberg where she organised a little zine workshop! Admittedly zines are NOT my strong point, but I had a lot of fun anyway, in amongst the young and trendy, and the gallons of free Kopperberg. We chose Elderflower and Lime flavour.




There's tons of arts events on this week, and a couple of Kingston students and graduates are doing their thing there. Hattie Stewart was doing some window doodles at the event today, and many more events to come up until Thursday! Check it out if your around.

21 October 2012

MOKITA: The Sentimental Gene

Hannah, Mikey, Ani and I attended the second MOKITA symposium, an event organised by Geoff, Darryl Clifton, and Roderick Mills at Somerset House. This year's theme was around sentimentality, and 'The Sentimental Gene' in illustration, which is far less twee that you'd expect it to be. There were some incredible speakers present today, with some fascinating outlooks on sentimentality within their own work, and there was some pretty heated debate today that really made you think about the position and role of illustration in both the commercial and editorial world. There was some furious tweeting from some audience members to say the least, and I tried my hand at tweeting along too. Speakers included Sanna Annukka, Laura Carlin, Jonny Hannah and Rob Ryan. We got to have a good look at their work, and see what really inspired them in both their editorial and commercial work, sentimental parts of their lives, whether it be stories, memories, or the people they loved.

I think it's really important to have that influence in what you do. It enables you to connect with people, and frankly illustration means communicating with your market. There were arguments on whether illustration needs to have meaning... As far as I see it, it will always have meaning so long as you love what you are doing, whether it be intentional or not. It's not always a political outcry, and I personally feel like many people misunderstand that difference. Meaning comes truly from the viewers opinion: if it matches that of the artist, it means they're doing their job right.

14 October 2012

Natsko Seki.


I spotted some pieces by Natsko Seki on the London Underground last week and fell in love. I had to check out her stuff to see what what going on. These are my favourites, but they are all just beautiful. Check out her website here.

Kingston University: Drawing Day 6, Self Directed Project, The Natural History Museum



 



13 October 2012

Kingston University: Print Project, Failure to Communicate.

Last week consisted of a project called Failure to Communicate, where we had to do a print based on this brief. I chose to draw mine around blindness, and that lack of such an important sense. I ended up doing A1 screen prints, which is always fun. 






I was pretty happy with the outcome actually, I think they're pretty interesting to look at, and I reckon I'll keep one (or a few) to frame up. I had tons of rejects leftover, which I've been handing out so if any of you fancy one...

Brave New World.

My Aldous Huxley, Brave New World came on Thursday, and I was surprised and endeared to find it very much pocket sized! I love it. I am yet to start reading but I'm looking forward to carrying this baby around with me!




07 October 2012

Walk Cycle Practice

I was feeling a little nervous about the coming up animation tutorial, where we have to make our character from last week's project walk. I thought to myself ' I can't even make a normal person walk yet!', so I figured I'd do a little practice before going in.


The first thing I did was text Harry for moral support, before just biting the bullet and getting on with it. I made a video (one that has been DELETED. Forever.) of my legs just from start to finish. I made enough frames to make one that doesn't loop, but I eventually took out 3/20 frames to make it a continuous walk. I think I did pretty well. My set up was just a little registration using masking tape, so that I could keep my layout paper as even as possible. Each piece is A6 size, so it just shows you can do anything with any size of paper! I feel a lot more ready, and it was much less grueling than I imagined. I'm really looking forward to it!

04 October 2012

Kingston University: Drawing Day 5, Character Project

This was a pretty tough project, I think it's hard to come up with something original with a mental image on a character already. Our job was to pick a well known character, and with another person with another character, make their hypothetical baby. 



From those, we were then to pair with another person who now had a second generation too and then make a third generation baby! Sweet! This is mine and Ani's creation....His name is Terry. We has a table of Mickey Mouse related characters, and so we made a Mickey Mouse gypsy family.