I am really not much of a conceptual illustrator. I was thinking about organic products and their proliferation on super market shelves. It seems strange to me that companies can produce organic products in abundance without charging an arm and a leg. The company I was thinking about doesn’t have much information online about the farms they use, although their products are certified organic. Which got me wondering if we shouldn’t be questioning the organic products we buy to see if they really match our understanding of ‘organic’ (which, like the concept of normal, is in a bit of a flux at the moment if you ask me). I’m sure there is a more interesting way to develop a picture around the idea, but since I’m a literal blockhead that’s all I managed to come up with. It would be nice to make something more if it though, it’s a message I would like to get across to people, personally, so I don’t mind investing extra time into seeing if there’s a more elegant yet effective way of doing it.
Or… I could simply write an article about it which would be much more to the point that any picture :s
An illustration conference is probably the only conference where you can attend a talk, get bored, and, like half the other people in the room, whip out your sketchbook and draw and not get frowned upon by fellow attendees. Anyway, during a boring talk, I finished up this sketch.
I was sketching in my other style, the one that is simpler and more stylized, and wondering if I should develop more work in this style.
More fun with armless people. And deer. I am taking a liking to deer, they are scary.
Was playing with negative space and definition of shape with color verus line. It evolved into a Cinderella picture, with some rather hot ugly step-sister and step mother.
I like amputating people in sketches. Sometimes I feel that limbs just get in the way. Pink and grey marker.
More drawing during boring talks. I added the slab of meat after I drew the girl then made her a puppet and thought it was a funny title.
Mucho thanks to the guys at Whored Canvas for doing an interview with me! Check out the other artists they’ve featured while you’re there.
I will be joining some pals from my illustration group Sketch Motel in New York later this week for the ICON illustration conference at the Roosevelt hotel.
On Tuesday, 2nd July, there will be a roadshow at the hotel where various illustrators and illustration reps will be showing their work. Admission is free to art directors, designers, editors and art buyers. We have table there where we’ll be showing off our work, talking to art directors (hopefully) and dishing out postcards when not trying to make ninja stars out of them.
So… blog is going to be a bit slow for the next little while. Got sketches to scan, just haven’t gotten round to it. Work and the general tiredness persist.
Keep6 gallery is having a show called Eco-Bag, Eco-Life which features eco friendly tote bags painted and customized by artists and designers. Here’s mine (a bit of a rushed job, but I think it turned out ok). The bags will be on sale at the gallery and will also be on tour around the world - see the gallery for details.
I just drew straight onto the bag with a HB pencil. I have been rather busy lately so I didn’t have that much time to work on this, so I decided to do something simple and funny. Oh Noz is a funny expression to me.
I painted in the colors with acrylic paint. I was wondering if I could get away with not using an outline but it didn’t really work out.
Finished adding the black outlines. The waves seemed too bare, so I decided to put in lines with a white acrylic marker.
Here’s the final bag!
