Poem Project; Batty, Bedtime & Polar Bears

Here are the final three pieces for the poems projects.

Batty;
That of a bat scared of light.

Bedtime;
A poem about the scary things in a children's bedroom (imagination) ... decided to draw one of the monsters and itself being scared holding it's teddy & torch ... Urmm kinda looks like a err certain Marvel character ay? Hmmm lol.

Polar Bears;
Just about Polar Bears in general sleeping in the snow :)

Am supposed to have done small Illustrations to go on the page with the poem itself but currently have no idea what to draw for any of these. Except possibly actually drawing out snowflakes for the Polar Bear one.

Any ideas would be much appreciated?... Or do people like them the way they are?

Poem Project; As

Gone for the whole theme of opposites on this piece and specifically chosen the line; As fierce as a Tiger - As mild as a dove.

Yin & Yang was the main theme behind the piece with bold black & white variation :)
Some great tattoo & chinese artwork pieces used as references to do this piece.

Poem Project; Fish

The second of the six pieces for the poem project.

This one being that of fish basically being stupid & the idea of them being 'schools' of fish is funny or rediculous. So decided to draw a shark as they're pretty damn cool and chose one of the funniest types of shark - Hammerhead and make him look kinda goofy looking :)

Background fish are done using fish sketches, just fill coloured and then blurred :) Counts as small illustrations right? :P

Poem Project; Backgrounds + Poem

Spent a good while at college today creating & editing backgrounds for the poem project. I felt the background has to somehow resemble the poem be it by it's feel, content, texture, lighting etc so tried my best to do so.

All backgrounds are done by editing the original background created for the Elephant poem :) So lots of filters, colour changes & alterations. Hope they resembled the specific poems well! My favourites are the 'Fish' & 'As' ones :)

Take a look anyways...

Poem Project; Elephant (Edit)

Here is the elephant poem for the poems project I am currently doing :)

The first of the poems so far ...

Inspirations; Superman For Tomorrow - Jim Lee

To anybody whom takes an interest in comics or the artwork of one of the the god of comics that is Jim Lee I would highly recommend taking a look at Absolute Superman For Tomorrow... 'Absolute' being the special edition hardcover book of the comics, with stunning cover by Jim Lee. The book features extra sketches, notes etc & very much worth every penny I paid for it! :D

Written by the brilliant Brian Azzarello I again cannot reiterate how much I love this book. Couldn't put it down and read the entire story in a couple of hours :)

Has also made me realize how much of a badass Superman actually is, rather than the boring snotty sod I thought he was lol. If only superheroes were really....hmmph.

Below is one of Jim's line work pieces for one of the covers for Superman For Tomorrow. Enjoy!

Poems Project; Elephant

CD project in. Poems project out.

Normal college procedure of handing in a project & receiving a new one today (not complaining :))
Quite liking the idea of doing this project actually... Which is that of choosing 6 poems from a list of 12 & Illustrating an A5 piece to represent each one of the chosen 6 poems, accompanied by artwork to go with the poem itself on the same page. Basically 6 A5 pieces and 6 small accompanying illustrations...

Have made a start on one of the poems, being that of 'Elephant'. Which is about an elephant being a pretty bird in a rhubarb tree ... kinda random :S But here's my line art for the A5 piece anyways.