DOZING OFF

 

(HB pencil on 115mm x 80mm paper)

A dreamscape piece which seems to focus more on the dream construct around the the character who appears to be dropping off to sleep. Everything takes a fluid, and metamorphic, aspect before a dream finally takes shape.

Point In Time : THE DANCE OF THE DARK WITCH

(HB pencil on a 125mm x 79mm till receipt)

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Point in time works tend to be mostly self-portraits by artists. Usually, a significant moment in their lives which they wish to capture. With this point in time work, I chose to do a dreamscape piece on the back of a till receipt. After all, they measure an exact point in time in where you were and what you were doing. If you look closely on the right, you'll see that it's a Poundland one. Drawing on till receipts is all very well, but they do tend to cook a bit in the laminator, darkening the printed side, but it turned out well.

And, just in case you were wondering what I was buying from Poundland, ironically, it was a couple of sketchbooks.

Screaming Soul

(HB pencil on 182mm x 129mm card

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With this particular dreamscape piece, I did something a little different. I started with a simple sketch of a screaming face and worked around it to produce the work above. The image itself is slightly wider, with the screaming face being more central. I wanted it to be more complementary to the distorted female figure which developed during the Rorschaching stage, so I cropped the image with photo-editing software.

Waiting For Something To Happen

 

(H pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard)

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A dreanscape work completed with a H grade pencil. The woman appeared early on in the Rorschaching stage, but the rest of the image remained dream construct.

Dreamscape Calling Cards

 

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The images above are five examples of the quick works I mostly do, but usually dismiss, in between other pieces. They're basic in their subject matter and are usually smaller than other works (which are small in themselves). I decided that, instead of wasting them, I'd draw them on 80mm x 50mm paper and card, laminate them, and give them to anyone I meet who asks for an example of my work. A sort of sample art calling card I can hand out.

Little time is spent on them. In the case of these dreamscape examples, they're no different to the tutorial speed tests I did. None of them takes me more than 30 minutes to do. Usually a lot less.

The Wizard's Cloak

(B grade pencil on 125mm x 75mm notecard)

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With this dreamscape image, there were fewer highlighted areas to it, with the rest shaded into the background as dream construct.

They were curious choices to make, considering all the other shaded forms, but that simple central focal-point of the floating piece of paper does seem to balance the kneeling figure on the right quite well, so little else was needed.

Hello & Goodbye

(HB pencil on a 139mm x 89mm postcard)

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These dreamscape pieces do tend to become very chaotic in nature. I have no control over that as I build up the shading and the imagery is revealed. The title was obviously taken from the words and symbols which I added at the end. Before that, I was thinking of a title based around the head in the bottom right hand corner which looks as if it's being inflated (or deflated), causing this mass of object memories to be sucked out of it. "The Final Download" being one which I was considering. But I liked "Hello & Goodbye" more.

FAP 4 MCAW

(Black biro on a 139mm x 89mm postcard)

I was going to call this piece "bloodlines" due to the darker area within it, but as I shaded and over-shaded it, using the same techniques as in previous works, I found that the lettering in the bottom left began to take shape. It meant that it could have no other title, so I highlighted those words. But those bloodline areas themselves do help to break up the chaotic nature of it and give it more shape.