Prefessional Practice Cancer Research Poster

Over the Christmas holidays I was asked by a friend of a friend to do some work for a charity event at the Glyndwr Student Guild in Wrexham on the 4th June 2011. We devised a Dead line of the 18th of March, fortunately I finished before hand.

I worked on the idea that 1 in 3 people are effected directly or indirectly by cancer, whether they are male or female, initially I began with drawing silhouettes of figures who could be anyone however I was inspired by my doodles of stick figures which looked reminiscent of gender symbols and so worked on a more graphical image of using the male symbol the female symbol and a X to represent cancer.

I was very inspired by screen print images I had seen in posters for bands such as Bon Iver, Death Cab For Cutie, Beirut, The Decemberists and Mumford and Sons as well as the book All Messed Up. With this in mind I worked on finding a distressed look to my work, however trying to recreate "accidental graphics" is far more difficult than I had anticipated and so went for a more controlled recreation using photoshop which took longer than I thought but came out looking better than the other work I had tried.

After a solid weekend of working on the final pieces I was able to send the images to Emma who approved them and will be displayed in the Guild shortly.

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Ticket

Neg 2. Sleepless Phoenix - Characters

Recently I have been working on several projects. I am working on art work for a anti-fox hunting campaign, promotional material for a charity event and working on The Sleepless Phoenix Blog and working on a comic strip to submit to them for their comic anthology on time and the ages.

Currently I have started drawing my characters for the story that I shall be submitting along with developing the story itself.

The characters are:

The Man

The Conspiracy Theorist

The School Teacher

The Man's Son

Neg 1. Horses - Anti Fox Hunt

Working more on my book for the MacMillan Prize. I have a story drafted, and ready with development drawings. My biggest issue with this project is that Fox Hunters rid horses, and I am not confident in drawing horses. So today I spent a lot of time studying images of horses and drawing out horses legs in particular.

From this I have become more confident in drawing horses and think I am about ready to start working on roughs for my pages.

Neg 1. Man Fox - Anti Fox Hunt

Recently I have been working towards developing a children's story book to submit to the 2011 MacMillan Prize. Working from a doodle I made during another project I created a character, and am currently working on an appropriate story to accompany the character.

Whilst developing my initial drawings i did a variety of sketches to find an interesting way of keeping human and fox aspects of the character, deciding that hands, feet and face would be human. having to work out how they would work with the res of the body I made these sketches.

Blog Updates

My New years resolution is to attempt to post on my blog at least once evry two weeks (not including this post).
currently I have been working solely on my dissertation, however will post some of my new work shortly.
Check back here for more information and images.

Proffesional Practice Finished Pin Up

About a month ago I posted about the Sleepless Phoenix Survival Stories Anthology(http://thesleeplessphoenix.blogspot.com/). On the 16th it was officially released atBICS, and with that in mind I decided to post the work that I did for the anthology.

The anthology had to be printed in black and white and so my original work had to be altered for the book (but only slightly). However I still prefer the original and so that version of the work will be posted rather than the black and white.

Professional Practice Sleepless Pheonix Pin Up

"On June 30, 2010, Insomnia Publications filed to cease trading with the UK companies house. Though Insomnia never officially informed his creators (or anyone) of this decision, all signs pointed to the end of Insomnia. And the creators, well, we were supposed to move on, chalk up a loss, and let all our hard work and dedication become a memory—lesson learned.

But we came up with a different plan. In the days following the news of Insomnia’s seeming end, one thing became clear: that all the creators involved believed in each other’s work. A mutual admiration was shared for the short comics that appear in this anthology, and we are determined to see it get the release it deserves.

And that’s how The Sleepless Phoenix—a collective of up-and-coming comics talent from both the UK and the US—was born. While the Comic Book Alliance works to settle the conflict of our publishing contracts, we took the only content that still belongs to us—this anthology."

Recently I have been working on a pin up for the sleepless phoenix comic book anthology, Survival Stories.
This project was given to me by my sister, Lauren Anne Sharp (http://laurenannesharp.blogspot.com) as she is also doing a pin up for the anthology.

For this project I began by brain storming ideas for an image to do with survival or a struggle to survive.
This gave me three main ideas which were an image of someone with their head in their hands, someone climbing a cliff or someone aiming a gun.
After some sketching I chose the man aiming a gun, I began by working on some of the sketches to make an inked idea while discussing it with my sister until I came to a good image.Since drawing this I have added a lamp to the background, I felt this gave a reason for him to be turning in panic, as well as adding blood splatter to the background. This is ambiguous as to whether he has shot someone or something else has happened. I also have chosen to colour it in black and white. I made two images one has red blood, which I shall use in my professional practice folder at University as this was how I saw my image coming out. The second image was the same, only the blood splatter was in white (inspired by Sin City) which will be used in the anthology as it will be printed in black and white.
The anthology can be found at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910305588/the-sleepless-phoenix-comics-anthology
Any pledges towards its publishing will be very much appreciated, it is released in October 2010.

I shall post the finished work at some point after BICS (British International Comic Show) in October.