I like the people I work with. Sometimes it’s appropriate to roll out my skills from my previous life. Meet Luke Cat 🤗. He loved it. Brought a little joy to a Friday for him after a hard week wrangling Webflow.
Making people’s lives sillier, since 1977.
“Draw my favourite car daddy, draw it so it pops off the page”. Obediently draws car… “Well its nice daddy, but it doesn’t pop off the page does it?!
So I googled some proper optical illusions to copy and drew them with the boy
I’ve made two new pieces of self indulgent psychedelia. These things usually start with a very basic premise, and take on their own life as they appear in front of my eyes.
In the first I wanted to do something with the page split loosely in to four. Yep. The premises are that vague.
The second I wanted to play with fractals so I built a Fibonacci spiral and swirled the swirly bits around it.
While I was making the second piece I commissioned the embarrassingly talented and all round lovely human Natasha Alexander ( go check out her work and workshops here: https://www.facebook.com/natashaalexanderart/ ) to create a mandala stone in the same vein as my psychedelic art.
She absolutely smashed it out of the park. I bloody LOVE this thing.
L.O.V.E. it.
Life drawing. From Life. With Paint.
Bottom left is may fave.
Blimey, haven’t posted on here in ages. Massive geeking has returned after an extended hiatus.
I stopped doing this masochistic exercise in Sep 2015.
Now I’ve started again.
I’d forgotten how far I went with it. Even photographing lettering, then vectoring it.
And don’t even get me started on this little bastard. Using old software (CS3 and CS4) is stupid. I am stupid. I use old software.
No idea how far this rabbit hole goes. I’ve got a shovel and a head torch. If I’m gone long, just wait longer.
Last session forever tonight, probably. not.
New term starts again in September, but all sorts of stuff is going on round then. Kinda want to do a full year of watercolours, but we’ll see how that goes. Still want to do some live animation flip book stylee.
More watercolours tonight
Tried to have a crack without outlines on some of them, some people like it, others didn’t… you never can tell.
Last session next week. Still want to do some animation, but I can’t sort out how I’m going to do it – need a flip book from somewhere.
Pics from tonight.
Had an idea. Big Cartel for canvas prints.
Watercolours, brush pen and a black Sharpie. As time goes on my flagrant disregard for trying to draw tight pictures grows. And I like it.
Starting to get a ‘little’ bit bored of watercolours already. I’ve got 3 weeks now until the next session so I’m going to have a good hard thunk on what direction to go next. I’m open to suggestions! :D
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Firstly – thank you to everyone who voted in the poll in my previous post, its a massive step in the right direction :D
Here are the pics from tonight’s session. Felt very low stress, I was really trying to not worry about doing good drawings and just getting on with it.
I used a mixture of Brush Pen, a black Sharpie and watercolours. I’m using a different brand of paper this time round and its subtly different in texture and feel. More absorbent, less ‘accurate’ but dries much faster.
This will probably be my last 10 week term for a good while as another micro noise human will be joining the family around the start of Autumn xx
Dave Cropley 