Heres Bedford College’s End Year Exhibition poster again (without the typo this time…thanks Andrew Foster). Come along if you are in the area. x

Good afternoon. Here is the poster I designed for Bedford College’s Art & Design Degree Show that is coming up. It’s an adaption of an earlier drawing I did…Hope you can attend if you are in the area. : )

Today, at the request of the lovely @BCADirector and @kristianpurcell I sketched various people at Mrs Kezia Hall’s art event which took place at the (also lovely) @gfcoffeeshopuk .

The show was all about food and there was a giant cake which people ate freely. It was great….anyway, here is one of the visitors I sketched. x

Freak of the week – ‘The Wild Things’ II

Here is my latest Wild Thing design, soon to be appearing in the stage production based on Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where The Wild Thing’s Are’ book. This past week I was privileged to be able to sit in on a Wild Thing script read through. It was great fun and made me even more excited to be involved in this ambitious show. Not long now until I see my creature designs come to life on stage.

For more info on ‘The Wild Things’ please visit the No Loss Productions website here:http://www.nolossproductions.co.uk/?page_id=136

Also on www.creaturemag.com

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Hello all. Here is my ‘Wild Things’ update article that appears in this Months “Bedford Clanger’ newspaper. Hope that you enjoy. X

By now hopefully a lot of you would have seen my new designs for ‘The Wild Things’ poster and flyer around town. For this months update I thought I would talk you through the images creation and- what us arty types call- ‘my process’.

Most of my designs start out as really scruffy and sketchy ‘thumbnail’s’ that are really quick doodles of the images I have in my head. Using thumbnails are a great way of getting the image on page (albeit a really rough version) and work out the composition and layout. I got the idea for have the tree’s branches form one of the creatures faces from this stage.

Once I was happy that the idea and layout were in place I got straight to work with drawing the image in my A3 sketchbook.

Now, this is the bit I slightly worry about telling people about as it sort of feels like cheating, but I very rarely draw the whole image as one completed piece on one single page. Instead I will draw each element on a separate page (as shown in the photos opposite) and then composite each drawing together on Adobe Photoshop.

There are many benefits to working like this. One is that if I make a mistake drawing one of the elements- the drawing of ‘Max’ for example- then it is not going to effect the overall image. I can just screw Max up and start him again on a fresh piece of paper.

Another benefit is that I can draw each element as big and as detailed as I like and shrink it down on the computer without loosing any of the overall drawn-line quality.

Anyway, once all of the individual drawings where completed I scanned them in to my computer and digitally cut out the background of the page (quite a tricky task with all of those pesky branches) before putting each image together to create one, final design.

The whole process took me around about 3 days (save for eating, sleeping and blinking).

Yikes, that was a little bit technical (apologies to all of digitalphobes!). Next month’s update promises to be more messy and anarchic as I will be creating costumes and sets with the very talented Matt Baker.

Hopefully I will also have some exciting behind the scenes ‘monster’ photos to tease you with as we continue to work away on what promises to be a really fantastic and hugely ambitious stage show.

www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com

(See the whole of the October issue of The Bedford Clanger online here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/108697189/Bedford-Clanger-October-2012)

Heres my contributing envelope for Anne-Marie Stijelja’s Mail Art show at 24 Mill Street, Bedford. If you have a chance I highly recommend you see this brilliant exhibition. Theres hundreds of excellent envelope designs on show. x

Hello my friends. Heres a few better pics taken of the open air, cycle powered cinema screening of the magnifique ‘Bellevue Rendez-Vous’ I was blogging on about last weekend.

(Check out my drawing on the screen prior to the film) 

Photos by Mr Graham Phillip Watson

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“By David Litchfield (Aged 14)”

Today me and my brother cleared out a load of old crap from my mum’s house as she’s moving. I was going through some of my old stuff when I came across this little gem that I hadn’t seen for absolute years.

This is technically my first ever illustration commission I did for the local comic shop when I was 14 years old. I say ‘technically’ because I was actually payed in Star Wars Comics and not money (I believe it was the Dark Horses mini-series of Droids, issues 1 to 6). 

‘Mike’ who used to work at Comic’s Unlimited at 4 Clair Court, Bedford (now the cool little Vintage boutique @rosetintedvintage) asked me to draw the flyer one day when I was on work experience there (one amazing week in my life) as they knew I did ‘art stuff’.

I was so chuffed that they asked me to illustrate it, although back then I didn’t really know that I could become an illustrator or care anything about careers or getting paid to draw. All I thought about was how cool it was that I could draw Boba Fett, Mulder and Scully, Batman and Judge Dredd and people would actually see it.

Although, to be honest. the only people who actually did see it where comic fans and Warhammer geeks from in and around the Bedford town radius. 

Until now that is. Thanks internet :) x

Great pic of the end result of this past weekends ‘Drawing Room’ adventure. Photo by Andrew Foster. 

Blog HERE x

Wow. What a great day drawing with @wearethecircus in ‘The Drawing Room’ pop up shop. We got loads of people- young and old, drawers and non-drawers, to come and draw on the walls, furniture and floor and created a mass doodle of inky joy and goodness…..x

The whole thing is on display at 24 Mill Street, Bedford for the next 8 days. Go and see it. Its awesome. x

p.s. loads more Photos of the event are on The Circus of Illustration Facebook page HERE x

and heres my The Drawing Room poster doodle again! This time Intagram-afied.

Just becouse…x