Daisychaining.

Letterpress experiements, Wartime Slang;

CHURCHILL.

Church hill tank poster art.
After generating as much imagery and information from a seperate angle of the churchill tank each, our group collectively sliced and rearranged our drawings to create an abstract symbolism of the vehicle as a whole. The diamond panelling affect, similar to the metal armour on the original vehicle.

Imperial War Museum.

Deconstructing our Imperial War Museuum studies, focusing on the texture and plates of military machines and tanks ...

Distortion

Saw this surreal blob by Ignace Wouters on TodayandTomorrow, absolutely love it. Not sure of the concept,and might be a bit presumptive to think there is some huge one in the first place! Maybe a comment on mass? gluttony? The uglyness of humans, and our corruptive impact on nature? How a portrait should really look? Deligating us to amoeba alike shapes seems foetul i guess... 

The cockroach and the bride.

Backtracking a bit, heres the best galley prints from my summer project, "The Cockroach and the bride" tells the story of a neurotic jilted bride blinded by humiliation and determined to love something, anything! and the poor unsuspecting bug she happens to choose. I like the gritty, distressed look, and scratchy outlining, tying in with the characters exhausting mental state , and the insects distorted vision...

Ballerina Fever.

Just before Christmas, us LCC year 2 Illustration folk had a sneak preview of the English National Ballet's latest show; Swan Lake. Have a peek at our studies here...

Experimenting with unusual surfaces; overlaying my figures onto scenes of mundanity,other people, conflicting orientation etc, seemed to create tension and atmosphere. Ghost like nostalgia? Graceful leaps and twirls across tragic day to day life.

LADIES

A few shoddy scans of some designs i'll feature on christmas cards at the fair tmw.

" Have a fashion filled Christmas "...

Chung.

Moss.

Westwood.

THIS SATURDAY!

Like Illustration ? Like Christmas? Wanna take the piss out of me in a panto costume? Come to this in Chelsea Town Hall, 4/12/2010...

I'll have some cards,bookmarks,and other bits and pieces for sale on the "New Creatives" stall, Just follow the bunting! 

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90's Killers.

Just found out about Marlene McCarty's disturbing huuuuuge portraits. I love how a pencil and biro sketch can be elevated from looking like an unintimidating teenage schoolbook doodle, to menancing characters and scenes your eyes cant avoid, looking down on you from up high, and forcing the issue of bullying and death into your conscious. 

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Skull stencil...

After a late night paper stencil session why do i always prefer the leftover scraps and test sheets like the one below, to the actual finished work! J.W.Skull?