Mick is a bulky builder with a heart of gold. I want to make a small wallet sized comic of misleading stereotypes, for example Mick is a brilliant cook but his looks and job description might say other wise.
This could be a series of other people with the same qualities. The finals of Micks book will up soon.
Heres my rough reference drawings for my final portraits. I wont use them, but I really like them!
So this is going to be the lay out for the final book (a double page spread at least). The whole book will be consist of five portraits and will be twelve pages in total. Its going to be printed wallet/purse size.
Portraits of disappointed women for a collection of chat up lines. Some are better than others but the book is going to be tiny so im hoping that making them smaller will push the detail into them. I may have to re-work every one other than Jade though.
A little rough comic of a day walking the dog. It’s only a silly idea but I want to play around with scale. All of these drawings are on one page of my A4 sketch book, and working at a tiny size means that your limited to the amount of detail you can add. I want to try and blow a few of these panels up, but I also want to paint MASSIVE frames to see what an image with a huge amount of detail will look like tiny. Its all just experiments if Im perfectly honest.
I found these pictures of my nan, I love the look of these photos and if i could but a contemporary twist of it then I think I could be on the way to a half decent image.
Im finished on this for now. But I think if it were printed on a shirt huge then it could work.
Yet another muck about (Im starting to think that I don’t get any final pieces done.) Its another take of a students head being in the sand, but I thought I’d show that even thou the student has taken his head out of the sand, his life is still generally awkward.
Concept drawing for keeping your head in the sand. It’s going towards a book that I’m illustrating.
These are the final images all thrown on the background. I had some real trouble throwing it all together in photoshop as the file size was 63cm’s by 324cm’s, a very big file. However once I took it into illustrator it was much easier to arrange. Im deffinately going to be using this program more often as I am majorly out of practise with it.
These are a few of my drawings that i jazzed up on photoshop for Sam’s coffee van, Mocha Focha. I only used textures that I either photographed or scanned. They aren’t overly impressive on there own but I hope if I combine them all together the intricacy of them all will save the day.
I put this little gem in a frame the other day. The ‘Lambiek Comix’ shop is apparently the oldest comic book shop in Europe. It was amazing coming across a place like this out in Amsterdam. The shop isn’t that big but it’s stupidly fun to look round. Also the guy that work in there really know their stuff. All those bright colours and bend-ay dots really appeal to me.
