tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74159227823363765662024-03-05T20:40:34.867-08:00darren hopes and spiral studioillustrator blog for darren hopes and spiral studio.darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-86798604268214123612015-04-13T03:17:00.001-07:002015-04-13T03:17:36.658-07:00Sketching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just added some sketchy studies to the <a href="http://www.athomeinspace.com/?page_id=382" target="_blank">sketchbook page</a> of my website.<br />
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Bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-47156189327503009242015-02-05T02:10:00.000-08:002015-02-05T02:10:13.103-08:003rd dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More soon! bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-75007247166643776322015-01-22T02:36:00.003-08:002015-01-22T02:44:31.558-08:00Website update.Updated my website with new illustrations and a sketchbook section: <a href="http://www.athomeinspace.com/" target="_blank">at home in space</a><br />
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Ménage à trois<br />
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Mixed media: pencil, ink, acrylic and digital.darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-45697033730622601132014-10-16T04:49:00.003-07:002014-10-16T04:49:39.844-07:00Shop!My <a href="http://darrenhopes.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">shop</a> is now open, please feel free to browse, it's a little shop but one you can peruse without feeling awkward if you want to leave without buying.<br />
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A chance to let my dark half loose. Album artwork for the prog rock band <a href="http://www.facebook.com/incurvatus" target="_blank">Incurvatus</a>. For their forthcoming release The Serpent Path. I also produced an illustration for the inside booklet ... I'll post that soon too.<br />
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Bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-89492214584420596832014-09-24T01:28:00.002-07:002014-09-24T01:28:58.233-07:00Nature Magazine<br />
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Two of five illustrations for this weeks Nature magazine in the Autumn book review section.<br />
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More soon! Bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-81131792204400881672014-06-05T00:54:00.002-07:002014-06-05T00:54:43.761-07:00The Silkworm<br />
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One of four illustrations I made for yesterdays T2 in The Times. Illustrating Extracts from The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith. It does not take a one legged detective to find out that Robert Galbraith is actually J K Rowling.<br />
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A very enjoyable job, did I ever mention I love illustrating literature? I think I probably did.<br />
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More soon! xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-3146323442335264292014-04-04T02:36:00.000-07:002014-04-04T02:44:13.147-07:00Green WaltzHere is a piece of flash fiction I wrote recently. I am hoping to illustrate it when time allows and when I have decided whether to go down the strip route or illustrated story path?<br />
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Green Waltz.<br />
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Slender fingers carefully cutting. Outside in deep red, the sun rising, a slow charge against the retreating night. Slender fingers cutting shapes. Outside in red, deadwood limbs sway as light strengthens. Her little fingers, snipping scissors, busy cutting. Red orange sky with hints of encroaching blue now, dry limbs swaying, waving the passing time goodbye. Little fingers collect the cutout shapes, discard offcuts and pick up a crayon. Outside blueness prevails. Busy green crayons colour shapes. Through the window upright and bare against the clear blue sky, the trees. Little hands brush green coloured shapes from the table into the mouth of a sad old leather bag. She goes out, amongst the parched copses under the cloudless blue sky.<br />
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A short walk over the hill flanked by the tall, long dead stick men. To the one she chose some weeks before. He stands naked, alone, not the biggest, small, just a little taller than herself. From her pocket a ball of string, old and yellow. Little slender fingers go to work. A paper leaf from the tired old bag, snip the string, slender fingers deftly tying. Again and again, reaching, bending, engrossed, consumed in her repeated work. The sun high in the clear sky burning, watching, a fiery eye witness to the solitary little figure. Steps back from her task. <br />
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She stares at the little green dressed tree swaying, a rustling dance in the soft rolling air with the hot sun rising. Mesmerised. The high fiery eye staring like it to was mesmerised by the little green tree in it’s waltz with the breeze. hypnotic and strange. She had wondered you see, she had never seen and had to know.<br />
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By Darren Hopesdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-75694676151592692872014-03-14T04:43:00.000-07:002014-03-14T04:43:15.732-07:00Popshot - Journeys<br />
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My cover artwork for the latest edition of the ever inspiring <a href="http://www.popshotpopshot.com/" target="_blank">Popshot</a> magazine. Theme this issue is journeys and it was a pleasure to illustrate.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.popshotpopshot.com/" target="_blank">Popshot</a> is a truly fascinating magazine of contemporary Poetry, Short Stories, flash fiction and Illustration? it's like they made it just to suit me!<br />
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This started out as oil on board, it was just a monochromatic underpainting which I was going to paint in oil but instead I decided to scan the oil underpainting and work on it with digital painting and some scanned ink brushstrokes. not sure if it's finished, just an experiment really it's sometimes fun to have no plan as to where a picture is going.<br />
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More soon, bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-85313299980528022582014-01-27T02:45:00.000-08:002014-01-27T02:45:41.573-08:00Little Miss Geek<br />
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Two recent illustrations for the Telegraph Magazine illustrating a feature on the website <a href="http://littlemissgeek.com/" target="_blank">Little Miss Geek</a> which was created to inspire and encourage girls into the currently male dominated field of technology. Quite right too! (that girls should be going for it in technology … not that it should be male dominated)<br /><br />Bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-69738305537748379992014-01-14T01:18:00.001-08:002014-01-14T01:18:04.518-08:00Happy 2014<br />
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Sorry for the belated new year wishes I got a bit bogged down early on, three commissions in already so nothing much to post but here is something that never saw the light of day. It was a version of the Owl Service cover that never got used (I made a few for the AD to close from) The one they went for partly incorporated this but I quite liked this one as well.<br />
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More soon, bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-50339885448857093592013-12-19T05:21:00.000-08:002013-12-19T05:21:13.633-08:00Images of Undiluted Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Latest illustrations for my friends at <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/" target="_blank">New Scientist</a>. This time illustrating an intriguing short story by <a href="http://www.joannakavenna.com/" target="_blank">Joanna Kavenna</a> titled Images of Undiluted Love. Quite aptly Chritmassy don't you think? no? … well it's got snow!<br /><br />Bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-48495519522779648202013-12-18T01:52:00.001-08:002013-12-18T01:52:53.731-08:00Never Blinks<br />I have started an inspiration blog over at tumblr called <a href="http://neverblinks.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Never Blinks</a>. Please check it out, the talent I am finding is humbling and will either make me give up or strive like a man possessed to get better. It certainly makes me want to get that canvas that is lurking in the corner of my studio up on an easel but don't expect me to show the results of that anytime soon!<br /><br />Bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-70644591395552825712013-11-25T03:09:00.001-08:002013-11-25T03:09:49.436-08:00Slip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A return to my photography at last. I have been mainly concerned with my illustration and more painterly work over the last couple of years and whilst I have tackled a few commissions photographically I have not produced any personal work for a good while.<br /><br />This is essentially a piece I did to practice for a slightly more complex image I have planned.<br />
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After illustrating The Owl Service I am very happy to say the <a href="http://www.foliosociety.com/" target="_blank">Folio Society</a> returned and asked me to illustrate a short story for their magazine. I think I may have mentioned before but I love illustrating short stories and this was no exception. It was a dark, grim and gritty tale called Hollow by the author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breece_D%27J_Pancake" target="_blank">Breece D J Pancake</a>. Here are two illustrations from the series of double page spreads I created.<br /><br />I like characters in stories that I essentially dislike, loathe even but whom I can perhaps feel for at the same time, perhaps even understand why they are as they are however abhorrent that is to me. The <a href="http://www.thedeathofbunnymunro.com/" target="_blank">Bunny Munros</a>, (as in The Death of), Eucrid (<a href="http://www.nickcave.com/books/and-the-ass-saw-the-angel/" target="_blank">And the Ass Saw the Angel</a>), Frank (<a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-wasp-factory/" target="_blank">The Wasp Factory</a>) Hollows Buddy is similar. I will be reading more of the late Breece Pancake for sure.darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-82910118410476025432013-11-04T01:01:00.004-08:002013-11-05T01:31:03.354-08:00New Scientist - Bloody Mary illusion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two illustrations for this weeks <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/" target="_blank">New Scientist</a>. A suitably creepy halloweenesque piece on <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24466-the-halloween-trick-that-conjures-ghosts-of-the-mind.html" target="_blank">research into the eerie visions that can occur when staring into a mirror</a>. <br />
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'So professor, we just popped round to see how your research was going? what have you been up to over the last few months? you've been what? you had some people over to stare in a mirror until they saw scary faces? I see. Why has all of your litmus paper got smiley faces on?'<br />
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Here are five of the interior illustrations I produced for the <a href="http://www.foliosociety.com/" target="_blank">Folio Society</a> edition of <a href="http://www.foliosociety.com/book/OWL/owl-service" target="_blank">The Owl Service</a>, there were 8 in all including the <a href="http://athomeinspace.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-owl-servive-1.html" target="_blank">frontis piece</a>. They are best viewed in situ though, in the book, Folio books are just such beautiful objects!darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-12674254066055272432013-10-16T04:01:00.000-07:002013-10-16T04:01:58.688-07:00Vapours<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sometime in my murky past I read a book called Automated Alice by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Noon" target="_blank">Jeff Noon</a>, it is testament to the Author to say I thoroughly enjoyed it because I have been known to be rather fierce in my opinions of Alice in wonderland / through the looking glass adaptations and sequels. I am quite protective of those books, they are amongst my most loved stories.<br /><br />So I was delighted when <a href="http://www.arcfinity.org/" target="_blank">Arc magazine</a> asked me to illustrate a short story called Vapours by Jeff Noon for the forthcoming Arc 2.1. It was a good one too! it's not often I get to illustrate a naked purple lady but I am always happy when I do.darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-21271100805927285332013-10-11T07:41:00.000-07:002013-10-24T08:15:01.721-07:00The Owl Service 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Late last year I was commissioned to illustrate a book for the <a href="http://www.foliosociety.com/" target="_blank">Folio Society</a>. I am a fan of the their beautiful publications they have produced some wonderful editions with some wonderful illustrators so while fifteen years in illustration have helped me in confidence I can't deny I was a little nervous when an e-mail dropped into my inbox titled 'Folio Society job for you'.<br />
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The process of producing a Folio book is unlike any other publishing work I have done but thanks to my Art Director and Editor it turned out to be a thoroughly pleasurable experience, they worked with the lightest of touches and I really felt I had room to interpret the book in my own way. While in recent years I have found the Art Directors I work with leave me to my own devices to interpret briefs as I wish this is still unusual for me in book publishing so I was delighted at the amount of freedom I had, just the appropriate nudge from time to time.<br />
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The book I was asked to illustrate was <a href="http://www.foliosociety.com/book/OWL/owl-service" target="_blank">The Owl Service by </a>Alan Garner. It was not a book I was familiar with but after a day reading it I knew Folio were also adept at placing the right story with the right artist. It was very much my 'thing' dark, surreal but landed in the everyday. Perfect!<br />
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Mr Garner I hope I did your strange tale justice.<br />
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I have posted the cover and the frontis piece here. The cover in particular took me away from my usual approach, I wanted to take advantage of the block print<span id="goog_959263117"></span> and was limited to two colours and the cover material. This turned out to be a really nice limitation, I chose to drop any photographic elements for this and hand draw the whole thing as I felt it would work well with the flora and give me control over the thickness of the lines which was important.<br />
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I will post some of the interior illustrations soon!<br />
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<br />darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-8463624507063847612013-10-11T03:12:00.000-07:002013-10-11T04:40:53.432-07:00Museum of ChildhoodWhat happens when your art director is 8 years old? you get a brief with a purple mutant turtle and find yourself immediately out of your cozy little comfort zone that's what.<br />
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In celebration of their 30th birthday my agent Central Illustration are holding an event at the V&A <a href="http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/" target="_blank">Museum of Childhood</a> and have handed out briefs written by children to more than 30 of their artists.<br />
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Here's a tiny preview of my mutant turtle to see the full A3 image along with all of the others pop along to the V&A this Saturday where as well as the pre briefed works 12 artists will be drawing live!<br />
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<a href="http://ciablog.tumblr.com/post/63468743824/this-saturday-at-the-museum-of-childhood-cia-are" target="_blank">Find out more here</a><br />
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Bit of an absence from blogging but you can stop worrying I am back now, I was off on holiday and then straight into a commission for Arc magazine, I will post the results when the mag is published. In the meantime here's a personal illustration. It does not belong on any series, just an image that had been floating around my head which gave me a chance to experiment with introducing some ink and Chinese brush work into the mix.<br />
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More soon! bye for now xdarren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415922782336376566.post-1810100805916042732013-07-15T02:53:00.000-07:002013-07-15T02:53:08.902-07:00Slurry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the fifth in the series. It is titled 'Slurry' which accompanies a very short poem by the same name. <br /><br />As I mentioned in an earlier post I may leave this lot for a while as I intend on developing my landscape series, it is my longest running series and I have not done much with it for a while and, well, I feel like I need to get out of the studio a bit. That said, I was rooting through my notebook and came across a short poem that I wrote a couple of years ago that will lend itself well to the series I have been working on so there may be a sixth before I let this lot rest for a while, it will be returned to when I have produced some more writings to illustrate which as I said is a slow business for me!<br />
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I will post these with their texts, poems and flash fictions ... when I am feeling brave enough!<br /><br />Bye for now x<br />darren hopes & spiral studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09925108793000669148noreply@blogger.com0