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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

Card design and Travel Scribbles.

Two updates, in one week. Wow.
Our class is having a bit of a card sale at uni next week, here's my offering. I have more designs and ideas in my brain, and hopefully they'll get put on paper tonight.
Here are some random doodles from my diary/sketchbook that I have been trying to keep going.

3:15 - 3:55.

I am currently in the last stages of my minor project in which I looking at the Hillsborough disaster. This little selection of spreads is from a small book we had to produce over three days (no sleep and showers = fun times). My work focuses on telling stories past the initial view point people are shown. My book investigates the way in which the police and personal opinions where contrasting. Within this book I was not trying to express my opinion of what happened, only facts that I have been presented with through research. My final piece is going to be a series of time lines in which the viewer is made to work to resolve the elements.

hey comrades, i made a bag. It is also christmas soon.

After advertising this as something I am actually working on, it would seem appropriate to actually start using the damn thing. My illustration class have been cracking out some amazing screen printed tote bag designs for you lovely people to get your hands on, here's what I had to offer, if you fancy getting your hands on one. It costs £5, unless your a student and i'l wack you out a killer deal. email me m.gilham@hotmail.co.uk if your interested!

We also have Christmas cards, which is 50p for one, or £1 for three. I dont have any other design apart from mine, but if you want more than one, it will be like a lucky dip, how exciting!

Here's a selection of random drawings till i get round to posting about what i am actually doing at the moment! Enjoy!