I follow rivers

This has been an ongoing project. I just had to respond to this song. Its called 'I follow rivers' by Lykke Li. Its haunting, yet very beautiful. I love it. And I tried to illustrate it,

Used Biro, scanned and painted in Photoshop

  I had made several designs in Photoshop (about 15) before I was sort of happy with this one:

This is how I pictured the illustration to be, but I feel it doesn't work

Keeping it simple.

Lykke Li wasn't available to sit for the drawing, so I used a photograph by Daniel Jackson (can't access his website, but Google him)
Working on this illustration has somehow kept me sane for these past weeks. Its a personal project, but I'm happy to show it.

Saw the music video- directed by Tarik Saleh, for the first time today. Really good.  Somehow similar to how I imagined it.

Adebanji Alade

Its been a month and a while since I posted in this blog.

This is because I'm reconsidering the artistic direction I'm taking for this blog (too many strange hairs and jellyfish ladies). And also because of the big final year film we have been working hard on. Its not directed by me, but my super talented colleague.
Anyways I had time to take a workshop facilitated by the Fine Art Collective taught Mr Alade. I've been a fan of Adebanji Alades art and you can see why on his blog and website.

The workshop was called 'Drawing in the Tube', involving drawing people in the tube.
 As an animator, drawing people in public is fundamental but its not something I do regularly. Which is why I took this workshop.
We learned plenty. I loved watching Alade sketch. He did one of me:

Art by Adebanji Alade

Isn't it amazing(ly real)?

sunday space girl

An attempt at digital painting, not perfect but I'm happy with what I could do. 

This week's sketch

Ever since seeing tiny porcelain figurines of beach bathers, I've been sketching little figures. 

Been busy

Its been ages! Well, its been weeks and some serious changes are needed in this blog. (I literally gasped when I opened this page) Just to let you know I'm still alive - caught up in life and the winter blues. 

Do I know how that kitten feels! 

Sketches

Happy new year! Hope you had a good celebration.

Some more hair drawings.

                                                       

More hair craziness

LCC exhibition

 Just recovered from the worst flu (so far) this season, so this blog hasn't been updated as much as I would have liked. A week ago, I came across an MA Graphics and Communication exhibition at college, and absolutely loved this:

The artists name is Gemma Dinham (this is her blog)

Forgive the poor mobile phone picture quality

Her piece is entitled 'Packaging the English'. 

Take a look at her website! 

There were a lot of great pieces out there.

weekend sketch

 A portrait sketch of a relative of mine. Taken from a family photo collection. This is very personal to me, but I decided to share this.

Not giving up..

Experiment in color

Observations from the bus

On my way home today I took a bus with some very stylish people.

She had the most gorgeous red shoes.

He had a striking scarf.

Using Flash

The animation I will pitch this December has an elephant character. Its going to be quite detailed, so I tried to check if my watercolor sketch could be copied in Flash. See what you think;

 Ink,watercolor drawing

Flash illustration

   

Frames and hair

The textures from zen textures and the frame from About.com (link) Put together in Photoshop. Portrait done by me. Looking forward to paper cutting and some painting this weekend, provided I get my coursework done.

More hair

Love productive days! Saw some wonderful window shop displays at Piccadilly. Here is a continuation of the hair portraits.

Thinking about cutting this portrait and adding to a decorative frame.

Used to drawCarmen Miranda throughout my childhood. I loved her crazy hats and energy.

Minnie

Minnie is a character I've been working on for a while. She used to play the double bass. Here are some designs of her.