Illustration: a Tragicomedy in Three Acts

Recently I attended a workshop designed to make me re-evaluate my understanding of mark-making by utilising experimental processes. This essentially amounted to drawing with sticks dipped in ink and smearing acrylic paint with random crap. Yes, illustrators are basically just five year olds but with fancier pens.

This is a sketch of Lord Okkoto from Princess Mononoke, drawn with dried pasta and a twig.

Don't even know what this is.

Another sketch of Princess Mononoke.

Finally, a doodle of a boar in plain old pencil.

 This workshop really taught me a valuable lesson: "if it bleeds, we can kill it". Something that will hold me in good stead for years to come, I'm sure.