This month I went down the same path as the day-in-life cartoon I did last February and drew three four panel pages like the one above. To see the cartoon in full click here or on the image below.
She's a tricky beast, the media.
I like this image with its simple slightly abstracted lines. It is inspired by a photograph printed with an article from 2004 about Apartheid entitled "The way we were". I'll develop it some more. I spent some time in Namibia and studied South African politics as a student, so it is a subject close to my heart. I used pencil, pen and ink and a photocopy of an article on Ed Drew - a staff sergeant in the California Air National Guard and an artist who uses tintypes.
I have been collecting interesting shaped pieces of iron for years. Finally this bizarre habit has come into its intended use. I will paint them one day, but for now here is the very large rusty screw I like very much, next to a dice for size comparison! That is all for today.
An exercise in expression. 'Prediction'. Collage, charcoal, ballpoint, sharpies, coloured pencil, metalic pen (in that order).
Lawrence @vonoutspan (writer of Longship - have you read it?) and I are at work on a new comic book - this is one page of the 8 page first chapter which is now existing in pictures as well as in words. I just saw a trailer on tv for some film 'exmachina' which looks rather like my robots! Ach. Why does that always happen?
These are just a series of doodles using different media experimeting with the wide variety of marks you can get from one tool. Inevitably focusing on the mark making makes for some shall we say, 'interesting' doodles.
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