Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Thursday, 5 February 2009
My mushrooms!
Last year's self appointed project.
At some point last year, i realised how beautiful mushrooms are in terms of shape and movement. Lucky coincendence at the same time it happened that some mushrooms grew were i was staying. As soon as i discovered them i grabed my camera and started shooting.
After i went back to my room and saw the results, i was very inspired and sketched/drew on a blank A2 i happened to have.
The result: The Mushroom Fairies: bound to their nature, they live forever in the mushrooms, unable ever to escape from them.
Note:this was first drawn roughly with pencil and then with drawing pens of .8, .5 and .3
At some point last year, i realised how beautiful mushrooms are in terms of shape and movement. Lucky coincendence at the same time it happened that some mushrooms grew were i was staying. As soon as i discovered them i grabed my camera and started shooting.
After i went back to my room and saw the results, i was very inspired and sketched/drew on a blank A2 i happened to have.
The result: The Mushroom Fairies: bound to their nature, they live forever in the mushrooms, unable ever to escape from them.
Note:this was first drawn roughly with pencil and then with drawing pens of .8, .5 and .3
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Summer's Project: Sorry Grandma i Killed Your Cat
P.S. Sorry Grandma i Killed Your Cat is a self-appointed project i was working on during August. It was the result of previous (re)search on portraits of elderly people (i always found fascinating how wrinkles turn someone's face into a labyrinth of details and hidden stories) and the influences i had from a local animation festival during that month.
The concept of the project was to be sarcastic-funny about how younger generation is misbehaving towards elderly people.
I used the idea of the stereotypic imagery we have of elder grandmothers: neglected their biological family, they turn to their cats, the only creatures that keep them company.
P.S. Sorry Grandma i Killed Your Cat is the insensitive, cold and impersonal note left by the grandchild to inform its grandmother her loss.
The imagery of the project was focused mostly on the tragic character of the victim, the cat, who s also sort of used (by me) to show this of the grandchild to its grandmother. Interpreting it as in more simplistic/symbolism icon, its character still gives a rather dark, mortal impression. A few of the sketches i drew were to give the struggle of the cat to its last moments while ironically it can see the note left for the grandma. I played with a few surrealistic elements (tho the sketches themselves were not) and the little nameless creatures i created, which are those who tease the ones who are about to die as they are the only ones able to see them.
I named my blog after this project, because this specific one was a turnover of my drawing style and the materials i use. Since this project i find myself working more with details and the usage of black-n-white-with-another-colour contradiction.
Over the development of the project, i expanded it creating different, irrelevant to the subject characters n sketches which had the same drawing style and line. This created a link between the actual project and the work that was influence from it forming a chain of drawing-style related drawings-something i had not work before in such a scale.
The concept of the project was to be sarcastic-funny about how younger generation is misbehaving towards elderly people.
I used the idea of the stereotypic imagery we have of elder grandmothers: neglected their biological family, they turn to their cats, the only creatures that keep them company.
P.S. Sorry Grandma i Killed Your Cat is the insensitive, cold and impersonal note left by the grandchild to inform its grandmother her loss.
The imagery of the project was focused mostly on the tragic character of the victim, the cat, who s also sort of used (by me) to show this of the grandchild to its grandmother. Interpreting it as in more simplistic/symbolism icon, its character still gives a rather dark, mortal impression. A few of the sketches i drew were to give the struggle of the cat to its last moments while ironically it can see the note left for the grandma. I played with a few surrealistic elements (tho the sketches themselves were not) and the little nameless creatures i created, which are those who tease the ones who are about to die as they are the only ones able to see them.
I named my blog after this project, because this specific one was a turnover of my drawing style and the materials i use. Since this project i find myself working more with details and the usage of black-n-white-with-another-colour contradiction.
Over the development of the project, i expanded it creating different, irrelevant to the subject characters n sketches which had the same drawing style and line. This created a link between the actual project and the work that was influence from it forming a chain of drawing-style related drawings-something i had not work before in such a scale.
Children's Book Sketch
My recent big disappointment.
I really liked this drawing up until i put colour and i spoiled it. The one thing i regret is that i didnt scan it before actually colouring it. Heh, guess colour is one of my wicknesses as i havent work with it for quite a long time.
Anw..this is just the intro page for my sketchbook for the project i am working on now, children s book, which i m still on the idea-producing stage.
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Last year's photos: Personal Project:Beautiful People
A project i decided take my own just before we take a trip to london. Didnt get far for varius reasons tho i m thinkin taking it up and continue with it aside.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Random sketches
Random sketches i happened to have on my laptop which i made through the begining of this academic year for different purposes..
(the weird looking-blue creature supposingly is redish but for some reason blogger uploads it as blue..?!)
Experimental lighteffect portraits
Last year's light experimental selfportrait
Photoshop experimental light effects
The last one rather more of a "picasso" inspired experiment with some colour as well
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