How I got shit done - a step by step guide

Banksy - A Step by Step Guide

Long time since I last blogged and it's sheer laziness on my part, not that I've been resting on my laurels (and hardys) - I've been getting shit done, and this will show you how.

It started with the below picture of England goal keeper Gordon Banks (for the uneducated)

Which at some point in the depths of my picture making history became the below Banksy inspired graphic (which you can buy as a phone cover here)

Well, after a trip to a London art fair and feeling suitably inspired I decided to come up with a cut out piece using some old shoot magazines I'd somehow ended up with.

The idea was to use a silhouette and different coloured card/paper to create extra depth to the pictures.
I'd like to point out that there were probably much easier ways of doing this but as it was my first attempt I was just making it up as I went along really.....
I used the previous Banksy inspired picture and traced the outline onto a blank laminated pocket which I then cut out.
Using that I then traced in pencil on a page from a magazine which I'd reinforced by gluing a few pages together to make it thicker.

Then with my newly acquired craft knife and cutting board I cut out the shape, the coloured paper is going to be inserted behind this like so.........

I was originally just going to do a black filler for the cut out but decided another shade needed to break it up a bit, so a few more swipes of the blade and a piece of thick white paper later and we have some detail around the hands and face (above)

But before I could put this over the black card I padded out the layers by gluing some folded up pages to the top and bottom of the piece - this would hopefully give a gap and create an extra dimension to the final work (below)

Finally with the black card firmly attached to the top and bottom folded pages the end result was put in a frame and signed

 

I hope you like, it's a one off at the moment but I am working on a new one (featuring another legendary footballer) which I hope to have up soon.

Here's one I drew earlier............David Beckham

 

 

Didn't put a picture up this week, still working on my proper Django Unchained piece. So here's one I did earlier and as he retired (you'd thing he'd died given the coverage it got) it's David Beckham. I've used it before on a page I admin with a mate called Four Four Two It's a Football Thing I did a few of the more easier to caricature footballers in a 'gallery' folder (keep meaning to do a few more)

I have somewhere in a sketchbook another more recent Beckham which I'll have to find and stick up here at some point.

Have a week off work now so should be able to crack on with some more pics.......