New Theme!

Iiiiiiit's Sunday night, and you all know what that means!!!! Time for the New Weekly Theme!! Woo! This week, the theme is...

Fresh Eyes.

A little cryptic, perhaps, but interpret it how you want. HOWEVER you want. Jumping off points might be 'looking at things with fresh eyes', new perspectives, different angles, fresh outlook on life... Be as deep and meaningful or shallow and I-only-had-five-minutes as you like :)

You have until the following Sunday night to upload everything you've done to your blog (which is the 5th of July... and my birthday, by the way).

Happy creating.

Mr Gary's Tote Bag

Realised I never actually got round to putting up my response to Gary's theme! So here it is, in all its glory. They're not that amazing lol, but you get the idea (there were supposed to be several designs reflecting different positive personality traits, so people could choose one they liked best).

Technology: Metamorphosis

Here's my piece of work for this week's theme. I was going for a shape-shifty history of technology, and how it might progress in the future, and, indeed, how it might come full circle. The only technology I used was a camera and a computer with MonkeyJam to shoot it and make it digital, was otherwise a purely non-technological work; didn't even use a lightbox - good ole flicking and rolling. Old Skool. Used just paper, a pencil, a peg bar, and some masking tape.

Never done a metamorphosis before, and it wasn't too hard. But then, I didn't put a ton of effort in. I am pretty surprised, actually, at how it's turned out; not quite as dire and shameful as I thought. But it's probably the most rushed piece of work I have ever done. I should have researched it more, and just spent more time drawing it - I underestimated how long it would take me, thinking it would only take an hour or so. In actual fact it took me at least 3 hours. And it's shocking for the amount of time it took. But anyways... enough work-bashing for this evening. I coulda done better, but now I know that, and won't leave it til last minute next time. And think it through better.

In other news, I'm doing a 24 hour comic (invented by Scott McCloud)with a couple of guys on my course. It's going well so far! I'm actually on schedule for a change, at 10 pages in 8 hours. 7 hours of drawing time (we spent ages looking at story generators to start with, and then there was a fire alarm, so we were stood outside watching the fire engine for half an hour or so. No actual fire, which is good). For story generation we went to http://www.seventhsanctum.com/ , a really good site for random story ideas. Lots of fun! Hopefully I'll be able to upload my comic once we're all finished. 8h 30 down, 15h 30 to go.......

Just waiting to find out the next theme... It's Gary's turn this week, so he'll post it on his blog when he's got the theme: Mr Gary

Time for the First Theme!

And the theme is....

TECHNOLOGY.

Yes. Technology.

Ok, so rules... umm... do whatever you want based on the theme of technology. But you must use at least 3 different materials; digital counts as one. You may create as much work as you like. Any sketches/finished pieces to be put on your blog. You must have SOMETHING to show for the week's theme!!!

Go forth and create! (that means me too)