Lino Printing - 1 per week

I'm doing a horror lino per week and a Editorial image every fortnight The horror prints will be all lino but the editorial images will be a mixture of lino, drypoint, mono and digital.

I'm playing with reduction lino and maybe some lino + watercolour.

Editorial based on cholera in the river ganges 

Jester print for horror print a week -will water colour some of these

Thought Buble??? Jinman 2

Olivia and I just got a Table at Thought bubble and we took this as it it's such a big opportunity I'm worried I've jinmaned myself again by having something which has such a short deadline but a lot of work needs to be turned around and made for it. I'm going to try to control how much i'm doing since i've got this, cop, extended practice, ppp, Creative Network Table and my part time job.

Ive started to contact a risograph printer about getting some sketchbooks and zines made.

Extended practice Workshop

I found this work to be very helpful when it came to me actually prioritising where i want to got with the illustrative side of my practice, I am clearer on what I wanna improve on and the work and commissions i would most prefer to get during and after college.
I would say my practice is looking at an 60/40 split in illustrative and creative but non illustrative practice. I want to work with Companies like Starburns Industry, Adult Swim and Comedy Central on things such as research and concept work as well as character design and spot illustrations for the website and tv shows.

5x Workshop

5x Things I want to make

1. Series of Lino Posters
2. Screen Print
3. A Podcast
4. A Huge body of Academic Research 
5. A Short Video

5x Skills I want to Develop

1. Lino Printing
2. Character Drawing 
3. Digital Lining & Colouring 
4. Screen Printing
5. Concise Writing 

5x Disciplines 

1. Character Concept
2. Editorial
3. Podcasting (Audio Media)
4. TV
5. Adult Educational Historical and Horror Publising

5x Practitioner 

1. Griffon Mcelroy 
2. Dan Harmon
3. David Cummings 
4. Emily Carroll
5. Nolan Pelletier

5x I want to find out

1. How to Build up a Great Portfolio?
2. How to get work with Museums?
3. How to create high quality Lino reductions?
4. How do I get in contact with horror writers and historians to collaborate on illustrating with them?
5. How to get a research paper published?

5x Places I want to Visit 

1. Starburns Industries 
2. Met Gallery New York 
3. Adult Swim (Atlanta)
4. Faber & Faber
5. Drunk History Uk (US) Set 

5x Things I don't want to do

1. YCN
2. D&AD
3. Public Art 
4. Sport Art
5. Childrens Book

Need

1.  (Better) Character Design
2. (Stronger) Digital Line and Colour
3. Create a Great Portfolio
4. (Improve) Lino Print
5.  Create a Professional Website

Want

1. Podcast 
2. Do Editorial for an History Magazine
3. Work With a Museum
4. Publish a Research Paper
5. Get better at Character Boards.

Editorial Brief (Not Originally but now it is)

Firstly I wanted to begin what was to be my series of character boards that would all be based on a weekly design of drawing a humanised disease; capitalising off my 505 project last year with humanised Syphilis.

Unfortunately at first I began to research smallpox found out the first recorded case was in Egypt and really just drew an egyptian pharaoh with Syphilis which isn't what i aim to go for.

Refocusing myself on Cholera I took its traits and symptoms, exaggerating them into a character.
The sketching side of things went well however final linings become lack luster and lost some of the characteristics. I've decided to linocut this image in its final form, using rougher and more expressive lino cutting techniques to keep the expressive lines and feel of my final sketch.

On reflection of this image and a discussion with Ben about how the origins of cholera came from a isolated indian village in 5th century and how that's what I began to base the character disign on I was questioned on how i  could yous slight symbolism or iconography within the image to hit towards india. So I've added a bolded line which mimics the root of the ganges river. By doing this however I then change the context of the image. It becomes More editorial and starts to discus the sacredness of cleaning yourself in the rivers of india and how that can be linked to the constant presence of cholera there. This then becomes an editorial piece that could be put into a historical or medical magazine.

As a result of this I have decided to focus on an editorial series instead of the character designs as I believe that I can come up with a better brief concept for because I want to do character boards instead of just one image per character as I am known to do and what i have begun to do with this brief.

Quick Thing

Focusing more on Editorial than just random character work now. Will probably do a horror print per week but also want to build up a portfolio of historical editorial work as well