Collage, Ink and Glue! Fiction Project continued...

So I have been using a variety of different approaches on my work, initially it was going to be all ink, but all ink and no paint, makes Willow Charcoal a boring girl.

So I am starting to pull the whole book together using little hand written inked information bits, and I have finally gotten round to the cover. With that done, I had better complete the interior before the due date, which was 1 May but they have moved the deadline a bit, so I will see how soon I can get it done!

Here is the latests sneak peak of what I am up to!

Processes processes processes

So I have gotten my Fiction Project Book and now the rush is on to finish my work. This is an experimental piece and I was going to use ink. The problem I have encountered is the ink bleeds through the page and makes it look ugly. So I thought about sticking a blank page onto the others but it makes the pages fold funny on the gutter. So then I switched over to the idea of collage, using only colored pages from the magazine. I have now decided that since the project is about words news papers, magazines and other documents harbouring the written word. So I have drawn some of the pictures and written the first story. I have also drawn in most of the illustrations for the next 2 stories. So when I return home I will have to create. This is an exploration of media and my own mind. Who knows what it will look like!

Processes processes processes

So I have gotten my Fiction Project Book and now the rush is on to finish my work. This is an experimental piece and I was going to use ink. The problem I have encountered is the ink bleeds through the page and makes it look ugly. So I thought about sticking a blank page onto the others but it makes the pages fold funny on the gutter. So then I switched over to the idea of collage, using only colored pages from the magazine. I have now decided that since the project is about words news papers, magazines and other documents harbouring the written word. So I have drawn some of the pictures and written the first story. I have also drawn in most of the illustrations for the next 2 stories. So when I return home I will have to create. This is an exploration of media and my own mind. Who knows what it will look like!

Illustration Friday - Journey

How often have you wished you had the money for a trip overseas?
Journey in my mind conjured up images of elephants, trains, and other forms of travel. But I ended up illustrating this busker, who could be earning money to go on a journey or is on a self exploration journey to find himself and possibly become famous. If you can dream it, it can happen. How often do you walk past someone and think he/she is a hobo, homeless person or someone who is just trying to scrape a few pennies together. Maybe what you think will take you on a journey to find out more about your own world perception.
This illustration is done with a brush tip pen and coloured ink. I think we can see a stylistic theme now.

Eek! It's arrived! Time to get cracking!

I've been waiting for about a week now for a package from the States.
It's here and it's intimidating~!
It's a project where you need to weave text (of your own making) into a delicious book for people to read when in the library at the Art House Co op. Now, to work like a banshee for the next 2 weeks so I can get it done beautifully and send it back. And somewhere find a scanner to scan all my artwork (since my printer says NO! after the last big earthquake 7.1.)

Here's what the book looks like!

Empty lined pages, at lease 38 of them.

My ideas on paper which will be transfered to the book.

All bottled UP - Illustration Friday 15

Legend has it that there was a box full of all the bad in the world, in my case it was a tempting bottle full of the bad in the world. Kinda reflects my mood about a lot of things at the moment, what with so much happening in the world, earthquakes, sorrow, mine explosions, nuclear power plants melting down, and general pollution. Not to mention the wars over oil and ideology, gunfire, riots, arson and political unrest in Africa.


So here's my take on the situation. No matter how many depressing things there are out there we also need to look for hope.
Let me know what you think about my drawing (constructive criticism of course) and I will really appreciate it.
Please note these images are copyrighted (C) Niki Maritz 2011.

So here is Pandora's Box (Bottle):
This image is done using Quink Ink, Eco Ink on Paper

Have a boring, uneventful day, and walk away smiling.