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Things here are hectic - I'm working a lot of the week at my part-time job, and the hours are long. Very grateful to actually have a job, but ... still, I go out to get the train at 7AM and I get back at about 6PM. For some people that's not a very big deal or even the norm (it is for my mother), but for me it's tiring. When I get home, I barely feel like doing much by the way of art even though I know I should. I do, however, still collect editorial illustrations daily for my university research diary and do what I feel up to. I've found that if I try and force myself to draw when I'm tired or lacking energy, it only results in crappy art.
For my more informal drawings, I get a lot of inspiration from people around me - as cliche as it sounds, you really do get great ideas. For example, this drawing was an idea that formulated after I went to a Lolita meet this weekend and stand-up comedy was brought up. Personally I'd love to see a Loli stand-up act - even if it wouldn't really work for your random passer-by, I'd certainly love it.
Felt tip, fineliner, and pencil. The background is mixed-media - graphite, tea, PVA glue, white acrylic paint - all smudged up and left to dry. Both pieces were scanned in and edited with the GIMP.
This is something based from a photograph that touched my heart, by a guy called Joel Goodman. I was very worried when the London riots were going on - I have friends who live and study in London, and when it spread to Birmingham, the city I consider my home, I worried even further even though I'm not there currently (something which I was very thankful for at the time). A video was uploaded to Facebook of my student accommodation surrounded by rioters, there were photographs and reports from people living in Birmingham, and it didn't make for pleasant viewing. I tried to keep up via Facebook and Twitter, and - of course - you don't know what's real and what's rumour. I wanted to make sure everyone I knew was safe. Businesses and buildings were ruined. Homes were destroyed. People were injured and killed. Innocent lives were turned completely upside down. Whether it was "I did it for a laugh" or "the government don't care about the working-class", there is no reason that can justify what those people did. It's disgusting, absolutely abhorrent.
The slogan I got from the Facebook group - Anti-Riot: Operation Cup of Tea - where the members uploaded a photograph of themselves with a nice cuppa and a sit down at 8.30PM to show that they didn't agree with the riots and wished to stay out of it.
I wanted to do a piece on the riots - I felt I should - and overall this is what came out.
I'm off for a cup of tea, and to sit down with my sketchpad.
1 comment:
I like these, the second one especially.
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