Tag Archives: Drawing
Room 3
The tutorialist
Advice from the dude
Untitled
Memento
First drawing finished in ’09. The wood-paneled background – which is becoming an increasingly common feature in recent drawings, almost a character in its own right – starts to feel like foliage and I like the discombobulating depth of field that it creates. It at once consumes and regurgitates the central figure, kind of like a trombone shot or dolly zoom – pulling focus like the scene with James Stewart in Vertigo where he falls into a metaphorical abyss while standing perfectly still. It is a technique that is always used in the movies to suggest someone falling away from themselves or undergoing some sort of realisation. This time it is intense, cheerful and surreal.
The Well
This was started a while ago but recently reworked in order to tweak the narrative flow and the way the characters in the windows interact with one another and in turn the building itself. In essence it reads as a kind of non-linear comic, one without formal structure and one that builds into the story of the individual voices and personal theatre of the occupants of each apartment. Architecturally the housing complex is a theme park throwback to 18th-century architecture parlante: a symbol of defiance aimed at the indifference of Modernism’s formal rigour.
Difficult to get a good photo of though.
Nosferatu
I did this picture a couple of years ago and have just found and recovered it from the bottom of a drawer in my studio. I was a little surprised to find it there because it is part of a series of about 4 or 5 that got sent to either Italy or New York almost as soon as they were finished. I guess it didn’t make the cut, although I’m quite fond of it now.
Take 2
This is the reworking of a drawing I posted a couple of months ago. It was floating around in the studio bugging me, looking a little undercooked so I added full background paraphernalia as well change the shape of the body while trying to avoid being stuck on other drawings. It does look a bit like a cluedo character now, in a good way…(hopefully), like a marble bust with lipstick and a wig on, but it was looking a bit flat, a bit too like a straight portrait before; there was nothing awkward about it, no kick, no nothing. The semi-psychedelic background definitely offsets the blank eyes better and gives it a much creepier, more uncanny vibe.
Trolling
This is a new drawing I have just finished. I have been working on it for a while but wanted to finish it slowly so that I could consider some of the details that fill in the gaps between the narrative. The text being written in the comments form of the blog on the screen is taken from a post on You Had Better Know titled Love Letters, which is a really good example of a troll. Even when you click through on the image above to the larger one I’m not sure if it’s entirely legible, so if you want to read it, visit the link above.
I have also now added it to the works page of my website.