The Hunger Games

An assignment and how it looks thus far (I'm supposed to add the author and fix the background a bit, for my own sake) Check the book(s) out as well! They're brilliant.

Halloween '11 in Sunderland

Did I tell you that I had a REALLY good time? Yes? No? Anyway.. I can show you!


 I did some costume research and ended up trying to do a Mary Poppins, and then figured why not just make her a zombie. I was Little Red Riding Hood last year, so I wanted a bit of gore this year.
I had my first try with liquid latex to make some wounds the week before. A good idea, since I had no idea what I was doing. Youtube was good help as always, so I'd recommend checking that out.

First try: 

Liquid latex drying

first try with covering, not at all good

2nd try, on the actual face.. meeh too small!

Ok, and there it was, the big day! (I'm pretty sure no-one else cares about this as much as I do, but I don't really care anymore... MY blog! :] )

Bigger, bolder, braains.

Concealer on and corrective contacts in

Acrylic blood and improvised black+yellow eyeshadow skintone

My german friend Sebastian, and myself ( check out his black contacts.. eery)

The rest of the extremely lovely gang!

Trying to stay in character.

Failing miserably.

All in all, fun was had by all!

As a note, that hat took just about as much time to make as doing the make-up.. I shouldn't have bothered! Oh, and why no bloody clothes you say? Well duh, would Mary Poppins ever allow blood on her clothes, even as a Zombie? I don't think so. (Oh, and they're proper new clothes, I can wear them again? Hell yes!) Gonna go and watch The Walking Dead now, Zombies are just too terrifyingly awesome.

Some other stuff

The Great Green Goblin, Trampoline Tia!

Timid Amy

Timid Amy #3 in The 30 Characters challenge

Collage

Brief: To make a rather small collage based on the nursery rhyme "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,

Stole a pig, and away did run;

The pig was eat

And Tom was beat,

And Tom went roaring

Down the street

Sketchbook resource and insp. work:

the "sketch"

worked on it quite a bit more and made this:

Took a picture to capture some shadows in the digital version. I also decidet to tweak the colours to make it a bit warmer. I got some great responses, so I was a lot happier with it than I thought I would be at the start!

Assignments

Some of the things I've been working on these past few weeks:


Ink sketch of a taxidermy bird in the "classroom" (The point of it was just to try out the different techniques we'd been going through, like with brush, with nib, wet on dry, dry on wet, using a candle to block out the white, using washes, etc.)

Acrylic week-assignment, to illustrate "The Owl and The Pussycat", I made them out to be two men who wanted to elope in the 19th century(waiscoats!):

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea     In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money,     Wrapped up in a five pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above,     And sang to a small guitar, 'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,       What a beautiful Pussy you are,           You are,           You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

II

Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!     How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried:     But what shall we do for a ring?' They sailed away, for a year and a day,     To the land where the Bong-tree grows And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood     With a ring at the end of his nose,           His nose,           His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose.

III

'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling     Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.' So they took it away, and were married next day     By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince,     Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,     They danced by the light of the moon,           The moon,           The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. (source)

Now this was a week-assignment for inks, we had to do a graphic novel including two of shakespeares characters in any setting. I put The Duke and Viola from Twelfth night together in a 50s/60s setting, inspired by Mad Men. I thought the sexism of the era suited the "quote" nicely. In quote I mean a modernization of the actual words, and shortened quite a bit.

English and life drawing

Ok, so I "might" be changing over to English as a main language in this thing here.. It makes a lot more sense because I'm trying to use it even more as a way to expose myself as a Graphic designer/an illustrator, plus my new international friends will be able to understand some of it!

Anyways. I'm in week 4 of actual "lessons", and I must say that a few things have been making me improve a lot, especially life drawing. Basically, what we do on wednesday afternoon is we sit in a dance studio for three hours drawing dancers moving around, and when we're lucky - do some still poses. The tutors here are really adamant that we understand the three dimentions that goes into the human form, and I love and hate that at the same time. It's really hard to nail down a pose when the model is dancing about... And then I get really into in, and whenever we do a pose longer than 15 min I get bored, what is this nonsense? Another thing that has made me better at actually working as hard as I need on my assignments has been having to turn in one each week. (every monday morning, it's dreadful) Even though I have done a couple of late-night paintings so far, I seem to get better at planning and timing the work for each week. Finally!

I was going to put in a few sketches as well, but it seems the internet cannot handle that at the moment (it's a bit dicey) I might edit them in later or do another post when it's not so slooow.

Leytah'

Edit: These are some of the first ones

Purchases

Yup, just some of the things I've aquired so far..