ILXOR Gallery

I'll start.

http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/images/catalogue/bird/bird-500.jpg

The image is a crop taken from a botanical engraving (I have no drawing talent). I had them letterpressed in Pantone 350U on these great chipboard sleeves by Stumptown in Portland, who were a pleasure to work with.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/163659876_15bbfbae8f.jpg

My daughter!

That looks awesome Caek!

Nath, trumps thread.

I would show my latest fabric creation but it's sister is meant for an ILx0r so I don't want to spoil the suprise.

OMG CUET

(and wicked, caek!)

I lose! : )

hahahaha the baby pic trumps everything! ILX is just like America's Funniest Videos.

i love her no-nonsense look.

OK, I know that DDBs are not as cuet as babies, but this is what I have been working on most recently:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/493469805_c9c249741c.jpg

Have been asked to do album artwork and tour posters for other bands off the back of it, so I'm quite pleased.

(just to say i appreciate the attempt at a thread with content amongst all these polls. unfortunately i have nothing to add - working 7 days a week does tend to sap my (already limited) creativity)

nat's cheating - that was a joint effort 8)

Is that pen and ink or Photoshop, Kate? I like it!

Pen and ink, scanned into photoshop. I did it very drunk in the back of a pub, while Teh Early Yares were playing - am trying to set up doing a proper version but have been out of drawing order with my wrist, and we don't seem to be able to set up a sitting becuase they are flaeky.

Does this count? maybe. not really.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/541495689_f6a37236f0.jpg

The only real creative stuff I've been doing lately is writing but that's not really showable. And php/MySQL coding. I've been fobbing off all of my graphic work to the intern lately.

I designed and did the photography for this:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WGQAYFD8L._SS500_.jpg

Ooh, I like the colours of the spinny fairground wheel thingy!

Kaet and Cake: your drawings/engravings are great!

Ophelia is great too of course, Nathalie, but you didn't actually, like, design her, or did you?

xxpost It's the Big Wheel at the Links Market (an annual event in my hometown where the esplanade gets taken over by a fairground for a weekend in April). It looks much better on the album cover after all the post-processing because in real life it looks a bit shabby.

Is the Links Market still going? Blimey. Most of the other Fife coast fairs have dwindled away to nothing.

Kate, your pen and ink would look great as a woodcut. Probably not if you carved it with with a busted wrist though.

I love the green/brown tiles. Art+Design-y home decor is definitely on topic.

And the colours on that ferris wheel _are_ pretty.

treefell, it's a great image and a great font, but the placement of the word "saint" really bothers me. it just seems to be hanging out by itself too much....a little to the right and a litte closer to 'jude', maybe? i dunno, but gosh, it's really bothering me.

apartment building
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_1m_82cc25a.jpg

restaurant
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_2m_184f12a.jpg

restaurant
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_3m_43d538e.jpg

lounge

lounge

lounge
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_4m_9fa1b7a.jpg

lounge
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_5m_c5411c1.jpg

xpost
It's just the way it worked out. I was trying to put more life into the font so I printed out each word onto a separate piece of paper, photographed it and imported it into photoshop for post processing.
Each word ended up being off horizontal and out of scale with the others.
So when I first put them together on the image they pretty much came out looking like that against each other. I liked it - the words were independent and part of the whole at the same time and it gave the logo a unique look.
I suppose the 'saint' could be a bit distracting, but I'm so used to it now that I can't imagine it any other way.

Oh, and yeah, the Links Market is still going strong. God knows why...

http://richardgin.org

I pick restaurant number two. With the 1920s ghost lady in it.

kate, i really like that.

can i get some kind of print of it if i throw scrillas your way?

Stumptown are really great.

Thanks! You don't need to throw anything my way. Just go to my Flickr, open the big one and hit the PRINT button on yr 'puter.

the full size one be here:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=493469805&size=o

if Flickr and/or teh Early Yares don't like that then they are cordially invited to SUCK MY LEFT ONE. And I don't even have balls.

Europe (a picture thread)

Here's a flier I did from some buddies' house show:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/lowbelly.jpg

I really like yr album cover design, cek, it's gorgeous and serene...

Sorry I spoiled the thread but I couldn't resist showing of Ophelia. :-D

<I>nat's cheating - that was a joint effort 8)</I>

Ah yes, I admit she's *co-designed*.

Kate, I am superjealous of your drawing skills!

Honestly tho, Nath, you did nine months plus of post-production work.

before and after - the cafe in the Glasgow Film Theatre that i just redesigned (on a very tight budget).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/IMGP1134.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/433521237_88e6678c05_o.jpg

tiny photos too!

it's a 30's building so we wanted to give it a kind of cruise liner/ art deco feel without doing a pastiche.

Great banquette tufting, jed!

thanks I DIED, i like yours.

the banquet is actually a bit of a disappointment to me - the buttoning should be deeper but hey, you get what you can afford. also i'm quite pleased that there are actually more seats than there were originally but the place looked absolutely full of chairs before.

Love the flier, Abbott.

Abbott, that flier is awesome. Nice tits!

I DIED, where is your restaurant? Does it exist yet?

Those restaurants are both Washington DC area, one's in permitting right now and the other's in construction. I don't really care for either of those project phases.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/361828025_4c9057a2e4.jpg?v=0

visio + publisher + lots of free time at my old job
I wish I could blow these up big enough to make decent poster prints

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/197232715_67c6cbe88c.jpg?v=0
the og from way back in the day

What kind of pen did you use on your flyer, Abbot? And is it the same kind as those auto-bio ones you posted awhile ago?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/439897202_02161522f6.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/496918713_54ae5b795d.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/430662389_aa096e42c7.jpg

holy shit - the first two look like photorealist paintings. good work

Tombot that is comical and i like the blue/orangey building type things

those remind me of: http://filesmelt.com/dl/Ballantine_Books_-_Star_Wars_-_The_Empire_Strikes_Back_Sketchbook.pdf

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Blfy_t1CQAAO2OJ.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10614118_874547285890405_242127680949943253_n.jpg?oh=dd199990803b203ddde66dfaabba8778&oe=54ECF76B&__gda__=1424861526_f4bdc293026a9eaaffe26a9db6cb1e32

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10801569_874547312557069_1985154068204859859_n.jpg?oh=184a164b56ff155f95dd780c8256b547&oe=54F6C8B0

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1381802_871089826236151_7344142826485966463_n.jpg?oh=3feea1984be8aaf0a82fc5a6442030d0&oe=54E42E85

(Have to admit that last one, the levels were auto corrected and colours have gone ever so slightly more 'colourful', but it's not far off)

Yowza! Was that last one painted (or initially sketched) on location?

It's painted from a photo I found online, unfortunately.

Never mind! Drawing or painting from life is great if you get the chance but nothing wrong with using photos.

How did the oil painting go?

Ah the course two years ago? Went ok but stalled afterwards, doing another portrait course now and getting into it more, hopefully will keep it up after the course finishes. Here's my piece from the last session:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/15522143749_5005786d2c_b.jpg

And a couple of watercolour sketches of Venice, one on location and one from a photo after I got back. More illustrative, I didn't pluck up the courage to throw away the pen and just rely on tone & colour.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3942/15698795131_20315caf98_b.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5601/15702290732_e44401dee6_b.jpg

wonderful, keep it up for sure.

Love watercolours + black pen. What kind of pen have you used there?

just an unfancy hard tip liner pen. need to get a dip pen for more exciting & energetic lines.

I was hit with redundancy a couple of months ago, so I decided to use the opportunity to get serious with painting. Enjoying all the experimenting and finding my style but struggling with sources.

One thing I realised after rifling through my truck load of photographs for sources is, as you mentioned, how much better it is to paint from live. Also it made me understand the importance of taking a decent photo (looking at composition especially) if it's going to be used for painting. Literally had nothing to go on.

The painting above of the colourful buildings on the coast is the first one I've sold.

I only ever tried oil painting once, I was fairly young and just recall someone had given me some unwanted oil paints and tools. Had no idea and just got them out and started to paint. Yeah got messy very quickly. Scared me off.

Good on you for making a go of the painting, I foolishing and/or courageously chucked it all in last year (!) to try and become an illustrator, success and clients have not been beating a path to my door yet. I struggle to inspire and motivate myself tbh, have not done as much work off my own bat as I could have. But hey this is ilxor gallery not ilxor artists' therapy. If I may be forgiven the self promotion, I have a portfolio site at http://tom.ledger.name/

Difficult isn't it.

Love your "Der Trommler" btw

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10613127_887951241216676_1607446934253665386_n.jpg?oh=0172fcc1a1d21f81c28015e4f09ff002&oe=550681BB

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10501700_887951444549989_8763934611250593000_n.jpg?oh=678874326afaabf23873028750d11311&oe=54D27D96

(last one is partially complete btw)

How did I not know how many super talented ILXors there are?

Those of you who sell things should post links to where you sell those things.

dope, ste!

whoa, those are bomb. I would buy one.

yea those are rad!

Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback. Trying to do more of the star wars droid things, something that people recognise. And generally looking at droids and spaceships from other famous movies/tv shows.

I'm dying to do a painting of the red dwarf ship, hard to find a decent image that has the detail though.

Great stuff, Ste. Here's the final portrait from my class, she looks a bit too mean, hair is too flat, etc etc. Definitely want to get more impressionistic in future.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/15937099675_9cf4695b8e_b.jpg

I do have some stuff for sale on Artfinder, mostly drawings: https://www.artfinder.com/tomledger

I like that a lot Ledge, the face is very strong.

i was quite pleased with this recent watercolour:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3ayhpRCYAERtDA.jpg:large

Yeah, I like it.

That dog knows how to live.

Part way through my sci fi theme, going to do more of my own creations. The Tie Bomber is not finished btw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5I20CoCIAAZlVp.jpg:large

digging it.

good stuff ste. something about your style reminds me of the simon bisley end of 2000ad art.

Yep, big influence.

Particularly Judgement On Gotham, which was the first time I'd seen his work, and then further on his Doom Patrol covers. So slick and natural.

judgement on gotham was the first time i saw bisley too. got it for xmas and it blew my 11-year-old mind.

I've watched some fascinating interviews with Simon, where he talks about how when he paints it's almost subconscious, and that if he comes out of that trance then the lines he's drawing just lose their power.

Totally on board with that.

Hey Ledge, did you ever get that dip pen you mentioned? Been practising with one myself this week.

A little bit scratchy, probably a cheap nib, but really impressed with the type of natural line it produces. Also wanted to use better ink, not keen on those design pen inks (always say their waterproof but hmm not sure) and my fountain pen (with converter-cartridge) just struggled to get the ink flowing and always clogged up.

ugh
they're

No, I should do. Guess I'm wary of accumulating yet another medium that I may end up not using enough and feeling guilty about but hey why break the habit of a lifetime.

first show in a loooooooong time
https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7378/15829451884_45a5a8fe91_c.jpg

wow!

https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10599378_613694265431265_6480747172928250761_n.jpg?oh=178ee40de281eae98929e764bedceb97&oe=557E1CAC

urgh, any chance a mod can make that the correct size?

i have a new net art project:

https://www.flickr.com/opsothers/sets

and

instagram @opsothers #opsothers #otherpeoplesslides

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7651/16898614361_e50f78b328.jpg

been learning guitar, so drawing and painting have not been happening. But here is still one of my personal favourite things i've ever done

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4ceuonutzntms256eev5x56d/bafkreiddxictbthtpd7lng7kmv65o4tbgwmdvk4lys7ifealytodhkc4aq@jpeg

(i hope that works)

that’s wonderful Ste, i like it a lot!

and that other people’s slides project from 9 years ago is amazing.

do we need a ‘what’s going on in your visual life’ thread? i can’t keep up with ilx of late but starting 1. why not?

How do I post pictures? What’s the best place to host pics?

I just linked mine from my bluesky

but maybe somebody can suggest another way

I usually use imgur