No time wasted!

Again, I have left it way too long since I last updated this, my apologies for that,
I put it down to trying to balance so many aspects of my personal life.
Anyway now that's out the way Ill attempt to explain and show exactly what I have been doing with my time.
Firstly, I accidentally stumbled across the Generation Gallery in Manchester, It is situated on New York St behind the Piccadilly plaza for those interested.
It specialises in Urban, Contemporary and Modern art, I spent the best part of an hour walking round looking at the works the exhibit and sell, some of it is mind blowing and similar to the paintings I do and sell (examples of which will be further down).
Its the kind of place that appeals to both the Illustrator and the child in me, an inspiring place!
http://www.generationgallery.com/
Take a look for yourself, the staff in there are very helpful and approachable too
Now onto more pressing matters, my own work!. Because I'm an idiot and didn't read the summer brief properly I missed a whole section (something I'm putting right at the moment),
so due to the fact Id missed the section, I figured I had lots of spare time, in which I painted some canvasses Id been commissioned to do, here's a few of them...

Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry

Vincent and Jules from Pulp Fiction

This is actually a reproduction I was asked to do, since the original was by an artist I admire and respect, Ben Wachenje, I naturally jumped at the chance

Marlon Brando as Don Corleone

Another project I have gotten involved in is designing logo's and ideas for a friend of mine who is bringing our a line of clothes based on Manchester, its people, towns and connections.

Since a lot of them are still in production I cant really post too much, but i will show this one as its a little too advanced at the current time...

Keep your eyes peeled for 'Manni' clothes in shops and on the streets!

Right onto the work I did manage to do after reading SOME of the brief,

The film I eventually chose to draw from after some serious deliberation was Pulp Fiction, I concentrated on the 'innovation in pace' aspect of the brief coupled with the diverse camera angles Tarantino used in the film.

I came up with some sketches that I was personally very pleased with, some not so and some i felt were entirely ropey! but using the ethos of last year, embrace mistakes I kept the ropey ones, the examples below are naturally, the ones I felt I had done well.

These images make up my sequential film screen shots part of the summer assignment we were given, I was really quite excited to get going with them as faces and characters make up alot of the work I do and are something else that i find massive amounts of inspiration in.

So, that's where I'm up to now and my next instalment should contain some of the animal spirit section I completely missed!