Monday 22 March 2010

Odds and ends of things

These are self portraits done during my self initiated project on isolation. The main idea behind this project was to see first hand effects of isolation, I did this by locking myself in a room for 50 hours with nothing but rationed food, a sleeping bag, a toilet and a note pad to find out Joseph Boyce style what effect this would have on myself and my work. these three self portraits are a small selection of the final images that were produced.


Below are some images developed in what I would call a rather unstable phase in my approach to drawing. the aim was to pack too much information into the image so that initially the eye doesn't settle and the information is difficult to decode.




a few observational drawings from my trip to the Pitt Rivers museum, Oxford. A tribesman's scull, a Maurie painting and a face from an advert for Jamaican rum in the underground station.




woodblock

here's a scan of one of the woodblocks featured earlier, Although there is already a print from this block posted on this blog I put this up to show the process more than anything, I find the actual printing blocks to be inherently good looking objects on their own.


exhibition flyer

A digital piece produced for a gorilla house exhibition. the aim was to portray the nature of the event and reflect the medium (photography) of the pieces inside

SUPERPUNCH

Superpunch is a sketch for a comic strip I am working on of the same name, about the character Rock Hardman, a boxer who, when motivated by animosity, has the hardest punch in the world.             

Graphic Design vs Illustration

These images are of lino and woodblock prints made as an illustrative response to text found on this blog: Here. In this text the writer Adrian Shaugnessey explains that in his professional opinion Illustration has been superseded by Graphic design. The images now accompany the text in a self published booklet called Illustration Vs Graphic Design.