Change of plan again!!!

I have changed my mind for the last time. Promise!!!
What I am now experimenting with is...
Working towards an animation or comic strip aimed at young adults.  The plan is to humour people. The comic/animation will be about what it is to be a young person today and the funny situations you can find yourself in.  The plan is... that there will be three main characters, based on people I know, who have very exaggerated mannerisms.  These three characters will basically be living out 'everyday life' in a crazy world I create that will be based on real life and experiences yet, again, exaggerated and extended upon.  I hope to create quirky, loveable characters who have hilarious conversations and experiences.

Leonid Afremov

I love this artists oil paintings because of how the colours seem to fit together with ease despite how busy and messy the paintings could potentially look. The subject of a lot of his paintings is usually romantic and he often paints a couple visibly in love.

Kenn Nesbitt

A possible project idea is to write and illustrate poems for children. I am inspired by Kenn Nesbitt's work as he writes funny poems in particular and they are fun to read at any age. They are usually very surreal.


My Hamster Has a Skateboard
A Funny Hamster Poem for Kids

My hamster has a skateboard.
When he rides it, though, he falls.
He takes off like a maniac
and crashes into walls.

He screams, "Geronimo!"
and then goes crashing down the stairs.
He's good at knocking tables down
and slamming into chairs.

He'll slalom through the living room
and then you'll hear a, "Splat!"
which means that he's collided with
my mother or the cat.

He plows right into cabinets,
and smashes into doors,
I think he's wrecked on every bed
and every chest of drawers.

It's fun to watch him ride
because you're sure to hear a smash.
He doesn't skate so well but, boy,
he sure knows how to crash.
--Kenn Nesbitt




Useful site: http://www.poetry4kids.com/

Inspiration

Emily Carew Woodward.

I like her work because there is a good contrast between detail and simplicity.  Also it is very surreal so opens your imagination. She has an interesting use of colour. She doesn't seem to use bright colours very much and some her work reminds me of using tea stain. I'm not sure if she does or not.

Poemsss????

When I was young....'very young' of course. I used to read this and I loved it...
This is the sort of thing I am interested in experimenting with for my second year project. I like the idea of using or writing poems to illustrate as I feel they might stick in the readers mind more.

I like dis illustrator

http://www.victoria-ball.co.uk/

Victoria Ball - Childrens Illustration

Victoria Ball - Childrens Illustration

I am inspired by this Illustrators work as her work is very sweet and colourful. She does a lot of childrens Illustrations and also editorial.
Her clients include Usborne, Little Tiger Press, Caterpillar Books, Sholastic, Hallmark and more...

Christmas Pudding Sophie Bishop



Barbie Chillin' at the shop Sophie Bishop



What poor Barbie has to face on Christmas Day Sophie Bishop

Ideas

Ideas





Cambridge Christmas Lights



Lovebirds Sophie Bishop

Trevor (observational drawing, animals) Sophie Bishop

Changing direction. A new idea! Again...

Christmas project out the way and now thinking about second year project...

I am trying to think about what I'd really like to do for my second year project. So far I have come up with something completely different to what I was leaning towards..

I am going to experiment with the idea of writing and Illustrating short stories for children, possibly poems, from the perspective of a couple of young animals at different times of year..

Right so... think.. a couple of kittens playing with xmas decorations and running around like crazy on Christmas day for example.

All of this has basically come from the fact that, over the Christmas project, I came up with this poem..

There were two little kittens
named Whiskers and Mittens
who loved nothing more but to play.
And at this time of year
it's ever so clear
that it's most fun on Christmas Day.
There's fairy lights, tinsel a magical tree!
Mince pies, what else can you see?
- Sophie Bishop

It's unfinished but you get the point. I'm just trying to work out whether I want to carry on with this idea or not.

Anyway, going to upload my latest creations which are products of the Christmas project and notes/drawings leading in the direction of this idea, yeah cjf9dndjskdklsks. Enjoy!