Bryony Hopkins Illustration

My Uncle

2012-01-24T15:39:00.000-08:00

This afternoon, my amazing uncle passed away. He’d been in the hospital for a while and we knew it was coming but it didn’t make it any easier.

He was a great man who always had time for me. When I was little I used to go to family dinner parties at my aunts house and being the youngest, I got very bored. I used to crawl under the table and grab Gary’s legs so he’d get up and spin me around and throw me in the air. This earned him the nickname ‘wicked uncle Gary’.

Losing him breaks my heart but it has also made me realise what an amazing family I have.

I got this locket from my Grandma for my 21^st birthday. It’s the first gift my grandad ever gave her when they got engaged. It has a lovely little photo of him in his uniform and I wear it almost every day. Every time I look at it I think of him so today I stuck a little photo of Gary in next to him.

R.I.P Gary. I love you more than you could ever know.

people practice

2012-01-03T15:03:00.000-08:00

I wan't going to post this because I really didn't like it but my mum said it was good so what the heck! I have to draw a portrait of a man to go in a book for age concern but unfortunatley, drawing people really isn't my strong point. I thought I should probably practice a bit before I draw the guy for the book so I drew a still from one of my favourite films. It needs a lot more work but I don't think i'm going to continue with it but yeah, this is Cillian Murphy as Jonathan in 'On the edge'.

Wrapping paper

2012-01-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

I ran out of wrapping paper this year so I made my own on the photocopier. How resourceful!

Sleepy deer

2011-12-27T08:48:00.000-08:00

Every year I made christmas cards with deers on. This is this years deer.

TONIGHT

2011-11-28T06:35:00.000-08:00

I am going to Leeds to watch the lovely Tony sing as versechorusverse. I am ridiculously exited. I've not seen him perform without and so I watch you from afar and it's going to be amazing.

I think everyone should listen to this.

2011-10-23T15:06:00.000-07:00

Recently when I'm working I've been putting speeches on in the background instead of music and i've ended up listening to some pretty inspirational stuff. I came across this speech by Charlie Chaplin a while ago from his film 'the great dictator' and it is still by far my favourite. There is a normal version of it but I think the music put with this one makes it a lot more powerful, however I think the actual video distracts from the words so maybe just listen instead of watch.

Photographer

2011-10-15T13:16:00.000-07:00

We finished out projects and the aim of it was to have a 'digital' aspect to our work. Mine did not but luckily our tutor had the idea of bringing in a professional photographer to give us a class on lighting then photograph our work. I was doing a little display so I set that up and we figured out what lighting would be best and took some photos. These are the 2 best ones.

Screen print beginning

2011-10-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

So! I've finally finished a screen print which I have been working on for a uni project about 'Totems' but sadly it didn't come out as as well as I had hoped. I wanted to do some geometric shapes in the background and thought the inside pattern on an envelope would work. I blew one up on the photocopier but I wish I'd made it bigger. The pattern overwhelms the rest of the image. It might work if the bird was bigger but....it's not?

Shields

2011-10-12T14:43:00.000-07:00

These are also part of my little set of somethings for a kind of installation type thingy I am doing. I'm so articulate.

Mountains and other things.

2011-10-12T14:28:00.000-07:00

I have to draw some mountains for a screen print and I like drawing mountains lots any way so here are some mountains!

Also a heart and a bird?

More project work

2011-10-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

I was looking at some Joseph cornell work and decided to frame some of my little sketches for my current uni project. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

I made a thing!

2011-10-10T14:36:00.000-07:00

I'm not quite sure what this is..but it's something. It's part of a uni project called 'totems' which we have to make something remotely based on a totem pole using personal elements such as hopes, fears, strengths, weaknesses and secrets.

This is a..toy type thing? Which will be used as part of a display I am putting together using repeating elements. I know quality wise it isn't amazing but I am quite proud that this is my first attempt at wood work. The screen printing is a little off but I will fix that soon!

Help me please?

2011-10-02T13:31:00.000-07:00

I'm back in York for the weekend so I had to use a phone picture but I need help! This is a basic idea for a screen print which I have to have ready on acetate by tuesday and it has to have a background. But what? suggestions please?

Shits and giggles

2011-09-20T12:46:00.000-07:00

Well! When it comes to photoshop and related programmes, I am a complete and utter failure! Today I had my first ever lesson in using illustrator. This..thing is the result of my hard and frustrating labour. I think I shall be avoiding it like the plague in future!

And some more.

2011-09-19T12:26:00.000-07:00

For a new project we had to draw a character and add an adjective from a list to the character. One of the things we had to draw was a 'decorative owl'. First I drew the owl and planned on sticking some fancy patterns on him but then I decided he'd look much better with a pair of funky earrings. He's a suave little fellow isn't he?

Deer?

2011-09-19T12:23:00.000-07:00

A wee bit more uni work

2011-09-19T12:20:00.000-07:00

SO! I need to stop drawing cartoons! This is my last! (It probably wont be)

enraged doodling

2011-08-10T13:45:00.000-07:00

This is my visual representation of the brain scale of the lovely people burning and looting the city I live in.

Craft stall

2011-07-22T17:33:00.000-07:00

Well recently I've been making a lot of stuff for a craft stall Me and my friend Hannah have. The day has finally come and I'm weirdly nervous. it's at a music festival so I'm not expecting to sell much but it should still be fun! I've don't some hand drawn stuff but It's all pretty simple as I've not had that much time. Wish me luck folks!

Everything else is here:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150248498614099.343829.529819098

This is chris..

2011-07-13T14:30:00.000-07:00

He is incredibly fashionable..

Bird necklace

2011-07-07T15:37:00.000-07:00

I made another necklace!

Hylas

2011-07-05T11:19:00.000-07:00

I've always been really terrible at drawing realistic people but i've decided to try again for this project. I have to interpret a classic painting and me and my group have chosen Waterhouse's 'Hylas and the Nymphs'.

In the painting You can't see much of Hylas' face so I decided to give a proper one!

So yeah, I can only draw animals (other than cartoons) so I'm aware that this is pretty bad but I wanted to give it another go and I guess I'll have to keep practicing. He's not finished but I think I'll leave him be before he gets worse....He also looks suspiciously like Richard Madden....

Cyclops

2011-07-03T10:39:00.000-07:00

Currently got a summer project which links to Jason and the argonauts so just mulling over some fond memories of the amazing monsters in the films. I'm not actually that keen on this drawing but he was fun to draw.

I made a necklace!

2011-06-30T15:53:00.000-07:00

Search:party:animal

2011-06-29T03:47:00.000-07:00

I coloured him in. Currently have a coloured pencil lust.

Sunshine!

2011-06-14T10:26:00.001-07:00

Today has been warm to say the least so I've been sat in the garden drawing. Again in a style I should probably scrap but now that I'm away from uni I'm just having a bit of fun drawing. Not really sure what is going on in either image, Just having fun with coloured pencils.

For Hannah

2011-05-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

Err... I didn't know what to draw and Hannah asked me to draw a sailor..so I did. I really need to stop drawing like this.

Party Animal

2011-05-20T16:51:00.000-07:00

Search:

This is a doodle illustrating how I feel after listening to this on repeat, at full volume for nearly two hours. It's a good kind of internal organ vomit though. I don't think I will ever be bored of these guys or this song.

Book Cover

2011-05-15T17:57:00.000-07:00

These are the finished versions. The print won't be the full size of the cover. It would have a white border.

Typography really isn't my strong point at all but for the past few weeks we have had a guest tutor called Daren Newman who'd illustration work is AWESOME! (http://www.meandmypen.com/work.php)

He helped me a lot with the type but it didn't look my style on the image so i went with something a little messier. I hope it works?

Screen prints

2011-05-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

We had a book cover project for a book called ''The Company of Wolves'' by Angela Carter which is a quite X rated version of little red riding hood. I had to screen print someone else's design when I started uni and I wanted to try doing it myself. These are the prints for the cover and the repeat pattern for the backing papers. I didn't screen print the text on the image because I like the print on it's own so looks like that will be a photoshop job (oh dear).

And so I watch you from afar

2011-05-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

If you trust my taste, listen to this. They've been my favorite band for a long time now and their new album 'Gangs' is amazing. Get it.

And another...

2011-05-05T08:58:00.000-07:00

Err yeah... just drawing more wolves...

WOLF

2011-04-27T14:17:00.000-07:00

I'm doing a book cover for a take on Red riding hood and Chris wanted me to draw a wolf so this is just killing 2 birds with one stone really. Theres a lot more detail in the proper version of this. It's just a page in my sketchbook but I think i'm pretty happy with it.

Spring?

2011-04-12T16:19:00.000-07:00

Today I went for a walk by the river and I fell in love

♥♥♥

HELLO YORK

2011-04-11T15:35:00.000-07:00

♥♥♥♥♥♥

stop motion

2011-03-28T09:57:00.000-07:00

I am aware of the terrible-ness of this but it was fun. We had a life model in and had to draw 15 frames of her walking towards a toy cat and throwing it. Sadly my cat did not leave the frame. Oops.

The fly who bugged me

2011-03-23T03:59:00.000-07:00

Editorial.

A couple of weeks we were doing practice for editorial illustration. We had a choice of 4 articles and i picked one called 'the fly who bugged me' which was from science magazine. It is basically about how scientists are putting chemical substances into insects nervous systems so that they can be remote controlled and in future used as a form of surveillance (scary shit). We only had a week to do this and I was planning on screen printing it but the studio was not available when I needed it. We had a crit on a series of roughs where others in the class acted as art director. This is the image I developed from what I was told in the crit. I based the image on the all seeing eye and some images I found in an alchemy book.

I was planning on neatening my image up In photoshop but I didn't keep in mind how terrible I am when it comes to computers so spent Too long trying to scan it in to get to edit it then when I printed it into the context, the image came out so much darker than the original which really ruined it.

Good day

2011-03-18T07:58:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I went on a really long walk and the weather was not so great. At the end of my long but lovely day I stopped off in a little pub. Pubs are my favorite place to draw so I started doodling a dog which was sat on the floor in front of me. It wasn't a particularly good drawing but a woman came up and asked if she could buy it! She told me to name a price and I have no idea about these things so I just said a fiver and she game me a tenner! What a good day!

Joker

2011-03-11T07:03:00.000-08:00

This is a drawing I did for someone for Christmas. I was really happy with it at the time but now it looks a bit shit. It's all in cross hatch but the detail was lost when I uploaded it. The finished version is done with coloured pencil but is on printer paper so the blending isn't too great but it could be worse!

Feet

2011-03-04T10:39:00.000-08:00

Captain Murderer.

2011-03-03T14:23:00.000-08:00

Recently we have been doing some work at a local primary school doing drawings and making things with the kids and me and a few friends were asked to do a play for them called 'captain murderer'. Now usually the thought of having to do something like that would make me feel sick to the stomach but we had so much fun! Even though the kids were too young to get some of the jokes, they were very exited when we threw the exploding captains body parts into the crowd.

Wycinanki

2011-03-03T10:13:00.000-08:00

These are some more attempt at polish style paper cutting (Wycinanki). These are some I have done based on little miss muffet and Little red riding hood and I just put a light behind them so that the shadow was on my kitchen wall.

Papercuts

2011-02-16T03:39:00.000-08:00

At the moment I have a project using paper cuts. My first attempt is a bit terrible but the picture came out nice. I've done some much better ones which I will post soon.

Love

2011-01-28T06:23:00.000-08:00

I am a stereotypical photoshop hater but this week we had to use it for uni. We had to draw fish, cats and birds using ink and card and using rubbings and scan them in to photoshop to convey certain words. Mine was ''loving''. I'm a total stranger to photoshop but heres my first try.

Hybrid

2011-01-04T10:01:00.000-08:00

At uni we were asked to make a hybrid cross between two animals out of found materials and scraps that we found around our homes etc.

This is my hare/deer made from bubble wrap, fabric, tassels, pizza box, egg cartons and wire.

It's chrriiiissstttmaaassssssss

2010-12-26T16:04:00.000-08:00

been making looooooads of christmas cards and stupidly I gave out all the good ones without taking pictures. So unfortunately I will have to share the not so good ones.

This year is a Bit happier than last year as most of my friends are back from Afghanistan but sadly Carl is not. we miss you carl! see you soon!

Sunshine

2010-11-07T12:54:00.001-08:00

Train ride scribbles

2010-11-04T16:36:00.000-07:00

Uni is killing me

2010-09-29T11:34:00.001-07:00

So far uni work is dull. But this picture I took of Jadine on the bus, is not.

FUCK YEAH

2010-08-23T11:30:00.001-07:00

Unimpressed.

2010-07-31T15:49:00.000-07:00

I wasn't going to post this as it is not in my usual style but the person I did it for really liked it so I figured I may aswell put it up. Recently alot of friends came back from afghanistan and im currently in the process of drawing pictures of their photos and doing one larger scale painting as gifts. This is the first finished one which im not to pleased with. It's done with fineliner, all crosshatched with a little bit of pencil on the really dark bits. I had to do it all sat at my PC because my laptop is broken. The gun is a GPMG which isn't drawn as accuratley as I'd have liked but Aaron really liked it so thats all Im bothered about. Im starting the painting this week which should be fun considering im a pretty big disaster with anything but a pen!

T-wolf

2010-05-23T14:41:00.000-07:00

You can't get cooler than the T-Wolf

perfect day

2010-05-22T15:27:00.000-07:00

Today I was feeling a bit fed up so I decided to go for a walk. On my way I stopped off at smiths and bought a sketch book and set off on my way. I walked down to the river to find somewhere to sit and draw but due to the amazing weather, everyone had flocked to the river. I didn't fancy sitting in a crowd so I kept walking for a good couple of hours. The further I got, the quieter it got and by the late afternoon I found a lovely little field with some bright yellow rapeseed plants and set up my temporary camp on the river bank. I spent the next few hours sat in silence other than the birds and the occational boat passing, with my feet in the water and my sketchbook in my lap. I've had the most relaxing day other than the tediously long walk home again!

The Raven

2010-04-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

Erm....a lino cut which I hoped would turn out alot better! A little dissapointed considering how much effort I put into this but oh well! I've not done much print making but i'm enjoying practicing and hopefully soon I'll be able to post some half decent printing.

FMP TIME!

Oops

2010-03-28T05:20:00.001-07:00

Silly me.

Too true

2010-03-15T10:06:00.000-07:00

This is what I'm going to live by.

Men and their Moustaches

2010-03-14T08:50:00.000-07:00

Freud, Nietzsche & Einstein

Part of a Side project I'm doing with my tutor. Hopefully going to get round to doing some etching with this project but not getting to do much on it because of other projects....Plus facial hair is being pretty over done at the moment!

R.I.P Jonny

2010-03-11T15:12:00.000-08:00

I'm not actually sure what to write. There's nothing you can really say about something as tragic as this. Just a feeling of lost hope. Thankyou to people who spread the word of Jonny and to the people who contacted the police. Jonny being gone is an enourmous loss to so many people but now he can be put to rest. All i can think to say is; R.I.P Mate, you really are a big loss to everyone. I know you'll never be forgotten, just wish i'd known you longer x

This is VERY important.

2010-02-28T12:38:00.000-08:00

Right everyone, This is really important. On friday night my friend Jonny Havron went missing. This link has been sent out with information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8541834.stm

If anyone knows anything further than this, can they please contact the police. The photo on the site is a bit old but this is close to how I saw him on the night plus a leather jacket:

Please, please come forward with anything that you feel might be helpful and hope for the best.

Little Donkey.

2010-02-24T11:58:00.000-08:00

We recently took a two day trip to the York castle museum for an advertisment project and it was suprisingly good! I'd been there alot as a child but I didn't remember it being anything like it is now. There was a big section for old fashioned toys and I rather fell for a wooden puppet of a donkey.

I'm currently trying to make a little book of toys and objects and this lovely little donkey will be my centre page. It's a really simple monoprint but it fits in well.

Kath Luck

2010-02-23T12:03:00.000-08:00

Today would have been the 48th birthday of the most amazing woman I've ever met. Kath Luck passed away on the 9th of April 2008 but not without leaving a lasting impression on everyone she came across. I don't have a single bad memory about this woman. She was layed back, funny, kind and had time for everyone. No problem was ever too big to her to solve and it was physically impossible to feel alone with her in your life.

You taught me alot Kath But today I shall honour you in the best way I know how; by cooking cakes with melted aero bars instead of icing....though they're not looking quite as good as when you made them....

R.I.P Kath. Thanks for looking after me all those years x

meaty scribblings

2010-02-14T20:40:00.000-08:00

Some few minute doodles of raw meat. You'd never guess that I'm a Vegeterian.

I got beef.

2010-02-14T15:18:00.000-08:00

Well it's actually pork but....

Unfinished coloured pencil drawing.

It's just a deer

2010-02-14T10:28:00.000-08:00

♥

But it's wearing a neck tie

♥

Nobody likes a boring drawing

2010-02-06T16:49:00.000-08:00

Nobody likes a boring drawing

NOBODY LIKES A BORING DRAWING

NOBODY LIKES A BORING FUCKING DRAWING

Stalker ?

2010-01-31T12:49:00.000-08:00

Err....yeah I drew my friend skilton a while ago in my continuous line phase. He's never seen this so I feel a bit creepy. I like brown paper alot but so does everyone, right?

Hands on the Bible....

2010-01-25T13:58:00.000-08:00

Today proved how much you were loved. You were never alone. You've left everyone in shock but hopefully you're at peace now. Rest well Danny xxx

Just can't get enough!

2010-01-24T13:28:00.000-08:00

Addiction

2010-01-19T09:24:00.000-08:00

I've been playing round with images of my very old, very deceased, family and pictures of myself as a creepy child. I'm too addicted to photocopiers. If I ever win the lottery, I will buy myself a colour photocopier.

Making a start!

2010-01-18T14:34:00.000-08:00

I don't know how to start this so I'm posting a load of old work from last year! :

The drawing on this is pretty appalling but it was fun to do. I discovered my un-dyeing love for photocopiers this day.

Trying to drop a hint to a friend coming to view my final show. I can happily say it worked.

I love the Dexter novels by Jeff Lindsay and the T.V. show is pretty amazing too. So yeah, continuous line Dexter

....Just Myra Hindley. Dislike her, Like her mugshot.

HELLO!

2010-01-18T14:20:00.000-08:00

Hi, I'm Bryony! I really haven't got the hang of this yet!