"Travel, transport, and general noseyness"

Evening all, little update anyone?

I have all of a sudden become aware of the pure epicness of inky pens and the line drawings they produce. Been getting a little enthusiastic with them, but here's one of my favourites, taken from a photography session out at Bellarena train station (sorry, there's a bit of glare from the camera on that one). Some of those photos can be seen below.

As part of the project i'm aiming to complete four illustrative pieces which collage different pieces of imagery and research together to create an image which creates a bit more depth that just a flat illustration. In this one below i'm playing with the design of the train ticket, pieces of the original photograph, textures and composition, to get something which really catches the eye. When I saw the sign for the Ladies pointing towards the girl it gave me a theme for the illustration pieces. I'm going to use other signs collected from the stations to create comical pieces featuring other people that I saw in the stations. Stay tuned for the rest of the collection. They should hopefully be completed by next week, let me know what you think and e-mail me if you're in need of tutorials, as ever.

The Beginnings of Final Major Project....

As promised, with a uni place confirmed the work for final major is now properly underway! Thought i'd give you a little peek into my sketchbook tonight and give you an idea of what's to come.

The project is based on the view from a train window, which sounds a bit boring I know, but it all began on the train to Falmouth (on which I was becoming gradually more bored) and I noticed that when the train pulled into the station, I could get a little man-made view through the window, into the lives of the other people travelling that day. It makes it all the more special that because of the blacked out windows, they can't actually see you looking at them (and it makes it much less embarassing to be a bit of a stalker artist). So I decided this would make an epic illustration project.

(Some of the images that became my inspiration below)

 

 

After a while (and a bit more boredom) instead of taking individual shots I decided to do a continuous ream of photos in order to create a sort of basic animation of the journey through each platform. Here's a bit of the experimentation for that. The idea is that will develop into a conceptual video with black space in between each piece, during which I will play noise recorded from train stations, many research trips needed...

 And now to the illustration section of the project. For the next few weeks i'll be experimenting with different combinations of media to produce a collage of people standing on a platform, using photography (both black/white and full colour), collography, etching, drawing, painting and a bit of textiles. So stay tuned for that. Here's a few sketchbook pages with ideas and sketches to keep you going. More soon!

Another wee bit of photography

It may be just because i'm preparing to abandon it for uni soon (to Falmouth by the way!), but i'm starting to take my camera everywhere with me to record all the pretty little bits and bobs that I see, i've recently realised how amazingly beautiful my hometown is, and i'm trying to take advantage of it if I can. I'm planning to create a huge archive of imagery which can be edited and added into illustration pieces when necessary. Here's a few more from the Roe Valley Country park, during the day this time.

I'm working on a few drawings at the moment so they'll be up (hopefully) before my Easter holidays finish.

Over and out.