James Hackett

Catching up on uploading the days I missed.  Creole inspired.

We have an ongoing project at school this semester working with established designers in the field. We chose a topic based beforehand and we found out who our designer was a week later.

I am working with Zadd and Eastman (Nigel Eastman) who will oversee our concepts from start to finish and critique etc as we exectute. I have survived round one, which involved showing my sketches, fabric and colour story. It is going to be very Project runway like. Should be fun!

On Saturday had a good time with some of the illustrators who I continue to meet on Facebook.  At first I was worried that no one was going to show up when I sat in the Mall’s food court alone at 12, but I got out my book and started drawing, one by one people started pouring in and before you know it we are all talking and having fun sketching.

We even had our own emo blasting session. We changed from the challenge of the day ( the seven sins) to doing our own emo people and how generic it can be. I think it was Claire who vividly painted a scene where the mall becomes dark as a thick cloud of them descend onto the food court. We image there might be a territorial battle in the future, them vs us!

Next meetup is scheduled for some time in August.

A friend of mine asked me recently, “do you have ne words of advice for a retired pen artist? i havent picked up a pencil since i left school and these days i get the urge to draw but i cant come up with nuthin. ne pointers?”

From my experience art is something you really have to constantly work art. In a drought, it helps to have a lot of inspiration from artists/art you like to kinda jump start your mind. My response to him follows. However I think I should add that reading helps a lot with drawing and is something that should be on your sketching diet.

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