The Pink Floyd

I finished my final uni project last week! I don't have my grade yet as I'm still waiting on my dissertation to be marked and there's still the final degree show, but I've officially done all of my work and will have an illustration degree with honours!

For my final project I designed a series of psychedelic music posters, which of course included Pink Floyd which I thought I'd share here. It's on A3 paper, and is entirely copic markers with India ink for the black background. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out!



I also created this gif version which I posted on Tumblr and Instagram. It doesn't loop as well as I'd like, but it was due to the file size having to remain a certain size. I think it helps just make the image a little more eye catching and something slightly different.

Nick Mason

It was Nick Mason's birthday on Saturday, and as he's one of my favourite members of Pink Floyd I took the opportunity to draw him. I really struggled to find a high quality image I liked, and couldn't in the end. Considering my reference photo looked as though it had been taken with a potato and I had to use my imagination for the finer details, I'm quite pleased with how it came out!

Free to play alone with time

I haven't been drawing an awful lot lately, the negatives of being an art student is having barely any time to draw for yourself. And when I have had time, I've felt more inclined to sew instead. But I have drawn two portraits recently.




I wanted to draw Nick Mason as it was his 73rd birthday yesterday and as he's one of my favourite members of Pink Floyd I wanted draw something to both commemorate it and to have something to post on social media. I've been trying to simplify my portraits lately back like I used to. I've gotten into the habit of only drawing intricately detailed larger scale portraits which has made me feel intimidated to draw just when I feel like as I'm sure you can imagine they take several hours. I drew Nick in about 4 hours which is much better! It's exciting as it means my options for portraits opens up as if I'm drawing more simplified then I don't need massive HQ photographs to draw from. I'm just really excited to draw more throughout 2017 as I don't feel I did even almost enough last year.

Last month in December I also drew Rick Wright. This is one of those intricately detailed drawings I mentioned, I love how they come out but they just take too long! I had planned on doing one for each of Pink Floyd, but I'm not so sure now as I don't want to pressure myself with promises my heart is no longer into.