Pin-Up Drugs - 'Lady Morphine'

Full colour with oils

Pencil and pen W.I.P photograph

'She is a natural painkiller. She has been hurt many times before and so can't stand to see others in pain - so high are her levels of empathy and compassion that her body has re-wired itself to secrete an antidote to physical pain. It has become her blood. She uses six ports to siphon her blood for the use of others, and stores it. But the painkiller blood detaches her from reality. She feels as if she floats between one world and the next. She has to dispose of it so she can feel lucid, but as she does so her body is put through agony. Cuts and tears appear in her skin. She is a time-bomb; she is giving away her blood to help others even though it is slowly killing her.'

Brighton

In the gardens around the Pavilion.

View from the pier, overlooking the shore.

Refracted Light

Bruises

A pretty recent drawing about healing from an abusive relationship. The finished, painted one isn't in my possession right now because of A-level marking, but I miss having it.

I Wanted Something More Than Crows

W.I.P shots throughout painting process

Oils, pencil, biro. I've been obsessed with Victorian architecture, Baroque aesthetics and Sander Cohen from the original Bioshock game. I was thinking about how the Industrial Revolution changed society in the 19th Century, so contrasted old world colours with neon to represent augmenting nature. He's a mad scientist conducting experiments on crows.

Life Drawing - 20 minutes

Drawing tattoos and peircings isn't something I've done in life drawing before, but I loved it.
Her face was also gorgeous to draw.