Inkworks ii - Violator
Something I picked underneath the mountain of sketches and transcriptions of comics, people, architecture alike. I love looking through those piles of history, a slow and steady creative progression, a graph of transformation, a diary of steady creative changes and experiments. Brilliance.
The plot of the comics of 'Violator' quoted from a online reference are frequently centered around 'Violator just wants to keep living the nasty life of a demon, but everyone wants to kill him. Even his siblings'. But for many reasons this illustration is something more than that. It was one of the first pieces that I had actually endured using a fountain pen, with this crude but playful comic book cover to reference from.
The use of ink provided this 'enlightenment' stage of my working, no longer was the constant refinement of construction lines necessary but just the imagination to construct my lines instead. This illustration gave me the confidence to feel like a true comic artist, i knew it doubt I wasn't, and with the heap of GCSE's, time became ever so limited to work on the numerous of projects I had set out to complete aha.
There was an excellent Graffiti convention in Bristol a couple of weeks ago called 'Upfest', it aimed to raise some money for a NACOA charity. It's nice seeing how the freedom to observe graffiti artworks, and such a great relationship with the art community and charity organizations.
The use of graffiti art, can be used to illustrate an 'official picture', of the thoughts and ideas between the subject classes and political government.
Concrete walls covered in 'F*ck Money', and similar - catch phrases - almost a reflection of the current economic recession. The 'inside thoughts' of the people inhabiting the cities, watching over and contemplating how these 'catch phrases' appeal to them in there waking lives. Just observing the illegal artworks in community, you can feel how the world thinks, how perceptions are reflected by the masses.
Upfest Graffiti Gallery. Great footage on youtube also!
Photographer and Artist Gillian Wearing, and how she reflects these 'personal catchphrases'.
Jack
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