Ah, deer deer. And bunnies.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Random sketch image, unfinished, ink over pencil.
Just some quick 1-5min sketches I did at a life drawing session a few weeks ago.
Tired from working on vectors all day. So a non vector piece. The gallery show yesterday was great; the bunnies are kinda from a piece I saw there. Bunnies are fun. And headless deer. And Chirstina’s work is awesome; if you don’t like it then you should…urm… swallow leeches. Or something. I dunno I’m tired…
You can also see the comic here.
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.
