UPDATE: Diary of a Lost Near-Graduate

Without university to schedule your world for you adapting to the real world is like a hard kick up the butt. Fortunately I have one unit to wean me off my academic overlords, but its still taking some time to get useful. The lack of graduate jobs has really hit my friends hard and I understand where they are coming from now. It just takes so much time to scramble grant applications and other work orders together.

And I have a new donga.

If you don't know what a donga is, it is a brilliant, beautiful thing of cheap Australian construction.

So between moving, overcoming a small bout of dodgy diet induced fatigue, realising how much paper work eats your life and learning how to economically get out of bed in the morning, things are going ok.

But more to come on that later. A couple things are in the pipeline as prep. for the second half of this year. Should be a riot.

Two Tips from Melbourne Streets

Notebook 003: Misc. Writing Exercises

Sketchbook 013: Equine Collage Studies

Sketchbook 006: Misc Exhibition Sketches and Notes

RHS Style and Development Sketches

When working with a new text deciding on an illustration style can be a challenge.

Below are some of my experiments with loose movement and anatomy sketches, colour samples and more resigned drawings on found wrapping paper. The aim was to compare and contrast each style and its variations to see which would be suit my new text. 

Removal of the horse anatomy to show the geometric pattern beneath. 

A sample of the recycled wrapping paper that I drew on. I got this from the New Edition Bookshop (Fremantle)when I bought a novel - they were nice enough to gift wrap the book for me. 

A study of how geometric shapes and tone can interact with the horse's anatomy. 

Coloured biro experiment on scrap tea toned water colour paper. 

Another coloured biro experiment on scrap tea toned water colour paper

Ink pen movement studies of Mr Charisma and Targets Only. 

More ink pen movement studies of Mr Charisma and Targets Only. 

Graphite study on scrap tea toned water colour paper. 

Another graphite study on scrap tea toned paper.
A Staedler oil pencil was used to add the white highlights. 

Composition study in ink pen and biro. 

Movement composition study in ink pen. 

Paint Student Studios Sem. 1 2014

I photographed some of the painting students' studios to prove to my mum/collegians that my room is not actually as much of a 'bomb' as they claim it to be, nor is it comparatively an excessive fire/fume risk. 

ie. I do not have a tent on my roof OR a TV bone yard next to my desk. 

It is full of boxed books and smells of ink. 

This is not a bad thing.