Another Sketchbook Page [English Frank statue]

Akala [Knowledge In The Booth]

This is one of my favorite artists, Akala. This piece is just something I was working on in my sketchbook whilst listening to his new mixtape Knowledge Is Power. Great artist, youtube or google him, very inspiring and incredibly diverse.

Veritas; The Progenitor

This is the 1st posted piece of a sketchbook collection of pieces I'm doing surrounding my Veritas, and I'm trying to be a little more experimental with them than my usual visual language..

Nearing the end of my III A5 Moleskine Sketchbook

Is-Ought

Ma'at Synergy

These are a couple of new-ish pages from my moleskine sketchbook, I haven't really been drawing lately which I'm kinda ashamed of but I'll get back into it..
It just takes me a while to feel inspired enough to draw, and reading and observing media is a good way of starting for me, so I read, watch, listen to music and draw simultaneously.. It's long and tedious if I don't have anything in mind, but if I have a spark of an idea then the ball rolls by itself..
'Is-Ought' is something I came across while reading, and in a lot of my sketchbook pages, you may find random pieces of information as letters, drawings or symbols which all stem from my readings, watchings and listenings..
The bottom image is something I'm still working on, I know I'm too precious with my sketchbook pages but when I have finished one to the degree I call finished, they really express exactly what I have been thinking (to me) even if they're understood different than I mean, all is good!
Individual Interpretation is what its all about lol

Speaking Volumes!

Check out this new publication!
Speaking Volumes

KongCream [progress snap]

Erm.. what can I say about this..
Ok the Gorilla is in a cage standing on top of ice cream, he can escape.. But he won't...
We own our freedom.

On going 2nd SpeakingVolumes piece..

Speaking Volumes Commercial Project [Court of Puppets]

#1

#2

This is the final piece I wanted to submit for the outside project of Speaking Volumes because I thought I'd achieved the right balance of ideology with craft to produce it. That expresses the controlled conformity and puppeteering which is occurring between all groups, men and women, man and child and shows what is happening with a simple image..
Although I had more ideas, some I thought may be to controversial or 'deep' for a first edition of a new publication, and so went with my most universal idea.

I may produce another piece called, 'The More Words We Know, The More We Can See', which is an extended ideology (not broad enough to be a philosophy), that poses that we do not see with our physical eyes but our minds, and the more words we are attune with, the wider our gauge of material things we can perceive..

Do Geese See God? [Printing/Book binding project]

This little sequence of drawings is a scanned version from a maquette I made for a print project in creating a book from advice myself along with a partner would have liked to know before starting our BA course. Given my experience of being away from home for a year already before the course and the timid nature of my partner, we agreed we'd give advice/ record on the experiences I'd had and the experiences he's yet to have.
This 4 images are from side of the 8 page sequential and my advice was;
1. Have a social life
2. Avoid engaging with mormons
3. Your money will run out
4. Break some rules

Pages from my III A5 Moleskine

Arbitrary

 The above is a double page spread from my sketchbook, as notes and minor research for a project I had in which we had to create a box with a conceptual background which was quite challenging but prevailed in the end.
[it looks like nothing to people but all of it has meaning]

Conformity is the Motto of Society

This was some ideas generation for an outside project relating to a new publication Speaking Volumes and all the illustrators in BA 1st and 2nd year needed to submit something, (although it was proposed as optional), and it needed to speak volumes in some way and so I thought the most obvious and universal projection of this would be conformity or tradition. (or something relating these ideas)

The Apex Predator [UNFINISHED]

Couple of Newies..

Demonology

Jimmy the Saint

Gasei's Log #00005

I am Self-Actualized..
I am Free, not Freed..
I Wait for no one, and wish to not be Waited upon..
I Appreciate what I Can and Cannot Control..
I am Depreciative of what I Cannot Control and what I Can..
I am ambitious in my quest for Knowledge and generous in my share of Understanding..
I am Basic..
I am Complex..
I want All in a Selfless way and want Nothing in a Selfish one..

Gasei's Log #00004 *Ubuntu

As a curious young mind of Zambian (African) descent, living and brought up in Britain, I found that culturally I was never truly in sync with any traditions of my heritage other the respect of elders, which is generally - even though not implemented as much so where I've lived by natives - dogma everywhere.
But whilst reading and net-surfing as you do in this Golden Information Age, I found an African philosophy called Ubuntu ["I am what I am because of who we all are." (From a translation offered by Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee.)]. Which is from what I've read, a general African belief, although the word is South African, it is evident that many African cultures have taken this system on in the past, and even now in traditional villages.
When I found this, I felt like I had found something I could be proud of as an African having being taught everywhere that philosophies and great doctrines were only in Western cultures, which is no fault to anyone, - when in Rome, do as the Romans do - but finding this meant a lot to me, as its something I feel I could take on personally to raise my own self value as an a Zambian, as an African..

Ubuntu is recognised as being an important source of law within the context of strained or broken relationships amongst individuals or communities and as an aid for providing remedies which contribute towards more mutually acceptable remedies for the parties in such cases. Ubuntu is a concept which[ definitions by Judge Colin Lamont]:

1. is to be contrasted with vengeance;
2. dictates that a high value be placed on the life of a human being;
3. is inextricably linked to the values of and which places a high premium on dignity, compassion, humaneness and respect for humanity of another;
4. dictates a shift from confrontation to mediation and conciliation;
5. dictates good attitudes and shared concern;
6. favours the re-establishment of harmony in the relationship between parties and that such harmony should restore the dignity of the plaintiff without ruining the defendant;
7. favours restorative rather than retributive justice;
8. operates in a direction favouring reconciliation rather than estrangement of disputants;
9. works towards sensitising a disputant or a defendant in litigation to the hurtful impact of his actions to the other party and towards changing such conduct rather than merely punishing the disputant;
10. promotes mutual understanding rather than punishment;
11. favours face-to-face encounters of disputants with a view to facilitating differences being resolved rather than conflict and victory for the most powerful;
12. favours civility and civilised dialogue premised on mutual tolerance.

End of the 2nd Testament (last pages of 2nd A5 Moleskine)

My Visual Life

The Golden Rule

Born This Way

x5 +1

F=AP