“Their souls really won’t be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.”

Perhaps slightly inebriated isn’t the time to be attempting complicated portraits but I reckon this one’s come out okay, if a wee bit suave.

Should really be working on my actual work projects but I’m enojying my little ‘stag’ project too much. Which is basically drawings of all of my friends, especially those I need to keep in touch with. In real life it’s all in a booklet, which I think makes it look better. Although remember not to draw on both sides of thin paper kids. It’s not worth it.

And now TO BED.

A new project I’m starting for myself…

Well it’s not really a doodle if it takes over 2 minutes I think, but never mind…

The next three are definitely Catcher In The Rye related. I’m trying to make a little book of observational drawings related to the text. The woman on the train didn’t enjoy being drawn, but sometimes art’s painful eh?

Back on the posting now I’ve got everything working again (Leopard killed my computer so I had to wipe everything and reinstall in case you’re interested).

Done loads of doodles and little pics over the last little while. Some are related to our ‘sequence’ project, which I’m doing from Catcher In The Rye, hence some Holden Caulfield biznizz:

I haven’t been on the internet for a while but finally I can breathe again. I’ve been continuing work on the Duchess logo and poster and I’m pretty pleased with the results.

These were a couple of my more refined efforts after the last batch, slightly closer to Sara’s vision.

I actually initially preferred the lower one, having got the idea of illuminated letters in my head, but we settled on a better version of the top one and it came out like this…

Then came the poster, which Sara had a pretty precise brief for so it was easy to get on with.

And the flyer back.

And finally a couple of sketches…

Otherwise, been trying to take interesting photos for our photography elective in vain. Feeling a bit of a lack of inspiration which is eating away at my enthusiasm, or maybe it’s the other way round. I’ll post if anything interesting happens.

Right, so I’m currently trying to design a logo for a play called The Duchess. Ritual, masks and a jarring displacement from reality in some way seem to be the strongest themes/things to think about that translate visually and after some doodles this was my first effort. It was designed to be on its side, but I prefer it vertically and you can read the text anyhoo:

However it’s not a logo and I basically got carried away playing on Photoshop to make a real face into a mask. It was fun though. Here are my latest efforts which are hopefully a bit more on target. I’m finding it hard to get the title into the logo, which has to be visually legible even when small. I’m a fan of the ‘D’ on the beginning of the second page and the very last one. However it’s not my vision so I’ll have to wait and see what the response is.

As it turns out this illustration for other people malarkey is mighty fun. I might make a crust after all…random hand time.

Night Night x

For Sara:

Just the very rough ideas I’ve been doodling. Let me know what you like and what you don’t…

A few ideas for t-shirts or something…