WWII Uni Project

Latest drawings from my uni project, in which I am looking at my family history during the Second World War. The image are that of my grandfather as a child living in East Ham, London during WWII holding a wooden rifle made by his neighbours who were carpenters.
The next image is that of my grandfather with my great great grandfather White, my link to the R. Whites lemonade company.
And the last image is that of the Royal Navy battleship, H.M.S Royal Oak. My other great grandfather served on this ship and was on board when it was tragically torpedoed by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow. Though he survived the sinking, he did swallow a lot of icy water and died later in a hospital of Hyperthermia.

Doodle thing

Well it has been along tme since my last update on this blog, which is something I need to get better at. This is my second rendition of this soldier that I am now submitting to this doodle competition in Australia.

Friendly Stranger

Today a cat that seems reminiscent of our previous cat Willow, has appeared to us. First heard it from the study room, meowing alot looked out and it was there under the tree, constantly meowing. I went to investigate, I thought the cat was Haddock ol nemesis of Willow, but clearly the cat was female and had different markings to him. Wasn't sure if it was a stray cuz it didn't act like a owned one, even went into our house but the presence of bobo scared her. Eventually she scurried off to the other side of our house sitting there observing the hedge. I fed milk and cheese believing the poor thing to be stray, ill or hungry wasn't sure, it did drink the whole milk bowl and all the cheese and it became most friendly. But it looked too well kept to be a stray though it had no collar and most cats of this neighbourhood who are owned don't tend to linger with strangers or act in this way.

It came to the house twice and both occasions went in and got pretty cozy but again the presence of others scared her.... seemed only fond of me, also tried to jump on top of dad's car but slid down on its attempt unharmed of course. I don't know if I shall see this most intriguing cat and know if its stray or not. Currently saw it still sitting on the otherside of the estate at the hedge. Tomorrow will reveal all.

RIP Joe

Bad news today Joe the rabbit died so no more surprise appearances of the little fella who'd come into the garden and nibble away happily he was a ray of joy in our garden and shall be missed.

Argh! here be our treasure map on this cracker which polly will keep for safe keeping.

Artist Otis Frampton (whose work is amazing very cartoony but worth checking out especially you star wars fans) did a influence map here's the link: http://otisframpton.deviantart.com/#/d2wgom1

This got me thinking about what influences me and of course there too many to mention but by having a map like this for situations where imagination fails you you can just look at this visual map to help rekindle those brain cells so I'm definitely gonna do one of these when I get back to Uni!

We did it!

Finally got round to start my uni project no more 'commissions' to do now. So started my title page yay with the project theme centred on time.

Damn you shell head!

There was supposed to be another marker sketch of Iron Man entangled by Whiplash from the Iron Man 2 film but I screwed it up, plus the paper is bristol board so it's not cheap and I they are all 14x20 cm roughly so I cut 4 out from an a3 paper so when I screwed up that was the last one cut and this drawing was supposed to be the last marker sketch so I can get on with my uni work so instead of tempting myself to do 3 more I have decided that it ends with Deadpool who turned great so I guess it's good to end on a high note.