They never get easier.
Five years ago the students and I did our first big event together: the World Skills Festival.
Five years ago the students and I did our first big event together: the World Skills Festival.
Five years and almost fifty events later (deep breath: Gadget Show, BETT, MCM, Barbican, Royal Academy, 3, Dell, Art on the Street, Magic Summer, JISC and many others my brains stopped counting) we hosted the latest and, in some aspects, last - things change for me work wise soon. Will still be doing events of course, but the focus changes a little after May). February 20 and 21 saw us touch the screens at the London Super Comic Con. It's a FANTASTIC show at London ExCeL and our second year there. Last year we did this:
This year...?
It starts, of course, with the students. I ask all of them, whether they can make the Con dates or not, to draw up some characters for the mural which hits the walls of our stand. This time I asked all of them to draw me 1-3 comic based characters: a male hero, a female hero and a bad guy (either gender). When added together it became the image above.
The images below? Well, this blog is still a work in progress (I've had to fit in the writing of it around marking and cooking dinner and so on) but it was all sorts of fun and I hope the pictures below capture some of that. More to come, will edit and amend the blog tomorrow.
The images below? Well, this blog is still a work in progress (I've had to fit in the writing of it around marking and cooking dinner and so on) but it was all sorts of fun and I hope the pictures below capture some of that. More to come, will edit and amend the blog tomorrow.
The highlight for me? Meeting my art heroes is always immensely wonderful so saying hallo to Brian Bolland was just fabulous. Taking his photo and Judging him made me smile for days:
... And of course there's the meeting up with lovely tablet art friends. Both Mr Roz Hall and Dame Valerie of Beeby joined me for this one and it was wonderful, as ever, to catch up.
More to come... I've got some lovely photos from the students to edit in and a good few more videos and images to come. But for the moment the day is drawing to a close as I've been running around like a Wotsit for the majority of it.