So this is the idea – to make a Marvel version of the Dark Knight Rises group I made just over a year ago. Exactly who will end in this group is yet to be decided – I already have made an image of Thor but whether I can fit him together with Capt. America is another question. It will also act as some form of marker to indicate how my work has changed, (improved?) over the last 12 months.
A fool thinks himself wise but a wise man thinks himself to be a fool…
So here is the man of the moment – Captain America viewing the world below from his lofty perch. I actually enjoyed the simplicity of all this – even if I didn’t enjoy the fumes from the sharpie pens, I guess there is a reason why I never took up glue sniffing. It isn’t as polished as the modern comic books but I think harks back to the comic magazine of my youth when the graphics were drawn by hand on paper rather than computer. In fact that has just given me an idea so expect some more superhero nonsense over the next day or so.
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This morning I’ve been sitting in the cafe of my local supermarket enjoying a nice cup of coffee whilst sketching out a superhero . There are worst ways to spend your time
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There is something about the comic book world that is strangely attractive.
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We all have them but today is not one of my best. It was the next phase of the root canal surgery and I’m feeling sorry for myself. Whilst waiting for the anaesthetic to set the dental assistant asked me what my favourite iPhone app was. After a bit of head scratching I said KitCam and I then proceeded to show her how the app worked. Whilst doing this I found a new function called Split which allows you to mirror the image along the split – this photo was made using that function whilst waiting and I think it is really quite interesting.
So perhaps today won’t be too bad after all especially when the rain arrives this afternoon to clear aware all the pollution that has blown in from Western Europe – what has Europe ever done for us??!! Only it turns out that we are pretty bad at creating our own pollution and that the pollution from Europe isn’t as bad as our own which if we had meet the E.U. standards then a lot of the problems we have today wouldn’t have happened – dam Europe interfering in our right to poison our own population – guess that won’t be the headline in the Daily Mail. Anyway the long and short of it is that my asthma is playing up today as well. Perhaps tomorrow will be better – I do hope so.
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Yes that is exactly the chapter heading says and I suspect it also says a lot about the cultural differences between Japan and the west. However, leaving any cultural and gender politics aside it is fascinating to see how the human form can be broken down into very simplified shapes and then how those shapes can then be worked up into quite complicated drawings – this is not one of them. So later on in the chapter you get drawings such as ‘A Girl and her Tyrannosaurus’ or ‘Valley Girl in Japan’ which are highly stylised yet really quite complicated drawings. I am particularly interested in the limited palette used which I suspect is so that these drawings are easy to print.
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I’ve had this how to draw manga book for a while so this afternoon I decided to have a look inside. Fascinating.
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The more I look into the idea of 10 years the more it falls apart. Two of these images were captured in the 1980’s on Kodachrome 64, scanned into the computer in 2000 and finally remastered in 2014. Now really is the winter of my discontent.
I have a number of ideas running around in my head at the moment – one of them is 10 years. This is a project that will look at my digital photographic career. Only problem is I have been making digital photographs for longer than 10 years…this for example was captured in 2003 but remastered in 2014. Still contradictions are all part of the human condition.
So here I go again day two of my teach myself to paint lesson…I am trying to take my time and don’t rush things – lets see if I have that amount of discipline – I’m not that sure myself.
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