right not a privilege
In an attempt to follow up on my vague notions of documenting the student protests using the work of Denys Wortman as inspiration – here’s a quick drawing I did based on some reference provided by Dan Hancox. Thanks to Dan for allowing me to use it.
I like the idea of juxtaposing an earlier image of the protests against a piece of text taken from later on in the day. Trying to solidify and consolidate the fast-paced nature of a twitter feed into something with more permanence. But that’s an unfinished thought – let me come back to that.
Whether this becomes a regular thing or not remains to be seen but I enjoyed doing it and at the very least, drawing these on a regular basis could work as great warming up sketch practise.
If you have any photos you’ve taken during any of the recent demonstrations and don’t mind me using them as reference for future drawings please email them to me at tomhumberstone*at*gmail*dot*com. You’ll, of course, get a credit if I use it.
Throughout today, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the opening quote Dan and I used to open our My Fellow Americans book:
“I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.”
- Alexander Woollcott
lovely stuff, Tom
That’s really nice, love the colours and the difference in line from the background to the foreground. More, please!
thanks Julia and Becky! will try and do one a day over the next few days if I can
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Hi, Tom
Just wanted to let you know that the girl in the picture is me! I was aware that my photo was being taken but I never thought it would end up in your drawing! I think I prefer myself as an illustration :-). My brother wanted to know whether or not my sign had made it on to the web and so (naturally) he googled it!
It would be wonderful to have a copy (if this is possible). I think the drawing is lovely and I’m not just saying that because I’m in it!
Kind regards,
Amel
oh the internet really is a wonderful thing! glad you liked the illustration Amel – I’ve had a couple of people ask me to make prints of these and I may do at some point but in the meantime: I could email you a high res version of the image for you to have printed? I would like to eventually prepare these for a two colour screenprint but may not get around to this until the new year…
Thanks, Tom. A high res version would be great! I don’t know if my email address is visible to you… here it is anyway: (removed)
Thanks again!