still waiting

Another illustrator from that AOI book I thought was ok is Tom Burns.





[edit: going over this recently it seems like the image links have changed. Rather than fix this i have opted to ignore it. So long, suckers!]



















These two images are cool, but I really dislike maybe 70% of his work.

I guess this is all done with photoshop? Maybe some screen printing?
I feel better about it if it is screen printed. However he's done it, piling the textures over each other gives the images this weird quality. I'd like to mess around with something like that, but not sure how to apply it really. Up with printing! PRINTING FOREVER!!

website here. Can you dig it?

research: Jackie Parsons

I was going through the most recent AOI book, found a handful of illustrators I really liked.
ONE of them was Jackie Parsons whose work reminds me of Michelle Thompson and Caroline Tomlinson....but maybe I prefer it to both????

















Pretty swell huh? Yeah!
Love the colours and the kind of non specific people. Also all the texture and etc etc. Is it all photoshop filters? Maybe I'll send her a dang e-mail.
Also what is it with me liking primarily female illustrators? It's not a thing I assure you.

her portfolio, it is here.

research: Lesley Halliwell

So Minacha mentioned to me today, in passing, someone called Lesley Halliwell.
So just now I thought I'd casually check her out, not thinking it would be a big deal.
Minacha had mentioned her because I'd used a spirograph in something and said how Lesley Halliwell used them also and JESUS CHRIST.
I feel like I can never use a spirograph again, basically.

















Here is another, goddamnit.


















I think this all looks really nice, but it evokes a weird sense of dread in me for whatever reason.
Is she actually really famous, or what? Are people keeping big secrets from me?
Should life be easier than it seems????

Also I'm conscious that I'm just posting alot of trash on this blog and I'm going to try and post less, less and less.

spanish stuff pt 2

This feels almost completely pointless but here are the final pieces for the Ghosts of Spain brief.

the cover

















First subsequent image












second whatever whatever














Can't wait until all my critical studies stuff is done.

Spanish stuff pt 1

It was obvious what i was going to do with this. AND HERE IT IS.


















And here is my first inner. Feels like it's missing something though.













SECOND INNER. Also feels patchy.














I will hopefully sort these out on Wednesday and move on to etc etc

thing relating to spanish brief

Here I am, at home, messing around on this Spain brief etc etc and I blah blah blah until I something something and realise I've made this:


If only it had anything to do with Catalonia.

right look here is some done up right stuff for Ghosts of Spain

First idea. Trying, as simply as possible to sum up the article which, I thought, was about how Catalan recognises itself through culture and wants to be seperate from Spain.



















Obviously it needs more of structure to it, but in doing that I took a step away from whatever this is going on here and made this:




















Ok so. I sort of like this, but I think it also looks dumb as hell. So I shrank it down to this:


















And then, with me trying to steal the structure from this old poster it became this:

Do I like it? I don't know.

I think I need to try out more structures and play around but I am also conscious of the other two images I have to do (both of which I've started and sort of have ideas for) and all this critical studies blah blah blah etc etc.