31/08/13 'Transform collages' - Jack Frost/Mulan

 Two of my main loves in life is art and animation.

So a while ago I made a Mulan collage using the unbelievably large of card I have in my house. I found it recently and it inspired me to make some more so I spent the day making a Jack Frost one. Even though the drawing style varies between each, what they share is a theme of 'transformation'. I take a character I believe transforms mentally/physically during a book/film and I split the piece, doing one side of them in coloured pencil and one in bits of layered card. I've only done the two at the moment but I'm hoping to expand upon it, I'm considering Rapunzel, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner to create in the future...

And here's Jack Frost..

So I started by simply sketching out a picture of Jack, the left side being his human side, Jackson Overland, and the right side being Jack. 

I then coloured the left side and used blue, white and grey card for the right. I spent so long making Jack's hair look like it was transforming in the picture by trying to make it look a gradual change from brown to white.

I then used white paint and with a dry brush I dabbed on the frost of his hoodie. I then used the same technique sparingly on the hair. I then fine-lined  the entire piece to make it stand out a little more.

I decided to add these quotes because he says both of these at some point during his human years and his Jack Frost years and they play a significant in why he became a guardian in the first place. 

I'm hoping to do more of these so if anybody has an ideas, tweet me at @Sassyjarvis or comment on his post, you can do so by signing in on google plus with your Youtube passwords etc...

-LM

30/08/13 Bargain Book Buying Binge

So I thought I'd start this blog simple with a little Book Haul...

Yesterday I went to a nearby town of mine to meet up with a friend and do a little book shopping. Her town doesn't have a Waterstones, I know the shame! It does however have The Works, a shop in the UK that sells brand new books, films and a bunch of other little nick knacks for amazingly low prices. I didn't actually get anything though. We also went to WHSmiths which has the most ridiculous layout in this town and we couldn't find any books we were looking for. I nearly bought a 'Reading Lamp' that looked just like the Pixar one but I steered away from it. We went into a DVD shop and I didn't buy Rise Of The Guardians, even though it was only £10. There's a small part of my brain that is hoping I will find it cheaper but that apparently is not the case. Why do they make the DVDs of animated films so god damn more expensive than regular films!? It's the same price to see them at the cinema, and those prices are bad enough, Eurgh money.

Anyway, I managed to snag some Collins Classics by literally spending approximately 20 minutes deciding which books to get that would fit the 5 books for £5 for selected stock only offer. There was also a buy one get one free on the rest.

In the end I got, 

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Gulliver's Travels by Johathan Swift

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne

We then made a much deserved pit stop at Gregg's, the bakery of heaven and then went to some charity shops and I got: 

The Who and the Making of Tommy by Nigel Cawthorne 

I love love love love The Who so I hope this is great :)

I also got a beautiful copy of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which I don't need to explain and The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl, a book based on the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe, who I love. (for some reason, the picture won't go horizontal?) 

And that's it for now, I shall be posting reviews and such when I get round to reading them all.