SONG ILLUSTRATION: “Tender Is The Ghost”

A sketch I did while in love in my second year at Kent. I then went over it digitally. This, too, was inspired by a song lyric (as are too many of my pieces): from Blur’s “Tender”, which features the reassuring verse:

Tender is the ghost

The ghost I love the most

Hiding from the sun

Waiting for the night to come

Possibly Damon Albarn was referring to some sort of metaphorical ghost, representing his innate desire, or the act of forbidden love, or something. I like my version better, because it has an actual ghost. “The Unquiet Dead”, I’m looking at you.

June 10th
2:33 AM

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MIXED-MEDIA - “The Cold Embrace”

After reading the haunting short story of the same name by Mary Braddon, I sat down in the Gulbenkian cafe, on the Kent Uni. campus, and sketched it out in pencil and watercolour pencil and ink-pen over the course of an hour or so. I was told shortly afterwards by an acquaintance that it looked like Freddy Mercury, on an acid trip. A higher compliment for it I’ve yet to hear.

While drawing, I listened over and over to the following cover of Sting’s Every Breath You Take. It’s similarly haunting, so I include it here.

April 22nd
9:17 AM

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CHARACTER DESIGN: “Marius Manitoba, On His Boat Of Bones”

Named on-the-spot for a wolf breed, Marius began his life as a simple white-robed figure with a blank face. Now, his mask is stuck with pins for every life he has touched, and his boat is built of the bones of those who died to keep him fed.

Marius once thought he was like the ferrymen of folk-tales, and could pass his rudder onto another unlucky soul, and let the wolf’s face be bonded to another old head.

He thinks differently now.