A PIG, A DONKEY, A LOBSTER
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This project was expected to be easily executable.
Yet it was a non-stop 2 day job and I had 1 day to do it!!!
Yes I had to talk with the boss...
The job was to do an illustration for an e-flyer to promote this film-concert for LEMUR - Associação Cultural. The film by Artur Varela and the concert by John Called Da Train a jazz duet by Paulo Alexandre Jorge and Ulisses Morais Teixeira.
I've started to think about the film I saw.
"Portugal 1973" is a very intriguing project by the Portuguese artist Artur Varela.
He filmed those shortcuts in between '73 and '76. And this was picked up by Imprensa Canalha
which is a Portuguese independent label.
Almost with no sound, the film is full of provocation although the language used is totally clean and direct. There's no other will rather than to show a look.
It's powerful.
So something was inside the way Artur observes things. In the way between the frame and the eye. Something had to be with the eyes.
I picked up 3 touched animals... Touched by the man. With the hands and with the eyes.
A pig, a donkey, a lobster.
They are looking at us right now!
I've used a mid sized handmade paper (94cmx60cm) and made a pencil color draw.
But before I made some research on these animals using the fabulous flickr. I didn't have time to do local research!
Then I started to draw in my Moleskin Plain Notebook which I personally love to use and carry with me. To be absolute honest I think the paper could be much better... Maybe I'll ask Moleskin to upgrade its legendary books :D
So I started to test the central figure: the donkey. Then the lobster and the pig in the end.
As said before my intention was to connect the viewer and the eyes of these animals. I had to give this brighter look to their eyes.
They stare at me all the time. In silence!
The final step was the scanning of the drawing and the graphic composition. I had to do 11 images.
I had to enhance digitally some of the colours and the white in it.
The final result is right bellow.
Take a look to the studies
and to the final draw too I've made.
I loved to do this for LEMUR!
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Color pencil drawings
A2 Digitally Printed Poster
