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Friday, June 24, 2005

Illustration Friday - Black & White

A rather late entry for Illustration Friday this time, but better late than never I guess!
black and white city sketch
Been a VERY hectic week house-hunting, lots and lots of driving and traffic - partly the inspiration for the sketch perhaps. I hope it's not too cliche, what with the utopian view on one side and the inevitably ugly looking futuristic side where even buildings have to jostle for space. I think I was trying to convey the fact that even though it might look as though the grass is always greener (or whiter in this case!), things aren't always black and white - after all which side has everyone ended up living on !?

posted by Nik at 12:06 AM

7 Comments:

  • This is a strong visual statement! Somehow I don't think those white fields are going to remain that way for very long - that creepy pipe on the river is the beginning of the end.

    I admire the way you've just done this picture without worrying about formalities of vanishing points, etc., and it's stronger for it!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, June 24, 2005  

  • Thanks, I'm not the formal type really! The perspective I wanted to keep a bit quirky, hence the curvature of the earth or whatever planet this is!

    By Blogger Nik, at Friday, June 24, 2005  

  • excellent sketch! found your blog via that bloglink thingy-ma-bob - it was the 'drumming' thing that got my attention. will read the rest later on in the day.

    MaFt

    By Blogger MaFt, at Friday, June 24, 2005  

  • Hi Maft - I haven't posted about my drumming in a while actually, maybe I'll sort that soon! So are you a drummer too, another drummer who uses a Wacom - that's gotta be rare!??

    By Blogger Nik, at Friday, June 24, 2005  

  • i'm actually a wannabe-drummer - the difference is subtle, but very important. ya see, i can drum in my head, i can pick out drum rhythms from songs etc, i can write drum tracks on my pc etc but when it comes to real playing i suck!! i just can't seperate my hands from my feet! i'm a guitarist so i'm used to my hands working together not bashing different things at different times and rates!!

    my brother's a drummer though and the proud owner of a gorgeous hand-made Jalapeno kit (jalapenodrums.co.uk).

    take care!

    MaFt

    By Blogger MaFt, at Friday, June 24, 2005  

  • That's really great, the image that is, very strong statement, the picture demonstrates what you're saying perfectly, BRAVO!
    JWARE

    By Blogger Jw, at Friday, August 05, 2005  

  • Carmel Point
    by Robinson Jeffers


    The extraordinary patience of things!
    This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-
    How beautiful when we first beheld it,
    Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
    No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
    Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rockheads-
    Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
    Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
    That swells and in time will ebb, and all
    Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
    Lives in the very grain of the granite,
    Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.-As for us:
    We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
    We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
    As the rock and ocean that we were made from.


    Peace,
    Jware

    By Blogger Jw, at Friday, August 05, 2005  

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