The Forest (re-edited)

Ive made very small changes to this film but I think the narrative makes more sense than the previous version.

Since Charlie Hadn't Come

This is the work I've been doing for Tindal street press, based on a short story by Chris Smith about a dementia suffering farmer who without his brothers care descends to the level of an animal.

Lemme know what you all think!

24 hour project

I've been looking at some of the 24 hour projects and this one by Noémie Marsily, another textless narrative, strikes me with it's energetic use of colour:


more here:
http://grandpapier.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=810&id_document=20759&lang=en#forum13798

Bulu on Grandpapier!

Those of you interested in textless narratives, bulu uses plenty of classic sequential language

http://grandpapier.org/_Bulu_?lang=en

full story for Crash & Burn

Cookie Love

This short film is just a bit of fun. Thought it was time for some human interaction and lightheartedness.

Shot references for this came from the dining scenes in 'American Beauty'. Shots from the western 'Tombstone' also came into play for the expression and emotions of the characters.

Experimentation

I was looking back at work that I'd done from studying Thomas Ott and thought there was still lots of room for exploration such as:

using lines to draw an image, which I'd previously touched upon with both the 'viruses' and 'crash & burn' ink soup's with biro and white pencil crayon.

I thought it would be interesting to see what sort of result I got with ink pen and if the lines made would add or take anything away from the tonal quality and depth of an image.

The Forest

I was recently inspired to make this film after seeing the trailer for Tim Burton's re-imagining of 'Alice In Wonderland'. Quite alot of the shots have been taken directly from the trailer - the idea being that I could create the same sort of atmosphere and fantasy.

I had also been dragged to see 'The Time Traveller's Wife' which featured quite alot of (running) shots through a forest which furthered my understanding of how to approach making this.

Specific camera angles & movement from 'Gladiator' also came in handy for this too! Like most of the films so far there are various things I would want to change or approach differently but I'm quite happy with this one and feel I am learning something - and having alot of fun!!!

Nauli

Benoit Guillaume

http://grandpapier.org/expressionnisme
http://www.grandpapier.org/_b-e-n-o-i-t_?lang=en

http://benoitguillaume-bancdessin.blogspot.com/

www.grandpapier.org

a great find! More narrative projects to read online!
http://www.grandpapier.org/spip.php?page=lesalbums&lang=en

some classic art related ebooks

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94571

Prophet by Amanda Vähämäki

http://www.electrocomics.com/ebooks_engl/amanda.htm

Frédéric Coché's Ars Simia Naturae

A Graphic Novel in Drypoint!!!!!

http://www.electrocomics.com/ebooks_engl/ars_simia_naturae.htm

& Paz Boira

Katie! I think you'll like this one!

download "ENCORE UN EXEMPLE OU LA VIE EST COMME ÇA"
http://www.electrocomics.com/ebooks_engl/again.htm

i love Atak / Georg Barber

http://www.fcatak.de/books23_01.htm

Another competition...

http://www.artsjobs.org.uk//index.php?id=25&ne_source=dailynews&ne_post_id=24905

The link at the bottom doesn't work but it might just be a temporary things. Might interest peoples.

And it is also on here, along with other stuff...

http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/events/event_listings

shrivel

Drawings

Decided to work on my figurative drawing skills to help improve my angles and start to build up a library of reference material.

sketches

Heya all, been taking a step back with some observational drawing and experiments this summer. I am trying out some new materials for my next comic panel - charchol and pencil/pencil crayons. Trying to get a mix of detail and strong tonal contrasts. Here's some sketches I tried out:




And here's some illegible plans for compositions/panels which I'm going to change around for the new observer (ps. did you here they are thinking of shutting down the observer altogether?) :



if that is of interest to anyone! Btw, I am up for going to Bologna for the festival. Hope u r all having a nice break :)

Kt.

experimenting

just an experiment. i need to practise my narrative skills more.
:) i think i need to create more characters and storys other then getting caught up on one. i have a bad habbit of focusing on the drawing so much that i forget other important stuff. like the story! D8...and backgrounds.

water fasting

Update- BMI

Hello there, apologies for a lack of involvement over the past weeks, haha I've had a fair share of technological problems of late, starting with my illegitimate adobe cs3 crashing, to the then illegitimate Cs1 Photoshop crashing to my macbook basically losing the plot...lol so looks like I'll be re-booting soon!

Anyway enough self-pity, I thought I should update what I've been up to! So firstly here is my BMI entry, "Bald Cypress", experimentating with colour- this version is darker on top than bottom but i equalized the levels out in the final version, but I can't get that file up at the moment- lol arggh!

Hope everyone is having a good summer!

Fields

Graphic Short Story PRIZE 2009

hi folks! It's that time of the year again - for more details and entry forms:
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/graphicnovels/competition.htm

Scare

This video's come out darker than I wanted so it's a bit hard to see what's going on at some points so I apologise, tilten your screen may help! - is because I'm using the video facility on my digital camera rather than an actual video camera.

insipired by chui's (dare i say it ;D) recent posts.
i really liked his lines and monster creatures. decided to draw one of my own
just idea

Shoot Out

Ok guys your gonna have to use your imagination a bit with this one! Theres loads of bullets flying round and loud bangs and explosions happening - james bond esq! With this video I tried to give it a bit of a narrative which I hope comes across well when you see it. I also tried to be a bit more adventurous with my angles, and fast editing, some of which I don't think work but like the last video I had some restrictions which can't be helped. Hope you enjoy it!

Theres a couple more video's semi finished so they'll be up here soon!

what i have been up too

yes, i havnt been that lazy over the summer.
been working hard on drawings and some ideas to be worked on for negotiated. and took part in art activities for children. (i tend to shy away from anything to do with being confident and speaking to people or being sociable with people i dont know well, but iam working on this 8D ) i also managed to get use a studio space from contacts hehe

but meanwhile heres some of the drawing i have done. gone into precise inking doodles and pattern structures based on shells and other organic forms. this is just two doodles put together (iam happy with results of not cheating with copy and paste ;D) iam going to do see where i can go in narrative with this kind of abstract.

Can’t I Cantilever? Yes, you can!

an article on Katsuhiro Otomo from Josiah Leighton’s “Storytelling with Art” class http://consequentialart.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/cant-i-cantilever-yes-you-can/