29/9/10

When I started this blog the idea was to update it regularly, didn't really happen did it? Heres my second attempt at keeping to this blogging thing. Started Art School about two weeks ago, everybody gets on really well and the course is better than i expected it to be. I wonder how many people dropped out of Universities because the course is absolutley dire? After panicing unnecessarily I came up with some really interesting ideas for my first module so it's full steam ahead ;)

I should really put more artwork and visuals on here it's looking pretty bleak with all this text. Show and tell went well, i finished the 'Book Of Me' summer project so i'll put up the snaps inabit. Oh and I secured one and a half days employement (go me!) at the solicitor's manning the phones and typing letters, should be fun, having a meltdown could well be likley but at the end of the day it's more money for materials and i get to sit in a sexy swivvel chair and drink cup after cup of coffee.

Perhaps i should start brainstorming ideas for that children's story, if it comes to me as easily as my graphic novel did i should be laughing. If it doesn't, well then I won't be.

Hello

Finished college for the now, basically my life is going to be a repetative blend of watching The Wright Stuff, Bargain Hunt, reading books and cups of coffee (or cwoffee if your American). It feels nice just to be able to draw when I feel like it - been quite inspired at the moment, came up with a really good pump design which I'll implement once I have the tools ;) and came up with an idea for the packaging for the book I've been set to create for my first Uni brief (oooh, exciting!).

Not forgetting writing little stories which I'll probably do something with in the future. All in all I'm pretty chuffed with my triple distinction grade, just can't wait to move out now. This page hasn't been graced with my artwork for a while, so have some life drawing done by own fair hand.

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For my FMP I've decieded to do 2 A2 paintings (Mexico and China) and 2 A1 paintings (America and Japan), basically the ones that cause the least offence (I have been warned by tutors not to exhibit the most offensive peices even though they fulfil the message I'm trying to portray, and since it's my first exhibition I don't want to jeff things up). I feel better now i know what I'm doing rather than just been in a constant muddle :)

Rather than stressing now I can spend most of my time painting when I feel like it and actually catch up on reading - just finished Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote and am 3/4 through Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. I'm like a month away from the exhibition so all there is to do is print my graphic novel and handwrite each page and attach my book covers to books - it would help if i can track down two cheap copies of HG Wells' Time Machine.

Since I've been absent for so long I might as well post a poem, it's the first one in the book that lives inside the box I designed.


Sunday Morning

Sunday mornings have become a rainy place to be
I fell in love with the sun
She now shines brightly within my head.

Sleeping blissfully on the pillow next to me
I fell in love with the sun
Her sweet, subtle breathe warming my bed.

Take a closer look it’s not that hard to see
I fell in love with the sun
I’m ready to go again, my pencil full of lead.

Mmm... Mexico

Mexico

5ive

I'm currently scanning my graphic novel, it seems to be a gargantuan effort. Hopefully it will look good enough to sell/publish/distribute, it makes me proud to know I've written, drawn and designed every single thing that has gone into it. Recently I've been thinking about what will happen when I leave Art School (true, I haven't even started, but it's good to think ahead), well what I want to happen - either work as a childrens book illustrator or do a residency somewhere like Beijing, Canada or somewhere nice to look at.
Anyway, since I haven't wrote in this blog for a while I thought I might as well write a bit for a change, sex up my day a bit.

cultural stereotypes so far...

France

America

China

In this series I'm going to produce 10 hand painted images, I will then use Adobe Illustrator in order to create vector based images.

Handmade Book

Front and back cover

Page 1

Life is full of self confidence

issues and body hang-ups.

To think of one as art

& an individual is to truly

think outside of the box.

Page 2

Page 3

Adam Byrne

enjoys using

the bare essentials.

Made using an old sketchbook and cardboard for the spine, i like how every page responds with each other and links to make an interesting and unpredictable piece. The last page is done using a typewriter and a dynomarker.

Self Project

Top of the box

Bottom of the box

Front of the box

Back of the box

Left of the box

Right of the box

This is the second attempt of the box idea. The first one was intended to be made with old sketchbooks, but because it was harder to draw on I used parcel paper and pen to draw images of myself on all of the box's faces.

Blu Tack Advertisement

These are the stills for a stop-frame animation I did for the company Bostik, they make Blu Tack.

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With student finance well on it's way and getting a place in the dream factory (I mean art school, not Noel's excuse of a gameshow), it's all a matter of finding somewhere to live. Having scrapped the idea of living with friends, simply due to going to different universities and the fiascos of washing-up I've decieded to look for a nice studio appartment. Mulling it over it seems like an amicable decision, and much catered for me as a person, meaning I can do what I want when I want and eat basically whatever crap I choose to introduce to my body.

There was something I heard recently about that it is a human right that we have access to the internet, what utter bullshit to be honest. Personally I feel it has it's uses as far as blogging is concerned, but to rely on it soley for relationships, comfort, communication and research makes us lazy and unconnected with each other as individuals. I don't see what is so wrong with finding someone to be with the 'natural' way, using human interaction, writing letters, or reading books. What I have just written relates to how I feel about art, it is a personal process that should be composed by the artist themselves without the reliance on photoshop, digital cameras or state of the art special effects.