Eyebrows Cat #5

Meowy Christmas!


Jamie

Avenge Vulture Attack Music Video.

Hello Hello.


Action packed weekened! I'm currently doing a music video for the band Avenge Vulture Attack at the moment, I'm doing a cross between a hand drawn animation and a stop frame animation. This weekend we did the stop frame animation part which was fun to do, but very tiring. Especially as the snow kept challenging us on the Saturday like an annoying little brother (a cold one at that, maybe the type that flicks your ears when they're cold).

(All photos haven't been edited by the way)
Above, the guys are getting their make up and hair done. Over Saturday and Sunday it took between 2- 3 hours each day to get ready, which seems long but considering it's 3 guys and a gal getting their make up, hair and clothes done, seems about right. Especially as we were up really early on both days.

Here are some 'action' shots of the shoot. We had fun with it and that's what it should be about. If we tried to be too serious with it, we would risk coming across as cheesy or trying too hard and ultimately it will backfire on us and we'll be the laughing stock of the whole music world!! (Okay not QUITE that bad, but it wouldn't be nice for either myself or the band to look cheesy!). Overall,  a lot of fun in the cold snow and I'm aiming for the hand drawn animation that accompanies this will portray the same tone.

Group shot! (L-R clockwise) Juss - Bass, Ella - Vocals, Jenny - stylist, Lee - Make up, Ben -drums, Drew - Guitar. And myself right in the middle.


All in all a fun weekend but ever so tiring. I took a total of 738 photos, which will be just over a minute's worth of footage. Going to be fun to organize!


That's all for now folks.


Jamie

Birthday present.

Hey guys,


This has been a bit of a 'work in progress' if you will. Let me explain, on the 24th September I went out for some birthday drinks, (my real birthday is 27th September. Hinty hint hint) went to pub, (where I thought my friends kindly bought me 2 pints, little to my knowledge they put a shot of white rum into each of them. Cheers guys! Gah.) then we went to a gig then onto the Electric Ballroom in Camden.
By this point you can imagine I was rather squiffy. Well, my good friend Adam persuaded me to go moshing to this 'rockin' song - I forget which, my own voice sounded 'rockin' at this point. So, I get well into the ol' moshing-a-roo, it was rather fun but then out of nowhere - BAM! As I was turning round in momentum to said moshing, I smacked my foreheard, into this HUGE Irish MAN mouth, but to be more precise, his tooth.
I was left with a bit of a Harry Potter-esque scar on me noggin. Bleeding only a bit. I felt fine, everyone wanted to have a butchers though and make sure I was alright (thanks to Louis and Laila in particular).
It was rather a surreal experience having people looking at your forehead, then shuffling away for the next lot of customers to see. I was like an attraction at the Zoo. But anywho, I documented the healing process as I didn't get stitches (We would of, we went A&E but we waited for 3 hours, when we were the only ones there! Ridiculous.)
So yeah, it's a grand total of 84 days, I took a photo nearly everyday, but you get the jist. 


Enjoy!


Jamie

Frustrament 1/2.

Hello Hello.


Gosh I have been busy as of late, good busy, I'm not over-working just yet. This post is related to the previous post(s) of the the critically acclaimed 'PAPER SERIES'. I did this drawing I'm about to show you a good fortnight ago, which I would of posted sooner, but as you know I get easily distra- HAHA KITTENS! LOOK AT THEM!


Yeah.


Paper-hoy!

You're probably thinking "Er wha?", especially if you click on the pics and have a closer look. Don't worry I'll elaborate with this and hopefully you'll get where I'm coming from. This idea stems from quite a personal experience I've had and I'm sure many of you can share this feeling/experience with me. It's the one of knowing even though you put in a lot of effort and hard work into something, it doesn't get the respect/credit it deserves. For me in particular this relates to when I did A-level Art. I put my heart and soul into the whole A-level, literally worked on it everyday, I enjoyed it. I was predicted an A by my teachers and my peers thought the same too - without sounding too arrogant I knew I would get a good grade. Then some subjective numpty comes in and marks the work and gives me a C. This didn't jeopardize my Art school credentials as I was already accepted to Chelsea Art College with an 'Unconditional' offer. The principal was that it was more for myself than anything, I needed it. When I received this grade I was really disappointed and thought "Ok, fair enough if they didn't like my style, technique and ideas." Because I can accept that, it's just the sheer amount of work I put in, so so so much work.

I filled 2/3 A3 sketchbooks to the brim per project, a ridiculous amount of work, and it went unnoticed (That's not including paintings on canvases and sculptures etc). This has happened in other circumstances which are too lengthy to get into but I'm sure a few of you have had a similar encounter under different circumstances and can relate to the frustration experienced.

So using the A3 paper I had obtained, I set about doing a repetitive pattern, over and over again, almost in a sort of frustration of continuous circles, like when you scribble out a mistake. So the piece itself represents the actual hard work that I put into it by doing it (it did take quite a while I must admit) but also showing frustration of how hard work doesn't always get the praise it deserves and might as well just be a big scribble.

In my opinion, without the 'meaning' behind it that I explained above, it actually looks quite nice as a background pattern.

This is 1 of 2 pieces with a similar theme, the other near-ish to completion.

TTFN

Jamie

Paper fun.

Paper update! I did this a while ago but you know how much of a silly billy I am, I forgot to upload it. 
The concept behind this one was, well, nothing. I intentionally forced myself to not concentrate or be inspired by anything and be distracted as I drew this (If this sounds like a contradictory idea, that's up to you). I just wanted it to be a complete random mess and see what the result would be.

I don't think it represents anything.
Maybe I really crave Spirographs.
Probably that.
Actually, yes!
Ha I dunno, if this does in fact represent my sub-conscious, and you are a budding psycho-analyst, I would be really interested to hear from you. Even if you're not one for that matter, I would be interested to hear an interpretation all the same.
Saying that, I'm expecting someone to message me with "Well, with the evidence provided it means you have issu-GAAAAAAAAAAAY!" 


Hur hur hur.


Toodles.


Jamie

Comicollab.

Myself and my old buddy old pal Illustrator Adam Grant came up with a collaborated comic when we  were bored in the wee hours of the morning. The rules are as follows: one character each, stick to the one box panel, black and white only and 5 minutes to draw. Here are the results, Adam went first:

Jamie

Busy all of a sudden.

Latest on the job fronts, after a quiet past month or so, I have numerous things on the go now. My workload never seems to be gradual or consistent, it's always all or nothing. (Oh who am I kidding, I love it really, I get to brag more to you lot!) All big headedness aside though, later today I'm meeting a band to discuss doing an music video animation for them, quite excited, hopefully we'll get to bounce around a lot of ideas and get things rolling straight away.
As well as this, I was recently interviewed for an arty designy magazine about blogging and promoting my work via this blog, really excited about this. I get to illustrate some of the layout of my interview spread so watch this space as this should be up and running online in the next few weeks.
Also I have an internship lined up in January at this independent record label as a Digital Designer. 
I know I'm not giving too much information away, I will in due course as they come about, I just thought I'd give a little teaser for upcoming events.
ALSO, I've got over 1,000 views on this blog! Excellent stuff man, I'm surprised as this blog only kicked off proper in the summer, you faithful readers you. I knew we could do it.. together... and... and.....I LOVE YOU ALL! *whimpers* Well chuffed.


That's all for now folks,


Jamie