BRYNHILDR

Portrait of Brynhildr

Commenced: 24.02.2014

Finished: 27.03.2014

Mech pencil on Moleskine

I'd been working on-and-off with this portrait for about a month, so it hasn't actually taken me all that time to actually draw it; it's has just been delayed due to commitments with work at university which sometimes allows me less time to produce some of my own work.

I played around with adding texture (and a little colour to the version on the right) just to give it a little something.

BAUMWOLLPAPIER II

Another panel for "Frames"

December 2013

Biro on cotton paper

Found this as I was going through some cotton paper stock and forgot to upload it in context with the other panels so I thought I'd post it separate. 

BRYNHILDR - W.I.P

Portrait of Brynhildr

Commenced: 24.02.2014

Mech pencil on Moleskine

Trying something a little different with portraits, making a stern-looking Valkyrie with wild and long hair, a strong face - a typical shieldmaiden warrior of Germanic mythology.

ARON

20.01.2014

Biro on cartridge paper

CAMILLA

"Camilla"

01-02.01.2014

Mech pencil on Moleskine, digital texture

He had spent the previous night at his spacious flat in Eaton Place in the company of Camilla, a music student with a long body and a sad, beautiful face. Though she was not more than twenty, her black hair was streaked with grey, as if from a shock she never talked about. As another effect, perhaps, of the same undescribed trauma, she ate no meat, wore no leather and drank nothing alcoholic; only in love, it seemed to Guillam, she was free of these mysterious restraints.

- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré

I may revisit this piece. 

With Camilla's character, it is interesting because she does not feature in the film, as it deviates from the book slightly in the way of Peter Guillam's relationships. I would've liked to have made her face plainer, her eyes more sad, and her whole image feverishly gaunt. I picture her always in dark rooms, face partially lit by dim lights.

BAUMWOLLPAPIER

Entitled "Frames"
11-12.01.2013

Blue biro on cotton paper.
Couples stuff and mementos.

LEIF

Entitled "Leif"
09.11.2013

Quick 5 minute painting with gouache on Moleskine sketchbook paper.

Showing my style to be more Scandinavian inclined/inspired and enjoying using a minimalistic approach to illustration. 

SANKT LÜDIGER

Continuous line portrait of Sankt Lüdiger/Saint Ludger, the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia.

Made using Bristol board 220gsm no-grain card, Faber Castell XS Indian ink pen and the bottom two portraits, Photoshop for brush detail. 

EIVØR PÁLSDÓTTIR

Portrait of Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir.

Mech pencil on Moleskine paper and texture applied in Photoshop.

SANKT MARTIN II: SCREENPRINT

Did some screen printing at university today with one of my course-friends and came out with some pretty good results. 

Some prints that didn't come out too well the first time with vermillion I then printed cerulean over the top and displaced the image.

My friend then had a great idea to make some look like playing cards by turning the pages upside down and printing again.

 

CIRCUS CIRCUS

A project for university this semester.

A few pages from my sketchbooks with titles:

LEFT TO RIGHT: Gennadiy and Grigoriy (strongmen), 

Katenka (acrobat), Queue (for the big top).

These three sketches with watercolour (and dark sepia Faber-Castell Indian ink B [brush] pen for Gennadiy and Grigoriy) were done in my new Moleskine sketchbook which has the most lovely (possibly 180+ or so gsm) paper to work on.

The subject we are given to work with is the theme of "circus" so I've been looking and experimenting a lot with shape and colour; challenging how I normally use my preferred media of choice and also trying out a handful of different ones while creating a narrative.

FABELHAFT II

Experimenting with digital collage.

I used Photoshop alongside parts of a previous illustration with a postcard of Celia Hammond in Paris taken in 1962.

FABELHAFT

Using part of an old illustration for my coffee shop zine from university last year, text lyrics from Kraftwerk's "Das Modell / The Model".

I wanted to create something mainly black and white in the end after playing around with Photoshop on another piece; something not too fussy. I decided to add one colour (red) with the hard brush as a circle of rouge to implicate it's make-up or on a model's, or woman's cheek. 

TOP: Black and white image with text

BOTTOM LEFT: Multiply 100% BOTTOM RIGHT: Screen 100%

SANKT MARTIN

Since it is coming up to Martinstag (Saint Martin's Day) next month on the 11.November I took a break to create a portrait for the occasion.

A continuous line portrait of Saint Martin, the Roman soldier who cut his cloak in two to share with a beggar.

Made using Bristol board 220gsm no-grain card, Faber Castell XS Indian ink pen and the bottom two portraits, Photoshop for brush detail. 

HELLO CA$H

Another Johnny Cash inspired poster.

Original design/concept by myself.

Price tag created using polygons and pathfinder "unite" option.

GET RHYTHM

A Johnny Cash lyrical typographic poster for "Get Rhythm."

TOP: Border with a corkboard texture

BOTTOM: (l) Border without texture (r) without border or texture

Lyrics belong to Johnny Cash. Design is original.

WINDHUND

Entitled "Kaspar der Windhund" o. "Kaspar"
27.09.2013

Watercolour

Tested some non-photo blue pencil sketcher (didn't really work well with watercolour over it), but still came out with a good result on the painting.

SCHICK

Entitled "Anke"
26-27.09.2013

Watercolour & scarf textures

Experimenting with line and geometry.

W.A.M. II

Just one of those things.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonio Salieri

W.A.M.

...And playin yo requiems on repeat.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart