As I Imagine It: Page One

First page of the comic 'As I Imagine It'. If you think the mishap with the baby was bad, its only a down hill journey from here... Tell my mum I'm sorry.

Drafting: Comic Process

These are the fundamental stages in the production of my comic 'As I imagine it'. First I figured out the initial plot. Once happy with that, I moved on to figuring out how I want the layout of the comic on the second page (this was the hardest bit. Finding that perfect rhythm for the story). I want to say FINALLY, but sadly there were hours, days and weeks to come; the third page was a piece was a rough look at the panels. Done I took the measurements from this to get the dimensions for the final comic.

Life Drawings

Experimentation

I did this piece to represent how the truth can lost through the grapevine. I had been researching the media empire of Rupert Murdoch (before the newspaper scandal kicked off). The writing was a personification of the truth calling out to us readers. I chose envelopes to print on to show the amount of attempts the author 'truth' had tried to seek out the reader. We are to assume the reader ignores truth by opening the envelopes and doesn't respond.
Letters sewed together and Silkscreen print. 

This was inspired from Menena Cottin's 'The black book of colour' which was a narrative illustrated with braille for the blind. The flower-like image is a bullet hole, supposedly housed in the head of the viewer. My reasoning behind this was; We go through life unknowing of our demise, which is why I chose the image to be all black.

Silkscreen print.

Inspired from the Marvel characters Eternity, Infinity and Oblivion. Coming from the Silver Surfer arc.
Bleach painting on denim.

This is a series of prints and a painting I've done. All in the attempt of finding the most aesthetically pleasing medium to practice.

Site specific Intervention

The cheese door along with the mutated rat was a mixture of a performance piece, sculpture and an illustration. Reason being, once someone enters through the door, they become a part of the piece, ready to be eaten by the pouncing mutated rat.
- Door, A4 paper, pen, broad marker, brush and ink.

All hail Cheesus, was just me letting off some steam in an attempt to take something very close to me (cheese) and combing it with something that has been the center of grief for the last two years (church). In order to make Sundays less teeth grinding.
The billboard is best used for commercial advertising, selling a product to appeal to a certain demographic.
I wanted to make people aware of Cheesus, and what place better to intervene, than a billboard yards away from two churches.

All of this was part of a collaborative project to make a documentary about street art and sub-subsequently,  the art of tagging. We filmed three events; one on a brick wall. The second out side of a chicken shop and the third, on a billboard.

Kacper: Director and editor
Victor: Camera man and general assistant
Taymah: Erm... well I was in the bloody thing
(we were all a part of the documentary)

Perspectives

I find most of my time consumed from getting to one end of London to the next.
My sketchbook is the only escape from the laborious train, bus and senseless walking journeys that seem to fill my days. These images are based on my travels, and some are taken directly from them.

This two point perspective was based on the method of another single point perspective I had completed previously. All done by compiling a series of boxes and lines together, I figured as long there is a mental formula I could develop the idea further.

- 0.5 Muji pen

This was a quick sketch of an isle in Tesco's. My friends had been taking their time at the checkouts, leaving me with ample time to get more than enough information to finish the finer details at home.
- 0.5 Muji pen

Watercolouring is a big pastime for me, and on this special occasion I had the pleasure of following this 1st year Fine art class in my college to Oxford where I could quickly capture this view from outside a church (just wish I could remember the name of the church).
- Watercolour, 4h pencil

A quick attempt on a 3 point perspective building, drawn from imagination.
-0.5 Muji pen

Seeing as the other few images have all had the same ridged feeling of being orderly and regulated, I wanted to warp the perspective into a spiral, breaking those connotations. Still experimenting.
- 0.5 Muji pen

I moved from building to faces seeking a new host for my watercolours. I chose a face from an old anatomy book, and the results we pleasing. So I took it one step further, dropped the reference and slightly altered my process and painted first and drew on top of the wet paper to make my pen's ink bleed a little.
- Watercolour, 4h pencil
- Watercolour, 0.5 Muji pen

Last but not least (well its not the last page in my book anymore), I painted a small section a Canaletto painting. Canaletto's work contains such vast amounts of information, I did my best to capture just a part of the image. I really wanted to focus on how the lighting came across, I hope I did it justice.

- HB pencil, watercolour