random mood — 2021
Randommood.
Illustrations made for practice and for fun — no client, no brief, no deadline. Fifteen frames drawn in 2019 to keep the hand moving.
Practice frames — one colour each, drawn for the pleasure of drawing.
Every frame starts with a single dominant colour — chroma green, signal red, lilac, magenta — and the drawing is built to live inside it. Grain and light bloom go on last so the image reads like a still, not a sketch.
No client ever asked for these. They are where the lighting, the crops and the colour habits of the paid work got tested first.
01 — green screen
Love has no wings, but is an angel.
Lust has no horns, but is a devil.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
02 — red grid — look
Eye contact: how souls catch fire.
03 — red grid
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
04 — red grid — crop
Crop close enough and posture starts doing all the talking.
05 — FETISH NAILS
You got a fetish for my love, I push you out and you come right back, don't see a point in blaming you, if I were you, I'd do me too.
06 — ADULT
Everything interesting happens in the last three centimetres.
Pink haze forgives the drawing and sharpens the mood.
07 — FORMATION
Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper.
08 — filter
To burn with desire
and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
09 — dusk
A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
10 — broadcast
The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.
11 — city lights
To be,
or not to be,
that is the question.
12 — film
Stills hold a pose; a loop admits it was never still.
13 — panel run
Comics taught me that noise is a drawing, not a sound.
detail — road frames
Zoom in far enough and a finished frame is only three good decisions.
road frames — 2021
Three girls on an empty road, lit like a film still that never had a film.
The wide frame is staged like a poster: one red plane for the sky, one dark plane for the asphalt, and the figures spaced far enough apart that the empty space does the acting.
The three square details are the same scene drawn closer — a jersey, red socks on cold ground, a hand hanging at the hip. Zooming in was the exercise: keep the line readable when the whole body is gone and only fabric, colour and posture are left.
14 — road
Three figures, one lighter, and a road that goes nowhere.
15 — spotlight
Green on red is a fight — you just decide who wins.
16 — THE INFLUENCER
The same mouth, repeated until it stops meaning anything.
17 — end reel
Practice ends where the loop starts again.
Let's make the next one.
design with guts — art with soul