A Brief Accident

Jambon the Cat Drawings

Meet my cat Jambon. He is sleeping all the time and eating a lot. He weighs 8.6 kg by the way. Loves chewing plastic bags, chasing flies and lights, making noise early in the morning and having occasional milk treats.

Happy new year to everyone!

I have a new illustration which colored with watercolor.

And an old one. Coloring with Photoshop.

Last week me and my mom went to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Exhibition in Pera Museum. It was fantastic. I am posting three photos but they are a bit dark. So i lighten them but for preserving the quality couldn't adjust too much. There is more in my Flickr account and also you can find photos from other exhibitions which were on display at the same time.From the other exhibitions "19th Century Russian Classics from the State Russian Museum Collection" was the one i enjoyed most.

 

Attitude

I have a lot of photos and they are mostly photos of same things from different angles. Also some of them are blurry. Sorry whoever is passing by but i was so excited about them and want to put them all!

As i mentioned before plasticine and the illustration finished(finally!)
These first pictures are from a work i've done one year ago. He supposed to be a villain. I think my favorite part of him is his hands. It was an end task for a short course in University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins. Course's subject was character design for animation and the tutor was (still) Vincent Woodcock. Such an amazing tutor and designer. For this plasticine work first we did some sketching for character design, detailed it  and modeled it approximately in 5-6 hours. It was so fun! In one year my villiain became a little hairy and filthy. He can blame me for the filth part  but hair is all Jambon (means ham in Turkish) who is my cat. As you can see on the villiain, Jambon has long gray hair:)

 

Making these took a couple of days. (by the way i have a full-time job as a web designer so i can only do these stuff after 7 p.m. or weekends) I stuffed iceberg and the sea with foil. Painted plasticine with gouache and illustration with watercolor.

Urban Cat and Pandas in Jail

Hi!
I decided to post an old illustration with a new one this time. This (below) urban cat is something i did a while ago. Unfortunately he is a smoker. Living in the city affect him a little. Coloring with photoshop after a pencil on paper sketch.

The one with the pandas was a sketch i posted before. Coloring with gouache. About them, there is not much to say. It is pretty obvious i think:)

Now i am playing with some plasticine. I am planning to post a new plasticine work with an old one. The one i am working on right now what you call "mixed media". It involves some illustration and plasticine. See you!

Street View

I finished this piece with watercolor and indian ink.  

Doing the crow and the branch part felt like committing a bad habit. Like biting nails obsessively and won't be able to stop:)

What i've been doing

It's been a while since the last time i posted. Meantime i've gone to Bodrum for holiday, done some illustrations and sketches, read some books. I will post a couple of photos of Bodrum in the future. Don't have them yet unfortunately.

I've read three books and in my opinion:

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The variety of characters and how the author build the story was really magnificent.
As a reader it felt intriguing to see how other people see things, make choices and act that differently in life. Especially the tightrope-walker's profile was so deep. The way he thinks about what he do was beyond passionate.

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
It was about an autistic boy who have big dreams like all children and have some family issues. It was fantastic! A beautiful mind he has! Before that novel i didn't know much of a thing about autism but it wasn't the thing that fascinates me most. Christian's (little boy) innocent yet the toughest, strongest soul that amazed me. I wanted the main character of the book to be my little brother or someone that i could be really close.

The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
A Paulo Coelho book has always exited me before i actually read it. And never disappointed. I know all his books have spiritual concepts. Maybe for me that is what is good about them. I am not spiritual at all. But his books has this extreme positive effect on me, like i can do anything in the world and everything will work out just fine. Strengthening the belief in myself is a kind of spirituality i can work with.

i've done some illustrations and sketches:


Used watercolor with the first one.

Some of the sketches look really messy because of the low paper quality. I hope they'll look better when they colored. Thinking about watercolor again. The last one will be the next to be finished.