When I start to get really down about my work I like to make a quick montage of what I have done over the past year of so to see the slow progression that is happening. Helps out when you feel like you are not going anywhere and looking at the very first image and then the final image from my first year. Makes me wonder what the end of this year is going to look like. I hope It makes me look at the middle images like ‘the hell even is that’.
Peace
Hobbs
The final line up before the final pieces of the final project of the year. Well its been up and down, left to right but finally its over.
Not really much I can say about the project really but I guess I just need to work harder next time. At least I did better than the RHS project but that's not really saying much. Chasing firsts from the ends of seconds and there seems there is just not enough time. 5 marks short every time and even when I got them for one project it felt empty, it still felt like defeat.
Peak score 72. Every other score solid 65.
100 is a myth.
Peace
Hobbs
For as long as I can remember and maybe even before that I have been obsessed with the ideology of super heroes, or just the concept of a hero in general. I know I could never be strong enough to be one, I can save people from burning buildings. I cant fly or shoot lasers from my eyes, move at super speeds (or even regular speeds) so being super is off the books from the start.
I though of being a fireman when I was only 5 years old, then policemen and even a doctor but I struggle with my weight and I cant stand the sight of blood so they went out the window too. I couldn't be the everyday hero but I still had this urge to be one, the same as any old geeky little kid I suppose. So...
What can you do when your athletic abilities are that of a wounded turtle, your eyes require glasses, your ankles are weaker than jelly and you have every known allergy (not literal).
You write and draw comic books about the things you wish you could do of course. I think that’s my goal, I want to make a hero if I cant be one. Then maybe I could be a hero that way, not like save the world or protect the innocent but more of an everyday working class kinda hero. Who opens doors for people and stand on the train so the preggo woman can sit down (seriously fuck you for making her stand everyone else) and then by night I write about a bad ass who saves the world for the next generation to grow up with.
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Super Hobbs
Digital version
Highlights from my book work.... Most of my stuff is digital and awefull for this project so I may post it later....
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Hobbs
This is an example of his older work, before I was born even.
I love how bizarre the work is, it is full of charisma from the tip of his horn to the depth of the city hall. The composition is a lot like a profile for a portrait that you would do for someone but it’s of a dragon? Gecko? With a city on its back. I think it’s a wonderful piece of fantasy art and reminds me a lot of various surrealist paintings (none of which I can remember the name of…. Or the artist of). What really interests me about this painting though is the colour pallet, you can tell that the Gecko (that’s what I am calling him) is in a warm environment, and even the sky that’s blue has a warmer tint to it. The green of the Gecko skin and the orange city and inner scaling have a similar hue that allows them to work together an very cleverly Crilley has used the blue background to make the orange stand out and compliment the background at the same time. He has also made the subject of the drawing clear as the Gecko City has more colour in it and the background has less giving the illusion that its further back.
Now that I have talked about the colour and what I like about the image I can talk about the feel I get from it. It makes me happy and I could even say full of wonder but most of all it fills my imagination with humorous and bizarre realizations about the piece. You could interpreted the city to be tiny on the back of the Gecko or even thing the Gecko is huge. There are pterodactyls flying around it so I would say that he is much larger and the city is normal sized and that this is set in a place of early man and settlers but it’s obviously open to interpretation. Now I also think that because of the reds in the colour pallet that the gecko is in some kind of desert area where it’s very hot. I also think this because the buildings are made up of dry vegetation and of possibly sand stone? Although it could again be more vegetation and I am just looking too far into it. I enjoy surreal works like this from marks early days as an illustrator and painter. They fill my mind with such wearied questions.
Peace
Hobbs
Haven't done any work in almost 3 weeks, I may have drawn here or there but none of it I would use for class work or hand ins. Just been sitting around being a lazy piece of shillings and laying around just feeling sorry for myself. Class work is hard it seems that no matter what I do it just isn’t good enough for one reason or another and I have no idea what to do. (My blog seems to be getting increasingly depressing I must say). There are somewhere around 30 people on my course and possibly even less now from some people dropping out and 21 of them where given the opportunity to do an exhibition for the RHS and good on them cause I couldn't say they didn't deserve it, they worked hard and they made some great work.
My issue is that I left my foundation year feeling like I had stood up as someone with high quality work, even if i doubted it myself I was reassured that I was doing well. Now I feel like I am on the bottom of the pile with my grades steadily decreasing per project by around 15% or so. I just think that the way they did the RHS project was a bit out of order. It should have been the best of the best with some really had choices maybe only even picking the top 5 or 10, not choosing 90% of the class and making the others feel like ass holes.
I feel like I am coming across bitter that I wasnt picked or maybe trying to take away from those who got to show their work. I am sorry about that. I am under no illusion that I am some kind of gift to the arts or maybe better than people from my class. Thats a fools mindset. I just think that... I dont even know what I think because personally I feel like I didnt deserve to be in the show and those picked did, but at the same time having someone show you that your worries are indeed something to worry about (if that makes any sense at all). We all worked hard and we all did our best so I think that it should have been everyone or just a few.
I talked to a lot of different people about this and they all seemed to agree with me so I do not think I am crazy (ish). Now everyone in the class gets to write on their CV that they had an exhibition in their first year of university for the Royal something or others flower show (not trying to be mean I forgot the name) and mine remains blank (for art anyway).
Ballpoint pen sketches
Feel pretty tired after work, so can only do these in the evening +A+
Wow....
Phoooooooooooooooooooooooootoshop
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Hobbs
Work in progress. I need to neaten up some of the cuts and lines, as well as add the rest of the pages aha.
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Hobbs
ISNT THIS JUST FANTASTIC????? wow.
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Hobbs
MORE COMPOSITIONS AND OVERLAY TRANSMUTATIONCIRCLES!!!
FMA for life
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Hobbs
More stuff I am using for my Dnd group, been making a lot of visual aids and props for the guys. Get them really invested in things.
Just some fancy text and some shape tools mixed in with some reference from fma transmutation circles. Not gunna call this a drawn piece by me as there was very little its all composition really.
Peace
Hobbs
I drew this lil fella today when I had a spare 5 mins, His name is Teemo and he is from League of legends, He also goes by the mushroom fairy, Satan and C**t. No one likes Teemo you fluffy little over powered git.
RIP very Noob ever.
Peace
Hobbs
(my hatred for him burns like fire!! look at his smug face! he is guilty! guilty I say guilty!)
Now that the work aspect of my blog has finished, I CAN FINALLY POST MY CRAZYNESS AND NOT BE JUDGED (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA).
PS Kell dont add this to my mark ;P, well it would more than likely be a minus aha.
PEACE
The Real Hobbs
(and The Real Inner Hobbs)
Before Thursday’s hand in date, you need to create a summary post which answers the following questions
1. During the Illustration Fundamentals module we had 3 guest speakers; Richie Beckett, Emma Levey and Andy Robert Davies. What advice/informationfrom their talk will you remember and use during your Illustration career?
From Richie I learned that there are people like me who got into art a bit later and still get the job done and can be in demand. Its nice to know that other people have been through what I have and have made it. So I just have to work hard.
ARD showed me that there are tones of ways to get your work out there and you can put your work on virtually anything. If you print on a verity of products you can charge more for the write to that image. So what stood out the most is the knowledge that he bestowed on me (why use that word?) about the money side of illustration.
Emma showed me that if your cooky and passionate about something you can make it into a good story. She just knew she liked chickens and had some childhood experience into a lovely childrens book. You have to draw on what you know to make things believable as a story.
2. You’ve been running your blog for almost 6 months. What do think makes a great blog and why?
I think being honest about what you think and posting what you think your good work is and explain why you think that work is good or bad. I have been selective with the work that I have posted so that when I have something to say about it then its for good reason. there is no point in posting an image that we can all see is bad work and then just saying its bad work. I think it is a better idea to post work that maybe I think is good and others may not and justify why or possibly work that is the other way around (good work that is explained to be bad). I have also made sure to post links of interest so its not just about me. spreading the love for others is a good way to help other blogers and the community is what gets your work out there. SO be positive be nice and post what is right for you.
3. What has been your highlight of the year so far? This could be your favorite lesson, discovery of a new technique, guest speaker, etc. Why?
If I am being 100% legit I am unsure as to what the best part of my year has been as I have not been feeling to good about my works as of late. My work seems to feel less and less like professional standard and the last project that I did the comments from the client where not ideal. So at the moment its not looking so hot.
I have been working hard as always and slowly getting better (maybe) and now this brief is coming to an end. I am a little sad to see the blog go but I won’t lose any sleep over it, in fact I will probably get more. As this brief ends a new one starts and the words use ‘your own style’ have turned up in it.......
I dont have one and if I did after the RHS I am done with it, I wasnt fond of it anyway it was just a style others though was nice and now the gimmick has run out. So now I have no idea what to do....(at all....ever.).
The brief is asking for professional looking work and if my work was professional looking why would I be doing the course? lately I feel distant from my work, it feels increasingly poor as days go by. Perhaps it isnt that my work is bad, maybe it is that everyone else is so good and I am unsure which would make me feel better. I think I will feel better after my student finance is sorted (because yet again they have given me the short end of the stick).
I have learned so much from my projects and I think I know what the problem is now. I am in such a rich environment filled with wonderful work, from other students and visiting artists even my own research. My perception of what is ‘good’ has accelerated past my skill level and its almost painful.
I will be better. Not just for me. But because of the people who gave me a chance at this and have taught me everything I know. Mark, Neil (as well as the rest of foundation) and now Kelly (the newest edition) too.
Hope I do you guys proud one day.
Signing off.
Hobbs
