Secret Drawings of a Rollergirl...

 

Negociated project

Deciding what I want to draw for the next few months was a pretty tough decision. I recently started an online roller derby zine called sassqautch with on of my team mates and so decided I would kill two brids with one stone and do some drawings for sassqautch that would also make up my negociated project.
I wanted each drawing to be a funny take on a name of a drill, a common joke, to pick up on of the many quirks of roller derby.
So, my work recently has many been a lot of doodling and working out what I want to do, which ideas work and make sense. They're probably not going to make a whole lot of sense but here are some of my sketches so far...

Finished 'HE"

Ate the Lot...

Possibly finished double page spread... as ever I can't decide if I like it or if its finished..
all opinions welcome..

page roughs

 The next part of the sam project was to design a double page from the book containing one sentence. The sentence i was given was "ate the lot". I immediately thought of cake and birthday cake. I thought it would be more fun to draw.
I was thinking of fun and interesting ways to work in the text to my illustration.

Sam

The latest brief is a children's book. 

The first part was to design the main character. 

The only constraints being it must be called Sam, it must be wearing red converse boots and it must be wearing a particular striped tshirt. 

Let the doodling commence... 

me.

doodle. of me.

Space Party...

The second part of the summer brief was to take all your seven characters and put them together in one piece. They had to be having a party somewhere. The time, place, and all the details were left to us. I thought what cooler place to have a party then IN SPACE!!

I'm not entirely happy with my final piece. I think most of the elements work as separates I'm not sure I've found the best way to fit them together. The composition isn't quite right. They seem quite disconnected. I would like more interaction between my characters......... There may be another version of this at some point...

Hipster in space...

Where better to have a party than IN SPACE?!?!

Business man...

I also like Giraffes...

 Giraffes are just fun to draw. I don't know why... they just are.

BIRD MAN!!!

A really messed up scan of a character inspired by Sara Fanelli. Considering I hate the original this is a definite improvement.

I like drawing dinosaurs...

Character design...

I always end up drawing really boy-ish things, like dinosaurs and pirates.

Grumpy bear...

LP the bear.

inspired by the work of Kev Grey.

An obsession

They tell you when you first start roller derby that it going to take over your life and it becomes an obsession. well... they were right. I now seem to draw roller girls, skates, and anything derby related all the time. When asked to create characters for a uni project one of them HAD to be a roller girl.

Character designs...

 

Character designs. generic male hipster.

On the left there is my initial sketch and one the right is the finished illustration done in photoshop.