this photo isn't the best i need to get a better one


This is my latest work of my friend and house mate angus playing on his xbox. what drew me to do this was the fact he always tranced out when playing on the xbox, but he had such an arrogant charm. This wasn't from a staged even he just happened to be playing his xbox, and I was like is it ok if I took some photos of you playing.

Its a pretty big pieces of work of 80x60 inches and is thread and die on canvas.  To be honest I think this is only half way there, and I plan to sew into the controller more especially. Im still in debate about the rest of it. i decided to not do it in realistic colours, but in an almost photoshop filter style. I wasn't intending to comment on photoshop, but this really does. The fact photos, and photoshop don't take long to do compared to sewing, its something we take for granted these days, of requiring patience and the willingness to create something that isn't instant. something thats work on can show passion I would understand someone getting bored with this but its the perseverance that is to be admired

This work is to look at duality of people of life and ever everything we take for granted.  There will be more to follow so just keep an eye on this space.

thanks zack

i realise that i need to do more life drawing for my work which i will start in the new year as it is im very busy with other works which i will up load latter

seconded entry a start to somewhere

This is one of of my works in its early development. It is a drawing that combines eastern animation with western to create a mixed hybrid of the two.
The idea came to me after I went to an anime convention at Warwick university where there were a lot of cos-players (people who dress up in costume of a character they want to portray). One court my eye, a guy dress in a spiderman outfit, and wearing a cloak seen and wore by certain characters in the anime Naruto.

This got me thinking how we see ourselves in the eyes of someone else. The power of gaze is a force to be reckoned with, and through my work I am trying to explore how i can use this to make my own, personal, visual language.

This is my first post ever, and now it is up, there will be more to come. i will be looking at art works, and analysing them posting latest up dates on my own work, and its development and hopefully gaining feed back. Then there will be things i like and general areas of interest.