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| (2B pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard) |
Another piece based on those old comic-book adverts.
The more disturbing the item these adverts seem to sell, the more likely they were bought by equally disturbed kids. Joke and novelty companies were the main culprits of such dubious prank products, but they knew their market well.
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| (0.18 technical pen and HB pencil on off-cut card) |
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| (0.18 Technical Pen & HB pencil on 110mm x 30mm card) |
It's not often I copy anything, especially my own work. It's not something you do with Skav Art. But with this, I wanted to try something out...
The actual Skav Art piece with these two is the top bookmark. That was done with a 0.18 technical pen that had the same diluted ink in it I used with the previous bookmarks I did. It's rough and ready, and has the raw, creative energy of a decent Skav Art work, and so is my favourite of the two. For example, I was going to put a tail on the third rear, but changed my mind at the last moment. Instead, I had the face of a caver poking out of her arse, as if he'd taken a wrong turn! That's the way a good Skav Art piece can be.
The one below it was a freehand copy done with a HB pencil. It may look neater, but it's not as good as the first, and so not really a Skav Art work. For one thing, it's a copy of the first, which rules it out from the start, and another is that it contains differences and refinements. In other words, that dreaded "process" was creeping in. The differences are small, but they are there. It proved to me that if I had taken the idea further, it may have totally eroded the original, losing much of its creative energy and ended up a lesser thing.
So it was good to do, even if it was to prove to myself what the negative effects of unintentional processes can do. It just means that I now have two artworks with the same title!
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| (2B pencil on 100mm x 80mm paper) |
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| (Fineliner on 115mm x 87mm paper) |
A grumpy dwarf wizard, travelling with his feathery familiar.
This piece was done to try out some cheap gel fineliner pens I'd just bought, and they seem to work quite well, giving a good line and a decent opaque finish to the black areas. Not bad considering they're 3 for £1!
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| (2B pencil on 120mm x 105mm paper) |
This one turned out to be a good example of a Skav Art piece. It started out as a simple doodle which was worked on to a more finished level. And, like other Skav Art works I've done, it holds out that possibility of being something more. That I could use it as a base to create a more processed and pristine piece. The danger there, though, is that it would lose that raw creative energy that it has. Putting an initial idea through that design process, chopping and changing along the way, tends to do that. You end up with something which is muted, hammered away by further process.
This is what Skav Art rejects as it focuses more on that first raw idea.
TECHFERNUM is a word which describes a hellish reality of out of control technology which torments and degrades humanity more than it does aid it. The image above depicts an insane techfernum sorcerer, harnessing "magic" he clearly doesn't understand.
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| (HB Pencil on 120mm x 90mm paper) |
For the artwork and story for this year's Christmas card, I've focused on a hapless stand-up comedian, and how not believing in fairies can be very bad for your health!
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| (2B pencil on 132mm x 86mm paper) |
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| (0.18 technical pen on card) |
Cleaning out an old technical pen, I decided to use the diluted ink that remained to do a couple of small bookmarks on off-cut pieces of card I had. Each measures roughly 11 cm in height and, even they're basic images, they took a while to do with diluted ink in a 0.18 technical pen!
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| Fighting Fantasy Spoof: Page VIII |
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| (2B pencil on 134mm x 100mm paper) |
This would be the last page of the Fighting Fantasy spoof that I'm doing, but I've decided to add one more page to it before finishing with it completely.
