Eat My Drawing

We've moved!

2010-10-02T14:36:00.002+01:00

'Eat My Drawing' has moved. Please come over to our new page:

http://magicbeanillustration.blogspot.com/

Much more blogging taking place!

Thank you.

Back in London :-)

2010-08-03T12:32:00.000+01:00

A little bit of what I've been up to :-)

2009-10-20T05:21:00.003+01:00

Sorry they're not all the right way up...I have no idea how to use these computers!

If you want to see the content to these little books I'm going to put it up on my blog so take a look there! Basically I'm trying to make one per place/country Ive been to, depending on the time spent there!

NEWS from Hong Kong

2009-08-04T14:01:00.003+01:00

I took these images at the Jockey Club Creative Art Centre (shek kip mei) It use to be a Secondary school, but is now an Art centre, in which every single class room has been rented out as an art studio. One year waiting list, so I've signed up for the following year. Regular art exhibitions, ranging from; Ceramics and pottery, Photography, Chinese puppetry, illustration, fine art etc. There also are classes, like Life drawing, jewllery making etc. Some of the work was inspiring, as a lot of the spaces are being rented out to students who have clubbed together, and they spend most of thier evenings there collaborating.

Hope everyone's enjoying their summer!

yolande x

Recent stuffs

2009-07-09T02:02:00.004+01:00

New pages for Rick Ragabash! For the past week been up all hours working on spreads for Templar art director, who wants to see more of mine and Milan's work after a previous email sent to Templar by Chiu on our behalf. Not sure what will come of it yet, but it's keeping me busy so I guess it's all good! Dead tired now though and Photoshop still frustrates me!!
Any feedback appreciated :-)

Hope you're all having fun times xxxxxxx

Inspiration

2009-07-09T00:49:00.002+01:00

Hello fellow floundering favourite...fgraduates?! The only f I could think of there might have caused offense XP I don't know if anyone else has been having a brain meltdown...it might just be me...or it might just be the xbox 360 I got fautls >.>...either way I've found this very helpful!

http://danidraws.com/2007/02/21/101-projects-for-artists-and-illustrators/

I'm pretty sure I posted this on here before but refreshing doesn't hurt! Its got good ideas for things you can do just to add to your portfolio...! I'll post up the ones I've been doing when they're done...currently drawing the four seasons

How exciting is this?! I just thought I'd share...

2009-07-05T20:39:00.007+01:00

Can't wait 'till this comes out! Spike Jonze is the man!
Apparently it hasn't been rated yet because the first kids who watched it ran out screaming because it was so scary! That sounds good to me.
http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/

RESURRECTION!

2009-07-05T20:14:00.002+01:00

My fellow ex-L6s! Let's keep this blog going so we can all see what we've been up to, yes? Yes. Anything you like, illustration related or not. What have you been doing with your time since we left? Maybe you've been sitting on your arses doing nothing. Maybe you've been away to a colourful and cultural land. Maybe you've been up to your neck in mud, sunburnt, or lying in bed with swine flu. Or maybe, like me and Jat, you've decided to start a musical/drawing/dancing act on the streets of Derby to fund our extensive drink habit.

In any case, post something! Keep those creative juices flowing.

Lots of love

Naomi xxx

Leanne...

2009-02-27T22:25:00.001Z

You might be interested in this!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hd1mt/Storyville_20082009_Wild_Art_Olly_and_Suzi_Paint_Predators/

Book Covers

2009-02-20T18:47:00.001Z

http://www.bookcoverarchive.com/

I dont know if anyone is doing the penguin design contest but either way here is a vast collection of book covers!

Screen Printing?

2009-02-19T20:06:00.002Z

Is anyone going to be doing any screen printing next week that is willing to show me how its done?

I have a feeling I may have done it back in college... all those millions of years ago, but I cant be sure =/

evelyn x

An Illustrated life

2009-02-11T22:08:00.000Z

I recently bought this book: An Illustrated life and it's a really good book, showing the sketch book pages of lots of different illustrators, who use a wide range of media and styles.

It's really inspiring, and makes you want to keep your own sketchbook!

Children's Illustrator website.

2009-02-05T16:49:00.002Z

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/content.cgi/index

A good website for children's Illustrators, different mediums, style, agents, interviews and more.

You can join, but it's about a $200 fee for the year, still interesting to look through.

At a loss at what to do between projects?

2009-02-05T11:02:00.002Z

Check out Dani Draws website:

http://danidraws.com/2007/02/21/101-projects-for-artists-and-illustrators/#more-86

For inspirational ideas!

Also check out the rest of the site for tutorials and tips and so on.

watch this!

2009-02-03T14:55:00.002Z

these lil animations are great..and a bit odd...short nonsensical narratives! (explicit content in parts!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY

New ideas

2009-01-31T16:00:00.002Z

Some character sketches for my new idea, instead of writing my own story and focusing so much on that, and looking at other children's books I had the idea of creating an ABC book of animals having two kids dress up as the animals, and do things the animal would do, maybe with a few fun facts. (not too sure yet)

I thought I'd have a go... Don't Panic!

2009-01-27T19:03:00.003Z

I've submitted an entry to the 'Nature' themed Don't Panic Posters competition. The voting ends on Sunday, but I thought it's worth a try. I think I'll have to get at least 12 votes to be in for the judging... so please vote for my poster :) ... only if you like it of course.

The links are below, they take you straight to my poster. You only have to provide a few details to register before you can vote.

Thanks guys, see you soon!

Also going on at the mo if people are interested...

2009-01-24T06:36:00.002Z

http://www.ycnonline.com/awards

http://sa09.dandad.org/studentawards09/

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/penguindesignaward/brief.php

Don't Panic Posters

2009-01-19T12:06:00.002Z

while you are waiting to start your new projects, you might want to have bash at:

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designaposter/

cards arrived!

2009-01-17T14:23:00.010Z

Cards arrived today two days before they were meant to- really quick considering I only ordered them on Thursday evening. Really recommend Moo for future use- good quality for only a tenner and without any hidden charges for multiple images or double sided printing. They allow up to 50 different images and the only drawback is that the reverse image has to be the same for each card. They've also given me 10% off if I want to get postcards printed with them. Overall they seem pretty ideal- they seem set up for the kind of thing I wanted rather than catering to big businesses like the majority of printers..

Final Business Cards!

2009-01-16T11:39:00.007Z

They've been sent off to print so these are the FINAL FINAL ones. I figured I'd have a range for different circumstances- two slightly daft for giving to other artists/individuals who still look like they have a sense of humour in tact, one with an example of my comics, one with an example of my other illustration work. The back is the same on all of them.

I'm getting them done with moo.com who offer 50 for a tenner (more like 13/14 after postage is added). I've seen other cards printed there and thought the quality/paper was pretty decent- sort of semi-matte-semi-gloss satin finish and fairly thick stock. Also, moo was one of the only places I found who were honest about their pricing- lots of other sites offered similar deals but when you read the fineprint there were LOTS of restrictions- such as only one-sided, including the printer's logo, or only having a very limited set of templates which you had to use. Also it was pretty standard for printers to charge over the odds for wanting to place your own artwork on rather than using their shoddy clipart. I'll post up the result when I get them through the post, but for the design process I will say Moo had wome very nice design tools which let you check and double check and edit the way your card would look in the flesh- giving warnings about cropping and ratio and loads of other potential pitfalls.

I'm trying to create a visual brand/identity with the the combination of fancy twiddly typography, strong black and white, and the inclusion of a little texture (the paper background)

Busyness cards

2009-01-16T01:41:00.007Z

These are just some prototypes...I might work some colour onto them or something like that!

And are some really inspirational ideas for them...not sure how you'd actually make most of them!
http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs

Hand in...

2009-01-13T17:33:00.002Z

Is it Monday we hand in...? its just when we were mistakenly in today Chiu said something about being in on Tuesday...and i'm confused o.o...So when are we handing our stuff in?

Help me decide (cards!)

2009-01-13T13:58:00.004Z

(The upper section is the front, the lower section is the back of these)

So I'm faced with two potential approaches for my business cards at the moment- either sticking with fairly conventional snippets of my art (top) or an attempt at humour (bottom) I really wanted to see if I could get some feedback off people if possible! Personally at the moment I think the first looks better and better describes my aesthetic, but the second is potentially more memorable.

And in the theme of professional practice...

2009-01-07T18:43:00.004Z

http://www.yaytime.com/guide_freelance.html

Easy to read and saves you buying any of those 'how to be the best illustrator ever volume 5' books!

Oh and this is for Lee

Travis Millard

His work really reminds me of your weird style! I would have made another post but I didn't want to spam the blog >.>...

End Paper Inspiration...

2009-01-07T18:41:00.001Z

http://drawger.com/show.php?show_id=27

Check out these retro and inspiring end papers...even that can be an oppurtunity to show off how good you are!
Those are just a few that I liked!

Yulia Brodskaya

2009-01-05T13:10:00.000Z

I just came across this and thought it was all amazing!

www.artyulia.com

2009-01-04T14:10:00.003Z

I have just stumbled apon this really cool site, a great resource for fairytales..

"SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations."

this would have been handy in the narrative sequence module last year!

nay

Yolande...

2009-01-02T04:00:00.001Z

You might be interested in this...

True Stories: The Great Chinese Art Revolution
Tuesday, 10pm, More4

Printing...

2009-01-02T01:11:00.003Z

Can anyone recommend a place to get decent quality prints of my work done?
anywhere that isn't gonna cost me a million pound is also good.

50 books/ 50 days

2008-12-31T17:57:00.000Z

http://50books50days.blogspot.com/

Something interesting about making books, not so much the process from what I can gather, rather this persons own project.

2008-12-31T01:39:00.002Z

http://www.andymangold.com/clarendon-type-specimen-books/

i saw this and thought it was really nice.

was gonna post it on the artist book blog, but i dont know how to join it so i can??!! (ps. i'm not so good with blogs :/ can anyone help so i can join it please?? ta!!) :D

Merry xmas

2008-12-24T19:45:00.004Z

Branding of our Gradshow - We Need You!

2008-12-18T19:55:00.005Z

Hello all,

Here's a link to the gradshow branding blog I have set up:
http://vis-comm-grad-show-09.blogspot.com/

I want you all to have a look so you can see how Sarah Carter and I are getting on with creating an identity for our final year show. Also, there is another agenda... we need your help! We want you crazy people to suggest some words/names/ideas that our two heads alone cannot muster.

Imagine if each person in the whole of our year suggested one word; Sarah and I would have mountains of marvelous starting points to work with! So please spread the word!

Either post your ideas as a comment on this post, or here on the Branding blog.

Thanks guys,

Rose

Just hit the motherload...!

2008-12-18T13:40:00.003Z

So I'm back in Hpool and apparently they've decided to throw out like half of their kids books and are selling them off at 10p...They have some amazing ones (which I now own >.>!) and the majority are in really good condition (don't think Hartlepudlian kids read very much >.>). I bought like 35 today, which was as much as I could carry so I'm probably gonna go back tommorrow to buy more. I was wondering if people wanted anything buying for them...like stuff that I wouldn't want for myself..Emil Gravett...Shirley Hughes...stuff like that? I can buy them and give them to people when we get back...they're just so cheeap...I'm also going to buy all of Asterix and tintin because they're selling those too...! -dies in a happy flourish of discount books-

http://deadmendontbite.blogspot.com/

And here are most of them (i couldn't find some of them online!)

More shameless advertising.

2008-12-16T23:16:00.002Z

I too nicked Jess's idea and am starting to draw every day, either doodles for new ideas for children's book or a diary type thing, just so I don't get so overwhelmed with my kids book at the moment and I get bored >__<
Here it is http://cheesespreadontoast.blogspot.com/ :D

Please check it out and follow if you want to.

Museum Collection - second visit

2008-12-15T20:06:00.003Z

Thanks Johan for coming along! There were only six of us in the end, but we made a good go of it.

We only had 2 hours this time but I tried to do more drawings. There were loads more items put out this time in the large 'Indiana Jones' room. Take a look at the new photos we got if you like here on Flikr.

I once again became seduced by the masks and the small African sculptures. I love how many ways a face can be depicted - great for characters!!

Here I have used some more interesting grounds for my drawings and tried using a fountain pen instead of my trusty fineliner.

Here are some other random sketches I did. I was trying to draw things I wouldn't usually draw - like cars and typography!

It was good to go a second time; I gave the camera to Alec, so I was able to draw more, ha! Next, though, I think it's off to the Henry Wellcome Collection in London for me.

Half Price Oliver Jeffers Books at Borders - unless you have them all already Guy!

2008-12-13T18:08:00.004Z

Hey childrens book people, especially Guy, it's 50% off Oliver Jeffers books - only online I think.

Click here if you don't believe me!

Rose

Museum Collection visit TOMORROW! meet 9:30am canteen

2008-12-10T17:20:00.007Z

Hello everyone!

Just a reminder that there is another opportunity to go to the Museum Collection tomorrow. We are meeting in the canteen at 9:30am and we have until 12 midday, so it wont eat to much time out of your day for working on dissertation presentations for Friday! Just think, it'll be time enough to produce some fodder for an artist book!

Oh, and Johan, I couldn't get hold of Louise to ask about the room upstairs, but I guess we'll find out tomorrow whether we can draw in there!

Hope to see you there guys,

Rose.

i was whacked, kicked and forced

2008-12-10T15:08:00.007Z

people who use image references from the internet, check this one, pretty useful site, type your subject and it will give pretty decent photograph. the site is www.corbis.com

ps: Chiu asked me to post this one even though I wanted to keep this on the low but i stand corrected

Check it!

2008-12-08T21:46:00.002Z

http://www.studioaka.co.uk/go/lostandfound/

Oliver Jeffers Lost and found book is bin made into a short animation, should be aired on channel 4 xmas eve. So he says anyway!

Screen shots look amazing!

G.

Russian dolls and more

2008-12-07T14:35:00.002Z

Evelyn, i remember you mentioned you bought a set of plain russian dolls to illustrate on?i think it was you? Have a look anyway.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://irtroit.com/images/0000/0289/japanese_perspective_blog.jpg&imgrefurl=http://irtroit.com/blog/archive/2008/5&usg=__g_4cxYosHBgOnHbazOgTWKmSCmw=&h=338&w=600&sz=66&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=rNSS8WxU0IiD-M:&tbnh=76&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djulia%2Bpott%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

She has some pretty amazing sketchbook stuff as well, that makes you slightly jealous lol

Presentations?

2008-12-05T18:49:00.001Z

Has anyone in Jonathan Day's group noticed if he's put up the presentation times yet? Just wondering when they are starting >.>...

Jess

Deadline?

2008-12-05T17:09:00.001Z

Does anyone know how long we have left on this project? Cant seem to find out from anyone.

Cheers Guy.

Photos of Photocopied Photos

2008-12-05T16:42:00.009Z

These are all obviously of the same collaged composition, but I found it interesting how changing the angle of the camera altered the look of it.

(first two are digital and the second two were taken on 110 film)

dioramaramas!

2008-12-05T16:16:00.001Z

Tuesday's collage lesson!

2008-12-04T23:09:00.006Z

Photocopy, Cut and Position!

L Filip dos santos...AMAZING

2008-12-04T20:08:00.003Z

Great sketchbook work!.......worth a look

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/sketchbooks/60328

cheers

Study.

2008-12-03T17:47:00.003Z

Just looking at other styles and Maurice Sendak and was quite pleased with how these turned out, I really like how he uses lines in the drawings and the layers to build up the fur on his creatures.

more... more... and more competitions

2008-12-01T12:37:00.001Z

check this out mateys:http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions

my kid's story

2008-11-28T19:51:00.002Z

I need a bit of feedback on this manuscript I've written for the text in my childrens book.. it's not finished yet, in fact I'm not sure how to end it! Any comments will be gladly recieved :)
Bear in mind there will be images telling half of the narrative if it sounds a little basic!

Pages 1 and 2. There is a forest at the bottom of my garden. It is haunted. It is not haunted by ghosts – ghosts do not exist. It is haunted by real horrors. I know this because I have seen them.

3 and 4. I have the best view of the forest from my bedroom window. At night when everyone is sleeping I sit on the windowsill and wait. When the moon rises, the forest horrors begin to stir.

5 and 6. Come on, I'll show you. I'm not scared. Are you?

7 and 8. Down through the garden, over the lawn, past the beans and cabbages, past Dad's potting shed and the greenhouse, past my old broken toys lying in a sad heap in the moonlight, under the elderberry tree and over the crumbling wall...

9 and 10. ...into the forest.

11 and 12. Ready? Stamp the ground! Shake the branches! Wade through brambles! SHOUT OUT LOUD to disturb the slumbering beasts!

Nothing.

13 and 14. Maybe I can wake the weed witch in the pond.

Still nothing!

15 and 16. Maybe they'll see my torch through the trees and come running.

Nope!

17 and 18. Looks like we'll have to come back another day.

Wait a minute...what's that noise?

19 and 20. What's that snuffling and scuffling? What's that dragging and rustling? What's that growling and groaning?
What's that...

21 and 22. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

That's it so far. Hope you're all a little scared, that's the idea!
Naomi

more AWARD

2008-11-26T14:36:00.001Z

check this V&A site :http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/illustration_awards/studentillustrator/2008-student/index.php

Children illustrators

2008-11-25T10:57:00.002Z

This illustrator works with all sorts of media. And pretty good at them all!

http://www.juliafriese.com/english/books24.html

Exhibition

2008-11-24T21:57:00.003Z

www.jibberingart.co.uk - Its a Street art illustrative based exhibition. Some of the characters are quite nice, but would be probably be a lot more impressive on a larger scale at the exhibition itself. Its on till the 26th so not long left.

la jetee

2008-11-24T00:07:00.004Z

hmm not sure if anyones interested in this... Narrative is created through the use of still images. its a different way of telling a story as a film which i thought was pretty cool!! i find stuff like this inspirational, even though im not directly doing this for my project work, it's a different way of looking at things.... check it out..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3RvmJan17q8

London

2008-11-20T18:55:00.002Z

London was interesting, and hard work!

I love the Illustration cupboard, once I'd found it XD I think I walked past it three times before I found it.

The V&A was good as well, they had this exhibit of the old small oval portraits that reminded me of Debbie's work, and had a small video tutorial on how they were made which was interesting.

I also got chatting to somebody on the tube, he asked what I was doing in London and I told him about the Illustration cupboard and what it was, he then asked me if I'd been watching that BBC documentary and I replied I'd been watching them on iplayer, he then pulled out a notepad with all these notes about children's Illustrators....it was rather odd, and I wish I'd been able to stay on the tube longer to talk to him.

I'm definitely going to go back again soon, this time be more prepared and find some other places to visit as well, but for a first experience it was good :)

let's feed ourselves

2008-11-19T13:36:00.007Z

yow dudes those who like to eat lines , check this www.micahlidberg.com and www.kaspuhl.com

and those who like black and white check this www.gregorisaavedra.com

childrens book people

2008-11-18T22:36:00.005Z

i know jess mentioned about bbc4 doing a bit of a picture book thing, well i watch it, and i just saw an advert for this tomorrow at 9. looks very good. :)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fm6vc (care of the magic link maker)

one of children book illustrator's paths

2008-11-18T16:03:00.003Z

i found it interesting to read that she actually prepare certain subject drawings for her portfolio and other stuff too
check this link http://www.phylliscahill.com/articles/selfpromo.html

What to do in London?

2008-11-18T13:46:00.001Z

I'm heading up to London on Thursday and was planning to hit the Illustration cupboard, was wondering what other places people visited when they went there, as I'm looking for more places to go.

Quentin Blake fans!

2008-11-17T19:35:00.001Z

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fm5p3/Mark_Lawson_Talks_To_Quentin_Blake/

I'm guessing BBC four is doing some sort of picture book season at the moment. I've not watched this yet but I'm sure it'll be interesting, even if you aren't a big blake fan!

Johan

2008-11-17T09:51:00.002Z

This ones just for you johan lol http://www.rspb.org.uk/ My dad introduced this one to me! It has images of every bird in england and is alphabetically catergorised-pretty good ay?

Helloooo....

2008-11-17T09:45:00.002Z

I found a site that might be of interest to those who want to venture their illustrations onto different objects. It has surrealist street art images, which work with different compositions,but also some mixed media: e.g working on wood and raw materials etc.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elgatochimney/page4/

illustration career tips

2008-11-16T19:15:00.003Z

Found a little bit on a blog, tips starting out as an illustrator. I know everyone's probably read loads of stuff like this before...but I guess some more won't hurt. Some of his insight is useful such as networking + marketing tips, and he also talks about ways to get inspiration when first tackling a brief, how to deal with clients etc.
Enjoy if ye will. LINK

naomi

Work Checks!

2008-11-16T12:05:00.002Z

Workchecks!

Tuesday 18th
Wednesday 19th
Tuesday 25th

make sure you check your emails for Work check schedule!!

Note: These are not tutorials! These are workchecks! Bring everything as though it were an assessment! notebooks, journals, finished images, etc.. organize the work so it's not in a mess!

Tuesday18th - work checks will begin after Debbie's workshop (12:00)
p.s. don't forget to bring a pound for Debbie!!

The Museum Collection - anyone want to go again?

2008-11-15T12:53:00.001Z

Hello,

Does anyone want to go to Museum Collection again? My boyfriend Alec is arranging to go with some of the animators but we need to get the group up to 10 people so that it is worth them opening up the building for us. Maybe it won't rain and snow on us this time! Julia from the Museum Collection will confirm a date with us when we know we have a big enough group.

Rose.

2008-11-14T16:53:00.003Z

I was just reading some stuff about randomness, and beauty being in the eye of the beholder, meaning art is produced by the one who perceives it... Well any way I came across this video by Sameul Beckett, and thought it was pretty amazing... :O)

2008-11-14T12:51:00.004Z

Thought I'd quickly post this link.

Its the second episode of the picture book series. Its amazing!! This episode is much better than the first. It actually explains a little bit about the media usage,lol.

Anyhow very interesting and very inspiring, watch it while painting that's what I did!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fh49n/Picture_Book_Now_We_Are_Six/

Guy.

2008-11-14T12:48:00.002Z

Hey there.

Just been scoping through illustration cupboards blog. Some of you may feel its worth a look.

http://illustrationcupboard.blogspot.com/

Cheers Guy.

Structuring E-mails

2008-11-14T11:52:00.002Z

I found a good website here with tips on structuring professional emails.

Hope this helps

Rose

Contacting Employers?

2008-11-13T14:16:00.001Z

Has anyone contacted any possible future employers? I'm starting today, but don't really know how to start of my emails.
I was just wondering what other people had put?

Professional Practice: self-promotion

2008-11-13T12:52:00.003Z

Hey guys,

I've scanned in a few pages from "The Fundamentals of Illustration" and made a pdf booklet on the Marketing and Self-Promotion section. It has really useful tips on how to get yourself noticed - specific to different areas of illustration - and some great examples of Illustrators' promotional pieces. I definitely recommend buying or borrowing "The Fundamentals of Illustration" by Lawrence Zeegan, I think there's a new edition out too.

Enjoy ! :)

Rose

Manchester Creative Futures by NOISEfestival.com

2008-11-11T23:42:00.004Z

This looks like a really good event to attend if you have 4-6 pieces of work you are proud of and have some questions to ask industry representatives.

CREATIVE FUTURES MANCHESTER
Meet leading Creative Industry professionals and companies

November 18 & 19
Manchester Town Hall
Albert Square

Portfolio reviews – ‘One to One’ sessions with NOISE curators – No nonsense career advice – Dream Job placements – Debates – Open acoustic stage – The Best of NOISE 2008 showcase – Live blogging – Media exposure

For details on who's going to be there and how to register click here.

Dr Sketchy's Burlesque life drawing evening

2008-11-11T16:38:00.003Z

Hey Debbie, here's the info about that life drawing event.

4pm to 7pm on Saturday 15th November 2008

at Island Bar, Suffolk Street, Birmingham

costs £7

Here's the MySpace page.

Here's a blog post from the Animation Forum West Midlands about the event.

hi guys have a look at this site for fumetto competition

2008-11-11T14:14:00.003Z

this is the link : http://www.fumetto.ch/07/international_e.cfm

check the competition exhibition link:

http://www.fumetto.ch/07/ausstellungen_e.cfm where you will find the 2007 winners

11/11/11

2008-11-10T16:29:00.002Z

elevenbus.co.uk

I was planning on joining in with this on tuesday, i think it will help me to start drawing in circumstances where I don't usually draw/feel uncomfortable doing so or am not bothered about doing so. It will also be interesting to see how others have recorded the same elements of the journey as myself, if they have seen different things, focused away from what i have focused on.

Picture Book Program

2008-11-09T22:41:00.001Z

My mom caught this on BBC 4 and recommended it...Apparently its got lots of interviews with illustrators like Lauren Child and Posy Simmonds and such...I'm just about to watch it now so I'll let you know if its any use but you should watch it whilst its still on iplayer!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fd164/Picture_Book_When_We_Were_Very_Young/

Another pieceish!

2008-11-07T09:55:00.003Z

This is another piece I did a couple of days ago. I'm happy with the image overall, but I know what needs to be changed. For example I'm happy with the composition, it only really needs tweaking a little and I believe the the colour's work well. I know that the general drawing quality isn't that great for example the all of the balloons are a bit lame.
Although I was working a on a fairly big scale I think I need to go a little bigger, as too get detail on the character in the balloon proved difficult. Gonna start a new one today I think, I think about sliding some text in there.
Anyhow thought I'd put some work up as it's been pretty dead with peoples works for a while.

Guy.

http://www.urbansketchers.com/

2008-10-29T23:19:00.002Z

Inspire you to sketch outside no end!! Charlotte, Jatinder!
http://www.urbansketchers.com/

Help at Manchester Book Fair

2008-10-29T21:21:00.000Z

Chiu asked who would be up for helping at the book fair manning the stall and such. I'd be up for it (though not sure you'll be that enthusiastic about that xP). Thought those who were interested could put something up on here...Hopefully I'll have some stuff made to sell...>.> Any idea about times and such?

Article on 'What are you like?'

2008-10-29T18:34:00.005Z

This is the article I mentioned that I've finally gotten around to posting >.>

saul steinberg

2008-10-25T23:59:00.002+01:00

can't remember who it was, but I know there must be some fans of steinberg amongst us - I for sure! Exhibition doesn't start until November the 26th, but worth the early post
http://www.saulsteinbergfoundation.org/news.html

BCU Greetings Card

2008-10-24T11:43:00.000+01:00

My crimbo card was one of three selected to be judged by the VC!! :-)

for Debbie

2008-10-23T18:27:00.005+01:00

This is what I thought of when I heard your "Shatter Face" idea.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Ivan Albright, 1943-4.

Also here is an example of a vanitas from the 18th century that I thought may help you.

Hope this helps,

Rose

folds

2008-10-23T18:14:00.002+01:00

thanks for the folding technique chui!!! its working much better for me!!

Creative Quarterly 14: Call for Entries

2008-10-22T00:28:00.002+01:00

You may be interested in this one too! Deadline is 31st of October, but can enter online!
- it does however cost $10 per image

http://www.cqjournal.com/callforentries.html

What Are You Like? Competition

2008-10-22T00:06:00.003+01:00

from that rather pompous character Quentin Blake and his babes (note all the other judges are women and probably groomed from his days at the rca - cack ) a competition which may interest you and quite a few. For if nothing else, it looks like jolly good fun!
more details: http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/competition.php

Symposium (What? That's a place where you have to talk to people?!)

2008-10-16T17:27:00.007+01:00

Here be the doodles I did too...I'll try and write like a synopsis for the people that didn't go since it was really useful/inspiring, especially for those interested in artist books (so I'm not sure what I was doing there >.>). Or at least post websites and stuff >.>.

What a trip

2008-10-16T16:04:00.006+01:00

I was going to write something about our little day at the Symposium, but that would be boring, and long. I realised all I'd done all day was draw crappy doodles in the book I was meant to be taking notes in. So I guess I'll just post them up and you can make your own deliberations about how the day went !! In fact between us all I think we could have filled an entire sketchbook.. This is what happens when you subject a room full of illustrators to a day-long lecture.

Watercolour How To

2008-10-14T21:51:00.003+01:00

One of the first you tube videos that I will be posting on techniques that are worth sitting up to!
Once you get past the cheesy intro and the la di da accent, then you can really understand how watercolour should be approached - and listen to how he focuses on shapes!!

and another lovely demo which I've never seen before in relation to stretching paper and its benefits for soft painting

Symposium

2008-10-10T21:29:00.002+01:00

Message from organizers - and Jess your email didn't get to me!

Dear all,
Here are a few details about the Independent Line Symposium.
The event will take place in the Summerfield Gallery at Pittville Studios, Albert Road,
Cheltenham Glos GL52 3JG

travel info:
http://www.glos.ac.uk/travel (click on pittville studios)

Car parking: If you are travelling by car there will not be enough room in the University car park so it will be better to park at the nearby free Cheltenham Racecourse Park and Ride car park, which is 3 mins walk away.
(well signposted "Racecourse; Park and Ride"
please note NOT the Arle Court park and ride)
We will let you have the running order and itinerary when you arrive.
The event starts at approximately 10am and ends approximately 5pm.

Please identify yourself and/or your institution at the glass doors leading into the Gallery, where you will be tallied with the guest list. You will only be on the list if you have received a confirmatory email from me: it may be an idea to print your email out and bring it with you.
People whose names or associates names are not on the list will not be allowed in!
The doors will be open at 9.45 where there will be tea and coffee available.

There will be a buffet lunch served in the Gallery following the awards presentations which will be at 12.30 approx.

BTW I'm thinking of taking the train myself as I don't really want to rely on George (he may be busy and not able to go)
I'm also afraid that six people is the max!

Inspiration for Artist Book people

2008-10-10T15:15:00.003+01:00

I came across a really useful search engine for Artist Books. You can search by artist, book type (e.g. accordion), technique, binding, subject or publisher.
Just a note to say, you need to enable pop-ups to use this site, as soon as you select something from the drop-down menus a new window will pop-up with the results.

Have fun!
http://content.otis.edu/collections/artistsbooks.htm

Rose

P.S. There are a few Graphic Novels lurking around in there too... and Zines

Illustration Symposium next Wednesday!

2008-10-10T11:58:00.002+01:00

Hello people,
I was just wondering if people who are planning to go to the Symposium next week have arranged how they are going to get there? I know you have Chiu! It's about £16 return (with a young persons card) on the train, unless anyone can drive that is?!
Rose

Anansi and Death

2008-10-10T00:35:00.004+01:00

beautiful interpretation:

it's one of the illustrators latest pieces and hence I believe was done for the figur future competition!
http://www.romybluemel.de/romybluemel.de/anansi_%26_death.html

Dissertation *sigh

2008-10-09T15:45:00.002+01:00

Just a small enquiry to all,
Is anyone else really stuck with an angle for their dissertation, more specifically how to link it with practical work?? I literally have no idea,
if anyone is doing better with this
let me know!!!
nay xxx

Publishers for children's books

2008-10-08T16:44:00.002+01:00

Little Tiger Press has a page about how to submit work to them http://www.littletigerpress.com/ (it doesn't have a direct link to the submissions page though) I was thinking of submitting work, when I have something more solid and that I'm happy with.

The DFC

2008-10-07T21:38:00.003+01:00

This was the new kids comic anthology I was talking about and here is the submissions page.

http://www.thedfc.co.uk/dfc-submissions/

Just to make it easier for you all...and so I don't forget!

Jess

Graphic novel people!

2008-10-07T18:28:00.002+01:00

I've set up a blog for the four (I think?) of us doing graphic novel type work, if you can comment with your email adresses I can add you as contributors! (Don't worry Chiu already sent you an invite)

It's called Ink soup and it is here

There's nothing there yet but I'm just scanning in the panels I bought in today to start stuff off.

Second hand?

2008-10-07T15:43:00.003+01:00

I went in to the second hand book store today by the Bullring and they have quite a lot of graphic novels for £3 each. Not all of them are great, but there could be a few gems in there if you wanted to look; some newer ones as well as older ones that were quite interesting to flick through (not all stuff like marvel comics although there was a few of them there). I picked up Calvin and Hobbes for £3..even if it smells a bit musty.

Stuff & Junk...

2008-09-30T15:42:00.002+01:00

Pretty inspiring day today i'd say..

(what kind of a sentence is that?!..)

Also, this is my Delicious

- delicious.com/happyasaimee

But if anyone would like to look at some of my work/ boost my numbers ;) ..

go to and add my myspace page.. Thanks :)

- myspace.com/happyasaimee