Ok so kind of? Lol ok I'm just kidding..

Have you ever done any art for day planners, calendars, novel covers, home decor brands, cd covers, etc...

The only reason I ask is I often go to this anarchist bookstore and picked up a day planner who's pages had some striking art pieces for each day of the week and your work reminds me of it....

Well I have an English politician friend who wants me to do a cartoon version of himself for his blog, and a few American bands have contacted me for album covers, put apart from that nothing else :) these lads contacted me recently.

https://soundcloud.com/josh-kalvelag...practice-demos

And when you are drawing these pieces ... do you think of the concepts first or do they just create themselves while you draw them out...

I very rarely plan them, but when I do plan them they are usually based off of dreams. But they never go according to plan, so a large part of the process involves compensating for things that went wrong, or making "mistakes" look like "not mistakes"(lol). But the ones like the recent one I did never have a plan, the whole thing is done without a drop of alcohol(well maybe a glass of wine now and then) or weed. I am almost always sobre doing them. I study architecture so some people might see that influence in it. But I have taken a year out(which is what we are advised to do after third year) to have time with Band of Clouds and to do the exhibitions I have been offered, so when I come back to architecture, hopefully my mind will be orientated in a different and more architecturally conceptual way, which should help design some ****ing mad buildings :thumb:

How interesting!! And I've been on your facebook page and wondering, do you ever create art that does not have a dark undertone? Well I can only perceive it as dark maybe you don't intend it to be :rolleyes: Or is that just your style?

Haha, I'm glad you said that because in many cases, I am not a dark thinking person at all, but yea looking at the stuff I have done, I can see what you mean. I think the art is a way of getting the dark thoughts out of my head. I have only been doing art for about 2 years so I am ignorant to a lot of techniques that I should or shouldn't be doing, because I have never been taught. I think a lot about stuff, so I guess sometimes it comes across in the art whether I intend it to, or not.

That explains it, maybe your dark thoughts are removed by their manifestation as art... so you don't realize that you are dark as ****... :p

No but really your art scares me in a good way I can't get some of the faces out of my head... and I think its not just the techniques..your color choices and the depiction of sombre faces...

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e.g.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Also..who is that? I've seen that face at an ethiopian restaurant I frequent..

Woah you recognise that? As in someone you know? It's supposed to be me I guess! :p:

Finished.
I think I will bring this to the exhibition as well.


http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...ue-d5xg8oz.jpg

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/...ps19984640.jpg

Here's a self portrait that I drew. I'm not very good at drawing, so I decided to change that by practicing. So enjoy my attempt at being somewhat abstract.