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Artist Research: The Mousehole Cat

The Mousehole Cat is a childrens book from 1990 by Antonia Barber and illustrated by Nicolas Bayer. It tells the story of the cat, Mowzer and her owner Tom Bawcock, who live in the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole. The harbour of which has only a small entrance and exit known as the mousehole.

The pair live a peaceful existance until one winter when there is a massive storm, which prevents the fishermen from catching any fish, causing the village to nearly starve. Heroic Tom and Mowzer venture out in the storm, where they meet the storm, shown as a cat, which Mowzer distracts by singing to, allowing Tom to haul in his catch and sail back into Mousehole Harbour. Upon return, the village has a feast for Mowzer and Tom, turning the fish into a multitude of dishes, including stargazy pie.

I had a copy of this book when I was younger and as soon as I made the connection between the headpiece and stargazy pie, I instantly thought of this book and the illustrations of stargazy pie.

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Emily Carroll's graphic novel "A Guest in the House"

Paul Gardiner kindly lent me his copy of this novel to read.

I read it cover to cover in the library taking notes on my favourite pages.

It's really visually stunning with superb use of colour and composition.

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Epithet Erased - Art Study

Epithet Erased is an Indie Animation by Brendan Blaber also known as JellloApocalypse about a girl named Molly who lives in a world where some people are inscribed with an Eptithet. That means some people have a soul word which allows them to have certain abilities, for example Molly has the Epithet called "Dumb" she can silence/mute others and simplify things or other epithets aka she can dumb things down.

Now what stood out the most in the short animated series is the way it is animated, instead of animating everything out in the series most is just told through sprites being moved which makes it more like a game than an animation at times. Health reduction numbers also appear when getting hit or attacked. This gives it also a more lighthearted vibe.

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It is a style that stands out quite a lot and also something worthy of notice is the specific storytelling audio-wise it uses with characters explaining their actions in the third person. One of my thoughts about that fact is that it is reminiscent of reading out loud script during practice just instead of having someone else read the stage cues, each character reads them out loud for themselves and another thing is that it reminds me of movies with deaf audio subtitles, it makes the show seem very inclusive while by making each character read their own actions make it sound like a fun little gimmick.

In the world of Sweet Jazz City a lucky few are born with powers attached to their very souls known as "Epithets". An Epithet stems from a s

Also here is the playlist on YouTube for 7 episodes and the first six chapters of the book that follows the story after the seven episodes

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+ Dance sketch: doubt in red +

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Artist Reaserch: Edward Twohig

Edward Twohig, an Irish artist, who specialized in drypoint etching influenced me this week for my use of drypoint print and inspiration directly from nature. I like his simple but affective use of etching, and how the effect of movement flows through his artwork. In the third piece his use of leaves surrounding the moonlight is captivating and makes me want to create more drypoint prints in the future.

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Movement Project - Artist Research, Q Hayashida

Q Hayashida is a Japanese manga creator known for her works such as Dorohedoro and Dai Dark.

In one of her rare interviews, Hayashida reveals that she is a mixed media artist who uses whatever media she ‘feels like in the moment.’

The chaotic, sketchy, raw and colourful look to her art works harmoniously as she depicts her gory and dark but funny stories.

I love her usage of gouache, watercolour, ink and pen, majority of the time mixing these media together in the same piece creating a layered texture reminiscent of grime, reflecting the apocalyptic settings often found in Hayashida’s manga. Matching her colours, line weight and compositions to fit each scene and its tone is highly impressive and a source of inspiration for myself since I first read her work Dorohedoro many months ago.

Her character design is also equally interesting. Dorohedoro’s cast including the protagonist, Kaiman, a man with a lizard head searching for the sorcerer who cursed him, mypersonal favourite being Jonson, a giant realistic cockroach and plenty others, diverse, well-written and designed human characters. I can’t forget the monsters, each with unique personalities highlighted by their designs, brilliantly adding to the horror aspect of her works.

Lastly, my favourite technique Q Hayashida uses to instil discomfort, is her use of repetition and massive spaces, infinite crowds of monsters showing the viewer how powerlessness feels and drawing giant empty settings, such as a department store where the protagonists are stuck in devoid of all life, which perfectly matched the unease the characters she wrote were feeling.

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07.03.25

In the morning, I quickly added the finishing touches, particularly eyelashes to the close up of an eye, and assembled my frames. However, I still need to do some editing, as I want to create a loop and use the intended song as the background.

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Artist Research: Abby Howard

Abby Howard is a comic artist and a game developer who co-founded Black Tabby C. She had worked on the game slay the princess and Scarlet Hollows both as the artist and one of the game developers for it. The comics that Abby creates tend to be small slice of life type comic where as her games tend to heavily lean into visual novels.

I quite enjoy her sketchy style for slay the princess and the boiling effect it had. I really want to try and emulate it as much as I can digitally. I really enjoy her character designs for each princess swell and I find each one has a lot of character and personality despite being all the same person you can tell each one is very different from the other.

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