Another study of a boy. I’m spending a little time letting the river run it’s course and doing some ground work for a future project. I’m not expecting to begin work on it properly for a few years so I’m just planting a few seeds to let it grow subconsciously.
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This was created using Adobe Photoshop with a few custom brushes. The picture of the boy was from one of my favourite magazines… The absurb and eclectic Permanent Food.
I love checking out old sketches from old sketchbooks… I remember drawing things better than most other things.
I think this chap is from Baraka. He’s a macaque monkey from one of the early scenes in the steamy hot springs of Japan. I’ve never been so moved by so little motion. As he closes his eyes you can almost feel his spirit reaching out of his body… It sounds over the top but I still feel that, every time I see it.
Edith Piaf. This sketch reminds me of my days working on the phones for Severn Trent Water, and especially my Polish friend Ania who I met whilst working there. So many hours spent drawing and laughing. I still have a polish notebook that Ania’s Dad gave me in return for a portrait I made of him. I have very fond memories of that time.
I have so many sketches of random ideas for films or stories. I think this may have been drawn from a book though.
Chloe Sevigny is a very beautiful lady. She has an honesty in her gaze. I love her in Julien Donkey Boy.
My friend Garrick has an unhealthy obsession with Mickey Rourke, aka The Motorcycle Boy. He has hundreds of cuttings from magazines sourced from all around the world, he has rare film cards, bootleg documentaries and pretty much every moment of film that he has appeared in. As a consequence I have done many sketches of Mickey Rourke. When I was freelancing I would actually sell prints of these on Ebay… Times were hard.
This is a portrait of Philip Glass… His work has inspired me through many pairs of shoes and his track ‘Cue 2B (Piano)’ from the Candyman soundtrack is the main inspiration behind ‘A Seige of Colour‘. The idea for the film was originally a kind of visual interpretation of this piece but seems to have continually grown beyond the timings of the music and may need something original writing specifically for the film… Perhaps using this piece as a starting point.
Anyway… The image above was digitally painted in Adobe Photoshop using a couple of standard brushes and a Wacom graphics tablet, it took approximately 3 jugs of coffee from start to finish. The main reason for doing it was to take my mind off the visual treatment of the butterfly and completely focus it on something else… “Maybe I can’t see the wood for the trees” I mutter to myself. Well… I think I’ll start thinking about the butterfly again tomorrow, hopefully the back of my mind will have had some ideas.
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