The idea of creative something out of order was a tricky one, i knew that others would create something generic. things such as, a series of characters in a row and having an odd one with in it that makes it out of order, good but predictable and none challenging. My original idea was to create the space odyssey scene with the monkey smashing the bones but changing the monkey for a space man…not very out f order if I’m honest I i was trying to find an image that i could create a nice looking piece something that allowed me to draw to be able to create something with technical line work and depth. i saw this as a cop out.
i have a strong interest in things dark and gritty as we all know and this is something that i know i can comfortably create with ease and still come out with good results. due to work commitments the best thing for me now is to stick to my strengths and use that for quality and speeds.
again due to work commitments this wasn’t a project that i could spend time on thumb nailing and making tones of references…any at all for that matter. i have been working out in my head of ideas that would work. hospital doors boarded up with wood with zombie hands coming out with a sign saying out of order…most ideas was that things being out of order with zombies in them. I tend to run off in my imagination pretending I’m in the situation or location of my piece…i imagined being in a zombie apocalypse and the story in my head lead me to a car surrounded by zombies impossible to get to..the car would be out of order! i wanted to go more playful with composition so i didn’t want to do a scene but wanted to make a centre piece that wasn’t grounded by location. so stepping away from a vesta and more of an illustration for a change. i decided to make the zombies in the car trying to claw there way out again car out of order. for some reseason the car was always a mini in my head, i tried to imagine the car as a van, a bus, a police car and all just wasn’t right…the mini was slick playful and some what entertaining.
I created this piece in my own time, i started it on my dinner brake at work and it was here that one of my friends there suggested that it would be rather fitting that the zombies should be clown zombies…like the act ‘how many clowns can fit in a mini’ i thought it was perfect! it fits that bill, clown car out of order…imagine your a punter going to go to the show and it says sorry clown car out of order…it works again its playful and interesting and still tells a story.
I was going to paint blood on the car…hand prints, maybe some guts. I asked Georgie her thoughts on this and she asked “well have the zombies been trap in there or have they turned into zombies inside?..if they have then there won’t be blood on the out side” GOLDEN this illustration now has a story…Georgie looked at the illustration and found a story to it thats what I try to achieve with all my work. leave people questioning what has happened. i felt t would be more of a brain teaser and a conversation starter if there was no blood on the car ‘why?’ maybe they locked them selfs in and eventual died and came back, maybe they was preforming there act and one was infected and once the doors was locked the infected one attacked the others and left them all like that. who knows its up to the viewer to decide what has happened to the clowns but all thats important is that car is now out of order.
my favourite part about creating this was working with the same weight of line there was something satisfying about working with it, there was no room for error, if you miss place the line it shows it doesn’t run trough with the other lines. everything has to run smooth…i didn’t run smooth through it all at all! but trying to was great fun. colouring the mini was great also was the perfect opportunity to practice that shine technique by only using colours. regarding the zombies - it was tricky making them look like they belonged in the car and not edited in it. It was important that all the zombies looked apart of the illustration.
if i had the time i would have made more detail in the zombies even made the hole image bigger so i could get more colour and textures in the hole thing but besides that i don’t think i would change anything else.
As a concept artist I am forever handing my work over to get approved, it takes many hand overs to get to that approval and each time its sent back with feedback to apply and change i learnt that title bit more about my practice. things such as line weight, hues, composition i learn what doesn’t work and what does. Its made me look at my work differently using there feed back i can make better desitions about colour, weight, proportions. I think since i started working in this industry my work as progressed a lot … definitely my skills with the digital format.
Its been great coming back to the comic book style…it seems like its been forever but infect its only been like 12 weeks a million miles away from what I am producing at work. its probably my favourite style to work in…line quality and expression, and story telling is key to use them you have to be creative and thats what i like about it its creative and challenging.
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