Intern diary part one: the York assignments

Yesterday I started my first day as an Illustration Intern at the media organisation 'One and Other York.' Once I had found out that the post was assigned to myself a few days before- I got a selection of papers inks and paints together- and placed this essential desert island collection into a small suitcase. (I am obsessed about being prepared for a new scenario.)

I arrived an hour early near their offices in the new section of York University 'The Ron Cooke Hub,' a large wooden beamed echo chamber moated by a duck pond. My feeling was one of disbelief. I had applied for the intern post a few days before, and hadn't believed I would be accepted. To steady myself, I took an espresso crashed on a couch and glanced through a newspaper.

Eventually I went up to the office- and spoke to the editor Vicky Parry. After a short amiable chat, I got assigned some killer tasks. This Friday I will have a press pass to Adam Ant's York comeback gig, where I will produce some sketches to coincide with the written review of the night.Later on I will sketch the mayor of York and the musician Mark E. Smith during their respective interviews, to fit with the written articles.

I am exited about the other people involved, particularly the Illustrator Michaela Meadow, who will be my colleague over the next three months. It turns out I am already familiar with her work and magazine, which is a bonus(check out her wonderful magazine here: www.magpiemag.net)

Anyhow, Michaela and I were given a handful of venues in York to go out and sketch- to use as images to illustrate 'One and Other's' venue guide.

The sketches above are the results of yesterday afternoon- an amble round sunny York, until gales started blowing in front of the Minster and foiled my attempts to continue!

Tokyo Arigato project

I recently created this image for a competition for the 'Tokyo Arigato Project.' You may have guessed that the theme of the competition is 'Love,' hence the boy and the girl in a psychedelic setting- love is a drug and all that.

In my haste I didn't realise there was a hefty fee to pay for entering, and since the final prize seems paltry in relation to that, I decided not to enter, but to find another more worthwhile use for this image.

It was a good exercise creating this image- which is a combination of about three different earlier images I've made. I have a tendency to use black ink, so thought I'd give blue ink a chance.

I think my first love is black ink though.

when Leon from Bahrain came to visit

An old pal who studied at Leeds came to visit the other week.

He went back home to Bahrain last September, but came up to the U.K.
for a 2 week visit.

The top image is one of his drawings.

Elise and the actors

The other evening, I went along
to sketch some actors in rehearsal, directed
by Elise Rohde, playwright wunderkind.

They were practising in a room in the music department
of Huddersfield University- an impressive space
with an organ and two grand piano.

Here are the sketches I produced:

my.carbonmade.com/projects/3268929

Sleeping Beauty

I created this for an English national
ballet competition, to design a series
of children's ballets.

This will be judged by Gerald Scarfe, and
seemed like a worthwhile, challenging and
interesting competition to enter.

Please support my entry by voting for it at:
www.talenthouse.com/johnchamberlainishere

vote for my entry pretty please!

Follow the link to vote for my entry please!

That will be a massive favour, I will reward you in the afterlife!

Here's the link:

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/street_summer/entry/262

F is for..

I have written a rhyming alphabet,

to be organised into a book.

I have almost finished the images to
go along with the text.

Here is an unfinished unedited preview of the letter F.