Dreams/Nightmares

A wee first sketch for a spread with the theme of dreams or nightmares. This is the first nightmare I can remember having. Remember when you used to hide under the cover until there was no air left under there and you could bear the heat no more?

I realised I was supposed to include at least 8 panels, as this is for my Sequential narrative aka comic book class. But I like it like this so I thought I'd scan it for all to see :)

Click the sketch to zoooom.

Raft of the Gaia.

This is a spread I did for my Illustrative Activism class. The assignment was to create an illustration to go along with this article by James Lovelock, a climate scientist with controversial views about the state of the earth. He reckons that the damage we have done to the earth is now irreversible and in a matter of decades 7 out of 8 people will be gone with only the coldest climates at a bearable temperature to live. 

My piece references "The Raft of the Medusa" by Gericault, with a landscape over taken by windmills. Not sure this image really shows it's full quality. I added the nuclear barrels in there too as Lovelock figures it is the best way of powering our countries, windmills are not going to help, according to him, as it is too little, too late. I guess I was trying to create a scene where everything Lovelock has predicted has come true. We have tried in vain to save the situations by filling seas with windmills but it was pointless and the remaining few members of the population are out at sea.

Not sure if I agree with Lovelock or not, but it's definitely an interesting point of view.

Click on the image to give it a better look!


UPDATE: I got an A!!!

More Work in Progress...

Screen shot! The Beatles and Blur.

Current work in progress... Giving The Beatles a Julian Opie makeover.

I might paint it... but Opie didn't paint his so maybe it's ok. This is for my main illustration class. Our assignment is to create an illustration to sit in a magazine alongside this review by Chuck Klosterman
of The Beatles' box set that came out last year.
Can you tell who's who?

As usual.. Click image to enlarge.

BEATLEbum?

:)

Old Work: Portfolio for OCAD

Comic Jam

In our first Sequential Narrative class we did a 'comic jam'. Each person started off a six panel comic and passed it on. I drew my tiger in the grass and I love how the imaginations of five other people took it in a completely new direction. I love it!

Click on the comic to give it a closer looksee! 

Work in Progress...

Work in progress for the next comic. This time in colour, and on two pages. This is just two little character studies. I'll post the final thing if it's any good...!

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Illustrative Activism

This is just a little sketch for another class I am taking called Illustrative Activism. The topic was on the de-forestation of the boreal forest in Canada. Didn't really like my final piece but it was a little like this. Next project is on the James Lovelock's 'Gaia Theory' of climate change.

My First Comic!

One of the classes I'm taking here in Toronto is Sequential Narrative, which is basically comic drawing! At first I was so unsure about it, I thought there'd be more on children's book, but there is so much freedom in comic design and it's something so completely different from anything we'd be doing back at GSA. So here is my first attempt! 

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The final comic... there's a few things I'd change.

First sketch for my story... shoe is better on this one.

Earlier sketch of my snail!

Penelope stalks a butterfly in the long grass...

Another lithograph/screenprint I did over the summer at Edinburgh Printmakers.

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Madeline looses her boater...

This is a wee print I did over the summer at Edinburgh Printmakers, using lithography and a little bit of screenprinting! It was good fun to do and I was lucky enough to be taught by the best, Gill Tyson, who may or may not be my mother....

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HI!

photograph by Katie Connelly

Hi!

I am Ruth and I am planning on using this blog to show what I've been up to at art school until I get around to making some sort of website!

I hope you enjoy what is to come.....