prego, une drawing avec une day bonjour

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2011-04-04T09:07:00.001-07:00

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2011-03-21T17:54:00.000-07:00

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2011-01-23T13:24:00.000-08:00

Been listening to lots of amazing old house and disco music of late, mainly prompted by the fantastic DMX Krew podcasts. Check this lovely spacey number and below is a screen print just made on a similar theme, I've some for sale for £15 so gimme a shout if you're interested.

it really is the nicest painting

2010-12-03T09:03:00.000-08:00

You may disagree, but i honestly think this is the nicest painting i've seen in a really long time, it appeared on a pizza box lid in our house, and despite it's clear commercial application, it feels like a really lovely translation of someones idea of having a genuinely wonderful time. with pizza. In the background you can see a bit of a mural of Yuri Gagarin I dun recently, doesn't seem to look too great in photos though, think i need a proppa camera for this one. Oh yeah and at the top is a nice painting of a horrible man, Vlad Dracul no less!

E-Fit Vagabond

2010-09-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

Plotting out a sinister large scale drawing, trying to mix realistic lighting with a more hallucinogenic approach...

Emigration Journal

2010-08-10T11:02:00.000-07:00

I've chanced upon some letters written by distant distant relatives emigration to australia in the 1850s, they make pretty interesting reading so i'm in the process of abridging them, with the end goal of presenting illustrated excerpts as 3 pages of my next newspaper zine. The idea actually got me thinking about making a zine using primary sources as the only written content, I've always found social history really engaging and it would be nice to present voices from the past in an accessible format. Above is a silly preliminary sketch...

Felix

2010-07-30T11:59:00.001-07:00

Felix was great back in day, he was fuzzy and inky, he drank constantly and always got the last laugh.

isometric television

2010-07-21T06:33:00.001-07:00

Free Range Installation

2010-07-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

Last week we had our degree showcase at Free Range. I presented my Oil Slick newspaper and a looping animation based on the stories of AUCB fine artist Lizzie Latham, with a little bit of set dressing to evoke a coherent universe for these media to exist in.

Almost forgot to take pictures though! Thank the good lord my Dad saw fit to take these when I wasn't looking, it could use a bit of preening but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth (i just did).

Here's a low-res version of the animation too. It looked really nice on the old transistor telly, lovely and flickery.

bozza

2010-07-13T11:37:00.000-07:00

Still a while to go but with the London mayoral elections in 2012 it would be good to start thinking about posters to get my 2 pence across when the time comes (clue; not rooting for this guy).

badical panels

2010-06-21T07:41:00.000-07:00

Back to something significantly more garish than i've been doing recently but pretty fun regardless. I'm pleased with the semi 3d effect, tres satifying.

nice stuff to eyes at

2010-06-16T07:54:00.000-07:00

http://www.transatlantis.net/blog/archives/comics/index.html

http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/people/schechter/my_politics

ancient clarity

2010-05-06T06:18:00.000-07:00

2010-04-19T05:13:00.000-07:00

Finally got my paper printed, it's 12 pages of narrative stuff with comic strips stories and a big centre poster. If you'd like a copy drop me an email at jacobhughdavies@hotmail.com.

TENGU

2010-03-22T11:02:00.000-07:00

Made this for close friends and club bangers The Badical if you like 303, b.b.bass and "getting down", you should have a listen

newspaper cover

2010-03-15T13:02:00.000-07:00

Here's the (rough) cover of a slim newsprint tome of my narrative stuff that I'm making at the moment, more pics whens it's printed.

some final major bits

2010-03-05T10:19:00.000-08:00

Looking to make a newspaper now I reckon.

2010-02-25T09:47:00.000-08:00

Strip in progress. I've tried to create a claustrophobic repetition with the split frames, for now the black white balance is a bit off but when it's finished i'd like to see it printed on newsprint like a 20's strip.

2010-02-03T10:01:00.000-08:00

heres an Ed Rusha style panel for a new strip I'm working on. I don't know if it could really be printed properly though...

2009-12-24T09:59:00.000-08:00

The project got finished a while ago, i made 3 A3 strips, mock up mini book version and some posters. Ideally i'd like to flypost the strip but i need to find a good spot. Also want to make an A3 zine version but i think i'll add more content for that, text, other illustrators etc. Here are some pics of my finals there are more on my logbook blog

nearly finished the big narrative '09

2009-12-15T17:50:00.000-08:00

nearly completed a 3 page silent strip with bikers, demons, Baba Yaga and reincarnation

brrrrmmmm

2009-11-23T11:15:00.000-08:00

I'm making a narrative mural at the moment, it has motorbikes

kid jones

2009-10-20T03:04:00.000-07:00

summer's over

2009-10-09T08:03:00.000-07:00

doing stuff? yeah, ok then, i suppose that could work...

2009-06-22T11:15:00.000-07:00

I've started working long hours at a quiet hotel bar, it's nice getting to see the inside of any "well oiled" service industry business, but the thrill is beginning to wear off. Getting to use copy pads is great though... also some lazy summer bits and pieces

view from an autistic morning

2009-05-18T14:55:00.001-07:00

Ever feel like you're not quite sure what constitutes proper, normal healthy, human interaction? (serious though, enough with the skulls)

2009-05-18T06:55:00.000-07:00

a silly start to a new stretchbooook

final after effects

2009-05-11T05:21:00.000-07:00

2009-03-29T08:34:00.000-07:00

Another image from the narrative project, rest up soon...

2009-03-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

Trying to flesh out a robot concept today, general trudging to tunes, always a strong look.
I want to make the him all black ink and bleedy like the legs, I need to clock how to make more mechanical movements too.

oh, and look at THIS!

2009-03-23T05:35:00.000-07:00

We're learning to use after effects at the minute, I'm trying to make something for a soundtracked short (I was thinking of using the 3rd by metronomy). S'aight s'pose, but I want to make something more jerky, abrasive and busy.

2009-03-18T18:26:00.000-07:00

Two things here, The first is some preliminary playing around stuff for a new digital media/ after-effects project we've been set Just thinking about layers and texture for now, pretty derivative but hopefully it'll give me a feel for what i can do with the program. To see who's ideas I'm nicking, have a look at this

The second picture is one of my five finals for the previous narrative brief, I'll put them all up in order, avec context soon.

2009-01-27T09:14:00.000-08:00

2009-01-25T12:03:00.000-08:00

Here's the finished piece for our visual explanation brief, I pretty much abandoned the vis com focus and made a (ahem) "psychogeographical map" of north London. To be honest the way it relates to my own imagined/remembered London isn't quite what I'd hoped for, and it should certainly be a lot lot bigger, but I do like the feel of it. One to return to I reckon...

2009-01-24T07:36:00.001-08:00

let there be light

2009-01-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

Bernadette

2008-12-26T16:40:00.000-08:00

Bernadette, gone but not forgoten (until the second coming)

2008-12-11T01:11:00.000-08:00

2008-12-09T11:45:00.001-08:00

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2008-12-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

2008-11-07T04:37:00.000-08:00

bam, green eggs...

2008-10-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

very soon to be my most rad thing evaaa, more to do though...

SCULLY!

2008-10-23T09:57:00.000-07:00

If you need to ask you'll never know...

more graphic novel bits...

2008-10-16T08:19:00.000-07:00

graphic novel

2008-10-14T17:00:00.001-07:00

We've been asked to create a few pages of "graphic novel" (excuse the "s, I wasn't sure if four pages counts...) interpreting T.S Eliot's the wasteland. It's all a bit heavy but an interesting challenge, still trying to work out how to render it, I really like working in pen and ink but I'm finding it hard to be consistent...

2008-10-12T12:04:00.001-07:00

2008-10-10T08:33:00.000-07:00

2008-10-08T13:41:00.000-07:00

2008-10-07T11:00:00.000-07:00

pixel

2008-09-01T09:35:00.000-07:00

I really like the idea of making low-fi digital images, somehow injecting some humanity back into digital work using shittty technique. I like the timbre of this image but even the the low res version of the guru picture in the post below, I think has a certain warmth, as though it's a much resampled version of a much older picture, or something weird you found on your computer or online...

guru

2008-09-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

keys

2008-08-23T09:36:00.000-07:00

gabbeerglitchmeatbeest

2008-08-14T08:11:00.000-07:00

Gabber 2

2008-08-11T09:10:00.000-07:00

Not sure about the feel/vibe/whatever of this one, though I like the text on the biro one.

Gabba Beasts

2008-08-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Alex has been making some 'orrible gabba and asked me to come up with something to put on the myspace (I'll put up a link when he's set it up). Monsters seemed the obvious choice and here are some first ideas...

Before all this gabba bizniz Alex and Andrew's main concern is the Badical http://www.myspace.com/thebadical here's some stuff i did for that to give some "contex" (to let me show off some work from time ago I still haven't matched).

donde esta la family tree?

2008-07-29T09:29:00.000-07:00

This is like national treasure but with less sean bean!

jalopy

2008-07-28T15:11:00.000-07:00

Nazi Pigs

2008-07-25T08:37:00.000-07:00

Pretty self explanatory really...

The Devil wears prada

2008-07-21T04:55:00.000-07:00

Some new horribleness and some last blues fing

Winton

2008-07-19T11:42:00.000-07:00

Winton is where I live in Bournemouth. It's three letters too long for my liking, there's not much there and it looks a bit like this...

and some more...

2008-07-19T11:39:00.001-07:00

this is me playing catch up a bit, not t0o much cheating from now on...

to start

2008-07-19T11:23:00.000-07:00

Been listening to loads of old bluesy rootsy stuff recently, RL Burnside, Son House, that leadbelly song, etc...