Made Madd

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Old Skool

Henry May 15, 2010 Henry, Illustration, Visual Art

Here are two pieces from my old portfolio. I think I did these around 3 or 4 years ago of my mate Seb who I used to share a space in the studio with. Those were the days when there seemed to be an unlimited supply of paints and no one would really wouldn’t care if you dropped and emptied a whole tube on the floor. Before coming to London, I actually got myself the biggest bag I could find and told the technician I had get a few of my old pieces when in fact I had gone in the store room and filled this bag with as much oil paints as I could.

As you can see,  I have a severe inability of painting below the neck. I think I just find faces far more interesting and I would always ruin pieces by drawing a really disproportionate or just a generally poorly drawn body. Also backgrounds were also tricky for me. I could never spend the time to draw every inch of detail because it was way too tedious and intricate of a job for me. I just stuck to the faces. I actually remember my art teacher taking the piss out of the second one saying it looked as if Seb had been slapped in the face and that the yellow streak was a massive trail of spit.