I've been sleeping

It would appear i have not posted for some time, a strange but true fact. One might think this is because I am slack and that after finishing my MA I have done nothing - this is not the case. I can only apologise to anybody (if anybody) looking at this blog wanting more than biannual updates, although to be fair this blog is titled I'm Periodical, giving me at least a little leeway. perhaps.

so if nothing else I have been thinking about doing stuff

Exhibition

The exhibition is up and my MA is finished.

No, I do not know what I am doing.

working methods

I haven't taken any photos today so I decided to post my working methods, the whole drawing has been mainly based around classical sculpture. After sitting in an empty white room for a day without pencils or paper, I started to visualise pieces of sculpture I knew, and this is turn helped me construct the narrative.

I photocopied the sculptures I had visualized and then worked on them, then transferred them to the main drawing. nothing fascinatingly exciting about that I guess but nice to know peoples methods.

With all its promises and dangers

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf has a line in it that describes Mrs Dalloways daughters future as, "acquiring a time of her own with all its promises and dangers". I like that idea a lot, that as you get older you acquire your own time, as if time is a self producing circle, in which you create your own circle, identical to the other but unable to exist in the same space.

I am nearing the end of the drawing and drawing nearer to completing the MA, the drawing has taken me about four weeks and it has grown into a companion of sorts, but it is odd to think that it will exist without me soon, that the drawing will acquire a time of its own, it already has in many ways. Drawing is an amazing medium for dealing with experience and experiences, if we allow the drawing to have a life of its own and just feed it daily.

Shifting emphasis

With only one week left to finish the drawing, in order for me to get small screen printed versions done, I have been working flat out over the last few days. I have decided to display the final drawing flat on a wall, not because I have run out of time to make the cylinder, its just that it felt a little too gimmicky, which wouldn't be good. I have started to play with combining certain visual elements, and now tone is also starting to dictate and shift emphasis.

Small modifications

There might not look like there is much difference from the last post but its all in the details (honest)

Getting on with it

There has been a slump in my output of recent, I need time to mull things over and I keep rushing into drawing without really considering, which is both healthy and at the same time messy (literally and metaphorically) Its definately progressing in the right direction and has potential to be the best drawing I have ever done. (no pressure then)

Touching

I only have four weeks to complete this drawing before it has to be displayed in our final exhibition, although the work is purely about process and understanding process, we still have to show our work. This means having it finished. I am working on an idea at the moment that means it will be displayed on a large (3.3m diameter) cylinder, which if I decide to do, means I still have to construct said cylinder.

Now look what I have gone and done!

I have started it.
The premise of all this is that as I draw I find a narrative, then using that narrative I draw the next picture, and so on. When one drawing is finished I photograph it and then draw on top of it.

Day one of a long journey

I have decided in my ultimate wisdom to post periodically documentation of my latest drawing as it is nine meters long and one and a half high, it may take some time and go though many changes. who knows it might even be interesting. this is a photo of the wall its going on.

I shall carve my name into this damn internet even if it kills me

This is the first of many peridocally posted posts. I am sure that I will find a use for this blog one day but until then, you shall have to suffer the periodic rants of an illustrator/madman.

Who am I kidding no one is going to read this crap!