New Artist Website

I'm very excited! It's a new, shiny, professional, shiny, simple and shiny website hosted on Squarespace.com!

Please check out my new official page which will contain my growing portfolio and hopefully become an all inclusive port of call.

I'm super happy with the site so far, and if you are looking for a good domain for your own website, then I suggest you check out the Nerdpoker podcast, which lets you know the latest squarespace codes to get a discount.

Have a great day!

Dead Space Art

Forbidden Planet is one stop we always make whenever we are in London. This week I found the concept artwork hardback for Dead Space, which shows the character designs sheets as well as general designs for the game. Hints and tips for presentation in my own portfolio; although every commission will ask for different concepts, I figure why not base my own portfolio on artwork I am interested in already?
"the human body pushed to its limits, and instead of bending it breaks"...this is along the lines of the leading idea for the lucky artists in charge of conceiving the monsters of the game.

Pencil

"Die Orestie des Aischylos"

Dennis Scholl 

2012 (207 x 150 cms) 

 This work is one of two large scale pieces currently on show at the Visual Arts Gallery's drawing exhibition. Scholl seems to be composing a narrative within a single drawing, 

using very refined tonal qualities in his shading. There is a good use of balance across the form, which draws the eye in and around again and again.

This is something I can really take on board for my own compositions as I found that the A2 drawing became too overwhelming, I need to find a way of balancing the separate forms through shading, erasing and possibly embellishing the background shading, as Scholl as done here. Is that relevant to my subject, however? I don't think so, but I can incorporate this into some experimental drawings.

Seunghyun Lee's exciting adaptations of "The Creation of Adam" also resonates with my work...foliage transformed into humanoid limbs. Again large scale, playing minute details within grand compositions to offer a versatile close up and stood back engagement.

This is a common feature, along with drawings ability to spontaneously transform observed forms into new ideas.

These works, admittedly, give me mixed feelings. First, I'm a little deflated to find work seemingly similar to my own concepts, especially at such a advanced level from my own. Secondly, I am inspired, knowing the full extent that my ideas could reach, the potential. Thirdly, and most important is the power drawing truly has in artistic practice. Contemporary artwork needs more examples of this truly versatile medium in its gallery walls.