Hehe

So I had a burst of activity on here, and since then, I have been pretty busy with life really.

Euch

I don’t like it when reality crashes in on me. Nevertheless, it sometimes does.

Parkour mostly..

I keep flickering in between activities, so nothing new there. But I think the appeal of climbing, parkour, and running is going to be hard to shake. It’s the idea of progressing further along the other path. The one that isn’t the path of least resistance.

Sketching in lessons

Today we had a lesson on assertiveness during which I was paying attention to what was going on at the same time as drawing a couple of sketches.

Humming Hypothetical Hal

Hypothetical Hal was out and about. It just so happened that he was somewhat of an adrenaline monkey, and just earlier that month, he had discussed with another Chum how cool it would be to rappell down the side of a building. As soon as his butterfly mind had thought of this factoid, he gazed up at the buildings passing along his left and right, and he thought to himself, ‘why am I down here when I could be up there?’.

Great Man. New Ink. Rest Peacefully.

Today it is exactly two years since my Grandfather died from a tumour.

I have to admit, in my adult life I have lost a few people, but I have always felt strange about my own reaction to the loss. I am usually not the first to cry, though I can get touched to tears by other things, like films or books. Ultimately I think it’s because I have a very relaxed relationship with death. I am not religious, but I like symbolism, and I am particular about seeing death as a natural link in the chain of life. Like the completion of a circle. And it’s simply not that sad to me. At times I felt really ..almost angry with myself for this seeming lack of emotion. In time however, I am content with this outlook, and know it isn’t because I am a bad person I don’t cry so much at funerals. It’s just the inclination to seeing it as a more positive thing than simply loss.

Colouring..

It takes too long to colour the way I do it in illustrator. The following colouring in of this picture I’m working on took like.. 1.5 hours. The intention is to do most the drawing similar to the ‘airfilter’ (top grey section), i.e. 1. colour, 2. shading, and 3. highlights. If anyone has any suggestions for doing fast work like this, please drop a comment..

Phew…

I have just photographed 50 of my sketches and linework pieces, then edited each individual one to make them smaller, without table borders, and so forth in photoshop. Took a good hour and a half, and it was very very very dull. But the result is now up on flickr for you to enjoy, and that makes it all worthwhile! I am gonna include a couple of my own favourites on this blog to hopefully entice you to go have a look, and I really appreciate comments and critique..

This Might Be A Long One..

Musically I am having some odd cravings lately. I am currently sat with my Pandora up and running, listening to the excellent compositions of Andres Batista. It was my listening to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro (a great piece of music by the way..) which prompted me to find some more classical music through Pandora, which in turn led me down the road to some stunning flameco guitarism..

Operations & Illustrations

First of all I thought I’d shed some light on a website I find absolutely marvellous! If you’re like me in that you like watching surgeries, you need to scoot your bum over to or-live, which is a website that actually webcasts live surgeries, giving viewers the opportunity to send in questions. I have only watched a couple of their videos so far, my favourite being a craniotomy + meningomectomy..