Living Backwards - Jones

Ok, new job is going well thanks. But working on an IST entry in work time is now a DEFINITE NO NO. So having to stay late tonight and watch an important document print out has given chance to knock up my entry quickly.

The inspiration for this was a godsend. Harry Pearce, partner in design heavyweights Pentagram, came to Plymouth to give a lecture last week, which I attended. One of the famous pieces in his impressive folio is a book called 'Conundrums' - in my opinion, a glorified game of Dingbats (I hope he wouldn't mind me saying!), but a witty and simple idea. Google it if you haven't heard of it.

Anyway, the premise being - make the words into a picture, tell a story using just the words, make them literally say what they say. And here, on IST, Scott has kindly chosen a perfect example for me to pay homage with. Obviously, I had to take inspiration from the Aerogramme album cover too, hence the colours. But thank you Harry, and thank you Scott for the gift!

January 2010

New year, new month, new title.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 •shuffle•

Lady and gents it's - Living Backwards by the now defunct but very sadly missed Scots alternative, post rockers Aereogramme.

And for this months limitation I'd like to take a lead from the artwork from the album that track appeared on (My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go). Can this months illustrations be done as a two colour solution (well three if you count white (paper colour)). The colours to use are Pantone 417. Which is 1 | 0 | 25 | 65 in CMYK breakdown terms. And Pantone 1795 whose breakdown is 0 | 94 | 100 | 0.

Everything else is fair game.

Fairytale Of New York - Gallusness

Happy New Year.

Belated posting from Gallusness. One of 2010 resolutions is to learn to utilise the auto posting thing.

Anyways…



Once again this year I decided to keep it light on the time allowed front. Last years 12 minutes of Xmas became the 25 minutes of Xmas. Does that mean it's twice as good? Naaaa not really.

When I saw the title and original celeb limitation in my head I started thinking of how how fairytales start. Once upon a time… So I was thinking Once upon a time in New York. Which made me think of Once Upon A Time In America, which is kind of the same thing. It starred Robert De Niro, so I tried to quickly sketch him. I feel like the time made my drawing style to regress back to secondary school standard, oh well.

A fresh year awaits. I think looking back it's my limitation. Back in five.

Xmas 2009 Reeko

So, time caught up with me. Again. At the time of writing today is the 18th December and I'm am packing up for the holidays. The image above is something I put together for a Sci Fi art annual and I've posted it here because... Well, I haven't got anything else and it looks a bit wintery!

Hope everyone had a great xmas and new year and roll on 2010!

Fairytale of New York - Jones

Before leaving my old job, I have had a bit of spare time but not a whole load of motivation and so, knowing there's no chance of doing an entry over Christmas, I knocked up an early entry for December.

Here's the Christmas fairytale for you, Santa meets the Statue of Liberty. Lovely.

Would have loved to have done the statue as Rapunzel with huge green plaits but, in all honesty, I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to undertake the task!

December 2009 - UPDATE

Hi all,
I've realised I was too ambitious with my limitation. If it's ok with y'all I'd like to amend the limitation to just make it Christmassy/seasonal and ignore the celebrity thing. That can wait for another day!

Hope that's ok. Feel free to put a celebrity in if you've already got that far!

Thanks.
O

Unwritten Rules - Gallusness

Not so fast Mr. Jones…

A belated entry from up here.



I was a little bit pressed for time and so thought I would do a remix which stayed true to the original image which would be created was using similar but different elements.

Pretty simple.

Roll on even less time in December.