James Hackett

Messed around with a portrait of a friend. I will have to explore some more.

This piece is a bit of rejected artwork that I was doing for a short film called “Radica”. I went a bit too creepy on the artwork where it should have had a more thriller sense.

I did enjoy putting this together though, perhaps too much.

I pulled out some old still life I did. Like over 10 years agao. Those pieces were my foundation. Learning to build shapes and understanding form and texture, and finally colour. I realised I liked pure drawing but was never afraid to mix media, which was a lot of fun that craziness and messiness of it.

I think my old self can teach me now some tricks, because I think sometimes I may rely too much on the computer for artwork. I just made some tweaks to the coconut and felt like doing some more experiements like that.