Author Archives: quirkyjoe
Small People & Big Ideas
It was such a privilege to have the opportunity to devise a series of activities for last Sunday’s The Big Draw at the De La Warr Pavilion. Ideas that started as simple outlines in my proposal had been brought to life by … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Education, Illustration
Tagged De La Warr Pavilion, DLWP, The Big Draw
1 Comment
Bexhill & The Big Draw
Every time I’ve been to Bexhill it has rained. And as the weather becomes more consistently wet, I’ve been travelling to Bexhill more frequently . This Sunday I’ll be there again, running activities for The Big Draw 2012 at the De La … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Education, Illustration
Tagged De La Warr Pavilion, DLWP, illustration, The Big Draw
1 Comment
African Folk Tales & Monster Hats
Below are some images from Gather Around the Fire, a collection of Southern African folk tales from Ravi Gupta, published by Pen Press. I created illustrations for 15 tales, each from a different country, and used the colours of the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged African Folk Tales, Baboon, illustration, Monster Hats
Leave a comment
Adventure Time & Dragons
I’d be quite happy to draw dragons and wizards and monsters every week. I grew up with drawing fantasy creatures and fantasy worlds and I’ve enjoyed twisting and turning these images over in my head and trying to come up … Continue reading
Time & Time Again
I have had a very busy couple of months. Which is brilliant. A couple of blogs ago I was concerned that my summer of commercial work might be a dry one, but that concern was channelled into finding lots of … Continue reading
Hoodies & Piles of Paper
I have an animation project on right now. 85 seconds of hand-drawn ‘cartoon’ animation for a music video for Kayosoul. It means I have piles of paper everywhere (for every one second of animation I need to do twelve drawings). … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Illustration, Music Video
Tagged Don't Put Me In A Box, Kayosoul, Music Video Animation
Leave a comment
Puppets & The Past
Tomorrow it is the last Stop Motion session as part of the Saturday School at the City College Brighton & Hove. It has been fun experimenting with different stop motion methods over the weeks, from animating with wire armatures to … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Education, Music Video
Tagged animation, Armatures, Brighton Animation Course, Claymation, Creepy, Stop Motion
Leave a comment
Myths & Fairy Tales
Last week I finished the Myths & Fairy Tales creative writing course run by Evolution Arts, Brighton (http://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/myths). In addition to drawing stuff, writing stuff is something I enjoy devoting time to. Brighton boasts many platforms for creative writing and … Continue reading
Business & Busyness
I had a list of things to do this week. Some of these things will make me money, some might make me money and some definitely won’t. I would like to believe that some of the speculative things I do … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged animation, Business cards, fish, illustration, monster, quirkyjoe, squirrel
Leave a comment
Strips & Bubbles
I didn’t read comics when I was growing up. I couldn’t engage with them. I found them frustrating and limited and I wanted to see movement. I wanted to see animation, or in picture books, I wanted to see the … Continue reading
Quirkyjoe 