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PETE MILLARD

I saw Pete after this talk and said, “I think I understand you less after that talk”

Oddly, this seemed to faze him.

Mr Millard is inspired by it all: hulk hogan, pigs, beat poets, Martin, the drawings of children, the instructors of an elderly art class.

There is a lesson to be learnt here: if it seizes you, let it, the art will flow with all the more ease.

I don’t personally seek to animation with quite such childlike drawings, yet I like his idea that the success of an animation is more dependent on the flow of motion between the drawings, than each individual sheet.

RIOTOUSLY FUNNY CHAPmade me giggle really and i think that is the idea behind the work so it is clearly successful, very much inspired my play the scene animation

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Jonny Hannah talks in the fourth

Another lovely gent with a s00oothing voice, though very different from Ollie in practice. Jonny seems to wade the moat between graphic design and illustration, working a great deal with text and bold colourful imagery, perhaps only a pinch of which has been drawn from life. 

Hahhah seemed like a man who knew how to fire off his creative energy even if no one wanted/paid him to. So many cool projects. A CAR! A whole sodding fictional town/ community that eventually got turned into a book! Beautiful costume things for his jolly bands! Delicious.

I think his tastes a certainly quite different from mine, I think I find his work a little too busy? Or too colourful? Not sure. But I do like a lot of the concepts behind it 

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THIRD OF TALK, TUESDAY, OLLIE OLLIE OLLIE

MACdonald Oulds had a really soothing voice and I want him to read me bed time stories but I had to settle for a talk about drawing and Jamaica. I think he mentioned going to the Royal Drawing school but more importantly he went to Kingston School of Art. 

Certainly the most technically gifted gent we’ve seen in terms of traditional drawing, like a northern Michelangelo he wowed us with a beautiful portraits and landscapes and the like. His passion from using drawing to capture his surroundings and memories climaxed in Jamaica where he was employed on a residency there to create art inspired by the landscape and people. Look at his marvellous picture of Dejaun! The lad demanded to be drawn and Ollie certainly obliged. Look at how tenderly he has been recorded in their single moment they had together - a photographer snap him and scram, not Ollie. 

Ollie spoke about his highly explorative, constantly pushing what drawing can achieve. In one instance he drew the view from his back garden at his old house. Through this process he was able to discover what parts had lodged themselves most firmly in his memory that he was able to draw them and what parts and leave to leave blank, and subsequently figure what was of the greatest emotional importance to him through his childhood.

He also spoke of drawing from a life model and a reading of TS Elliot’s Wasteland which sounded cool as hell and I want to try something like that maybe with some Ted Hughes who knows.

Top lad.

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THE TALK THE SECOND: LAURA FITTON

‘If you can see me I can see you’ - David Bowie

If Laura Fitton has seen you, she has probably drawn you.

My god this woman is probably responsible for at least 2% of recent rainforest destruction. Laura can’t stop drawing.

But Laura is an illustrator, this is therefore is Good Thing.

She specialises in something called reportage. This involves leaving the goddamn studio and engaging in the real world. Naturally something I find quite abhorrent.

She’ll go anywhere, a power station, a Wetherspoons, a bus, a Wetherspoons. The idea is to create a dynamic record of the environment, but also your immediate response to that environment as an artist.

The outcome of trying to draw her ever-changing surroundings is a beautiful mess of quick drawings with little detail but providing an incredible sense of atmosphere.

Experimentation is key to Laura’s practice. She will often collage in paper found in her zone of drawing creating a multi-media sense of space and location. This is something I think I should particularly steal in my sketchbooks. Thank you, Laura.

I also like the use of overlayed coloured line.

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TALK THE FIRST: JOEY YU

Look at those god damn colours. God damn. Girl knows how to use a crayon or two. The expression of joy and wonder evident in these pictures are clearly an expression of the self (herself that is) for her presentation was quite a delightful thing indeed - Miss Yu possesses an enthusiasm for her work that we could all learn from. Like Yu, as she advised, we should all make studies from films we enjoy, simplistic but quaint scenes of daily life (cooking, lounging, talking with friends, etc.), all our exotic travels and express our unique appreciation via drawing, painting, animating, whatever.

Since we shall all end up being corporate slaves, she advises learning mediums which are tailored to this - coloured pencil, crayon, ink for the speed we shall need to those cursed deadlines. Learning digital techniques also has many practical benefits - easy adjustment for the client, can be enlarged more easily and all that.

I do love how Yu can play with perspective and the sense of gravity - take the image in the bottom right: the characters look at you, as does the room, for all the shadows and objects slant in the direction of the viewer. Peng.