I've worked in the games industry for Bullfrog/EA, illustrated books, magazines and newspapers (EMAP, Future
Publishing, IDG Media, Daily Telegraph, Oxford University Press).
Lifedrawing
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I love to draw caricatures. This woman resembled candle
wax, dripping onto the chair. I was always a little ashamed
and never let her look.
1: Not the sanest thought, agreed, but the combination of bodies,
toothy protrusions and some creature in the murky depths really
appealed. I like to just start sketching on a page, unawares of
what is going to develop. As soon as I start to think, "This
is good", "This is for a commission", or try to
take it somewhere in particular, the whole thing falls apart and
becomes stiff and amateur looking. It's like I can't draw. A lot
of my drawings involve trying to work out what it is I do when
I feel it's working. I know the theory, but it's difficult to
be consistent as it is a time not to think, when a thought itself
gets in the way. I can compare it to lucid dreaming. When you
try to direct the action the dream falls apart and you wake up.
With practice you stay in the dream longer, even direct what you
do, but you're not thinking in the ordinary sense. Like with my
drawings, a thought itself is enough to disturb whatever it is
you have entered into.
2: I liked the sketchiness of this style. Not one ink line, but
many, used like a pencil.
3: I liked most of the shapes. Also the pencil technique, where
there is some outlining with other details filled in or suggested
with midtones (especially the lower right hand "thing").
4: This is probably my favourite right now. Mouths with arms
and legs and other distorted body parts, veins and things sticking
out. Moving up, the cheery, Halloween type figures with holes
for eyes. I like the curved body at the top, with the multiple
teets and concentric rings of mouths.
5: Something about strappy lengths of flesh, with little creatures
or people peeping out.
6: The arms and legs theme again. I love the gaping maw and rolled
eyes.
