Its time... to back to Hong Kong already! Thank god. It's minus 2 outside and i'm thinking that 20 degrees in Hong Kong will be like summer for me. I've got my plan sorted:
a) Eat lots of home cooked food
b) Eat lots of Chinese food
c) Make going shopping a daily activity
d) See everyone i said i'd meet up with.
2 weeks is just too short a time! Make it a month, and i'll probably be ready to come back to Bristol.
I should upload some sketchbook work i've done actually. What we've been set to do is a project on anything based around these four words:
Balance, Enclose, Support, Disperse.
When we first got it i was pretty much stuck in a ditch- i had no idea what to do but i KNEW it was going to be on animals. So i went to the Bristol zoo where it was AWESOME as you can see from the pictures i've uploaded:3 There were stupidly cute Lemurs. I wanted to pretend one of them was my hat and take it home.
But then i had this brainstorm right in the middle of one of our sharing-ideas sessions and that was to create a journal of an explorer who went into a mysterious valley to study the animals there
She ends up being fascinated by this lizard creature she discovers there and starts following it around doing all these cool and detailed drawings:3
Now only if i could get close to some lizards again... this might call for a trip to Ocean Park in Hong Kong. Hehehe...
But yes, so far i've made a spanking awesome book which i've tea-leaved up(as in the pages and stuff) and i went to this scrap store where they sell....scrap... like ANYTHING. You don't really know what you'll find there but they usually have these giant rolls of fabric or paper which you can buy for ultra cheap. They have a look at what you've got in your trolley- like just a long look- and then just give you a price to pay! It's so cool. God.
So i got all this scrap leather that supposedly came from a sofa-making factory and a roll of cool fabric with some flowery patterns on it. So anyway, using my textile-making withdrawal and some leather that happened to be the right size, i cut and expertly sewed up a book cover
It's awesome.... and i guess it still is after i let Struan tear it up with sharp objects to make it look worn. My tutor suggested using it as a football for a while. Struan said we should throw it out into the street and see what happens on the road.
Then the pages had to start bloody falling out. By pages i mean the entire inner spine where the pages were attached to. This called for PVA and a glue gun with the help of my wonderful flat mate and voila! Le fixed
Will upload some shots soon!
Love,
Chris
Shots so far:
[link] Exterior
The font page:
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On to the pages inside!
Part 1:
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Part 2:
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New sketchblog!
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