I almost forgot about these! I have this habit of forgetting about stuff once it's done, my friend Nico called me about a week ago and after telling him that I'd got my hair cut and that it was now pink, and that I'd just handed my portfolio in yadda yadda yadda I then mentioned that I had a couple of illustrations in a graphic novel, and he said, Why didn't you open with that?! You told me about your hair first! Hah, oops. It's because I'd finished them weeks ago, stuff had happened since then, and I hadn't had to worry about them since : )
I finished these last week and put them up around my uni a few days ago with my friend Anneli. I've made #ibelieveinsherlockholmes flyers before, just before summer in fact, and I wanted to re-do them for Christmas : ) I really like the re-done versions, there's a lot more colour to them, and I like the typography, I think they're a lot better than the last two I did. The quotes are all from the last episode of the second series, and are said by the characters pictured.
So, here we have...
I Believe In Sherlock Holmes
John Watson Was Right
Moriarty Was Real
My favourite is still the Moriarty graphic, he's such a brilliant character, I am so biased.
The other project I had to do last term was a short comic, and because of the Sherlock illustrations it needed to be especially short, so I came up with this. It's basically just one of my many mornings, battling sleep and trying to clamber out of bed.
But, in other and more interesting news... I'm hoping to do a MA in screenwriting at the U.E.A in Norwich (which would be good because I wouldn't have to move again, woo!). The course is a year long, or two years part time, and is £5,000 (that's £2,500 a year part time), it's a lot, plus rent, which is about £3,000 a year, not including food costs. I'm hoping to get a job when I graduate, and then apply that september, just so I have the money to do it. I'd really like to do the one year course, but it's so expensive that it's looking much more likely that I'd do the part time course instead. If I can get a schollarship, I think that pays for half of the course which would sure help, so wish me luck with that. Also, I don't remember much about scriptwriting from college, so I'd like to do some research, and the application asks for, hang on...
"a maximum of 5000 words for prose, or up to 20 pages of poetry, or up to 30 pages of dramatic script/screenplay."
I was thinking of writing a Doctor Who episode *__* And then, if I'm accepted, submitting it to the BBC. This probably sounds dumb, but do I care? Hah, nope. I want to do it, and so I'll find a way. This is not to say that I don't want to be an illustrator anymore, I do, that was always the plan, I want to do both. Taking a year out between illustration and screenwriting would also give me the time to finish my book too, and send that out to publishers.
If there's one thing that uni has taught me, it's that I like to keep busy.
These illustrations were done for my 'Extracts' project, luckily I managed to apply the brief that I had from Luke Kuhns for the Sherlock illustrations to a brief, but it meant doing three extra illustrations, so that's what these are : ) It meant that I ended up having to rush them, and I'm still surprised I got them done on time, phew... I think what I learned from this, is that if I have a deadline, I meet it, even if that means working flat out.
So, first off, Sherlock Holmes, A Study In Scarlet!A nice simple pose, and the pills from the case. Well, I mean, there's one pill in the case... I added some more.
Secondly, John Watson from The Hound of The Baskervilles! My favourite book : D It's SO good, you should all go and read it, the way Conan Doyle describes the Dartmoor scenery is AMAZING. Okay, so anyway, the sheets of paper are supposed to represent all of the letters that Watson sends Sherlock during the book, and the moths, well... the main villain of the story spends most of the book running around with a butterfly net catching moths, so there ya go. The moths that I've drawn are native to Dartmoor, too. I like dotting all of my i's ; D
Lastly we have Sherlock and John from The Dancing Men. Sherlock is sent a code to break, and realises near the end that it's written in semaphore, so along with the first code that Sherlock is sent, I've also put, on the left hand side up top 'By Amy Gilbert', bottom left 'John' and right 'Sherlock' in semaphore : ) Cuz' I could.
I like these, but I can still see a lot of issues with them, I really wish I'd had more time on them.
