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\nDrawn from a photo I took of a bike racer friend. Features are a little over-pronounced.
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\nMy first use of color. I started with the slogans in the top left, then did the thick black borders and gradually doodled in the rest while listening to the band Xiu Xiu, mixing lyrics with my own thoughts. It was all mainly stream-of-conciousness. I was going to use green and yellow for the bottom and sun, respectively, but found the green clashed and the yellow weak, so stuck with black and red. The red marker was cheap and dried and left a kind of waxy, half-faded line, so I tried to work with that to create the texture around the hand. I also had this urge for verticality in the bottom right. The sun and gavel (bottom left) seemed out of place by the end.
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\nI wanted to try working with negative space to define an object. I didn’t challange myself enough, though: I traced my hand and used a ruler to outline the grid. Filled in with a black marker.
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\nI’m writing an article about being a squash zombie. Top left is a drawing of a photograph of myself (I had previously worked the contrast and levels on the photo to look like a two-tone stencil). Next to that is a drawing of an illustration from the film Shaun of the Dead. Drawing an actual zombie was difficult, so I tried posing an artist’s wooden figure in lumbering, half-dead posture, and will try and work that into a figure of myself, with blood and drool and bits of brain on my lips, of course. That’s the plan anyways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"