Screwball

I drew this guy about half a year ago. He is an ode to those amazing screwball ice creams with the rock-hard bubble gum in the bottom. There are also some other personal motifs I was using at the time all mixed in and stirred up.
I went to my local DIY store, bought some rolls of blank white wallpaper and I brought them back to the flat. After sellotaping them to the walls I drew a few of these characters. This is the only one I bothered colouring. It was great to be working on a large scale but not so great when I took the wallpaper down and found the markers had seeped through onto my walls and the sellotape was taking chunks of paint off. Goodbye deposit.

The Flycatcher

I've done a few of these personality disorder pieces i'll post them as I find them. These are fun to do and they're all about composition and flow of line to create a character with no fixed personality - kinda like passing clouds and the things we project onto them. If I let the line travel and I and dont worry about where i'm putting the different motifs eventually I end up with a constellation of motifs where the viewer can make their own connections. I want it to be hard to empathize with one aspect of the character and instead get an overview or a fleeting emotion like a half remembered dream- or something like that! :)