tambourine-dream

Art direction project: Trichotillomania

2009-06-17T21:42:00.000-07:00

This was supposed to be an art direction/collaboration project, but I decided to be a lone wolf and do my own thing. I'd been wanting to do something about trichotillomania for a while and since 'health' was one of the topics we could choose from, it seemed ideal. Also, everyone else in my house thought it was boring :D

There's supposed to be a animation. That was the MAIN idea, but I didn't get enough time in the end. the print images are supposed to supplement it, since you can't really tell what's going on in these pictures:

I HATE THE TYPE. I know, it's awful, mainly the colours - it was about 5am when i was dealing with the type and I clearly was on a weird little sleep-deprived plane of my own. //excuses

www.trich.org

TUMBLR

2009-05-31T11:45:00.001-07:00

i always seem to be complaining about technology, I'm such a whiny blogger I know I know.
but it's not all bad!!

I got a Tumblr blog-thing for all my snippets of inspiration, pretty photos, things i see on the internet and always forget to save, etc etc:

http://tambourine-dream.tumblr.com

it's been taking up way too much of my time, I think I am vaguely attempting to reupload my entire photobucket account onto tumblr.
everything is tagged for easy navigation and all.. yes, I am going up in the world. clearly.

soooo if you have a tumblr come add me or make yourself known or however these things work, and we can tumble together in the big old washing-machine they call life.
yeeeah.

Finally finished it (g2 editorial)

2009-05-31T11:19:00.001-07:00

The first time I attempted this project, my computer decided the time was right to express its hatred for me -and perhaps all of humanity. My mistake was attempting to save. There were horrible metal-grating sounds, weird bleeps and most terrifying of all, the eternally-swirling rainbow pizza of doom that is the Mac's 'processing' symbol.

I have since cleaned out my hard drive and got a new 4GB flash drive and the computer seems to be a lot happier. Well, there's less rainbow pizza. So i attempted the project again; it's an editorial brief set by the people at the Guardian. we had to pick one of three stories and provide a cover & two=page spread using two additional illustrations.

Cover:

It's kinda boring, hm?
There are quite a few bits I still want to tweak, like making the article title darker, fixing the weird orange leg, doing SOMETHING to make the g2 logo look better, put another texture over the background to make it less god damn sharp.
But i have a tendency to overwork my stuff soooo i'm gonna leave it alone for a bit and come back to it ina couple of days. tell me if you have any suggestions!

2009-05-17T16:35:00.000-07:00

Last summer was the end of my first year studying Illustration. My class was set the task of keeping a visual diary from July through to the start of term in October to keep us busy.
I recently got mine back after giving it in for reviewing and all that jazz, and have begun the task of scanning the alright-looking pages.
Due to scanner issues (ie me not actually having one), I only have 4 so far :/
sorry. I will update you in small doses . And since my style is so freakin erratic, hopefully you won't get bored!

July 1st: welcome to my life

July 2nd. Some of you might recognise the pencil portrait, which I posted here just after I'd drawn it. This is what happened to it!

July 3rd - made paper cranes

July 4th: I wish I was tHERe

They get progressively worse/more rushed after this, heh. Should scan about 10 more this week.

Muh Postcards

2009-04-26T02:50:00.000-07:00

Ugh scanner killed this one. I wanted it to be delicate, but not invisible! It's a broken egg, with an arm and a leg. Every time I say that, I get gleeful about the fact it rhymes. *geek*

This is my tutor's favourite. It took me the least time/thought, lol.

LOOOOK! It's a HITLER STAMP!!!
This is worth all of 99p on eBay.

Anti-Fur Project

2009-04-21T16:15:00.000-07:00

In which me & Lyall cooked up a curious concoction of poster paint, 'vampire blood' and coffee that maybe perhaps slightly resembled blood and dribbled it all over me & various cheapo vintage [possibly-hopefully faux] fur items while various passersby looked in through our woefully curtain-less windows and wondered what kind of weird fetish video we were making.

We ended up with three images to submit to the annualDesign Against Fur campaign/competition from the Fur Free Alliance.
Having researched into the various methods of anti-fur campaigning, I realise how incredibly easy it is to appear judgemental and 'preachy', so I will refrain from going on about how worthy the cause is and suggest you poke around those there websites.

Lyall took the photos, I am the 'model' and I edited the photos too. We went with slightly blue-toned versions in the end:

but I quite liked the arguably even MORE disturbing desaturated versions:

Thoughts?

mini-moleskine gets scanned

2008-11-27T14:29:00.000-08:00

I was in the company of an intimidatingly good scanner this afternoon and, after flailing around with all the mysterious slider-controls, managed to upload the contents of my little pocket Moleskine. And a couple from my larger fake-moleskine.

For some reason the scanner was turning the contrast super-high and I forgot to turn it down on some of these so a few are in-yer-face black-and-white, sorry :/

My friend provides some eyeliner guest art:

And the big fake-Mole:

I'm considering pastelling that last guy on a wall on the seafront. I think it would look amazing as it melts and drips off the surface in the wet.. maybe

sorry it's all so greyyyy :/

Not Dead (Almost Though)

2008-09-16T14:42:00.000-07:00

Couple from the effing 'diary'

I aspire to someday draw people who aren't cross-eyed.

A couple more sketchlets

2008-07-26T15:20:00.000-07:00

three tall drawings

2008-07-22T10:52:00.001-07:00

Fairy-folk

2008-07-21T18:36:00.000-07:00

The last one was done about half a year before the others, but I still think of it as being in the same series or at least a kind of inspiration for them.

Eye tooth

2008-07-21T17:33:00.000-07:00

apologies for the godawful pun there.

blog blog blog

2008-07-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

hello. this is where i shall put the various things i create.

however i haven't got any to put up yet so you will have to imagine it.
i'm sure it looks better in your imaginations anyway.

*glorious invisible art*

When i DO have some I will probably delete this to minimise the insane-rambling-person factor. Actually I think i should write as little as possible in this blog, for the same reason.