Website

I've just done some work on my website, It's quite basic at the moment, but it's got alot of stuff on there, please go and have a look, and tell me what you think! You can find it at www.alexander-hunt.co.uk.

Fedrigoni Rococo Paper Furniture

I entered a competition for the Italian Fedrigoni paper company to promote their products by trying to design and build a piece of furniture out of paper. I designed this lifesize Rococo period Desk Bureau as it represented the long history of the Fedrigoni company, aswell as symbolizing them as a strong company.

I have all the parts made, but havn't decorated all of them. Each piece is hand painted with watercolour, and decorated with pen, colouring pencil and collage. On each piece is hand drawn illustrations depicting the hand made preparation of paper which shows fedrigoni's humble traditions. Sadly, I didn't win.

 Some detail from the top of the lid of the Bureau

Below is one of the hand drawn designs for the furniture. I had lots of designs, and one piece of furniture allocated to every type of paper that Fedrigoni produce. Each piece of furniture symbolised the qualities of the paper, practical, stylish, tough, soft ...

 Front of the Bureau, the rectangles represent drawers which could be pulled out.

 Side panel of bureau, production stage

Finished side, I was really happy with this, there's so much to look at in it, it's quite entertaining. The bureau itself is quite massive, I think its something like 1.5 metres by 28cm, and 1.5 metres high.

Hellspawn

I love the design and look of Spawn, and wanted to draw him in some sort of battle, in this pic he's just fought, and is pulling off his face mask for some reason. 

I drew this specially for an Art-Show we were having at uni, everyone seemed to like it. This was one of the first times I used an ink nib to draw with, and it was incredible how it changed my art, making it intensely more detailed, and gave it more of a professional look.

Rococo Typography

I drew this months ago, but only scanned it in the other day, It's a very large Typography drawing based upon Rococo floral patterns, I drew it using a fineliner. 

If anyone would like a print, please get in touch.

The Amazing project!

It's been a while, but here are some pictures of what I've been working on lately, I've written a spider-man comic, sort of like fan-fiction. I don't want to give anything away, but it involves a rooftop fight, and the scorpion (not helpful at all) These pages take about 2 days to plot, pencil, and ink. The aim of the project was to try to make a Spider-man comic with better art than the ones out now, I'll let you decide so far. They were alot of fun to draw, and I hope I've done old webhead proud.

No text added as of yet, I thought i'd finish all the lettering after I've completed the art.

Death of the hero!

The other day I recieved this wonderful piece of artwork from artist and friend Robin Barnard. Iron Man #230, the classic 'Death of the Hero' was one of the first issues I ever bought, part 6 of the classic 'Armor Wars' storyline, containing possibly my favourite armor, the silver Centurion! 

Let's talk a little bit about the artist. Robin Barnard is a practicing artist who has a real passion for comics, he is the creator/writer/illustrator of the excellent weekly comic magazine 'Images Degrading Forever' which is an ongoing of the exploration and analysis of comic books and their creators, at the moment IDF is focusing on recreating issue 186 of Frank Miller and Klaus Jansons famous Daredevil run. I urge you to go and pick this up, it's great stuff, every week at orbital comics.

If you want to check out the home of Images Degrading Forever, visit imagesdegradingforever.blogspot.com

Robins work has been published in Dave Sims 'Glamourpuss' #12, where he himself is proclaimed as the 'genius behind Photo-Primitivism' I first got in touch with Robin when I discovered IDF, I emailed him, and he generously let me contribute a page of artwork, which was a really rewarding project. Robin really nicely sent his original drawing of Iron Man #230 to say thankyou, which was an amazing gesture.

Next week my drawing will be published in IDF aswell as a small interview from me about my work. You can see an interview with Robin all about his work for glamourpuss, and his ways of working on Matt Seneca's blog:

http://deathtotheuniverse.blogspot.com/2010/05/robin-barnard.html

Ohhhhhh Canada!

I've just sent a package to Canada to Dave Sim. He doesn't know that he's getting it, it's just a bit of fan art, hopefully it will arrive in a week or so, and I pray I get a reply. the quality of the photos are not that great.

If anyone doesn't know why I am doing this. Dave Sim is the legendary creator of Cerebus, possibly the greatest independently published comic book of all time! himself with the help of Gerhard conseculatively created the longest running original english comic book of all time! Consisting of 300 isues, and over 6000 pages, taking 27 years. The reason why I love Cerebus is because of the humour and extremely well written characterization of characters, I also love seeing the progression of Sims' art and writing skills, in such a short period of time, he improved so much, it's very inspiring, and proves that constant practice will improve your craft!