New website!

No im not deleating my blog ive just got another site on facebook which has not only my work but two other of my freinds Rob and Tom's work aswell so be sure to check it out! http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Creations-of-Interstellar-Illustrations/286178131425455

Also ive just finished two other paintings which will be bellow. I wont be posting as frequently as i usualy do for a bit because ive got commision work to be getting on with and lots of other things so until next time check out the link and the artwork. PEACE!

Lots of paintings and now, shrooms?

Lately ive been working on alot of charicature work and yes i know i can almost hear everyone typing "like always" but ive decided to go in a complealty differnt direction. Instead of trying to be funny with my characters ive decided to home in more on how they are designed and look at what i can change, such as shape, colour, how they act and how they act around my other designs.

Also check out my latest craze, SHROOMS! ive been trying out differnt styles which youl see more of on facebook when they get uploaded but for now heres my 3.5ft by 3ft shroom piece.

New paintings! 2012

Recently ive been working on little projects on topics that im very intrested in such as weird and underscovered creatures that live on this planet and also 2012. Now this event in time has been "dubed" (the end of the world) this however is not the case, as the mia (mian) people predicted that there was going to be a universal change this is caused by the alinement of our planet and the centre of our milkyway. The alianment will happen on decmber 21st 2012. The centre of our milky way is a dark and dense mass which we know hardly anything about but the mia a civerlisation of people whos understanding of our universe was far more complex than ours is today predicted that (solar) rays are being beamed into our planet all the time by the centre of the milky way changing the way we think and (look), fine tuning all of our sences and helping us use the other 98 percent of our DNA helix which we currently do not use! This will help us evolve into a better species. Anyway i will leave links about this information at the bottom but for now lets have a look at what ive been up to.

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Update!

I have been doing more paintings mainly going alot deeper into what i belive in and have strong views about you will see these today and i will gather all the revelant infomation about them.

More Paintings!

Yes my love of painting still goes on and now ive started working on a much bigger scale rather than just working on tiles im now going to push myself to do bigger and better pieces. You will see more of this when compleated though, but for now heres a look at a few more things ive been working on.

Ive discovered paint!

Yes its true i have moved away from just using pen and photoshop, im not experimenting with paint. This is mainly due to a guy called Rob Clarkson (check out his blog) hes the painting genuis who got me into all this. Anyway ive got a haloween party to get too so with no further a'do heres what ive been up to lately. Comments and feedback will be welcomed. PEACE!

New house!

Yes im all moved in to my new place with my fianc'e Em pictures are below, but theres more! As of now i will be starting work on a new piece while im waiting for the uni term to start here at northampton. Its going to be in the style of banksy and before you all scurry to facebook its not going to be one of his peices just adapted to my style it is going to be worth a look at, but enough of that and enjoy the pictures of my new place.

The holidays, and whats been happening.

Right before i get started id like to type im very sorry for not posting anything for decades, ive been in the proscess of moving and everything is all over the place. However the good news is its been the holidays! this means ive had lots of times to get on with some new projects. So im gona jump straight into it.

Edertorial illustration

Right so for the people who dont know edertorial illustration is the illustrations you see in the "tabloids" thats newspapers to you and me, and i was set a project to come up with two fianl pieces for any article i found, however these had to be done in two differnt mediums.

The first piece was all about the "mass graves of srebrencia". And the title read "mass graves of srbrenica finally reveal their fragmented secrets". This is what i came up with. The piece itself was mainly created using photoshop but the skull itself had to be hand drawn. The key words that i grabbed from the title helped me alot as we commonly ossosiate words with images i decided it was a good idea to go along that route, such as, "graves" this word made me think of death this is where the skull came from, then "fragmented" this made me think of a jigsaw piece thus i started building up the image using the words and "hey presto!" i came up with this.

There where other atempts also, because the article went on to talk about how they were going to identify the bodies through "electrophoriesis" i started to think of ways to incorperate this into my work. This is what i came up with.

As you can see ive enfisised the coulors to make the piece alot more striking and also the "wells" are blood red to add to the terror. The one thing to watch out for when working on this article was to rember that this is a real event and real people were involved in this so i must keep profesional at all times and rember my audiance.







Article 2

Now the heading for this article was "Talking cars could reduce motorway pile-ups". Most people would slap a human mouth on a car and that would be the end of it. However i though why not do it the other way around, i mean it was all there in the article "human like facial features" "the abblilty to know the road ahead" these qoutes are all in the article and this is to just name a few. It was like they had already given me the answer. But and it was a big but i had to do this peice in a differnt medium so i went straight back to my roots, this piece has collarge, paint, ink, and even a bit of photoshop just to make sure. This peice is called "Motor mouth"

The only thing is due to me moving il have to transfer universitys so i wont be at birmingham anymore instead il be transfering to Northampton and all this work will now be irrelivent, however itl all be going into my protfolio.

Well i dont know exactly when il be posting anything else up but i know it will deffinatly be when ive moved to northampton, so until then if anyone does actualy read this thing. chow.

WELCOME BACK!

Wow its been a long time since ive posted anything, and ive done alot of work since then. Anyway lets get started, ive recently added a peice into the cheltnam illustration "Tree Time Tales" project. And the general gist was you had to design an A3 illustration of anything to do with trees or tree related. Mine was about a man called eric that kept eating apple seeds and one day an apple tree grew out of him.

Another peice that ive been working on is a personal project where i had an idea that i wanted to do something to do with diamonds, anyway theres no real reasonw hy i did this but it gave me a chance to get used to using my graphics tablet a bit more.

Anyway those were the highlighted peices, here are the rest from previous projects that i havnt mentioned while ive been away.


"Shikira" Tree time tales.

"goldie locks" Drawing on life



















At the moment im currently doing a summer project where i have to illustrate two articals from any newspaper. I think i may have found my place doing edertorial illustration...

Amplifying and illuminating text final outcome!

This is another project where i was asked to take a quote and mine was "Eating is a silly thing, in order to get food into your stomach you've got to push it through your face" by Dagwood. The final is mainly hand rendered but then edited in photoshop. The aim for me was to work in my usual rough style but to still be professional in my outcome, this is why i have also created a vectorised piece, if your new to vectorising its basicly when you live trace the image and essentially take away most of the detail so the image can then be printed to any size you want and no pix elation will take place.

Appropriation!

If you are not familiar with what this word means it is basicaly when we use a technique from someone or something and then using it in your own practise, this is not copying or plaguerism but a simple way of bettering your work by learning from others. The artist that i chose was "BLU" am artist that i have always been aware of but only last year did i start to look at his work and that is when i started using appropriation to better my work by using his techniques in my own. Anyway my uni asked me too do this as a small project, and here is what ive come up with, you will notice some pencil lines where ive annotated them but just ignore them.

Another update on my skills sketchbook, and a drawing for a special someone

I know i know it was only yesterday when i last updated my skills sketchbook but hey i know you love my designs so i decided to do another ahahaha, but seriously a mans gota draw so heres another drawing that i got inspiration from when walking back home today.
I get asked this question a lot believe it or not and every time i get asked the question i think the same thing i always do, "do i really care?" its a terrible expression its like asking how you massage a cow. Anyway i hope you like it.

Now moving on to my next peice and yes i did these both in the same day : D im proud of myself too for not getting distracted, i was asked by my other half to draw her a picture and really this is just for her but i might as well get your views on it too, if your familiar with my old work at all youl think i ripped this out of an old sketchbook of mine but i really didn't i funnily enough still work in that style.
Anyway that's all for today i think, oh yh im back at uni tomorrow so i guess you wont see a lot of action on this blog but il keep you posted on things and im still working on that big piece im thinking A1, PEACE!

Skills sketchbook update!

Yes its time for another update and a chance to look at what my mind has come up with this time, now i got this idea today and got it straight down onto paper once again its nothing special but i am working on a large scale piece and by working on i mean thinking of inspiration on what it should be about. Anyway have a look at what ive come up with and if anybody reads this blog feedback would be great. PEACE!

Mustaches

Taking a page for "David shrigleys" book ive started to work in his style alot lately as i may have mentioned in other posts, but i must say with some impressive results i feel alot more confident in what i draw and ive also thrown some of my own techniques hybriding the two styles together if you like. Anyway using pen and watercolour i created this piece, and yes i did get the inspiration for this design shaving.