Ercol

I can't stop looking at Ercol furniture on eBay I've been eyeing up a desk set. It's probably because of the set of design lectures that we're on at the minute (Festival of Britain etc) which is throwing me into 1950s design again. 

All images taken from the 1956 Ercol catalogue 

Stamps

 

  

 From yesterday's rubber stamp workshop.

Me and Ani make a pro team.

Brave New World

Images for 'Brave New World' brief which was our first 'proper' project linked with House of Illustration x Folio Society competition. I'm pretty pleased with how they've turned out although obviously my Photoshop skills are pretty much non-existent. It was nice to be able to draw freely and also to come up with an idea that wasn't such an obvious take on the novel. 

Some Work

Portrait of Viv from fancy dress life drawing on Wednesday

A small selection of things that I've done this week, none are particularly good but it's not a bad start. I really need to have more conviction with line and not rely on oil pastels and a chisel posca because although they feel right at the moment, my drawing is not really improving. I really enjoyed the films that we watched in the Thursday "Secret Cinema" drawing session (Virgil Widrich's 'Copy Shop' (2001) was particularly impressive) although I struggled to draw super quickly especially when challenged with a longer and very narrow piece of paper. On Monday I'll have to get photos of the rest of what I've done so far as there's no point in doing the work unless I can easily track what is and isn't working, practicing drawing hands is a biggie for me at the moment, just look at the bottom image and you'll see what I mean.

Drawing from 'The Girl Chewing Gum' directed by John Smith in 1976

Drawing from Viv posing pre-costume on Wednesday

Self Portrait

I tried to find some photos where my pants weren't visible but it was a bit difficult.

Charlie Chalk theme tune.

10 things:

I like snacks

I like wriggly thick graphite

I like naps

I like that my cactus hasn't died yet

I like being rubbish at sports

I like not making any noise

I like being cold

I like cutting my fringe badly

I like packet pants

I like making pointless spreadsheets

I will not miss: 

I will not miss the consistently late number 25 bus

I will not miss the sun waking me up at 5am

I will not miss bumping into people from secondary school

I will not miss the man with the remote control car

I will not miss being told to eat more salad

I will not miss being made to watch Eastenders

+10years

In 10 years time I'd like to have my own front door and enough full sketchbooks (and mt tape) to sink a battle ship.

Near Euston

Both taken by me on a Pentax K1000

This is a hotel sort of near Euston station but I have no clue what it's called or who the architects were. I really like the stacked geometric shapes used in brutalist and modernist architecture, especially when placed in an environment which also  has other, more classically attractive (georgian etc) building styles. 

Another reason why I like this style of architecture is the materials used; concrete, glass, brick. None of these materials are concealed and all are overtly man-made. Each is fit for its purpose.

*Now know it's The Imperial Hotel on Russell Square

Foundation

Taken from my Flickr

I thought maybe it'd be good to put up my FMP work, whilst I'm not completely happy with the final outcome (I was a tad bit lazy in the middle of final major project) it'll be interesting to see how my style changes and progresses over the next few years. 

I worked on a comic strip initially around the idea of an eccentric older lady, eventually settling on depicting the story of Ann Timson, 'Super Gran'. For the most part I struggled with what I was doing which resulted in me producing something that wasn't as good as I feel it could have been however I am pretty pleased with how it turned out given this confusion. 

Working with collage was something that was enjoyable for me. In particular the challenge of making it look unlike other collage works that're popular at the moment. 

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