Tell Me A Lie - Jones

I went on a small, relatively uneventful (though slightly interesting in a vague kinda way) journey with my thought process for this one. As always I started by looking at the lyrics and listening to the song on youtube. I loved the fairground theme and thought about doing a pic of a woman with a moustache, in a circus/freakshow way. But it seemed a little bit too straight forward and maybe a bit dull.

My next thought was based on Eddie Izzard's observations about toasters and showers sharing similar turn-y knobs that LIE. Was there an idea in that somewhere? Possibly, who knows? I didn't really commit enough time investigating it I'm afraid.

Time passed. The end of the month approached. Then I remembered I hadn't done a thing. Cue panic.

Having recently found myself truely inspired by the illustrative type of such artists/agencies as Alex Trochut, Seb Lester and Vasava, I wanted to harness that inspiration and take the opportunity to try and create a typographic illustration.

Tell Me A Lie?

"Honey, tell me 'honestly', does my bum look big in this?"

Here's the final piece. In all honesty, I'm a little disappointed with the finish, it certainly doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the artists name checked before, but there are some cool elements to it and overall it's not too bad considering the time I was able to spend on it!



Here's a scan of my initial sketch/layout, which I was actually pretty pleased with.

May 2009

The songs have been shuffled and this months task is:

Tell Me A Lie by The Fratelli's

Mine will be finished by the end of the week… Yeah, got into the spirit of this title already. Pencils, pens, paintbrushes at the ready. I'm off to check the lyrics.

Like A Stone – Gallusness

Hey chaps. Ok so a wee bit late but here is April's entry. Interestingly enough I chose to use some lyrics like Mr. Reeko. And interestingly enough they weren't a million miles away from the lines he chose. What I decided to do was to compose an image based on something to do with the following section:

'In your house, I long to be, room by room, patiently, i'll wait for you there, like a stone, i'll wait for you there, alone.'

'And on my death bed, i will prey, to the gods and the angels, like a pagan, to anyone who will take me to heaven, to a place, I would recall, I was there so long ago.'

Mega cheery stuff from me this month. Whilst doing this entry I've found myself doing some experimenting with the colouring and finishing. Some changes worked and some haven't, it's all about the development.

Oh and while doing the colouring up realised there is a touch of the Amy Winehouse about the lady. This was unintentional and its been bugging me ever since I noticed it.

Right, off to find us a new title and comment on your respective pieces. Dam you guys for being so good.