THOM YORKE

THE SOMBER MUSICIAN
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This was an illustration that was completed in Pol Turgeon's class. The mandate was to find a characteristic trait about that person and execute it as an illustration. Thom Yorke's [Radiohead] music style always has a melancholy air to it, so I went with the characteristic trait 'somber'.

15" x 20"
Pencil, ink, gouache,
and pastel on 2 ply Mayfair

Runner up in Creative Quarterly issue No. 18
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THE DARK HOUR

PERSONAL ART CATALOG
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This was a personal project that I just finished last semester at UQAM. I created a personal book filled with portraits, my thoughts, quotes and songs of people who inspire me to draw. Music is the main reason why I started drawing in the first place. I am naturally attracted to somber things especially in music. The Dark Hour is the time in the evening where I enter my own little creative world.

The cover is a stiff cotton that is semi-transparent with black stitching on the spine. Each sheet was printed on Bienfang Graphics 360 paper on an Epson printer (thanks Mike). Bienfang paper has a beautiful transparency which favored the theme very nicely. The sheets were each folded in half to create an overlay effect. I also printed some text in between the sheets for a little mystery.