Quick sketch 

Christmas

Christmas is a time away from the studio, which provides a problem for an animation student dependent on the equiptment the university supplies.. sadly it means i had to resort to the old fashioned pen and paper. Thank god... It was weird to get back into the swing of things.. I only went to london for 5 days for, yet another, funeral.. i took some time to draw on the london transport systems, people, places, objects. I tried to mix things up...

 

Below is Bek Po, while in London I visited her every day, cooked and cleaned, help write letters to those who couldn't make the funeral. Attempted to help as much as possible, though trying to explain animation, computers, and all the stuff Ive learned in the last 2 years to an 89 year old is hard, she basically cant even work a phone... but she enjoyed my drawings at least :)

the stress the human body caused my head this trip was just too much.. i was reading anatomy books trying to apply it to my drawings and my brain, just... ouch

but hey, i tried 

Night Life

Today, I made the long journey home from Falmouth, Cornwall to Paddington Station. A five hour journey and deadlines tomorrow afternoon I spent my whole journey handing work in online, playing Minecraft and drawing this:

Why? you ask... 

for a start, it was dark by the time I got on the train  

second, foxes are adorable, 

c) foxes Make up London's weekday nightlife

quatro - I was singing hey sexy lady by Psy all day, but keep replacing sexy with foxy by accident...

I think its rather cute, I don't have photoshop so I've been using Autodesk's Sketchbook app instead and finally got a hang of the controls during this piece.

it did take around an hour which is slightly shameful, but I'm happy with the outcome and amazed I chose relevant colours to the animal for once. 

photography

took a trip to hyde park this week, rather fun, got caught in the rain, but i think it was worth it :)

the city can be so beautiful 

Summer 2016

So the start of summer is officiated by my leavers photo, my true goodbye to Penryn Campus for the summer, and Cottages for good.

I absolutely loved my room last year, the memories, the antics, the neighbours, the friends... the speakers. I know my room next year won't be anywhere near as nice, I know I probably won't have a window to sit out, stables opposite, my best friends just a courtyard tiptoe away in my slippers or socks. but next year ill make nee friends, and keep the old too. not going to miss the ants in the kitchen and the birds flying in and out of the house, probably won't miss the cats 'presents' of dead mice, but couscous the cat.... i will miss your tail flicking my face till i sneeze, kind of.






while you may think theres only architecture in london to draw, well.. you're right, apart from the few parks, the scenery isn't much to look at if I'm honest. it doesn't really inspire the animator in me. so, i spent a substantial amount of time on the trains. i started drawing pokemon over the summer, inspired by the release of Pokemon Go, everyone was playing it. Any time a person mentioned a pokemon in conversation (eves dropping is wrong i know, whatever) id start drawing that pokemon, and sometimes a person would remind me of a pokemon by their scarf or outfit, weird shoes or strange hairdo. these were my two favourite of the summer, till the pokemon hype slowed somewhat.







this is the first drawing in my new home. it is, september now, and classes start in a couple of days. charcoal on my massive pink rubber, a pencil that understands me, a drawing that expresses my love of disney, mac beneath, and a cup of tea on the side.

now, its nothing like my darkrai drawing in pen, but it somewhat shares features to my other pen drawing of a Cubone above. Im looking forward to the next semester, but yet still in fear of what it will bring. Maybe the briefs make the course look scarier than they really are... we can only hope..

in the mean time...

i guess enjoy my freedom for now, and just forget about it :)

A Level Photography

I went home over christmas and salvaged my photography final piece from the college dumpsters... obviously i wasn't going to upload a photo of every page, as my final piece was a whole book worth of edited photos and then experimental mixed media onto of said photos... 

My final piece in photography got me a resounding C grade. which i was not impressed with. I love photography, i do it in my spare time, i go out and explore forests and cliff faces, take photos of people playing sports and am even designated photographer at most parties. 

i think I found a passion in photography because it wasn't like i could ever be wrong. i mean you can take a shitty photo, but its not like it took you forever, you can try again. I bought my Nikon D5200 in 2013, spent the year walking dogs, getting paid £20 an hour if i trained the dogs too, in order to pay for the camera. i didn't want to be one of those kids who thought they were amazing at photography because they had a decent camera, i scrolled through blog after blog on how to take the perfect photos, i took photography Alevel to learn how to edit, to learn about photographers with weird styles. I ended up loving Rodchenko, his geometric shapes, the strange angles of his photos... i got into futurism, and long exposure, sequence photography.. 

I  like looking back at this work every now and then because i remember how passionate i was about this Night Lights project, and realise how passionate i still am about photography. Whenever i get a new project I'm filming my movements, or I'm taking photos of nature or figures trying to figure out how to morph a tree into a person or a leaf into a raindrop, creating mini side project for myself that never seem to get finished because i get distracted by the next strange idea...

I need that passion again...