7x7 brief - some similar work

A very kind person from my class pointed me towards some work that is spookily similar to my own (although much much better), I not entirely sure of the artist, so I'll simply include the link that was given me in the first place...

http://ullam.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/06/tordboontje_pg01601

7x7 Brief - more progress!

So having showed these images to Ian and Gary and receiving positive feedback about the idea, I decided to make my own pattern and try and include elements of the story within the pattern. So it was essentially a pastiche of a Victorian pattern but it would include elements from the story such as a skull (to symbolise death), street lamps, the stairs (that the main protagonist falls down to his death) and his pocket watch. The first image I have included is one of my attempts at this, and the second one is another go at making my own pattern but this time only including the skull and the stairs.

7x7 Brief - progress

Using the stencil left over from cutting out the silhouette I included on the last post, I tried a technique of using some Victorian pattern (courtesy of a fine William Morris book from the Library) to give the left over shape form, further progressing the idea of using shape and texture together, as the pattern is quite textural. You can see by the two images here what it looked like. I'll also include a couple of patterns from said William Morris book so you can see what they look like in colour.

7x7 Brief

I've not posted anything for a while so the next few posts are going to cover the past few weeks of progress on this brief...

As I said in the last post, I was having real trouble with ideas generation for this brief, I was getting really bogged down in my sketchbook doing useless doodles, so Ian my tutor gave a task to do one morning. It was to find 40 images. 10 that I liked, 10 that I thought Ian/Gary would like, 10 that were relevant to the story and 10 that were irrelevant to the story. So I set off to the library and over the period of about 3/4 of the day I had plastered my walls with images.

The images I found were very varied, obviously the relevant-to-the-story images were of the Victorians etc, but the others were very varied indeed, they included Albrecht Durer, Henrik Drescher, some Japanese woodblock prints, Samurai armour, South Pacific tribal art, Frank Miller graphic novels, Noma Bar, illustrations from a book on alchemy and mysticism and more...

But one thing they all had in common was the combination of strong shapes and texture or mark-making that was quite textural. So, using this I began to make some work combining the two, strong shape and texture.

The two images included in this post are what I came up with...

Curse Of The Multiples

While trying to find something to inspire ideas for this new brief I came a cross a website of a graphic designer/artist Evan Melnyk called "Curse of the Multiples". I really like the stuff on there and I have included one of his images as it sparked off some thoughts for this new brief, to do with the ghost theme. I like how the ghost sort of have another lower opacity ghost behind them and I thought a similar approach might be a good way to approach the illustrations I need to do for my latest brief.

Click here for the website

7x7 Brief

It seems that for some reason my mind is completely blank for the 7x7 brief. My story is called "The Misfortune of Edward Foster" and is about a man who slips on some steps and dies and then becomes a ghost and doesn't realise until he gets home but for some reason his son can still see him and he appears normal to his son and then he meets a woman ghost who has died from some sort of disease and then she disappears through a wall and then the story ends... got it? (lack of punctuation was deliberate). So needless to say I am struggling with the ideas gen. and I'm actually quite glad to be in Uni on monday to get some help.

A drawing of a great white shark...

Why Not??