The Making Of Cupid

This new illustration titled ‘Cupid’ is specially created for the Art of Caring exhibition and Sale 2010. The exhibition will take place from the 16th-18th April 2010. This will help raise funds for the Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The main concept of this piece is to show the development process of my work in stages, from original sketch to the final finished illustration.
This is no top secret, it’s a basic process for illustrators to work through. Sometimes I do end up creating the illustration backwards… maybe thats the secret part? You ask me why I would do it that way? my answer is I don’t know.

Cupid Sketch & Outline Version

 I believe this will be an opportunity for me to show some of my work and maybe with some luck something will happen.
Two illustrations will be presented at the show and the second illustration will be a previously done illustration titled ‘Sinnamon Land’ which can be found in previous post’s, and here is the final Cupid illustration.

Cupid Print

 The final framed preview will look something like this:

Cupid Framed

For any other information you can contact me at
fallen1502[at]hotmail.com

Artitude Exhibition & Ulster Museum Revisit

The tour of the Artitude exhibition at the Waterfront Hall was rather short… lets just say I was a bit disappointed.  It mostly consisted of tattoo artists I assume.  There are some artist there with work thats not in the style of a tattoo artist which really caught my interested, so it was phone out of my pocket to make a quick note of the names of the artists.  One artist that cought my eye the most was one with an alias called Friz.  His/her characters are very cartoon/comic style and very much like Joe Ledbetter style.  Well worth looking into some of these artists especially Friz for me off course!

Work by Friz

This return to the Ulster Museum with all cameras charged and ready to shoot did produce some interesting results and some not so interesting.  I did miss the mummy section which I wanted to get a few photos off but due to restricted time it will be saved for another rainy day.

I have to admit that the wild life section must have been my favourite 🙂
Here are a few photos from yesterdays trip.

Stoat Mustela Erminea, in Winter Coat

Thylacince Thylacinus Cynocephalus

 This guy is said to be some sort of Tasmanian Devil, kind of like the one in the cartoons but uglier! It just looks like an angery dog to be honest.

Interesting Art Carving of Lion

Interesting Art Carving of Lepoard

For the rest of the photo if your are interested then head over to my Flickr which should be up during the week.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11fires/