11: Experiment #6 - Christmas Shopping

I felt like I had to do a big piece after all those little drawings, so did this, which is more or less a picture of the Promenade in Cheltenham, using some of the techniques I was working on with the other drawings: 

It ended up being a Christmas picture, complete with snow! Which didn't actually happen. I had some fun making a collage of various bits and pieces I scavenged from the Christmas catalogues. I then cut this up again and re-arranged it, then photocopied it onto grey paper for the Cavendish House shop window displays. This was my one concession to breaking up correct perspective/representational drawing in this piece. The rest of the image is a conventional 'scene' albeit observed from a slightly higher viewpoint with grizzly looking shoppers shambling past with their shopping bags. 

This was quite a fun drawing to do and took me about an evening. I like the people and the shop displays, anyway, which combine a bit of collage, coloured paper and pen and ink with some painty bits. 

I stuck some text on this as if it were for a magazine article. It looks fairly horrible but I'm no layout expert. The title you'll agree is a masterpiece:

It could also be made into a really great Christmas card:

10: Experiment #5 - Retail Therapy

This experiment turned into an exercise in creating a drawing for editorial. It's not the most polished drawing but the idea is there - a crowded picture of shoppers employing some of the techniques - wonky angles, distorted scale, grisly characterisation and expressions and some bright garish colours:

I realised the empty space at the top - which I was struggling to fill - might allow me to put a magazine headline in!

The drawing is a bit grubby for editorial and needs cleaning up but there's the germ of an idea there:

9: Wednesday Workshop #4 - Adbusters Illustration

These were both generated in response to a series of quotes from Adbusters magazine collated by Fumio... ' teach my son how to use a gun' and 'time to be alone, space to move about, these are the great scarcities now'. These were supposed to lead to creating an image suitable for editorial in the Adbusters context. I mangled Goya: 

And did some shapeless bio-morphs:

This led to considering images designed to fit the editorial context.