Miss Broadway

I've been a little lazy writing about these. They've just been sitting completely liberated without my negative thoughts choking them...oh well not for long...

These are all from a recent project. We were told to pick a song and produce images for it. I chose 'Miss Broadway' (a cover) by the band Glass Candy. This band are blogged about lots and lots so go to Hype Machine and search for it (it's like 'super awesome'). At the time of this project my continuing interest in silent cinema and the 192o/30's was resurfacing and I watched 'Pandora's Box' by G.W Pabst. Basically I saw Miss Broadway as a slightly languid and sordid woman. The first two are images linked directly to lyrics.

Body Issues

I remembered about this project the other day. It was at the beginning of my investigations into the evils of Photoshop and it seems my skills have deteriorated from these images onwards. This project started off as being about 'Elegance' but it quickly descended (as most of my projects do) into drawing grotesque people.

Welcome?

Today, after months and months of endless procrastination I have finally started this blog. What has provoked me to start posting was my current position in front of the television watching perhaps the most moronic faeces ridden piece of broadcasting i've ever had to witness. NBC's Age of Love with former tennis player Mark Philippoussis picking a mate from a selection of 20 or 40 year olds. I'm not really sure how to describe quite how utterly hateful the contestants (and for that matter MP himself) were. If you've seen the programme you probably know what i'm talking about. If not maybe these images of maggot ridden and vomiting dogs might help convey my feelings.






These images are actually from an editorial illustration project. I was producing images for a G2 article on the death of record companies. I realise in 'the real world', the Guardian would never actually use such images as this. It was fun to draw though. Please forgive the rudimentary photoshopping, I am still struggling the master even the basics.