24 Hour Draw!

9th - 10th of October 09, 6pm till 6pm.

The Art Collective Gallery
Mill Street
The Old Quarter
St Peter Port
Guernsey

Come and watch as a selection of local Guernsey artists make art for 24 Hours straight! Finishing on the 3rd Old Quarter Night on Saturday the 10th of October, witness their descent into a pencilly madness for yourselves (and maybe even purchase an artwork or two). All drawings and art that you can see with your eyeballs will be purchasable. On top of any and all sponsorship, half of all sold drawings will go to charity (Cancer Research). The other half will be going to an arguably, slightly less worthy cause, us artists what will be drawing things.

To donate, please direct your attention to the link below this sentence:

http://www.justgiving.com/artcollectiveguernsey/

There will also be a live video stream of the event, plus drawings will also be scanned in and displayed, literally at the following address:

http://theartcollectiveguernsey.blogspot.com/

A recent commission for the Channel Island Stock Exchange, to go on a t-shirt and possibly some other stuff in the future. It's a sort of caricature of the Guernsey town sea front, with labels on specific companies/buildings that were sponsoring an event run by the CISX.

The Moustachioed Gent in 'Cannelloni'

Some 'test' panels for a comic I'm working on with my talented writer friend Rick Carter. He's a busy guy so it may be slow going, but it's something I intend to give a go.

Two portraits recently completed.

I bought some glasses

With my new glasses, not only do I look even sexier, I can now draw stuff at a distance in slightly more detail! I've heard worse reasons to drink.

I'm mostly done, it's tempting to try and emulate all that canvass texture without the usual Photoshop tricks (masochistic?), but I don't think I will. I may continue picking at that wall...bricks are a pain in the ass.

The beginnings of a Sargent study, about an hours worth. Will hopefully continue it tonight. Here's the original painting.

Plus a commissioned portrait I did recently.

Moar lifedrawing.

Woohoo, found a life drawing class!

Blogger.com ate my colours again, here is a slightly better version.

Okay, I'm probably abandoning this idea now, the composition just isn't working for me, this is a ruff, hack'n'slash visualisation of what I wanted to do with it, but like I said, not working. It's based on childhood fears, namely mine of deep depths and what lurks within (thanks Mum and Dad, for letting me watch Jaws and other such watery nightmares at a young age). It's a shame because drawing those rocks was Goddamned tedious. Oh well.

This is a quick sketch as an alternative, I think the composition is much stronger but I still want to include sea monsters in it, but at the moment there isn't any room. Hummm...

Something I'm working on, hopefully done by Monday at latest...

Idea for some kind of comic. The zombienaut is a character I've flirted with before, I feel that something can be done with him. I also just finished reading Time by Stephen Baxter, which I enjoyed thoroughly. Anyone who's read it will recognise something I swiped from that book.

Some illustrations from a recent commission. I would explain them but they're kinda boring and Guernsey specific.