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styledeficit bits and bobs
A home for odds and ends of drawings I do, or links and things I like the look of.
The illustrations here are ©Denise Wilton, but that doesn't mean I wont let you do something with them, if you ask me nicely.
If you want to see what I actually do for a living then Styledeficit, or Kaius Design will give you more info
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Just when you think everything is going ok… bam! It’s the end of the film roll, and the photo you thought you had gets all messed up. Humpf.
I finally finished illustrating the rhyme I started the other week. It was actually written a long time ago, when the internet was ruled by robots and monkeys. (Back in the day, kittens didn’t get a look in.) Click to see full size
quick packshot polaroid for Bunny Corp. Lighting seems fine. Ok to shoot the final one I guess.
(They’re updating a few things)
This weekend I couldn’t get on to the server to get the tile-files, so decided to work on something else instead. This is the first panel of a multi-parter, illustrating a rhyme I wrote ages ago. More panels to come, at some point.
New buildings added
I’ve been slowly working on this tile. Not for any reason, just that it’s nice to have something to be getting on with. Nice to have something on the go that you can add to when you can’t think of anything else to draw.
It’s also building up a library of buildings to potentially use on other things. This is something eboy do really well - and I do really badly. Eboy create whole buildings, and then re-arrange them into a layout. I create the layout and draw the buildings to fit.
The difference? If a building in one of my illustrations goes behind another building, then I don’t draw the bit that goes behind. I don’t usually have the time. Eboy would probably draw the whole building - partly because they have time (there’s 3 of them) - but also because they re-use buildings again in other pieces. It’s one of those infuriating time-saving things you can’t do, if you don’t have the time.
Anyway. On with this tile. I’ve added three new blocks (to the right, in the image below), but there are still some more to go, before turning it back into a proper tiling image again.
The plan is to create different buildings for each block - so no repeated blocks. Also to keep it all in a UK architectural style. It wont all be Victorian or Georgian, but I just fancied starting with that kind of thing. (Years of inspiration courtesy of a long London commute) It’ll probably be one whole piece in the end. Probably. But along the way, I’ll create working tiles.
I like tiling things. There’s something really satisfying about getting them to work.
Oh - and incase you were interested - I usually draw in some kind of ‘proper colour palette’. I just muck about with the colour at the end - so the sepia style tile was drawn in the colours above, and ‘post produced’ so to speak…
sxsw sketchnotes
really nice idea. Also makes it much more appealing to look back on and use later. I took notes in TextEdit, which I seem to use for everything at the moment. They don’t look pretty.
work in progress.