'Critics continued to call his paintings unfinished', but in the red roofs there is a 'unique vibration' a 'fusion of shape'. drawdaily78
Continuing on from yesterday. Something about the first set here, reminded me of that cat launderette from a while back in the middle ages of 2010. Though looking at it now, it isn't quite how I thought it looked at the time, which just goes to show how perspective works.
draweveryday51 I have been looking at an artist called Jaques Tardi. Really like the mix of realistic backgrounds and more cartoony characters. I need to work on the latter, but thought I'd practice the former using my immediate environment. This is a polyptych - or my attempt at creating one, with a rough 360 degrees. It's a bit like a cartoon about an invisible ghost at the moment! Out of the five, these three are my favourites, anyway. draweveryday #50
Above are details for closer inspection, but you can read the 2 page comic by clicking on the pages below. Today I drew (yay). This was made referencing some of my collection of various pictures I've cut out from newspapers, fliers or magazines over the years. Some are collages I made years ago, like the man in panel one. Anyway, after yesterday's experiment I wanted to see about making a more coherent narrative, but still using images in a relatively abstract way. If you're into art history I have referenced Klimt, Van Gogh, Herge and Bosch!
The majority of these lines were drawn in my A6 notebook while wandering around in Tokyo. I put this together from my drawing at the Fujiwara Keep in the Imperial Palace and from a street in Shibuya. Incidentally it was pouring with rain when I drew this which is why its deserted, everyone was under cover, except me.
This is a digital drawing of a collage I made shortly after returning from my trip to Japan. It is one of a series of drawings, ideas and scraps I put together as a record and to remind me of the designs and images and internal experiences I was going through at the time. The guy in the collage is actually Steve McQueen but I've not drawn him to life, it was more the posture and mood I was after. The hair is a little intriguing, I was going through a real phase of using body parts in my work as you can see here too. Also I was working as a financial regulator in the international department, hence the frequent use of financial terminology in my work. Finance like many things can seem rather dull and opaque from the outside, but when you get to understand the system a little it is as frail and unpredictable as any other human endeavour, also as important and fundamental for a society as the flow of blood in your body.
These three images are taken from the Getty Hulton Collection of photographs from the decade in the title. It is a fascinating collection depicting everything from fascists to fashion and capturing the essence of the time in detail. I picked the images at random, as I was drawn to them, but the spats just couldn't be ignored after my bio a couple of days earlier! Hope its not too cheeky if you will excuse the pun.
I have kept this photograph out and around in my room for 20 years. The men are tiny hence my trouble. Excuses excuses. One day I'll paint it or something, in fact I should have drawn all five of them and the setting but its just been one of those days.
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