Posca pens, done.
Love these Posca pens, quite a different technique as the ink is quite thin at first then sets opaque from the outside of the glass looking in, inside out is like a stained glass window.
Would really like this ink in a tin it's a delight to play with and could be excellent with a brush.
Right, that's the testing done now time to do the art. I'll keep you posted.
Darren Whittington
Illustrating in thin air
I'm testing out the Zig Posterman and Uni Posca pens today on a new frontage for the studio down at Jubilee Wharf. So far so good and a cheeky test for the artworks that I'm creating during Flushing Art Week(May 29th - June 6th) at The Watermans Rest and various other locations around the village.
Darren Whittington
All things green and good
Seem to be playing a lot more with typography lately, not quite enough definition in this piece yet but with a few tweaks... One of many routes that didn't make the cut.
Chosen route up online around July. D
Book cover concepts
I've been working with the leading London playwright Christopher William Hill on a new book he's putting the final touches too.
Here's a taster of one of the initial ideas for a cover, hand crafted typography to add. D
New Studio, new sketch window
Just moved into a new studio down at the Jubilee Wharf Eco building and decided that the windows are now my sketchbook. Here's a first stab at window painting using Posterman and Posca pens. Got some plans for Flushing Art week so expect more of this media in the near future.
Oh and if you're near by pop in for a cup o' tea and test out the echo that currently consumes the space. Pyramid sound foam on the way!
On the hunt for textures!
I've been hunting down various textures lately to use as backdrops to illustrations but also to create new filters in Illustrator/Photoshop CS4.
This flickr slide show will grow as I find more but to start with there's some really lovely bark textures from a fallen tree that I found on the coast path from Flushing, Cornwall, stone patterns from one of the oldest Churches in the UK at Mylor harbour, and just to add a bit of distance there's also a collection of textures found whilst I was in London last week: paint stripping of the Diesel shop front in Carnaby street and the rust from underneath of Miroslaw Balka's box of darkness in the Tate Modern.
Search and ye shall find! :)Darren Whittington
'09 Cornwall Film Festival Board Shorts poster
Carrying on from the work created with Leap Media for the main Festival poster(which can be seen in a previous post), I've continued the typographic theme for the 'Board Shorts' poster. Time consuming but worth it as there was a lot of experimentation with very little time to get it right. Good fun to do and hopefully it'll prove effective for the festival.
Good luck everyone and see you there. I'll post the details when i get the samples from the printers.
Darren Whittington
Lunch@Jamie's
Sunday lunch at Jamie Olivers' new Italian Restaurant in Canary Wharf, highly recommended, extremely family friendly, kids menus on 3D slide glasses, coloring in crayons coming out of your eyes, a Genaro and Jamie colouring in sheet, oh and absolutely the best pumpkin Ravioli money can buy, and the world's best Olives... on ice no less.
The sketch here is between my daughter and I whilst we waited for the chocolate brownie and triple ice creamm to arrive, spectacular.
Check out the artistic work with the Latte as well. Nice.
Darren Whittington
2009 Cornwall Film Festival Poster
I've been working with lovely Matt Hocking at Leap Media creating the 2009 Cornwall Film Festival posters.
This year we've tried to build on the great branding work A-Side had created over the past few years and develop a new approach to the style using emotive words that will engage the target audience with hand crafted typography using various media which has hopefully created an engaging piece that will encourage people to come to the festival and find out a little more about this highly acclaimed cultural highlight of the year.
Thank you Matt and see you all at the festival.
Mark Kermode opening it again this year perhaps?
Darren Whittington
Time flies
I've gone out and got a new sketchbook, one of those lovely Moleskine ones, got the new pencil, even got a pencil case already to go out into the big wide world and get sketching. I'm normally quite obsessive with sketchbooks, always tinkering, jotting down thoughts, but time has flown by and even my 22 month old daughter has managed to spend more time sketching.
Here's our joint effort whist she recovered from Chicken Pox watching Cbeebies and a dash of Monsters Inc.
Big fans of Mike Kasowski!
:)Darren Whittington
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