Cats !!!!

Ive really like drawing cats in this project, I just think they are easier to draw then dogs especially as they have definite line and body structures. Whereas with a dog its fur covers most its body so its harder to define parts of it.

I think in all these images here you can see the different compositions. I have tried to experiment with it and different layouts for each image. From just sections of the animals to the way it moves. Ive tried to keep the wool line from an earlier page going throughout every page to try and keep it consistent.

I think a weakness is potentially in the last images, as I really struggled to draw shadows and which way they are meant to fall in the background. The unpredictable nature of the black marks of the cat really help to make him stand out.

 

Wolf in woods

These were two pages I worked on at the same time as I felt they were most in common with each other, with lots of overlapping features in both. I think the The bottom image works the best with the contrast between light and dark and the textures of the bushes especially working in my opinion. The only problem being the colour scheme and its not consistent, but I just felt that the black and white suited Sultans situation being in a dark a scary wood.

Both of these pages took a  lot of different scanned in images to compose and put together.

3 pieces of Great Advice !

These were just some inspirational advice that I use to help me with with work when I've been, struggling. 

Paul Wolfgang webster 

The only way to be as an artist, it is to look as professional as possible, keep work clean and neat, put work into folders, get a lot of business cards made to hand out, get a website, send out emails to companies, galleries and local shops, and start a project and finish it, if you want to do other projects write them down keep the ideas and get them done when your free to put 100%. There are 50,000,000 artists in the world, so get professional and make your work stand out. I have a gallery you could bring your work for me to look at , so there’s a start on your road to becoming a successful artist, give me a ring. - yay !!!

Leonid Afremov 

"Work hard and never give up. good things happen with patience and dedication."   

Quentin Blake 

" I think if you keep on doing a great deal of drawing – actually an enormous amount if possible – it helps you discover your own natural way of drawing, and out of that your style will emerge. It’s a mistake to assume a style but you can be heavily influenced by another artist, as long as it’s a real relationship and not just imitation for the sake of it. And it’s important not just to think in terms of other people who are doing the same job you’d like to do. "

Piece I wish I had done

This beautiful piece of ink drawing by Rohan Easton ( the artist I interviewed ) Is the piece I wish I had done or could do. I admire the imagination and creative mind to be able to come up with such an intelligent drawing that encompasses so many different aspects. For example the surreal quality of the imagination with the lion in the middle of the ocean. This is one part I found so interesting and it really captures my imagination. Another aspect of the drawing I like is the use of monochrome colors i.e. black and white, I find it hard at times to scale down my colour palette when drawing or painting and i think just using black and white brings the piece together. In addition the different tones of colour work so well with the pure black sky and  the lighter kinda black sea, they really reflect the feel and motion of the sea and sky.

The intricate line work and marks really help to create texture and make me wonder how has he achieved that and how long must that have taken him to get so good at it. I want to be able to create pieces this detailed and this organic in a way. Its a realistic sort of drawing but he's adapted it to give it a surreal kind of feel, which Im trying to do in my own work. The line quality and use of line, shape and texture help to bring the piece together and create a unique sense of perspective.

another aspect that I like is the cleverness of the image at first glance I saw a lion sitting in a field, then it became the sea, then a lion in the sea with a mountain behind him and then a woman behind him and then a boy sleeping. I could see so many different parts in the drawing that I couldn't see before. They were kind of hidden. I like the cleverness involved.

This is one piece I think is amazing and if I get any where near this quality, which I hope I do, then i will be pleased.

Wolf up a tree !!

This was the page where the wolf had just been scared up a tree by the cats shadow. I think I have really captured the colour and look of a tree. Using the a3 scanners I managed to put together the leaf marks I had made for my tree. I found it really hard to do at  first because leaves are very hard to draw and I was thinking to literally so I changed my approach to changing back to mark making and focusing on the shape of the leaves instead.

I used pastel rubbings from trees to recreate the texture of wood and I think it works here as I can see the jagged edges and rough surface of the tree. This page was a challenge.

John Wick soundtrack

Art isnt the only form of inspiration for me. I listen to music a lot when Im doing work and it more than often inspires me. Ive recently watched a film called John Wick, its a brilliant film and theres a scene where he's fighting,  this music is being played and they combine the violence so beautifully with the music.

I can't stop listening to it !!!

Poppy field

  This was one of the last pages of the  book and I really wanted to illustrate the bright mood and upturn in fortunes for Sultan and the story. So I wanted to draw a poppy field. I thought it worked well with the image I was trying to create,which was one of vibrancy and positivity. I placed the wolf in the background as I wanted him to be ever-present and alway around, but almost hidden. The obvious weakness for this page was my time keeping as I didn't have enough time to draw sultan into it. He was meant  to be running throughout the fields happy. I think a strength of this piece is sense of perspective and distance with the wolf further away.