Weely Update #12 (April 27th-May 2nd)

This week has been incredibly stressful for me, I was very anxious about mounting my prints on aluminium sheets. I had to fix a few of my digital paintings and get a few reprinted for a few reasons (colour didn't come out properly, scratches, errors in the drawing I only noticed while making my concertina books). I also had to get my concertina books printed, I kept them pretty small to ensure they felt personal. I also made a few sketches and speedpaintings this week which I enjoyed making...I made a few using the photos I took at Wildwood and then I also made a few speedpaintings using those sketches and some previous ones.

Concertina books (not folded, obviously)

Weekly Update #11 (April 20th-April 26th)

I don't have many new pieces to post this week as I've been focused on my sketchbook, research, and testing out different ways to exhibit my work in the show. I made a video after recording some audio with my sister (which I am unable to upload due to possible copyright music used in it). However, that video did not work the way I intended so I chose to look through my entire sketchbook and consider every piece I've made to find a selection of images that would work best. I chose my two gas mask digital paintings and two zombie digital paintings for a variety of reasons, but in short I think they work well together, show my skills and express my relationship with my sister very well.

Experimenting with sizing and arrangement.

Weekly Update #10 (April 12th-April 19th)

I don't have all that many images to put in this update, I've started a few pencil sketches but I haven't finished that many pieces. I've been busy editing videos for my FMP exhibition. I also managed to get in contact with my sister and record our conversation which I'm going to use in my video. I wasn't sure how it was going to work, but she seemed to understand what would work more so than I did. I'll post a few on here but I can't upload all of them because the file is too large, but if you click here you can see them all in one video.

Weekly Update #9 (April 5th-April 11th)

Unfortunately Easter break is over so it's back to uni again. On the bright side, I love the work I'm making and there's only about a month left until the end of my Foundation year. I'm hoping I'm doing enough for a distinction, but we'll see. I still don't really have an exact idea of what I'm doing for my final exhibition piece but I'm hoping it's discussed when I go back on Monday.

Thestral digital painting...really liked making this, found the colours fun.

Weekly Update #8 (March 29th-April 4th)

This post will be short since it's Easter, I didn't do as much work this week but I did a decent amount. I did a whole lot of reading since I've been looking at the most recent issue of 2DArtist Magazine and I also bought 2 older issues from 2014 that seemed interesting.

Digital speedpainting I did of a statue I took a photo of at V&A. Colours are very different from what I usually do which is why I chose to make this piece.

Weekly Update #7 (March 22nd-28th)

So last week I had the change to see my sister as she came to visit for a few days. I was very lucky and had two extra days with her since I worked from home instead of in the studio in Canterbury. It's more important to me that I got to spend time with her, my FMP revolves around her anyway. I admit I went a while without doing much work as I was spending time with her, but she gave me very useful feedback, inspiration, and she helped me work through some other stuff that has been troubling me. We visited The Making of Harry Potter which has provided me with many interesting photos that will make for good digital paintings I feel like.

Sister and me at Warner Bros Studios

Sagazan Speedpainting...playing with Overlay Layers

Weekly Update #6 (March 15th-21st)

I'm writing this post a little bit early to ensure that I post it so that my crit group can have a look at it on Monday while I'm not in. Unfortunately, I was not in for my crit group this week either due to a stomach bug but they gave me feedback anyway which was useful. My sister is visiting from America so I'm expecting to be busy with that instead of doing work so this week I've done everything I could despite me being sick and busy with other things...I think I did a decent job. Most of my work has either been speedpaintings or really quick pen/marker drawings but I've produced a reasonable volume of work although it is not the highest of quality. I looked at a few artists such as John Howe (one of my absolute favourite artists, who did concept art for Lord of the Rings), Mike Azevedo, and I started to glance at Wylie Beckert. I also found this article which I thought was very inspiring and interesting, about 'how to create without thinking'.

Digital Speedpainting of Sagazan using a sketch I made earlier ~40mins