Quadratic Occasions...

Have been scanning like a fiend recently.


This was mainly due to a rash of events at Quad last week. Thursday night saw the beginning of the Worlds first circle drawing competition where the main focus was entirely placed on circles.


Groups were encouraged along the way by the organisers so I introduced myself to Dave and Aron to make my own. We went by the name team random after some tense brainstorming left no obvious title for us.


The event itself was very involved, starting with a circle drawing speed challenge saw us collectively draw 636 circles!That was almost 210 each in the space of 2 minutes.


Then we moved onto the next challenge, chinese whispers. I didn't think this was going to work to start but the results were hilarious, the goal was to draw something, describe it to somebody else so accurately they could repeat the drawing on a page of their own.
Our result was so far off the mark I wondered whether I'd ripped a hole in the fabric of space and time and not understood a single instruction throughout the entrire exercise. Aron had drawn the main character fromt the game Angry birds very simply but my interpretation of what he was saying was complete turd. But not to worry the night carried on. then we had circle portrait drawing.


Arons effort was commendable as usually he's a film maker so taking up pencil was a little alien to him.


Then, last of all came the ultimate challenge: draw a perfect circle.


I'd like to say I really cleared up here but the paper was so thin my pen went right through leaving only a badly torn mess. It might have been close to being a perfect circle but you couldn't really tell becasue the sheet was in tatters. Whoops.


Then Friday saw Pixel Synthesis where 2 illustrators knock up some artwork to show off their digital artwork making skills.


They made excellent work but I do wonder what they'd do without the computer, the electricity, the screen, the software and the table. Because if they didn't have those things it would have been impossible to make that kind of work and it's not like you have to pretend to imagine what it would be like if Quad had no facilites becuase the announcement has already been made. Yes Quad has had 100% of it's funding pulled from the council.


So now we enter a world were there are no facilities at all let alone live illustration tutorials.




Then came Saturdays event: Dr Sketchies anti art school.  Life drawing with a twist.
Here's a link for into


http://www.drsketchy.com/


Of course you can always see my efforts on my website: http://www.everkopia.co.uk in the animated section beause that's the easiest place for me to put things.


That'll do for now, I've got work to hunt down. If you have any, do share the love!


Phil.




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