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

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