starting the finished piece....

A couple of nights ago I was feeling a bit sad and spontaneously started drawing this eye. It forms part of an illustration that I'm currently working on, and is a work-in-progress drawing. I'm working on two miniture illustrations:

'Eyes in a Moon of Blindness'
'All the Treasures in the Night'

Taken from U2's 'All I want is you.' I've always loved the imagery that music can evoke. In fact, originally, my MA project proposal was to illustrate a series of songs. I eventually adapted it and worked on a tragic love story in opera form.

Recently, I've had an insane approach to my drawing, where I have been drawing on the tube, bus, station platform, in pret etc...I haven't been like this in a while. Which leads me to believe that something subconciously has inspired me to channel my energies into my sketchbook. In my case it's usually misery, love or both!

The last time I was like this, was a year ago when I was missing a then very good friend, that had moved home to America. For me, the only way to channel my feelings was to be artistically productive.

In the last couple of years I've really started to learn a lot about myself as an artist. What I have come to understand is that my work is very emotionally and personally driven. Almost autobiographical, but not always deliberately.

I don't seem to see things like feelings, or falling in love, like most other people. Or maybe most people do have a similar experience of seeing things like this, in picture form.

I think that recently I've had an experience of this. Where my feelings for someone/a situation have started to take expression in illustration form....