Jowy Shenanigans 16/6/12

no idea what to call my new posts now so the above will do for now 

Hooray i can start posting up general drawing and fun stuff on here now. 

And since its fathers day tomorrow what better way then to show off the front of the card i have made for him as well as another small doodle i did for someone else who loves traveling a lot. 

 Humour ensues Obviously 




My Dads really in to PC RPG games or games of that type of genre and he enjoys fantasy in general so i designed him to be like a RPG character. Also I recently watched Game of thrones season one two weeks ago and it seemed appropriate to try out a genre of art i tend to avoid because there’s so much of it and plenty of talent for it.  

The joke with the Dwarf is an inside joke as my Dad is writing a really interesting novel that i think will push the clichés of fantasy and si-fi to new levels but i will not spoil it as it is his thunder not mine just enjoy the image.
 The Dwarfs pose looks like his smelling his stupid arm pits but its the thought that counts and i like the sketch as a whole.

'That’s a very nice sword you

Have there be ashamed if 

something were to happen to it' LOL

The original sketch for the idea

I have done a lot more digital drawing and painting on my Wacom tablet than traditional pieces so it seems special to give him something made handmade for once

Until next post LATERS ; )

So much for regular updates then (sigh)

I must apologize for not bothering with my blog for a while my major project work became more demanding then I imagined and after working hard on it for a day I just was too tried and lazy to post up an update on its process never really drew that much fun stuff during the project either because of it.

Well I am pleased to say that I finished the major project two weeks ago and have just had my end of year degree show at my campus which has been pretty successful i herd a lot of positive feedback on my illustrations as one of the best which is good to hear. I will be getting my final grades online next Monday exciting and scary stuff anyhow I bet your wanting to see what the final product is from what updates I have made on this project. To stop this post becoming too long I will keep the synopsis of this project simple by stealing word to word my DA description of the project. 

Project Description

My Major Project intention was to explore how my ‘Todd Schorr’ inspired visual language could translate in to a written piece of text or story.

As it is the 448th celebratory year of William Shakespeare’s birth, I decided to illustrate Shakespeare’s ‘7 ages of man quote’ from the play “As You Like It”.

I have illustrated each stage using fine-liner pens creating marks, influenced by the woodcuts of Gustav Dore. Each illustration contains fine details and has an obscure reference to animation, games or the Internet.

See if you can spot them

Age : Infancy

'At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.'

Age: Childhood

'The whining school-boy with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail
Unwillingly to school.'

Age: The Lover

'And then the lover, sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' 'eye-brow

Age:The Soldier

'Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth?'

Age:The Justice

'And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part

Age: Old Age

'The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound . . .' 

Age: mental Dementia and Death

'Last scene of all
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion?
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Now that my time is uni is over it is time to think about what’s the next best step. A masters, promoting my work online more often or entering competitions and briefs. I feel I need to challenge myself some more with this unique style of illustration i have developed

criticism and feedback would be appreciated thanks.

Until next post LATERS ; )

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Email: Jowybean@hotmail.co.uk

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major project week review 12/4/12

I just wanted to post up the near finished inking stage of my illustrations for my 7 ages of man uni major project . not sure about tone at the moment either. 

 Infant stage 1

Childhood stage 2 

The Lover  stage 3

The soldier stage 4

The Justice stage 5

Old Age stage 6

Mental dementia and death

I have been working more on the narrative and reason behind the work this week as that is a vital key for this concept to work.

I will post a much more detailed and in-depth post on all the illustrations and what each image represents in terms of the original monolog until then

LATERS

Major project week review 4/5/12

I have started inking in my first 2 penciled 7 ages of man illustrations the Childhood and Solider this week. Its important to note I forgot to mention that I have redone some of my landscape pieces to be portrait I find that the illustrations flow better and effectively make the story more readable. This as well gives me the advantage to try out a book format for the body of work I am producing.

I used 0.05 and 0.1 pens for the inking and thickened lines out on the guy so he would stand out as the focal point of each image.

I have made connections to each of the ages using items and characters from other stages in life giving the protagonist in the images some continuity.

until next post LATERS

Major project week review 2/3/12

I did it again and forgot to make time to update more regally on the university major project work. But aspects visually have changed since my last update so I have been trying to keep on top of the workload.

First off here are the other thumbnails and tonal roughs for the last few ages Solider, The Justice, old Age and Mental dementia and death.

I should have pointed out earlier that I have been referring to a different text that describes the 7 ages of man in modern terms rather than the original  monolog. Which is something I really have neglected up until now but I will talk about that near the end of this post.

I decided after I had done the thumbnail stage to draw one of my roughs on to a bigger format like A3 and complete it as a final piece. I chose Mental dementia and death roughs because I thought it could help me explore and understand how visually crazy and packed this universe was going to look. Also I wanted to see if my pen skills could pull off a better effect then the grey pro markers I have been using for tone for the majority of the project.

I was like a tank with this experiment and ended up creating a very big mess of images that were interesting. But the viewer’s eye could not get engaged or focus on anything important that I wanted them to see first. So their eye would wonder around the image lost. Their needed to be a distinction between depths and subject the mark making just blurred it altogether. 

This also made me think about changing the size of my finals or just doing them on a smaller size then experimenting with scale later on.

After I felt satisfied with my tonal roughs and general layout for the illustrations it was time to start the pencil stage in this process I continually reworked over certain elements and poses in the characters to get the closet image I imagined for that age.

I started with the infancy sketch and went ahead and inked it in with fine liner pens. I tried to cerate textures and line work similar to the woodcut artist Gustav Dore who had inspired my interest in the pervious project using a variety of lines in my visual language.

I tried to balance out the detail and negative space so the focal subject of the piece (the human baby) was visible and did not get devoured in the chaos like I did with my mental dementia and death A3 illustration.

I received critical feedback on my use of media and understanding of depth and effective tones. The problem was that every time I looked at Gustav Dores tonal values I tried to apply it in realistic terms by comparing it with my own photography, this in turn made some of the foreground characters look much more flat then they are supposed to be. Example the lizard in the bottom right corner should really be set against a much darker back drop in order for him to pop out.

Taking all this on board I spent a whole week on finalizing pencils for all the illustrations so I had at least a good sustainable foundation on which to refine and rework the sketch before the inking stage would begin.

 

Going back what I said at the start of this blog I started thinking about story or concept of the project. It was all well having a title like the 7 ages of man to illustrate but the big question was why what did I want to communicate and would their be a different type of format I could associate with the illustrations. Someone suggested a book or editorial design because it would give me something to produce which could be much more beneficial then just a galley   

Exhibition.

At this stage I was like a tank with my visual work and would just go for it and not stop to take a breather and consider what was I trying to achieve

Just this last week I spent a great deal of time thinking hard about where my project is going and what sacrifices I need to make to achieve a more polished and professional finish I came to the conclusion that making all the pieces portrait would make the viewers eye follow the story of this man much more clearly.

I also have started researching and exploring the narrative some more it needs to communicate the theme and monolog of the 7 ages of man or the project fails.

So far I have made sure that the man is present in each illustration so there is a visual link and I have considered also linking certain elements of each illustration together showing the passage of time and indicating it’s the same person throughout the illustrations.  

Until next post LATERS;)

sad honey dew (rough).mov

Another Raw Animatic i did just this afternoon i want to see if its possible to create funny successful shorts based off youtubers who do playthroughs with humorous commentary over the gameplay its one of the best things about youtube that I love

Now the Yogscast guys i recently started watching all their minecraft playthroughs including the shadow of israphel so i thought it was fair to animate the infamous scene in season 1 where near the end of the video poor Honeydew gets a nasty surprise when he steps out the back door and xephos i imagined found it all rather amusing

video link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBQ0MIpJsk
I really want to finish this off at a higher standard then my Friendship is magic animatic I recently redid because i feel the yogscast guys deserve it.

You should subscribe to them if you're a Minecraft fan

http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos?feature=g-u-u

until next post Laters

my Youtube Account  http://www.youtube.com/user/Jowybean?feature=mhee

Find an improved pet scene

Surprise and behold its the MLP animatic i decided to continue work on in my free time from uni work. The other animatic inspired by a Madness song needs a lot more time and work needed to make it work more fluidly.

With this animatic i tried to cerate the iconic style in human from with my personal touch of course with expressions and backdrop details