Still trying to get truly satisfactory shots, but these are OK for now. I’ll edit the post later if I improve on these.
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More photos of that third pumpkin…
… hopefully the last one for the year, for the sake of my fingertips. Note for next year: latex gloves.
Final set of photos were taken with the pumpkin seated on my hospital x-ray viewer.
Third pumpkin 2010
Preliminary shots of my third pumpkin. Will add better shots later, and may tweak the sculpture a little too.
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First two pumpkins of 2010
Two pumpkins made for the Brighton branch of Dr. Sketchy‘s Hallowe’en show.
One of them features several firsts for me: typography, scrolls and flowers, all in the same design. I call the other lad Macaulay Pumpkin.
Get Well Soon
A friend was followed home by a tiny kitten, who is now called Oso. He’s 8 weeks old, but looks younger because he was small and sick (though he is getting a bit bigger now). He’s a skinny black thing, and his interests include cat food and wiping his mucus over people’s faces.
He’s too weak for the vet to be able to give him proper treatment yet. I have painted him a picture to encourage him to get better. I have perhaps gone overboard with his target weight, but it’s something for him to aim for.
T-shirts and desktop wallpaper for Amon Tobin
My t-shirts went on sale at Amon Tobin’s website today.
I was given a blank slate with the design of this shirt, but there were natural restrictions. The design would have to reflect Amon’s music in some way, and to make a good screenprint I would need to be aware of the limitations of the medium with regard to thickness of lines.
Previous designers have created a wide range of artwork for Amon, but there are certain themes which have been used repeatedly. Amon’s got quite a range to his sound: he’s most well known for his darker, more menacing work but his music is often very light and melodic. It’s not surprising that so many artists have used robotic themes for his artwork given that many of Amon’s tracks make you think of sinuous machinery, but another side to his sound is reminiscent of something ancient. I wanted to depict both of these aspects in my design. Also, although Amon was actually born in Brazil and identifies as Brazilian, he sounds like a well-spoken Englishman due to growing up in Britain.
I pooled all of these ideas, and decided to base my work on the Windsor Coat Of Arms. I considered creating my design digitally with Paths in Photoshop, but I realised that part of what makes the original work is that it’s not highly accurate so I decided to use pencil and pen instead. I was also concerned that too much accuracy might make certain details jump out as mirrored pairs – perfect layouts can create a kind of invisible grid. Luckily I’ve got a lightbox (well I say it’s a lightbox, although it does look a lot like a hospital x-ray viewer, and I suppose it does have the word “HOSPITAL” moulded into the plug… but really, the similarities end there). This meant I could simply tape paper over a printout of the Windsor coat of arms and get to work. My version trades various heraldic details for computer audio components, and I made his robots’ heads so that they can be seen to have the long shape of a horse/unicorn, but also contain an area with the shape of a bird’s beak (thus changing the lion into a griffon).
I also made the digital painting above for the desktop wallpaper versions:
4:3 aspect ratio
1280 x 960
1400 x 1050
1600 x 1200
1920 x 1440
16:10 aspect ratio (widescreen)
1280 x 800
1440 x 900
1680 x 1050
1920 x 1200
2560 x 1600
16:9 aspect ratio (widescreen)
1280 x 720
1600 x 900
1920 x 1080
2048 x 1152
2560 x 1440
iPhone/iPod Touch
iPad
Bacon and eggs
H. R. Giger’s egg-housed interstellar prankster strikes again, with hilarious consequences. Another page from my sketchbook:
Nine faces
Nine faces (well, eight and half, given the twins in the bottom right) from my sketchbook, completing the Brad Pitt’s Evil Puppy page.
The only real person is in the bottom left: Karl Pilkington, co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show, allegedly the stupidest and funniest man in Britain.
