I’ve spent far too long in front of open office/google docs this week, needed to do some mindless doodling with the pens and pencils I could find in my living room. First opportunity I’ve had to think about the Real Time Strategies exhibition I’ve proposed for later in the year.
Using bitmap graphics instead of pen and ink these are trying to follow the same procedures as in the previous post. But with the additional ability to stop, delete bits, reconnect lines and reform shapes and set off on a new trajectory.
Maybe I should brave the cold and go to my studio at 4am or, more sensibly, just go to sleep and stop pissing around with Graphics Gale but I quite like them.
A small preview of the second in the little series of zines I’ve been making called Anti-Narrative Comics. In a completely different style to the previous one. This is a series of very quick pencil sketches playing with types of mark making in a far looser way than the previous one. I’m still unsure of the final printed product (if it will be printed at all, it might just be a PDF). The style is either a bit of a homage to Cy Twombly or plagiarised from him depending on your outlook.
A small collection of late night doodles…
ArcTan
Line Combos
Connected Letter Forms
Connected Letter Forms, Hatched.
Detail
Some more images from the Grey Sketchbook which I’m adding quick drawings to on as regular a basis as I can manage. Not sure if anything will come from these, but I am enjoying just seeing them as a visual exercise. Because these are scanned you can see a slight onion skinning effect, which shows a bit of how each image relates to the previous ones, as you can see it’s not intended to be anything like animation, but using the points on the previous images as landmarks. Click on the images for a choice of different sizes, via flickr.
I bought a Muji sketchbook in New York for about a dollar fifty which I started drawing in one night during a bout of insomnia. I decided to start in the middle and work backwards so I could bring back shapes from previous images should I choose to. I am currently trying to draw a page or two a day just after I wake up.
Centre page
I’ll post more as and when I finish them.
