Boxpark Exhibition went down a hit!

I work at a place called GameBoxpark, which specialises in Xbox Games. They asked me to create an exhibition for the brand that will go up for a month. So I got 10 artists together in a project celebrating the past present and future of XBOX.

Had a lot of fun creating this piece. Derek Yates [my old Tutor at camberwell] made me laugh. He said "You finished it!" LOOOOL..... i never finished things in Uni

Anyway, the piece is about two future XboxOne games called Titanfall [the most anticipated game of Next-Gen] and Ryse: Son of Rome [one of the least.... but hey, romans verse Robots!]

The show went really well. One of the best ones Ive had. I guess its because I didn't have to deal with any of the financial stuff. This allowed me to concentrate on the creative side of thing, which included finding the right artists to work with an working on something your excited about. 

We also made AWESOME T-shirts from the work we made thanks to YrStore. 

The Creative Gamer Gang Wearing their artwork! which you can buy from us :D

Piece A0 ! never had my work that big before haha!

I feel like this year has been an increadibe year for my creativity and my career path, and it feels like it will continue. Thank God for everyday! and I hope to continue to learn and grow in this Practise of illustration, Animation and Storytelling!

Make sure you get to the Exhibition at Boxpark in Shoredtich  2-10 Bethnal Green Road London. Check out all the other artists work!

?WAT! Painting in Cophenhagen?

We were looking for some legal spots in the city of copenhagen cause apparently danes are super serious when it comes to being caught spraying graffiti... i dont profess to be a graffiti-artist but Cans are Fun and we managed to find a spot where a Railway company[the people who hate the Graffiti crews the most] were organising artists from around the world to paint a designated area.... Without permission from the officials we found a spot on the same wall. The artists were cool, lets just hope the officials were to.
PRIME REAL ESTATE

Mural spray-painted with Montana Black[never used before, that high pressure shiz]] in Norrebro park, Copenhagan

PS. HIPHOP is like the BEST THING to listen to when you wanna spray paint.... Its just works!

Tom and Jerry Animation Comparison

Tom and Jerry 1960 - Funny home videos are a click away

Tom and Jerry 1960... What does this have to do with My LondonXNigeria Project. Backgrounds. Im most probably going to have a moving background in most of the pictures I would make.

the background in the earlier versions of Tom and Jerry were a lot more Full and fleshed out. Great and effective if your making a piece all about how detailed every area of where your going. but is it all necessary.

I don't think I've got all the time. to be creating full fleshed out backgrounds.

Apparently its because of the costs of things like paints and materials that would be needed. And the time restraints in creating new episodes.
Time restraints are definitely one of my issues at the moment. And I can see why simplifying things would become a lot more efficient in the 1980.

The fact that parts of what i will eb using will be animates means that i should take this into consideration. if things are really detailed but aren't going to get seen in detail then theres room for change.

I could learn from this!

Ive been drawing a lot of Complicated Backgrounds for this project, but i don't have a lot of time!

Life in Nigeria prt 1

This video has a perfect rendition of my experiances in nigerian Cities.
Its full of life and culture, but tbhere is this strange clash between the sun, th atmosphere and the natural environment. Pollution mad traffic, and everyones in a rush.

Trying to capture all of this deffinetly has to do with the colours and what medium to use

Concreate Circus is WAY COOL

Err Inf you didn't know already ?x3 and Travis are Characters who Free run.

this is a great source for identifying how they get around london. I ended up watching this on the plane to nigeria.

I wish i could free run... oh well. The Landscapes in nideria are awsome for stuff like this, since the architecture is really creative.

Black History Month exhibition

beddow ‘n’ Battini and The University of East London are collaborating on a Twist Lesson on Black History Month.

Remember the days in Primary or Secondary school? Big Letters on the Black/White Board, saying… “BLACK HISTORY MONTH”.

Underneath you’d see see the typical names: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks – The usual stuff back then.

Black History is important, but what exactly is the month dedicated to? Who put it there? And what do we actually get from it?

All we know is that Opinions are vast.. and we like to express ourselves. So take this exhibition as a eye opener to what different Story tellers feel about the Month that is BLACK HISTORY.

------------

For all you'll who didn't know Beddow n Battini is the collective that Im part of that do annual Exhibitions with artists and writers... for more info, check THIS OUT! :D Beddow n Battini

Little big planet - the calculator level

I want a playstation 3

Plainly because of this game!

Its probably the single most creative console game ever created, and as well as that, its a brilliant example of how a company can have a conversation with the consumers!

little big planet is a game were you basically play as a ragdoll called Sackboy - hes a dude made from what looks like a sack. its a basic physics based platforming game realised in 2008 for the playstation 3. the main enthuses of the games pretty much like super mario, but the CHARM of the game and the reason people love it so much is because of the limitless amount of things you can essentially experience from it, considering everything in the game can be designed from scratch.

its a game that lets you PLAY CREATE and SHARE. allowing you to play through the game, design your own levels and how they work and download/upload the created levels so that everyone on the network can play!

THIS GUY MADE A WORKING CALCULATOR through the Basic switches that you get in the game.

i love Super Mario Games but after seeing this, ive realised i want a playstation just to play this!

Bare in mind this game came out 2008, the Latest one Little big planet 2 came out a couple of weeks ago :) got it! dont have PS3 :(

had a tough week

Ive noticed that things don't ever happen the way you want them to happen to. and on the last day of studio time i felt the full heart if that! 5 days to go and i still dont have my wall up!

Things i needed to sort out:

-The Illustration- JUST FINISH IT FOR FLIP SAKE!
-Blot the wall onto the OTher wall so that i can project an image onto the WALL then PAINT ON THE WALL!
-BUY PAINT *man this time management thing is really killin me*
-Experiment with different colours to see what works where and how

I write up a time plan of things that i have to do for this week, seen as i ususalyl plan things baised on weeks.

The Actual Building of the wall hasn't started but i have written the measurements of how big it will be and all the components needed. mainly to help me out, but i will also go with the flow, things never turn out how you plan anyway even when you spend 4 days trying to collect the right type of wood and putting them together, the design might have to change due to the way things are set out.
Like the example here! IT all is pending on the hole in the middle where My mini Me is going to sit so the design might have to be tweeked as shown here. hopefull this mock up will be a good representation of things. i do have to bare in mind thatthe cardboard is substancially Thicker in scale to the thickness of the wood.


interms of the illustration, i feel like its come a nice way forward. I was stressed before because it felt unfinished. there was an aim there, but it looked like it was just half decorated and there was a certain idea that i was trying to get across. it didnt have a comeplteted feel to it because it needed to be more busy, and maybe have a better sence of focus, interm this would alow me to think about how to use colour and line alot more interestingly, like with the complicated Thai epics i looked at before. just adding the themes to the sides also made a big difference in the design.

Infact it solved the problem that i thought i had. i wanted to encorperate the idea of how imagenation sees somethings as somethign else. i had already made a sheet showing how i made this metamorphisis, but putting it onto the design proved challenging. But thankfully, when i spent time taking pictures of the subjects an idea naturally came.

i was going to try and draw this!!! even tho the Communication aspect is perfect, it seemed unpractical for the style already created. after collecting mroe images of the lace i deceded to just change things based on there cshape. rather than see a mountain as something to climb! see it as something to slide down... this helped with the composition ALOT! there are still more tweeks, but they will be done... the biggest issue is getting the improved design to work with the WALL!!!!

Its all coming together

its Gonna be hard to get all the things ive been solving out on to this blog sooooo im gonna try and do it in sections of days... ok:

Last Week - Confusuion and Lazyness!

I kinda knew what to do next... Come up with all the aspects of my childhood that i wanted to work with. But it was completely difficult to randomly come up with an ideas i know what i wanted to do with them. My Tutors gave me a bunch of artists to look at. i could see how they related to my work, and they all made sence to me, but i didnt feel that they were showing me a way forward.

That week felt really unproductive and mainly because i still hadnt found out how i would best display the images i had in my head... how ever i was able to actually start experimenting with colour nicely from lookin at Wigans work. turns out ive found it easier to put colour on something first, then Draw into it. which in a way makes sence. with dreams and nightmares, colours are the things that actually have a bigger impact then the details of the objects in them.

i did a little bit of compisition work in a page of my sketch book that was quite a good representation of what i wanted to do but it was one of thoses images that would be effective if small, but im not sure about how effective it would be Larger.

and because i didnt know all the aspects of my childhood i wanted to talk about i found drawing it out difficult. EHH MORE RESEARCH!

- i wanted to get more of the real stuff, not necessarily the stuff you read out of books but the stuff you see in people. it wasnt like a servay, but i basically got people around the studio, from tutors to students and students from the other rooms to Draw something from there childhood...anything, i really didnt want to limit what people had to say by saying draw a toy, or draw something from TV because i had alreayd looked at those things. Experiances was something i was mostly interested in. Even the people that i was collecting from thought that it wasnt that relevant to what i was doing if it was other peoples experiances. I was secpetical...

THIS WEEK - YESS!!!! DIRECTION!

THIS WEEK HOWEVER! Has been like EUREKA!!!!!! Ive basically found a really good way of Testing out images for there size effectiveness AND! I came up with all the aspects of my childhood and imagenation i wish to illustrate.

- Love for Creating worlds

- ROBOTS!!!!

- NINJAS

- Legomen/Powerrangers, and the stories id tell with them

- and finally NIGHTMARES!

The last Was a result of the actual Servay/Collection I didn with peoples childhood. everyones ideas were really helpfull in helping me with the whole projects, esppecially some individual ones that were about DREAMS... and it made me think about my dreams, and the characters that were in them. there a part of your imagenation and im surprised i didnt think about adding theses in there in the firstplace :)

AND FINALLY!

all of my tutors are a genious...

All the problems ive been having with how to work with my imagry have lifted.

Ive always wanted to work with scale, but so i moved from sketchbooks, to worksheets. and from worksheets to 3d! and now im going to cleverly uses a projector! an overhead projector.

The Narrator

I had an interesting Talk with my tutor about how i could tell the story about my childhood imagenation without just drawing a load of stuff that might not lok likek it means something. After making the minni me i really wanted to try and do more with it.







Interestingly enough, i had had all the ingrediants to create a story, just like how i used to. i had the props[everything ive collected], i had the over all idea[childhood items and stuff],and i had the Narrator[my mini me].







Fundamentally i dont actually need to draw a comic to tell a story, but the idea kept coming back to me.







The talk with my tutor was helpfull because she was able to tell me how i should use the toy as the narrator since hes supposed to be a repressentation of myself. Also i could Try to find different aspects of my childhood to look at and place them on different parts of the mural, each of them telling a story.

Ravana kidnapping Sita and fighting Jatayu

This is a great illustration, but the more i look at it the more i understand the point of it, and the narration. The clothes that there wearing, im sure that before humans were created, the "gods" didnt wear Human clothes. but its done so that people can understand and relate. so if i were to create something people could relate to....[children] the idea could work. Dosnt need to be a comic, just have the right sort of messages in the piece.

"What About Indian EPICS"



look at that blue demon! isnt he scary! and Rama comes to save to day!




Ive been looking them up! i havent heard the stories sfor a long time, but remember thinking it was sooo cool the way that some of their stories were told and think that it would be a great starting point for creating a dynamic story with dynamic images! infact their loosely related to Chinese Epic stories.


At the moment i could aproach the use of these stories and epics in theses ways:





-How about Recreating them, but using figures of my imagenation?


-Taking characters from theses stroies and recreating to story, things i used to do with the old toys i had.


-Find out more stories from different times of my childhood to and trying to represent them all.



ill find a way, but im approching more and more to the idea of telling a known story, even tho i want to make up my own, like i did as a youth.



what convays the message better....? HOLD UP!!!! WHAT ABOUT AFRICAN EPICS!!!!???!?! DIDNT THINK BOT THAT! WOULDNT THAT JUST BE SO COOL! AFRICAN NINJAS!

THIS SONG BASICALLY SINGS WHAT I WANNA ILLUSTRATE!

YES! my sister forced me to go and what this film when it came out!but this song actually pinpoint what i actually want to say... its talking about being adventurous in everything you do when your a lil kid. pretty much something that Ive always had and i felt like its been something that helped me with my creativity. Now days i jsut draw it, but i do try to live it when ever i can :)

I also found that I like working with songs, i think its the fact that i get to interpate it with colours and maybe even characters, the project really makes me feel like i wanna base it around self portraits, but maybe i should look into other peoples child hood, and have interviews.

Lyric:

Both: Take It Back To The Place Where You Know That It All Began.
Chad: We Can Be Anything We Wanna Be!
Both: You Can Tell By The Noise That The Boys Are Back Again!
Chad: Together Makin' History!
Both: This Is Our Town, And I'm Tellin' You All,

The Boys Are Back!
Gonna Do It Again!
Gonna Wake Up The Neighborhood!
The Boys Are Back! The Boys Are Back!
Climbin' Up The Walls, Anytime We Want!
The Word Is Out, The Boys Are Back!

Chad: Keep Dealing With The Right When We Fight Every Single Time! Undefeated Here In Our House, Yeah!
Both: We Can Rock, We Can Shock,Anytime We Like.
Chad: Tonight We're Gonna All Out! I Think Its Time To Show How To Be A Superhero!
Both: This Is Our Town, And Im Tellin' You All!

The Boys Are Back!
Gonna Do It Again!
Gonna Wake Up The Neighborhood!
The Boys Are Back! The Boys Are Back!
Climbin' Up The Walls, Anytime We Want!
The Word Is Out, The Boys Are Back!

Troy: Here To Change The World!
Both: To Solve A Mystery, Fight The Battle, Save The Girl! No One Can Stop Us Now, We're The Ones Who Make The Rules!
The Boys Are Back!
Troy: No Need To Worry, Cause

Both: The Boys Are Back! The Boys Are Back!
Chad: Look Out Now!
Both: The Boys Are Back, Gonna Do It Again
Chad: And We Make It Look Good!
Both: The Boys Are Back! The Boys Are Back! Climbin' Down The Walls, Anytime We Want! We're Sure That You Know By Now, The Boys Are Back!

[Personal note! ALLOW ME! BRUV! It just shows you how i can get inspiration from anywhere]

on a more mature note *smiles* Ma hair was big enough today that my sister made me anteners from.