Cath & Phil Tyler

More folk musician portraits for the Screen Bandita event.  These artists are Cath and Phil Tyler, folk musicians from Newcastle.

Alasdair Roberts

This is portrait two for the Screen Bandita event in September.  The musician is Alasdair Roberts.

Wounded Knee.

I'm illustrating another flyer for my awesome-good friends at Screen Bandita, a sequel to a job I did for them almost two years ago.  Some of the very first illustrations I posted on this here blog were from that job, and it's a bit of a strange, sentimental, return-to-sender type moment for me doing it again.  It really makes you think...

I'm illustrating four bands/artists who'll be playing alternafolk in time to amazing Scottish Screen Archive footage at the event, which will be in Edinburgh later this year.  I'll post details soon enough, but right now here's an image of Drew Wright, A.K.A Wounded Knee, whose music you should listen to.

Bits and Bobs

It's been a busy few weeks and there's a lot of 'work in progress' at the moment.  But here's some cool stuff in the meantime.

I did another Drop In + Draw with the Edinburgh League of Comics, which went surprisingly well after a faltering start on the first day of the event.  Doing a comic book drawing session in a Shopping Mall had its pluses and minuses - benefits being that we got to take comics drawing to an interesting new location and give kids a chance to do some drawing who might otherwise not always get the same kinds of opportunities.  The downside of course was that most people were there to shop!

Still, it went very well in the end and our Sunday session was packed with people who had come out especially.  You can read more about the event at the ELC Blog.  I drew this stuff while I was there:

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Meanwhile, Patrick Tobin has written a lovely and insightful review of Filmish for 'Multiversity Comics'.  It's well worth a read if you're interested!  From the review:

Where most academic film writing is a closed (and often locked) door, Filmish is an open invitation, and all the better for it. [...] Filmish exists in one of the spaces between nerddoms, where ideas from different media and disciplines can freely bleed into one another and create something unique.

-Patrick Tobin

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And in other news, Paper Science 5 arrived in the post.  It's the newspaper format comics anthology edited by Matt Sheret that's just a beautiful collection of absolutely top class comics work from UK based creators.  And I'm in it too, with a short piece called 'Dust', my first ever wordless comic story.

You need to buy yourself a copy, or better yet a subscription to a whole year's worth of tasty comics. Go here and do that now!

Filmish: On Set and In The Classroom.

Filmish is popping up everywhere! Recently I heard from Peter Redrup, a teacher in an English secondary school, who wanted permission to use Filmish to teach his A-level students about Laura Mulvey and point of view theory.  I thought this was a lovely idea, so with my permission he printed out the whole essay and put it up for his students to read.

Filmish in the classroom.

Then just this morning I heard from film student Thomas Shawcroft, who is studying at Arts University College at Bournemouth.  He's currently on set shooting a short film called When You Are Here, directed by Doug Rollins.  Anyway, he sent me this photo of them reading Filmish on set!

Ronaldas Buozis (d.o.p) / Thomas Shawcroft (focus puller) 

It's really nice to see Filmish out there in the world, especially when it's being used to educate and inspire!  If you are a teacher/lecturer and you're interested in using Filmish in the classroom, please send me an email.  And if you've got any photos of yourself reading Filmish in an interesting place or context, I'd love to see them!

(edward.m.a.ross[at]btinternet.com)