I Heart Pencils

Quadrophenia - the painted version

2013-06-10T20:23:00.001+01:00

As I mentioned in the previous post my piece for the Movie Show exhibition had to be an original piece of artwork produced traditionally without the aid of a computer. Here it is. Watercolours and ink. I enjoyed doing this a lot. I can't remember the last time I produced a finished piece without the aid of Photoshop! You can see everyone else's contribution on the blog. The show opens June 27 at the Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris.

Quadrophenia

2013-06-07T13:05:00.000+01:00

I was asked to contribute to a movie themed show in Paris by the brilliant Seb Mesnard. I could choose any film I wanted. I struggled for a while. That's a pretty open brief and there were just too many choices - The Apartment, Annie Hall, Dirty Harry, Westworld, Rollerball, Chungking Express, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Clockwork Orange, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls - then I noticed the DVD of Quadrophenia on my shelf. I can't count how many times I've seen this film. If I ever catch it on TV I have to watch it to the end. It's one of those films. The piece I'll send to Paris will be an original ink drawing with no computer involved at all but I've also produced a digitally coloured version to be made available as print . Below are the earlier stages of the illustration - pencil sketch and the finished line work. I always enjoy seeing other illlustators process so I thought I'd share.

It ain't over until...

2013-06-06T19:52:00.001+01:00

A Valkyrie style opera singer. A recent commission for a Scottish tourism magazine.

Patti

2013-05-28T12:43:00.001+01:00

There was a great photo of Patti Smith accompanying an interview in the Guardian magazine on Saturday. I couldn't resist drawing it.

Some directors

2013-05-21T15:04:00.001+01:00

Here's a (unplanned) series of drawings of directors from my current sketchbook - Kubrick, Lynch, Anderson, Allen, Hitch. Who should I draw next?

Drawing block apartment blocks

2013-05-15T15:24:00.000+01:00

I couldn't seem to draw anything on Monday. Every line was a struggle. So instead of not doing anything I thought I'd just take a piece of A3 paper, 2 brushpens and a dip pen and start drawing buildings and streets until the page was full. I find this very therapeutic. No real thought behind it. Just start in one corner and continue until there's no space left on the page.

Ska Badger

2013-05-13T12:28:00.001+01:00

I've drawn a Ska Badger for The Somerset Badger Group charity. You can win the original by donating here.

Recent sketches from various places

2013-05-10T15:04:00.000+01:00

Top two pages are drawings from the Felt Mistress workshop at Pick Me Up (Somerset House, London. Thanks to everyone who came along), then the Pete Fowler exhibition/talk/DJ set (at Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds) and bottom is the Sweet Baboo gig (Telford's, Chester). It's been a busy two weeks!

It's Bender!

2013-05-06T01:51:00.000+01:00

My version of Bender for the Mooks' "Draw Futurama" Tumblr.

Mini Subs

2013-04-27T17:09:00.000+01:00

Just realised I haven't posted many pages from my sketchbook recently (I post stuff on Instagram almost daily) so here's a few mini subs I drew a few weeks back.

Pictoplasma Debriefing

2013-04-26T20:19:00.000+01:00

Well, Pictoplasma was an absolute blast. We had the best of times. Above is the window to Sur La Montagne where our show "Gotta Get Up To Get Down". Louise made a group of gurus/lifecoaches and Anton and Amphibina came along for the ride. I provided 24 drawings for the "Wall of Assuagement" (the remaining drawings are available HERE). A group of disparate characters who had benefitted in some way from the advice of G'Goob, Groam, Gooplin and Gromp.

Groam

The Wall of Assuagement

Gooplin

Here's a pic of us onstage giving our talk (no idea what we're laughing at!). Photo by Andre Bucci courtesy of Pictoplasma.

And here's an amusing photo, taken by Louise, of a dinner discussion.

Thanks to everyone involved (in Pictoplasma in general not just in the dinner. Although it was a particularly good dinner).

Nas - The Don for Secret 7"

2013-04-20T22:22:00.000+01:00

Here's my hand drawn sleeve for The Don by Nas. It's my contribution to this year's Secret 7" exhibition which opened today. Hopefully someone bought it. Was it you? Once again it was a pleasure to take part alongside such great artists.

"Got To Get Up To Get Down" - Felt Mistress exhibition in Berlin for Pictoplasma

2013-04-07T16:11:00.000+01:00

We're very pleased to announce that as part of Pictoplasmas we will we exhibiting at Sur La Montagne, Berlin, from April 10th until April 14th. "Felt Mistress - Gotta Get Up To Get Down" will consist of a "gaggle of gurus" including Groam (pictured above), some old favourites and 24 new drawings/paintings (see the snap shots below for examples) which will form The Wall of Assuagement. More details HERE.

We're also giving a talk as part of the conference on Friday afternoon. Gulp! Directly afterwards at Platoon Kunsthalle Louise will be making a new character from beginning to end in front of your very eyes! Gasp! See you there.

Judge Death

2013-03-05T14:46:00.000Z

I fancied drawing Judge Death last night. So that's exactly what I did.

Book signing at Colours May Vary, Leeds

2013-02-20T18:45:00.000Z

We'll be at Colours May Vary (Munro House, Duke St, Leeds) this Saturday (February 23rd) between 2.30 and 6.00 signing copies of Creature Couture. I'll be drawing portraits in the style of a Felt Mistress character (like these) in the front of every copy bought. Come along and say hello! More details HERE and a review of the store HERE.

UMO animated ad

2013-02-13T19:57:00.001Z

UMO – Var finns hjälp att få? (65 sek) from Jakob Westman on Vimeo.

A new Felt Mistress project! Once again we've had the pleasure of working with Jakob Westman and the team at Kärnhuset in Sweden (click HERE to see our previous collaboration). This time it was for an animated ad and poster campaign for UMO. UMO is a website for young people with information about sex, health and relationships. The focus of this campaign is mental health and self esteem issues. We had a week to come up with three characters. They had to appeal to teens but without looking too childish or appearing to look too much like a certain type of teen (a goth or skater for instance). We came up with about 15-20 characters before finally deciding on the three below.

Louise then had another week to work her magic before we packaged them all up in a box and posted them off to Sweden. We can't believe how much life and personality Elinor Bergman, the animator, and the rest of the team gave them! It's particularly exciting for us as it's the first time we've ever seen our characters animated. The ad is topped off by a brilliant soundtrack by Patrik Arve (of Teddybears) with vocals by Britta Persson. A full list of the credits follows the photos below.

Client: UMO.se
Head of Communication: Liselotte Nordh Rubulis
Agency: Kärnhuset
Planner/Project Manager: Erik Thorsén
Account Manager: Johan Henriksson
Art Director: Jakob Westman
Copywriter: Paul Martinsson
Production Manager: Felicia Helldén Rhodin
Character Design: Felt Mistress
Louise Evans & Jonathan Edwards
Production: BLA Stockholm
Director/Producer: Petter Lennstrand
DP/Set Designer: Robert Komarek
Animator: Elinor Bergman elinorbergman.com
Post: Tomas Näslund
Music/Producer: Patrik Arve
Vocals: Britta Persson
Lyrics: Jakob Westman
Voice-over: Åsa Sandler (UMO)

UPDATE - English language version now available HERE.

Spider-man

2013-02-10T01:31:00.000Z

It's Spidey!

Finn & Jake

2013-02-07T23:45:00.001Z

Finn (the human) and Jake (the dog) from the sublime Adventure Time.

Silver Surfer

2013-02-05T23:50:00.000Z

The ultimate silver dude!

Totoro

2013-02-04T14:10:00.000Z

I did a quick sketch of Totoro yesterday. Couldn't resist inking and colouring it. I love Totoro!

Thor

2013-02-03T01:55:00.000Z

Cubic Ben Grimm

2013-02-01T22:32:00.000Z

One more Thing (sorry).

Iron Man

2013-02-01T15:31:00.001Z

Iron Man in a similar style to my recent Hulk pic.

The Abstractable Hulk

2013-01-30T21:47:00.000Z

Two versions of the Hulk. An exaggerated version of him in my sketchbook (below) and an abstracted version of the exaggerated version (above). Perhaps I should take him one stage further?

Recent sketchbook creatures

2013-01-23T20:46:00.000Z

Don't know who these guys are. I think they'd wear a lot of heavy knitwear and communicate in "Phoot phoot" noises like wet clarinets.