Three kimono studies from my sketchbook.
Category: Fashion illustration
Poppy Witch
This Piece has been languishing in the digital equivalent of a dusty draw for about year after the client.. ahem..’changed their mind’ I think that’s the polite way of putting it.
So, I’ve dug her out and given her a bit of a re-model and a re-colour with something of a Roger Dean inspired pallet.
I think she deserves to see the light of day after everything she went through.
The Moon Revisited
Adrian Carter Sheffield based audio wizard has done just an amazing remix/revision/total overhaul (part of the Sheffield Year of Making) of my sound piece that accompanied the buried moon film.
He’s taken what was simply a bare bones audio track of me reading the folk tale and turned it into an ambient bit of magic that unfolds beautifully to colour the world around the tale.
Its simply so fantastic that I felt it deserves a visual revisit of the work to match.
Here’s the site https://meetyourmakersite.wordpress.com/
Here’s the bandcamp https://adicarter.bandcamp.com/album/meet-your-makers
Here’s the prep sketch for the work in progress straight from my sketch book:
Work in progress: The Unread Letter.
Work in progress for my current illustration commission for a novella called ‘The Unread Letter’. It has a Gothic Poe-ish feel to the prose and content.
Portfolio Reviewing 2, Salome look 4.
This is a fashion illustration for one of the garments I designed for Oscar Wilde’s 1894 play ‘Salome’.
This piece was designed for the moment Salome receives the baptists head, I conceived it as a symbolic joining of the two characters; (much of the play concerns Salome trying to seduce the baptist, and threatening him that she will eventuality have him despite his rejection of her). So here the baptists head has actually become part of Salome’s garment, and ultimately part of her.
Although I never got to make the final garment, (I actually made another look for the play) I toiled it extensively and it would have been a digital print on a lycra or power mesh then hand embellished.
Amusingly despite this being a illustration of a design for a garment, (it shows no nudity and the violence content is questionable) it got me temporary ban and a warning off facebook. I personally think somebody had a problem with the suggestion of menstrual blood.
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all” Oscar Wilde
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