film festival + city + poster = cine-city film festival poster.

Sometimes the creative fires in my belly get to work and I actually make things. I got asked to make a poster for a one off event being held as part of the cine-city festival being held in Brighton over the next month.

As the event is based around local film and music makers I decided to go with something quite iconic for the image. I'm always a sucker for some handmade type that takes stupid amounts of hours as well.

 

 

In other news:- One half of Alaskan girls (that's me, more on that later) will be taking on those pesky swine's over at El Diablo (www.facebook.com/#!/eldiabloclothing) on for a 30 days drawing challenge. This battle of drawing skills and tasteful social commentary will begin on December first. We'll be making some type of blog and hopefully produce something in paper format at the end of it.

I am now a rock star (www.facebook.com/#!/thevinylsofficial) - like it.

Alaskan girls is a colab between me and Mr Robbie Candy. We have one goal, to change the world. (Or make some shoddy work and embarrass ourselves. )

ciao.

Blast from the past 1#: Sketchbook scribbles #1

    As I am currently working on a billion things right now I decided it was best to not leave this blog land empty whilst I was plugging away. With this in mind I stumbled upon some old dusty sketchbooks from over the years and thought it would be a cool idea to have a series of updates from the section of work which will be later known as my "classics". This is going to be a large amount of images and due to this I have supplied some appropriate listening material to wet your ears whilst you browse through work from the olden days.

 

 

Cheers.

Stealing Rusty's machine

I made a poster for the lovely Candice at work. It turned into a bit of a handmade type fest as usual. The idea was some post school type theme hence the lined paper. I was also going to have images but the programme for my hp scanner on my printer is actually the slowest thing ever. I'm currently working on a couple of other things for bands and the people over at wasted mag so I'll put that up when I'm done.

cheers.

London creatives.

   I got a real commission, watch out world. The bloody amazing sally over at London creatives   (http://www.facebook.com/londoncreatives.org.uk) has asked me to reproduce their logo in my special way of mark making in order to be screen printed on to bags, t-shirts and other such items. You can see what I came up with below.

   If you are a creative person based in or around london I urge you to look at what they are trying to do by clicking on the above link. It's going to be special. This type of networking is what we all need to find ourselves lovely jobs in the creative sector.

Cheers.

Wasted article.

Recently I have been added to the ever growing wasted magazine. My good friend Vicky Webb http://crumpetsandcrabsticks.blogspot.com/ got me involved and I have been able to have total creative freedom over my spread. I am currently working on a "guide to..." type theme which is going to be a mixture of images and my horrible writing skills. My first article was inspired by some group talking about why no-one goes to local gigs. (obviously not true) I put together some ideas of how to turn this around and save the demise of our scene.

 

You can download the whole magazine at http://wastedmagazine.co.uk/

One more thing. I finally got a job. It's in a sweet shop that looks like the old days. It's pretty rad. You can see some pictures of it here. http://vintagebrighton.com/2011/08/hardys-original-sweet-shop/  

Cheers. 

How to drive yourself insane, wasted magazine, Miniture band and crazy horses.

That my friends is a gargantuan blog title.  It's been a busy couple of weeks and some of it was actually productive. I finally blew the festival cherry. It was messy and that's all I need to say. Now to the business end of things. I got interviewed over at lo-brow and you can read all I have to say about a whole host of topics at: http://lo-brow.com/art/marcus-gilham-illustrator/

I am currently working on an article for wasted magazine: http://www.facebook.com/#!/wastedmagazine which is going to be interesting with a lot of creative control. This ties in with the How to drive yourself insane section. Basically I'm well known for doing processes that would generally make people go nuts. I decided to make some of the font by hand and here's what I got up to.

Seems simple right? Most normal people would scan this in and photoshop it into oblivion. I'm special.

As you can see. It says rodeog. I don't want it to say that. So of course I'm going to need a little help from photosohop. I try to use it as something to help me. Mostly because I enjoy the actual process of making things as much as I like what I'm making. I'll the put the whole spread up when I'm done.

Two more things then I'm off. The image below is a miniature desktop drum kit my dad got me for Christmas as a joke. Me and my house mate have actually been making some pretty awful music as a duo. If you own a miniature instrument and want to be a part of our freakshow. Let me know.    

Crazy horses!

Cheers!

conversations series #2

   I was talking to someone about when I saw some guy playing badminton and he looked exactly Napoleon Dynamite. This made me think of the beast known as the liger. My idea was that they simply won't get on well being part of the same animal so they would do their best to annoy each other. The tiger made the tail come out of the Lion's mouth. So it turned it's feet around to face the other way.  

Zebra

Zebra

Vote for my T-shirt design.

Mattsson loves the zebra

New drawing. The idea for this came from a discussion in which it was decided that zebras are simply horses with a bit of fashion sense. I'm currently working on some new self promotion as I finally got a printer of my own. Maybe one day I'll update my G4. not likely.

Thrown away #3

   A new image towards the "thrown away" project. The lovely people at virgin sent us a letter which had something to do with getting TV, phone and internet deal. I was not interested but it did make me think of that virgin school show on channel 4. So i drew the guy to praise his crazy braveness. It makes me think so shows like embarrassing bodies and how after 20 years of covering yourself up the offer of being on TV can make people reveal their darkest secrets and mushy bits.

BOOM boom boom.

   Scanner issues are resolved. Here's the seagulls image. If you can see the tiny seagull in the right corner of the page, that's where this image sprung from. It was some promotion from Brighton football club, i obviously had a destructive childhood.

Lazy bones, throw me away.

   It has been a long time since I have updated this or pretty much done anything. Real life got in the way and plan is now to make this real life.

   I had a job. I got a gym instructor qualification. I am equally as confused as you are. Anyway creative things. Most of my time when making something has been doodles in my journal and cutting out flyers and making stupid images which kind of leads into a new project I am working on. 

   These are pretty terrible. I now have a goal though. This idea came when sitting in the housing benefits land (everyone awww at the poor artist). I started to doodle over a page in some throw away magazine I got from the library. It made me think about the way we all just discard these types of images without a second thought. This happens a lot with flyers which can have some pretty good art work. It seems a waste. My aim is to collect these types of images and doodle over them like people do on newspapers. Turning discarded images into something new. Here is one for to look at now. I will upload the second later. Scanner issues. It's got seagulls bombing a city. Tragic. I want to have a book at the end simply called "Thrown away".

you go, I go, Logo.

   It's been a damn while. I blame getting a job and November was not a fun month. It seems that being on the dole was more cost effective at the time. Adam Campbell is lovely man. Enough said. Well there is one more thing, the man does have some crazy ass illustration skills. He also owns a blog which can be viewed at www.beardlessillustration.blogspot.com. Plug over.

   I missed the book fair which was pretty sad times. I am still working on the book which is now under the working title of "Trauma". I'm taking my sweet time with it as I want it to be pretty amazing and I am also going to be teaching art classes for a charity. Busy busy busy.

    I have decided to do something that all illustrators should steer clear of and that is graphic design. My friends band needed some type of logo so I smashed this out over the last two days. This is the first draft so expect some changes. As first attempts go I would say I'm pretty happy with this one.

El Gebo, say it 5 times into a mirror and he'll show up. At least I hope he will.

   Things in El Gebo land are taking shape. (If you are unaware I am in a collective type thing with some people from the uca days, check out www.elgebo.com) We have a table at handmade and bound book fair in London town in November. Check it out. http://www.handmadeandbound.com/.

 We are each making a book about what the hell El Gebo actually is because we really have no idea. I'm not going to give away too much yet but here is a tiny amount to go on. I am also hoping to produce a small book with the many years of scribbles from journeys I have been on. More on that later.

   As well as this I am hoping to be coming up with some sexy designs for T-shirts for a shop in Brighton, it's open to all illustrators so if you want in I can hook you up with the info. Over and out.

 

New Bags and Exhibitions.

   I am going to be printing these designs on some bags soon. Let me know if you want one! m.gilham@hotmail.co.uk £4 plus + p&p.

   Also very exciting times next weekend, we have an exhibition in London town. I am showing my work along with the rest of my illustration class at Old trumans brewery gallery. It is apart of the New Blood D&AD show. go to www.dandad.org/newblood for more details.

TV and a book wrap.

Post uni work, the TV is a part of a poster we are making for our new blood exhibition. As i have now finished uni i am open for commissions!

Final Project.

It has been a while! Here are some of the images from my final project. It is about a journey to a tv studio and the conflict between my expectations and the realilty of the place.

Life Drawing

Life drawing is actually the best thing.
I remember watching some saachi programme on BBC, in which some silly person said that life drawing was cliche, she was obviously awful at it, though I would not say that I am any good. It is fun to just play around with media and make marks you would never do in your own work, even if it comes out looking horrible. Here are some attempts of what I did Wednesday.