the happy hooker

This is my first project in England. The objective was to make sth out of some rough sketches I had done in the past, without spending to much time on it. It took me four days, I think it's fair enough. Although I had in mind an idea of what I wanted it to look like, I lost time going back, designing things from the the scratch, since I realized that I needed them during the procedure and not beforehand.

Once more, in terms of style, this piece is strongly based on its original form in pencil. I mean it is rendered in a way that respects the quality of the pencil line (not precise and sharp). As a result it evokes a retro kind of feeling, that it is so important to me.

Masquerade

Dad

It was only after publishing the previous work, that I felt not that satisfied with the result. I needed sth else to overcome this "accident" lets say. So within two days I came up with the above image. In fact the other day, i saw in the metro a young dad with his baby son, such a lovely image. So I said to myself lets try something like that. And here it is, hope you like it.

The lumberjack

It seems to me, ages since my last publication. In the meantime I've worked on many different things, which will appear here, some time in the future, hopefully.

Now, in this case, I started drawing some lines, without intending to go on with an illustration. And then I said why not? lets give it a shot. I added the forest, the ribbon and the deer (always fond of the deers, hope to craft more of them). Also I wanted to try/test myself in designing a checked shirt (which was very trendy last winter, i believe) so typical of a lumberjack. It was tough, i had to adapt the checked pattern to the drapes of the fabric. Finally I believe it paid off. 

The only thing i used reference for was the deer. Not yet that trained in drawing them accurately enough. On the other had, the lumberjack figure betrays its cartoon origin, means no reference used. 

With this peace it's obvious to me, that my own illustration technique and style is well established in my head. It's a style that respects the pencil origin of the whole thing. On the other hand, I need to try different roads, creatively speaking. Hope so ...

Under attack

The excessive use of color was one of the main objectives of this piece.  But the hardest part was to find a personal sense of rhythm, that would give a kind of meaning to all these different shapes, textures and colors.

absence of blue

It seems there were more things to be said on collage - and through collage, so I came up with one more piece. In this case, the heavy use of decollage, gives a more raw feeling. Older collages, washed paper in chlorine bleach, acrylics, post-it, were used on multiple layers to give the above result.

the blue collage

This collage came almost out of nowhere. Pieces from previous works that didn't come to an end, were put together to produce the above sample of my ideas on collage. But most importantly, it was my need to work again on something like this, since i hadn't for almost four months.