Summer '14 Leftovers

Here are pieces that I have made but for one reason or other didn't blog at the time of working on them. Enjoy!

Zine: "My Failed Youth"

After spending some time over summer with my friends and reminiscing about our wayward years of late teens/early twenties I've decided to make a series of zines about some of our stories, albeit greatly exaggerated.

I explained to my pals how I always over think my illustrations and try to make them something different to what is natural so my friend suggested I just draw; don't worry about making it amazing looking. Just draw and get my story done...

So that's what I'm doing. Here is a few examples of what I've done so far:

Gotta say, the illustrations look scruffy as hell but I am quite excited by the outcomes!! I Feel like I've really broken through a personal barrier!

Zine: "Red"

Over the past few weeks I've been working on a zine idea. After creating two pages for it I have to say I'm still not feeling the design or story as much as I'd like. I'm going to put it on the back burner for a while as I'm spending far too much time thinking about the style and aesthetic and not enough time enjoying the process itself.

Here are the pages and process thus far:

Although I am not entirely content with the style I've used etc I am quite happy with the colour scheme that I used within the pages. I hope to take this experimentation further in Level 5.

Early Starts

My girlfriend has now started working as a primary school teacher. That means early starts of 6.30am. To help get me ready for the new academic year I've decided to get up at the same time as her and wow, what a difference it makes! I forgot how much you can get done with an early morning start as apposed to getting up near midday.

Yesterday I managed to tidy the entire house before midday even rolled round so treated myself to an afternoon of reading comic books and doodling. I ended up making this piece of my characters Kate and Red looking all happy and in love (aww etc).