Underwater Love - Jones

Hello guys and girl. No computers eh? What sort of plonker was I deciding on that rule?! Talk about shooting myself in the foot?

Actually, no, I enjoyed the chance to get back to basics and do some sketching. And having been ridiculously busy with lots of huge Photoshop files this last 2 weeks I've been able to use the 'saving and opening' times to construct my IST response.

There's no blue either. No colours in fact, all just a sketchathon. Hope you like. I think Ariel is enjoying it! ;)

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Love, schmove...

What's so great about pencils, hmmm??! Why can't I just use my trusty Adobe programs? James, I blame you. See below:

Underwater Love – Gallusness

This month has been an interesting one. The enforced limitation only added to the fun. The title didn't grab me straight away and there was a fair bit of humming and hawing. Away from IST I've started a new full time design role which has been my priority and keeping me busy. My entry has taken a back seat until a few days ago. It's been sketched out over a couple of train commutes and then inked up properly when I was happy with the scale and composition.

Subject wise I wanted to depict an unconventional love, as I'm guessing the fact that is underwater in the first place is adds to that. My head took me to drawing a worm and a hook and I guess I was amused by it being wrong and right in a number of ways. I guess love can be a strange beast and that's what I was hoping to show in a slightly tongue in cheek way.

In terms of finish the limitation was good in that I didn't overly worry about getting it totally right and slick. It was much quicker to do and it's certainly a million miles away from what I'd have done with the use of a computer, so I guess in that sense the limitation worked.

I had intended to add some bubbles (in the shape of love hearts) to help give it more context, but just plain forgot so yeah oooops. An interesting month really, I'll await the other posts, have a mull over a limitation and of course get ready to have a shuffle – hmmm.

Underwater Love – Reeko

So, this has been a good challenge! I've enjoyed the limitations of "No computers". I've found it very liberating. No retouching, no stress, what my hand does with the brush pen is final. I even refrained from colour or contrast adjustments after scanning.

We are currently in the process of emigrating to Athens, Greece. I had big plans for this month but ended up packing the paints before I'd had time to do the artwork! So I turned to my tiny moleskine and switched my idea into a little series of images. When drawing in my sketchbook I often represent my ideas in a more abstract way. I then work up the idea, playing with composition and gathering reference to make the final artwork.

This little story is about a sailor being rescued by mermaids who, for some reason, need to enter from the surface of the water!

Ok, roll on the next month and the next limitation!

(Trying not to look at all the flaws I could fix so easily in Photoshop! Trying not to look at the...etc etc)

New Title - August

Haha, just shuffled and the title is:

Underwater Love, by Smoke City (from the Thicker Than Water soundtrack amongst other things).

Here we go!

Charlie – Reeko

"So much more than Charlie's waking me

To my core and Charlie's shaking me "

Oh... Charlie!