Welcome!
Welcome back to issue 2 of Ziiine! For those of you new to this zine, it’s a veritable melange of people all sharing a glimpse into our personal projects and our creative heart, mostly because it’s exciting to see what we’ve all been working on, and we thought it would be fun! Following on from our first issue, we’ve got some more people squeezed into this one; some new people, some familiar faces, but still a shed load of creativity. If you lined our collective creativity up, it would probably reach to the sun and back 237.5 times. Probably. But even if that proves not to be the case, it’s most likely something a little refreshing for your eyes, and hopefully for your mind. Enjoy!
Lauren & Adam
Contributors Gary Hunt 4 http://www.gary-hunt.co.uk Owlstation 6 http://owlstation.com Front Cover – Spaceman by Gary Hunt Editor, Layout & Design – Lauren Morse
For future entries, email Lauren or Adam: lauren_morse@hotmail.com adam@adamoliver.com
All works within this publication are © and the property of their respective owners. Want to use some of our work? Get in touch for permission :)
Louise Smith 9 http://illustrationdrawer.blogspot.co.uk Marta Cutileiro 12 http://aarvoredotenere.blogspot.com Adam Oliver 14 www.adamoliver.com Lauren Morse 16 www.laurenmorse.co.uk Jordan Wood 19 http://www.jordanwoodanimation.blogspot.co.uk Ian Goldsmith 20 http://iangoldsmith.wordpress.com Eden Morse 22 http://edenmorse.co.uk/
Nautical This piece was created as part of the publication for my degree show. We all had to make a black and white image that began with ‘N’, but it wasn’t allowed to contain the word itself or any other word. I went for ‘Nautical’ because it allowed me to create a few different elements around a central theme and make them into a sort of pattern based on traditional seaside symbols. The textures used in this image and in the majority of my images are created traditionally using inks, rollers, paint brushes and stencils.
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GARY HUNT Diver For this image (and the set it belongs to, including the spaceman on the cover) the main character was drawn in pen, scanned in and cleaned up in Illustrator/Photoshop. The elements, such as the fish and the waves were inked out first, usually multiple times, and then treated in the same way. I then arrange the separate pieces on Photoshop until I’m satisfied with the composition and colours etc. This all sounds very businesslike, but with an image like this it’s pretty fun to begin with so it’s not as boring as it sounds! The set that this image belongs to is based around the central character performing different jobs all thanks to his magical headgear.
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OWLSTATION I’m getting through a lot of oil pastels at the moment. I drew Le Chou (3) on a brown paper bag copying from a beautiful cabbage leaf that got spared from the cooking pot. Vegetables can be really interesting to draw, especially when sliced and diced revealing the intricate patterns inside. The Moroccan rug in this illustration (1) was my favourite birthday present last year. I used a combo of paint, oil pastel and black ink to pick out the woven details. This snowy/volcanic scene (2) is a homage to John Martin’s apocalyptic paintings. I got super inspired by his work after a visit to the recent Tate exhibition.
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LOUISE SMITH My work is expelled in exuberance. I’d like to reinvigorate and excite fresh responses for the seemingly unimportant moments of life and to explore the possibilities and ‘pluralities’ of illustration. My research includes pursuing the endless narratives that occur in the everyday. Making drawings that are a result of something that ‘just happened to be there’ – an isolated incident – like life-drawing of non-specific happenings.
Without a desire for realism – the event that initially coaxes my attention is seemingly ordinary and common place – but the drawings create unique displays of life and I think that they have the potential to challenge what is generally considered as important and interesting. The products expose our organic imperfection ooand disreputable stoicism.
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A Meadow
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A Secret
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MARTA CUTILEIRO [Marta was busy being an animation ninja, so we’ve done our best on her behalf] A delicate set of trees and branches in soft watercolour and pencil, each a different colour. Marta must have suddenly found herself infused with the spirit of tree-inspiration one morning and set to capturing the gnarled but graceful growth found in trees. Their solitude suggests an isolated but content air, a place of refuge and refreshment among the wizened branches. 13
ADAM OLIVER I started a new job in March based in Dublin, Ireland. Most of my drawings have been of the semi-concious variety, mainly creative leaks that have squeezed out the side of a rigid television production system. I draw a few a day, often to let my mind work out problems with a piece of animation or whilst I’m thinking of how I’ll approach a scene.
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LAUREN MORSE
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Another movie poster for Rocky! The colour scheme and idea came pretty much simultaneously; a bit of synchronicity in ideas is always a welcome surprise. As it was coming up to summer, I wanted to see what role Rocky would play in an old-skool surf movie. Looks pretty good taking on the giant wave! I think if this movie had a title, it would be Rocky vs. the Wave. Pretty simple and concise, but
you just know that wave is no ordinary wave. It’s the mother of all waves. While making it, I also loosened up with the colouring (I can sometimes be too precise, so it was nice to let go and rough it a bit); what began as a bit of a chore turned into a breath of fresh air. Bit of a nod to Hokusai and his Great Wave, too. Check that picture out - that guy knows how to draw waves. 17
There’s a bit of a story with this one: It was Free Comic Book Day a little while ago, and I really wanted to go to Dave’s Comics in Brighton (Sydney Street - check them out it if you’re ever there) as they were giving away free comics. But sadly, I ended up missing it. I was gutted. However, I’d tweeted saying how annoyed I was I couldn’t make it, and... Dave’s Comics saw and saved me a goodybag of the comics they’d been giving away! I couldn’t believe it! I was so bowled over by their kindness, I drew them this picture as a thank you: Dave’s Comics, saving the world one comic at a time. It’s actually an original piece of art on real paper, not digital as I usually work. Indian Ink, Rotring fine liner (or Papermate Tikky Graphic as they now are), and red marker, to match the Dave’s Comics colours. It was so much fun to make; I love working with ink. It’s just so... black! and so versatile. One of my favourite media. 18
JORDAN WOOD The original artist that inspired the drawing was Top Cow comic artist Randy Green. Other than a general experimentation by myself into illustrator vector graphics, the inspiration was the work of Ragnar.
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IAN GOLDSMITH Tattoos are like Marmite or liquorice, country western music and cats. You either love tattoos or hate them. The view of the tattoo is usually polarised, few find them… okay. I don’t think I’m that keen personally. A view which may well be biased by the feeling that I have the world’s worst tattoo! Never get a tattoo from a guy with shaky hands. Anyway the inspiration for this work came from a song by The Rend Collective Experiment called “You Bled”. I wanted to try portray in a tattoo image a spiritual truth. Being a secret fan of the slogan, I’d happily rip open my shirt if I could have tattooed across my chest the evidence of the work done inside. I’m talking about the beautiful programme of regeneration that only God can do to the human heart. If the beautiful work done inside showed up on the outside like a glorious tattoo, I’d be proud to wear it. People would stare in awe as I said ‘I know, it is pretty cool isn’t it. Check out the signature of the artist...’ That’s what I wanted to try to hint at with this painting.
The Tony Hawk project was taken from a photo taken by my friend Will Gudgeon at a skating expo in Brighton a while back. I wanted to try to freeze an action in time, like any good sports photograph should, but in oils. This is my attempt to do so, but with added lines and emphasis that seemed obvious as I studied his pose mid trick, so to speak. The picture looks pretty good upside down too, as with the white halo effect it looks like he’s worshiping. For a guy who is worshiped as a sports star, I thought it was pretty cool for him to be the one giving thanks for the skills and gifts he’s been given... that, and the fact that nearly any picture of a skateboarder is pretty cool!
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EDEN MORSE This set of photos explores the radical transformations of the urban architecture and environments, including the alienation of man within them. However, I have imposed some limits to the images -not to eliminate people, but just to enhance the sense of them missing from the environments which they should be inhabiting, as if it was a hidden conceptual perversion. I hope the viewers to examine the minimalistic urban landscapes to discover their absolute symmetry.
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All works within this publication are Š and the property of their respective owners. Want to use some of our work? Get in touch for permission :)
A Ziiine Publication 2012