aka: INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 208-211
208/365
Attempt to draw the inside of the bus on a very bumpy ride and with a short pencil found in the bottom of a coat pocket.(➡️➡️➡️). Excuses excuses.
Always make sure you have the right equipment with you, is today’s lesson.
Did also learn that the inside of a First West bus is way more complicated than I originally thought.
Notebook: Beto
20 mins
Pencil (short)
🚌 ✏️ 😬
209/365 Bus Stop drawing. Silver birches on the Queens Road. Due to the workplace shift and commuting adjustment expect a lot more bus stop themed sketching. It’s the only time I get the time, if you catch my drift. There’s plenty to see at each one. 🚌 🌳 ✍️
210/365
More Bus Stop drawings.
Another tree and a broken fence atop a brick wall from this morning.
Notebook: Beto
Coloured biro with very cold fingers.
20 mins
📓 🌳 🚌
211/365 Bus Stop drawings. Poorly executed renditions of municipal infrastructure. It’s done though. Notebook: Beto Biro and V-ball. #bfp 🚦🚏✍️
We’ve had a rocky week here in the UK, ICYMI (unlikely).
There’s a lot of anger and resentment on all sides, and it becomes difficult to pull yourself away from the news stream because of the speed with which things are developing.
But we are where we are.
In a recent Guardian panel Paul Mason was asked to give one reason why he thought the Leave vote had won, he said this (I’ve typed it down as best I could from the audio):—
“Many people in this room.//who voted, like me, to remain will be going through a kind of existential crisis of the self, in the sense that the institution we have based our lives around is the EU. It’s the source of our law, it’s the source of our democracy, in as far as there is any, but also it underpins our opinions of social justice. Many of our life chances have gone, some of our young people feel as though their life chances are over, and our sense of self, of who we are, as europeans has been completely challenged by this.
Well.
That’s how it feels to be working class.
If in twenty years time your kids are offered the chance to ‘get one back’ against the people who did this to them, in one single vote, that’s what they’ll do.”
I’m hoping one thing that can come from this is that we learn to understand and listen to ourselves better as a country.
This is the first time I’ve managed to draw anything since last Thursday.
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Three. Early dinosaur choreography for what was to become “Dino Death Match”, full CG prehistoric animal project. 🦖 💃 📓 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Four. More workings for “Dino Death Match”, render planning, lists, visualisations etc. 📓 🦖 ✍️ Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty Five. Mind map and storyboard for Dino Death Match, here referred to as NanoTrex as the programme focused on a fossil discovery of a “baby” Tyrannosaurus which some contested was actually a new species named the Nanotyrannosaur. Storyboarding behaviours, deciding render settings and shot timings. etc 🕷 🦖 🔬 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Six. Website planning. During the last few years I have been “gardening”(?) my blog, more building a record of thoughts, art, work, notes and personal history than for actual self promotion. I have been doing this using WordPress with the intention that I can go self hosted at some point when I have the spare energy and resources to make that happen. This mind map is a plan of this process from a few years ago. I still work on this as many time in a week as I can manage. Hopefully it can become something that will survive the too and fro of Social media silos. It’s still a work in progress. It’s not finished and it’s not perfect, but it’s very much mine and become more mine the more time I have a chance to put in. #isleofblogging #linkinbio ✍️🕷🗺 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Seven. Garbage writing & stories with bad illustrations. 📓✍️🖼 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Eight. Mind map, notes, doodles and lists for the graphics and CGI in what was to become “Countdown to Life”, then called 9 Months., which followed the development of the human foetus through the 9 months of gestation. 🗺 👶 📓 Notebook Ethel: Spread Thirty-Nine. Garden chair, ornamental bush and garbage writing. Ornamental bush is a bit hidden in the mess, but it is there. 🌳✍️🛋
This is a real hotchpotch of drawings from various places over the last few months. As my time is very short I have taken on the process of starting the sketch from life, taking a photo, then finishing the drawing later from reference. This was against my original principle of doing this project, but it’s that or not getting anything done, so.
I have made some of these drawings available as signed digital prints on my Big Cartel store. Please have a look, there is some of my colour work available there too.
Sometimes I have made short little videos of the process of the drawing and you can see those by clicking on the Instagram link below the image and swiping to the left.
174/365 Bedminster Methodist Church. Drawn whilst sitting on the @sbabristol Arts Trail. Plot 1. There’s still a few hours left. 20 minutes. Notebook: Ichabod 176/365 English Rose, Clifton, Bristol. Drawn on 15/06/17. Fountain pen. 10 minutes. Notebook: Ichabod. 181/365 Godrevy Lighthouse, St. Ives Bay. View from Gwythian Sands. 6th August 2017. Notebook: Ichabod. Multicoloured Ballpoint. I have a lot of drawings I haven’t posted now so prepare for them to come all out of sequence. 😀 183/365 The spire (?) of the German Cathedral in the Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin. Ink Notebook: Ichabod. I’ll be using #Inktober to finish off and “ink” in various sketches begun here and there. This is of one of the twin Cathedrals by the Konzerthaus in Berlin started when we visited back in April. 184/365 Deutscher Dom, Gendarmenmarkt, Markegrafenstraße, Berlin. Originally pencilled 12/04/2017. Completed 04/10/2017 Pencil and V-ball. Notebook: Ichabod. #inktober 185/365 House front. St. Michaels Hill, Bristol. Pencil and V-ball. 08/09/2017-12/10/2017 Notebook: Ichabod
186/365 Three Establishments along the Whiteladies Road. From the front door at work, a view soon to be blocked by the new building. 11th Oct – 1st Nov 2017 Notebook: Ichabod.
204/365 New locations means bus trips up the hill for the occasional meeting. So here we have various random things drawn on the bumpy top deck ride down through Park Street and the rest.
200/365 Quick 5 minute sketching of horses grazing near local stables. All wearing fly masks to keep off those pesky Tabanoidea. 5 minutes. Fountain pen. Notebook: Gilbert.
Continuing the project of uploading most pages form Notebook Ethel. As I said before these are from a few years ago now.
Notebook Ethel: Spread 9. Weird comic strip, drawings of the diners at the cafe over the road, dude eating his sandwich on the wall outside, some cows and a copying of a drawing of an old man by Chris Ware taken from his Acme Novelty Datebook Sketchbook facsimile book thing. Notebook Ethel: Spread 10. Office coats, vintage teapot, Tyndales Baptist Church, pressed flowers and garbage writing. 📓 ✏ 💐 Notebook Ethel Spread: 12. Incoherent comics strip and the view across Whiteladies Road from the window at BDH. ✒📓🏢 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirteen. Garbage writing, guitar in the workplace, refuse container. 🎸📓✒ Notebook Ethel, Spread Fourteen. Satellite data coordinates, designing polygon construction, internal combustion engine visualisation, missing render frame numbers, Titan storyboard. 🔨 📓 🎨 Notebook Ethel, Spread Fifteen. Mind map of the nCloth gynamics system in Maya. Also very old QOTSA concert ticket I found in a shoe box. 🗺 📓 🎸 Notebook: Ethel, Spread Sixteen. Mind map for Forces Of Nature, episode “Where”, visualisation of the launch of the Planck rocket, Titan, storyboard, eyeflower comic, timings. 📓 🚀 🌎 Notebook: Ethel, Spread Seventeen. Drawing of injured foot (this is from a while ago), Wacom pen and garbage writing. ✍ 📓 👞
Yes, I’ve been pretty shaken up over the last week. Who hasn’t. The drawings here were all made before last Tuesday’s news.
This week I’ve been putting all my energy into redecorating our kitchen, so I haven’t managed drawing yet.
Hopefully soon though.
Be kind. Be useful.
162/365 Pedestrians in Clifton scribbled in pocketbook. V-ball. 30/09/16 Notebook: Artemis 163/365 I dug the hamsters grave then I drew the hamsters grave. RIP Pearl. (This is my first for Inktober) 02/10/16 V-ball 5 mins Notebook: Myrtle 164/365 Clifton Window (agin) V-ball Notebook:Myrtle 165/365 Lotte the Fluff Dog in full office effect. To be honest she didn’t sit still all ****ing day. V-ball Draw whilst downloading various bits of data. Notebook: Myrtle 166/365 Ivy on tree trunk. 10 mins. Straight to V-ball Notebook: Myrtle
I was talking to a friend yesterday about this kind of regular drawing and discussing if it gets easier as you go, if there are any patterns or systematic ways of doing each drawing that makes it easier as you go. But I have found that if I try and emulate a previous success it usually ends with a weak picture or a mess.
With each one of these I feel like I am starting again from scratch, like an adventure, and the ones that work really well are often those where I end with something I wasn’t expecting when I began. They transcend my plan.
I would like to experiment with materials more but usually they are done on the fly when I just have a pencil and a Uniball in my pocket. The onion picture below I did at home so had various different media available.
132/365 Beryl the patterdale terrier sleeping in the office. Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle
133/365 Small collection of winterified pots down by Shed A, on another rainiest day ever. Pencil and Uniball micro 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle 134/365 Bowl of onions, Sunday afternoon. Kuretake multinibs, Sanguine oil sepia pencil, pencil and Uni-ball micro. 20 mins. Notebook: Myrtle 135/365 Desperate attempt at hamster cage. Feeling unwell, if that’s a excuse. 20 mins Uniball micro, Stabilo point 88, disappointment. Notebook: Myrtle 136/365 Occasional table. Still Ill. Pencil Notebook: Myrtle 137/365 Youngest trying out some animation on the big telly. Straight to V-Ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle 138/365 Various vehicles parked throughout the day on Whiteladies Road. Pencil and V-ball. 5mins per car. Notebook: Myrtle. 139/365 People walking on Whiteladies Road. Cold Spring Day. Pencil and Uni-Ball. 10 seconds – 2 minutes per figure. Notebook: Myrtle. 140/365 Farm gate with distant golf course. 20 mins Pencil and Uni-ball. Notebook: Myrtle.
153/365 13.08.16 Godrevy Light House from Gwithian Sands. V-ball. Notebook: Myrtle 154/365 13.08.16 Lifeguard point, Gwithian Sands. V-ball Notebook: Myrtle 155/365 Seagulls, other sea birds and one hunting dog. Gwithian Sands 16.08.16 V-ball Notebook: Myrtle 156/365 St. Ives from Gwithian Sands, on the afternoon of the 8th August 2016. Pilot V-ball and Berol Colour Fine. Notebook: Myrtle. 157/365 Sand dune, Gwithian Sands. 17/08/16
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It’s been a while so I am all out of sorts with drawings and order etc.
This is a batch from our Spring trip to Berlin. I have some more of these and I will post them in due course as some of them were scribbled on site and need a little bit of finishing off.
There’s some good advice here on drawing animals by Aaron Blaise, which could be applied to drawing from life of any kind. Mainly:
Draw from Life
Do your research before you go out.
Bring the right supplies and be prepared.
Observe first draw later.
Keep it loose and make quick observations.
Adjust revise your proportions as you go.
Take lots of pictures and build your personal reference library.
172/365 People from above. Mall of Berlin, near Potsdamer Platz. 5 mins. Notebook: Artemis 175/365 Page of room details from the apartment we stayed in Berlin. Various times. Wilmersdorf, Berlin. April 2017 Notebook: Ichabod. 177/365 FluxBau, from across the Spree. Köpenicker Str. Berlin. 13 April 2017
During out stay we were fortunate enough to visit the Rudolf Belling exhibition at the Hamberger Bahnhof museum. I was relatively unfamiliar with his work before this but we all really enjoyes seeing his work.
At the very beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Belling’s name was something like a battlecry. The composer of the “Dreiklang” (triad) evoked frequent and hefty discussions. He was the first, who took up again thoughts of the famous Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1570), who, at his time, stated, that a sculpture should show several good views. These were the current assumptions at the turn of the century. However they foreshadow an indication of sculpture being three-dimensional.
Rudolf Belling amplified: a sculpture should show only good views. And so he became an opponent to one of the German head scientists of art in Berlin, Adolf von Hildebrandt, who, in his book, The problem of Form in Sculpture (1903) said: “Sculpture should be comprehensible – and should never force the observer to go round it”. Rudolf Belling disproved the current theories with his works.
His theories of space and form convinced even critics like Carl Einstein and Paul Westheim, and influenced generations of sculptors after him. It is just this point which isn’t evident enough today.
I hope to make a more comprehensive post about his work in the future.
178/365 Porträt Geheimrat Dr. Kerschensteiner, Bronze 1932 by Rudolf Belling. “Der Münchner Mathematiker und Reformpëdagoge Georg Kerschenstwiner (1854-1932) gilt als Begründer der Arbeitsschull, einer Vorform der heutigen Berufsschule.” 5 mins. V-ball. 14th April 2017 Hamberger Bahnhoff. Notebook: Ichabod 179/365 Rudolf Belling Schuttblume 1972 Olympiaberg Muenchen. V-ball & Pencil. Hamberger Bahnhoff. 17th April 2017 Notebook: Ichabod 180/365 Various rushed studies of “Kopf In Messing (Toni Freeden)” by Rudolph Belling as it was in situ at the Hamberger Bahnhoff Gallery in Berlin, with postcard of the artist with the original. 17th April 2017 Notebook: Ichabod. 182/365 Rendition of Soldier Sculpture by Rudolf Belling. From the “Skulpturen Und Architekturen” exhibition at Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnahof Berlin. Fountain Pen and pencil. 14th April 2017 Notebook: Ichabod.
Beginning a large project of uploading old notebook pages. These are not high res scans as that would considerably increase the amount of time needed, so these would have to do for now.
These are all generally going up on Instagram first.
Opening page of Notebook: Ethel. I’m going to be uploading notebooks in a more systematic fashion (with sensitive info deleted obvs). Notebook Ethel is a few years old. This is before I started using the first page spread as an index for the rest of the book. So the lists here are largely inspirational items and ideas of content capture. There’s not much order and I tend to fill empty spaces with bits of ephemera stuck in and doodles. Clifton windows, lists and words. This is a systematic uploading. First drafts, mug drawing, rough mind map, comics and a quote from Lynda Barry. It’s along the lines of: “I’ve come to regard comics as something like a song. It can be about anything. We can address all sorts of things in a song, love gone wrong, truck driving, Daddies, smoking, boots, birthdays, cheating, space travel, big butts, revenge, war, a turkey in the straw, regret, genders, hands, purple haze . We can this way we can make comics about anything.” – Although I did write it down in a hurry! Daily mini-maps, plans for website, doodles and the like. Preliminary notes on Shark Brains, Art Speigelman on Maus: “Reality is too complex for any media” “Ironic Distance” “Fourth Wall” “Blank expressions allow the reader to impose their own” “I draw my comics one to one” “The past and the present intertwining, simultaneously in the same space” …& Ray Bradbury on writing: “Libraries are full of people not books” “Love what you do. Do what you love” “I don’t write the book, my characters write the book, they come to me and they tell me” “Stand on the top of the cliff, jump off, build your wings on the way down.” etc… Notes for a very short film called “Bevel’s Nub” that appeared in the @strangealtars project a while back. Marker pen, biro, pencil. Mind Map of the early days with Arnold and Maya before he full recent integration. Mind Map on understanding Linear Colour Space within Maya and Arnold back when we first started using it.
Definitely promise to possibly pick up the pace on these perhaps maybe.
As always you can get instant updates on the Instagram.
125/365 The After Effects User Interface and the back of Tim Marriott. 15 mins whilst rendering. Uniball micro. Notebook: Ethel. 126/365 Trying that thing where you include yourself in the picture, like that other person but not as good. Started with my hand and ended up with a very distorted version of my front room. Repurposed a page with an unfinished mind map on rigging in maya (the fourth in a series hence it petering out). V-ball. 15 mins Notebook: the very-soon-to-retired Ethel. 127/365 Fairly rapid rendition of handmade jug still life. Time is limited. 5 mins Uni-ball eye micro Notebook: Myrtle 128/365 Piano, Guitar, Drum-machine, Stool. 20 mins Pencil and Uniball Eye Micro. Notebook: Myrtle. 129/365 Very gnarly old tree. Black Stabilo point 88. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle 130/365 Got a lift into work today, therefore car drawings. Uniball micro Notebook: Myrtle 131/365 Dormer window in the new bit of the house. Drawn whilst waiting for previously mentioned lift. Uniball micro. 7 mins Notebook: Myrtle
168/365 Another window. They’re pretty much the only thing I can see from the window where I sit to eat my lunch. 10mins Vball Notebook: Myrtle. 169/365 Suburbanite Window. V-ball Notebook: Ichabod 170/365 Tangle of saplings in hedgerow with accompanying electric cable pole and hazard warning. Straight To V-ball. Notebook: Ichabod. 171/365 Whiteladies Road Tree. 30 mins Uniball micro Notebook: Ichabod (Process videos uploaded to Instagram Stories) 173/365Rooftops, Clifton. March 2017. 4 mins Notebook: Ichabod
141/365 #Currentlyreading dog-eared 1970’s copy of The Man In The High Castle. Pencil and Uni-ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle 142/365 Another go at the hamster cage. Bit more structurally sound this time. Pencil and uni-ball. 15mins Notebook: Myrtle 143/365 Farm house on a bright spring day. Don’t even need a coat. Straight to uni-ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle 144/365 Looking across to the tops of the buildings at the University of Bristol. Drawn over several days. Pencil and Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle l148/365 Flowers of unknown species. I dunno they’re blue and on a bush, any ideas? Drawn whilst waiting for morning lift. Uniball micro. 5 mins. Notebook: Myrtle 149/365 Some dude. Looks a bit sad but I think he might be playing Pokemon Go. Vball. 10 mins. Notebook: Myrtle. 150/365 Posh Windows on Clifton. 20 mins. Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle
I was extremely honoured to have my drawings mentioned in this Susannah Breslin piece on self negotiation and naming one’s inner critics:
“There’s Hypochron, whose superpower is overreacting to everything and also catastrophizing. Let’s not forget Lay-Ze-Bonez, which is quick to pronounce any lag in productivity a testament to one’s laziness. And, finally, we’ve got I’m Thirsty. I’m Thirsty is a head-only it-thing that lives at the bottom of a glass that is barely filled with water. It’s always thirsty. Despite the water. I hope you enjoyed meeting my new friends! It’s actually been sort of interesting and effective to think of the voices in this way. It makes them easier to be rational in relationship to. Let’s face it, these guys suck. As Ury writes: ‘Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.’ “
Notebook: Ethel
Spread 2.
First drafts, mug drawing, rough mind map, comics and a quote from Lynda Barry.
It’s along the lines of:
“I’ve come to regard comics as something like a song. It can be about anything. We can address all sorts of things in a song, love gone wrong, truck driving, Daddies, smoking, boots, birthdays, cheating, space travel, big butts, revenge, war, a turkey in the straw, regret, genders, hands, purple haze . We can this way we can make comics about anything.”
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” was definitely my favourite from the recent awards season’s batch of films.
I truly had never seen a film like it, all the performances were incredible, the story was amazing, the cinematography, Olivia Coleman, everything.
I just listened to Lanthimos’ interview on Marc Marin’a podcast. He has this today about watching Tarkovsky:
“During the summer in Greece there’s a lot of open air cinemas, beautiful open air cinemas in a lot of neighbourhoods. You have a little table outside surrounded by apartment buildings, and you watch films.
So they would do retrospectives of his <Tarkovsky> films and John Cassevetes.
It was the first time seeing a different medium, seeing something new, like how an image can affect you in a different way, it doesn’t have to be a fast narrative, how poetic it can be, and how you can lose yourself in it, engage, but with your own personality. There’s an openness to it, you can bring your own stuff, and see things and understand things, maybe in a different way from how the person sitting next to you is experiencing the same thing at the same time.
…
It feels realistic but transcends that and you enter a different space. “
Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Seven. Notes and workings for particle interactions on a surface in Autodesk Maya. 🌊 🔬 💥 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Eight. Mind map in rigging, to help understanding of animation process ahead of projects with prehistoric reconstruction. 🕷 🦕 📓 Notebook Ethel, Spread twenty-nine. Garbage writing, cars in car parks and the view from the rear window at South Parade. 🚗 ✍️ 📓 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty. Garbage writing, unfinished Fudge story with thumb nail illustrations. ✍️🖼💀
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-One. Garbage writing, short stories and illustrations. 👹 ✍️ 📓 Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Two. Mind map on rigging models in Maya and drawing of snacking child (artist included). 🧒 🕷 📓
I appear to be talking myself into making comics again. This could be, and usually is, a terrible idea.
If anyone can stop this silliness please send help.
Biro, fountain pen, montage and general moments of weakness.
Notebook: Amand
I’m also thinking I might start making the posts on this site shorter.
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Notebook Ichabod is nearing the end. Serendipitously started on the 1st January 2017, it’s mostly filled with technical notes, stories, garbage, mind maps, schemes and some drawing, but not enough. I’m currently transitioning to two books next, standard and a smaller size in the hope I will carry the smaller one with me more often in an everyday carry type way and feel less inhibited about drawing in public.
Notebook Ethel, Spread Eighteen. Me trying to mind map and plan my website. You can see the ongoing result. A work of art is never finished, apparently. 🕷 📓 🗺 Notebook Ethel, Spread Eighteen. Newspaper clipping of Raphael’s Head of a Muse, some copying of that image and the beginnings of a mind map on fluid dynamics. 👁 📓 🗺 Notebook Ethel, Spread Nineteen. Horse drawings, daises, diary notes (text obscured). 📓 🐴 🌷 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty. Morning Pages writing exercise and drawing my comic book character Fudge. 🌳 👹 ✍ Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-One. Documenting a two day journey from the West to the East and back again. Drawing from the window of a train, cars in traffic, route plan and garbage writing. 🚗 ✍ 🚂 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Two. Mind map getting to grips with some serious understanding of the render engine Arnold, soon after we began using it. Also eye doodles. 🕷 👁 🗺 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty- Three. More horses, and my attempt at the Ivan Brunetti drawing exercise in his “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice”, it goes: “Using your sketchbook and a pencil or pen of your choice, spend 3-4 minutes drawing a car. Then, start over and draw it in 2 minutes. Then 1 minute. Then 30 seconds. Then 15 seconds. And then 5 seconds. Draw faster at each step-that is, draw the entire car within the time limit. Repeat this same process for four other subjects: a cat, a castle, a telephone, and self-portrait.” ✍️📓 📞 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Four. Mind map on the Autodesk Maya Bifrost system, dynamic and fluid simulation software. 🌊 🖥 🕷 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Five. Another Ivan Brunetti exercise from “Cartooning: philosophy and practice”: “Pencil out a grid in your notebook, enough to contain 100 small drawings.now spending no more than 5 seconds per drawing, let your stream of consciousness guide you, drawing whatever comes to mind (don’t stop to think about it).” I went back and inked them after. 📓✍️🖼 Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Six. Mind mapping notes for the content graphics of Countdown To Life. Ideas, concepts, storyboards, techniques. 📓 🕷 💓
I’m going to be uploading notebooks in a more systematic fashion (with sensitive info deleted obvs). Notebook Ethel is a few years old.
This is before I started using the first page spread as an index for the rest of the book. So the lists here are largely inspirational items and ideas of content capture. There’s not much order and I tend to fill empty spaces with bits of ephemera stuck in and doodles.
193/365 Another lost drawing from last Spring’s trio to Berlin. This is the window of the flat we stayed in in Wilmersdorf with a portion of the receipt from the grocery shop over the road. Notebook: Ichabod Fountain pen and Stabilo. 194/365 More from the Berlin notebook. Various details around Brandenberger Tor. With map of central Berlin pasted in. Notebook: Ichabod April 2017 194/365 Corner of West Park and Whiteladies Road from the balcony at BDH with a sandwich in the Sun. 🌞 ✏ 📓 🥪 Uniball micro. 20 mins Notebook: Beto 196/365 Sleeping office dog on a hot day. Drawn whilst waiting for various render tests. ✏ 🐕 📓 🌞 Pencil. 10 mins Notebook: Gilbert 197/365 More lunchtime sketches as the people of Bristol make the most of the April Sun just in case Winter comes back. Pencil. 20 mins Notebook: Beto. 🥙 ✏ 📓 😴 198/365 Still life in the corner of the local barbers. Fountain pen. 20mins. Notebook: Beto. 💇♂️ ✂ ✒ 📓 199/365 Partially covered buildings down in Gas Ferry Road near the illustrious Aardman Animations in Bristol. Started from life whilst waiting for a meeting, finished from memory. Notebook: Beto. V-ball. 📓 ✒ 🌳 🏭
Made from 2 sheets of 120 gsm paper, 1 piece of recycled cardboard and two standard size staples.
It’s very low budget and fits into a back pocket.
I’ll post some instructions later.
I’ve decided to post a 2 notebook page spread every other day during the course of this year, thats 182 in total.
Slightly ambitious but it’s slightly more achievable than daily. The last few days have been extremely complicated so these pages were made during last year.
This is the last set of pages from Notebook Ethel. Now they’re all up I’ll have to update it’s homepage.
It’s been really interesting going through an old book like this and systematically posting everything I can. I have more, so after a short break I’ll begin again on Myrtle.
Notebook Ethel, spread forty. Garbage writing, Cornish undergrowth, and office dog drawings (three varieties). 🌿🐕✍️
Notebook Ethel, Spread forty-one. Kitchen still life in biro, Clifton windows, garbage writing (obscured) and @3dtimmy’s coat. 🥛 🏠 🧥
Notebook Ethel, Spread forty-two. Kitchen still life in biro, Clifton windows, garbage writing (obscured) and @3dtimmy’s coat. 🥛 🏠 🧥
Notebook Ethel, Spread Forty-Three. Drawing of sandcastles, Cornish life guard hut and people on the beach. Also notes and a small diagram doodles whilst explaining UV layout to son. 🏖 🏰 🏊♀️
Notebook Ethel, spread Forty-Four. More Cornish drawings, Godrevy Ligjthouse, garbage writing and stables. ✍️ 💡 🐴Notebook Ethel, spread forty- five. To do lists, mini mind maps, drawings of family shoes and desk fan. 👞 🕷 🗺Notebook: Ethel, spread forty-six. Horse and rider drawings from life, went on to become the animation I have in my current pinned tweet. About 40 mins. Pencil and fountain pen. 🐎 🖊 🎞Notebook Ethel: Spread Forty-Seven. It’s the last page from Ethel!! Classic work page. I do not usually share work stuff but this is all non-descript information on creating landscapes from DEM data. 🕸 🏔 ✏️
Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Seven. Notes and workings for particle interactions on a surface in Autodesk Maya. 🌊 🔬 💥
149/365 Some dude. Looks a bit sad but I think he might be playing Pokemon Go. Vball. 10 mins. Notebook: Myrtle.
Notebook Ethel, spread forty- five. To do lists, mini mind maps, drawings of family shoes and desk fan. 👞 🕷 🗺
Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Eight. Mind map in rigging, to help understanding of animation process ahead of projects with prehistoric reconstruction. 🕷 🦕 📓
193/365 Another lost drawing from last Spring’s trio to Berlin. This is the window of the flat we stayed in in Wilmersdorf with a portion of the receipt from the grocery shop over the road. Notebook: Ichabod Fountain pen and Stabilo.
150/365 Posh Windows on Clifton. 20 mins. Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle
Notebook Ethel: Spread Thirty-Nine. Garden chair, ornamental bush and garbage writing. Ornamental bush is a bit hidden in the mess, but it is there. 🌳✍️🛋
Rough notes from the morning of #theStory2013. (at Conway Hall)
Notebook Ethel, spread forty. Garbage writing, Cornish undergrowth, and office dog drawings (three varieties).
Mind Map of the early days with Arnold and Maya before he full recent integration
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty Five. Mind map and storyboard for Dino Death Match, here referred to as NanoTrex as the programme focused on a fossil discovery of a “baby” Tyrannosaurus which some contested was actually a new species named the Nanotyrannosaur. Storyboarding behaviours, deciding render settings and shot timings. etc 🕷 🦖 🔬
197/365 More lunchtime sketches as the people of Bristol make the most of the April Sun just in case Winter comes back. Pencil. 20 mins Notebook: Beto. 🥙 ✏️ 📓 😴
Daily mini-maps, plans for website, doodles and the like.
Clifton windows, lists and words. This is a systematic uploading. More in due course.
198/365 Still life in the corner of the local barbers. Fountain pen. 20mins. Notebook: Beto. 💇♂️ ✂️ ✒️ 📓
Notebook Ethel, Spread forty-one. Kitchen still life in biro, Clifton windows, garbage writing (obscured) and @3dtimmy’s coat. 🥛 🏠 🧥
Notebook Ethel, Spread Forty-Three. Drawing of sandcastles, Cornish life guard hut and people on the beach. Also notes and a small diagram doodles whilst explaining UV layout to son. 🏖 🏰 🏊♀️
Notebook Ethel, Spread twenty-nine. Garbage writing, cars in car parks and the view from the rear window at South Parade. 🚗 ✍️ 📓
194/365 Corner of West Park and Whiteladies Road from the balcony at BDH with a sandwich in the Sun. 🌞 ✏️ 📓 🥪 Uniball micro. 20 mins Notebook: Beto
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Two. Mind map on rigging models in Maya and drawing of snacking child (artist included). 🧒 🕷 📓
199/365 Partially covered buildings down in Gas Ferry Road near the illustrious Aardman Animations in Bristol. Started from life whilst waiting for a meeting, finished from memory. a href=”/tag/notebooks/”>Notebook: Beto. V-ball. 📓 ✒️ 🌳 🏭
Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Seven. Notes and workings for particle interactions on a surface in Autodesk Maya. 🌊 🔬 💥
Preliminary notes on Shark Brains, Art Speigelman on Maus: “Reality is too complex for any media” “Ironic Distance” “Fourth Wall” “Blank expressions allow the reader to impose their own” “I draw my comics one to one” “The past and the present intertwining, simultaneously in the same space” & Ray Bradbury on writing: “Libraries are full of people not books” “Love what you do. Do what you love” “I don’t write the book, my characters write the book, they come to me and they tell me” “Stand on the top of the cliff, jump off, build your wings on the way down.” etc…
Notebook Ethel, Spread Twenty-Eight. Mind map in rigging, to help understanding of animation process ahead of projects with prehistoric reconstruction. 🕷 🦕 📓
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-One. Garbage writing, short stories and illustrations. 👹 ✍️ 📓
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Two. Early dinosaur choreography for what was to become “Dino Death Match”, full CG prehistoric animal project. 🦖 💃 📓
Notebook Ethel, Spread forty-one. Kitchen still life in biro, Clifton windows, garbage writing (obscured) and @3dtimmy’s coat. 🥛 🏠 🧥
Notes for a very short film called “Bevel’s Nub” that appeared in the @strangealtars project a while back. Marker pen, biro, pencil.
Notebook Ethel, Spread Thirty-Four. More workings for “Dino Death Match”, render planning, lists, visualisations etc. 📓 🦖 ✍️
l148/365 Flowers of unknown species. I dunno they’re blue and on a bush, any ideas? Drawn whilst waiting for morning lift. Uniball micro. 5 mins. Notebook: Myrtle
Notebook Ethel, spread Forty-Four. More Cornish drawings, Godrevy Ligjthouse, garbage writing and stables. ✍️ 💡 🐴
194/365 More from the Berlin notebook. Various details around Brandenberger Tor. With map of central Berlin pasted in. Notebook: Ichabod April 2017
365 – Buses and Bus Stops, the first of many, perhaps.
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Approximation of the Balmoral often found on Bristols’ Floating Harbour.
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 158-161
Project Ethel (27.05.14 – 07.01.16): Pages 33-39
INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 174-189 (Ichabod)
(old lady after Durer)
It always feels saying goodbye to an old friend.
Project Ethel (27.05.14 – 07.01.16): Pages 9-17
Drawing of frame grab from “Man For All Seasons” – 1966
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Before last Tuesday’s news…
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 132-140 (Myrtle)
Spring trip to Berlin.
Project Ethel (27.05.14 – 07.01.16): Pages 1-8
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 167-173
“I’ve come to regard comics as something like a song.”
Lanthimos on Tarkovsky
Project Ethel (27.05.14 – 07.01.16): Pages 27-32
190/365 – Commuter drawings.
Some commuter drawings in my new moleskine from yesterday mornings. Bit of a bumpy ride, but managed to get some marks down.
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191/365 – Commuter Drawing
146/365 North Somerset telephone pole and wires. Straight to V-ball. 29 mins. Notebook: Myrtle
Project Ethel (27.05.14 – 07.01.16): Pages 18-26
“Style is the difference between a circle and how to draw it”
INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 193-199
Project Ethel (27.05.14 – 07.01.16): Pages 40-47
Notebook Ethel, spread forty. Garbage writing, Cornish undergrowth, and office dog drawings (three varieties). 🌿🐕✍️
Notebook Ethel, Spread forty-two. Kitchen still life in biro, Clifton windows, garbage writing (obscured) and @3dtimmy’s coat. 🥛 🏠 🧥
Notebook Ethel, spread Forty-Four. More Cornish drawings, Godrevy Ligjthouse, garbage writing and stables. ✍️ 💡 🐴
Notebook Ethel, spread forty- five. To do lists, mini mind maps, drawings of family shoes and desk fan. 👞 🕷 🗺
Notebook: Ethel, spread forty-six. Horse and rider drawings from life, went on to become the animation I have in my current pinned tweet. About 40 mins. Pencil and fountain pen. 🐎 🖊 🎞
Notebook Ethel: Spread Forty-Seven. It’s the last page from Ethel!! Classic work page. I do not usually share work stuff but this is all non-descript information on creating landscapes from DEM data. 🕸 🏔 ✏️
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