Quick, Come And Have A Look!

Hi everyone,

My illustration, ‘Girl in the Water’ has been posted on the 24 Project website. It is up there for one more day and I would love for you to check it out, but be quick or you'll miss it! Follow this link to view now: http://the24project.tumblr.com/page/2

The Making of, ‘Stopping the Hands of Time’

With this illustration, I really just wanted to express an emotion that the majority of us feel a lot of the time. Any time I felt like I had many things to deal with, I would always imagine someone trying to slow down time so that I had more time to deal with it all. I wanted to home in on exactly what this emotion would look like on paper so that we can visually understand what we are feeling.

There is no specific reason as to why the young girl is stopping the hands of the clock.  I drew the image this way so that the viewer can apply their own reason making the picture personal to themselves.

  

Pictures of ‘Stopping the Hands of Time’ taken by Matthew-Ben Campbell

‘Stopping the Hands of Time’

Hi again, I have another illustration I want to share with you all. I drew this during my short hiatus. Tell me what you think, by leaving a comment below. 

 

‘Stopping the Hands of Time’,  picture taken by Matthew-Ben Campbell

The Story of ‘Stopping the Hands of Time’

Sometimes we feel like we are carrying a huge weight on our shoulders and we begin to feel ourselves crumbling under the heaviness of the weight. This weight might be that you have homework to complete, you have deadlines to meet, you have people who need your help, house work which needs completing, children who need looking after, a family which needs feeding or bills which need paying. After a while, you might find yourself standing in front of a clock, squeezing your hands and wishing that time would slow down so that you could just catch a break.

The Making of ‘Girl in the Water’

My main aim behind this illustration was to try and reproduce on paper that same exact feeling of relaxation and peace that I felt when I had imagined the image in my head. I wanted to use a range of different soft colours to do this. I layered the sea with green, yellow, blue, pink and purple colours to give it a colourful and soft textured appearance. It was my last minute decision to add highlights to the young girl’s hair. I wanted to make her hair stand out and ripple in the water and this is the exact effect I produced. The illustration is deliberately simple because I wanted the viewer to feel the emotions of peace and calm which would have been lost if the illustration was elaborate. 

 

Pictures of ‘Girl in the Water’ taken by Matthew-Ben Campbell

 

Pictures of ‘Girl in the Water’ taken by Matthew-Ben Campbell

‘Girl in the Water’

A big hello to everyone reading this right now, it’s great to finally have the time again to upload some more of my illustrations to the blog. I’ve been so busy lately but now that they are finally up, I am happy to be able to share them all with you. I drew the illustration below a few months ago. I am really pleased with the outcome and I hope that you are too. The image just appeared to me in my head one day as I was chilling at home on the sofa. Anyway, I don’t want to distract you from the pleasure of viewing it, so I will lastly add that if you want, you can leave any comments that you have about the illustration below. 

‘Girl in the Water’

The Story of ‘Girl in the Water’

Have you ever had to explain how you feel to someone, but when you try to do so the words don’t seem to come out? Sometimes what you are feeling cannot be spoken or written down it is something that has to be experienced.

Imagine you are floating in a sea of warm water. You close your eyes and you slowly sink to the deepest part of the sea. As you fall, you feel all the anger and the hate that you stored inside of you wash off. You begin to relax, and you allow your body to be swept away by the waves. Enjoy this moment and feel the rush of the waves, hear the sound of the water moving and touch the smooth scales of the fishes as they swim by you. In this place, time does not exist, only what is here and now exists.

When you come out of the water and people ask you, ‘what happened to you?’ You open your mouth but then close it again, realising that no matter what you said, it would never be enough to make them truly understand that overwhelming feeling you had just experienced.