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".