Linzie Hunter - Very Old Monkeys

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Very Old Monkeys

posted:October 6, 2006

The Pagoda at the Victoria & Albert Museum, its got some great little characters peeping out the windows.

Following the monkey madness thats going on round here... I have quite a few money related illustrations (who doesn't love drawing monkeys??) but when looking through my folders I found an 'early' illustration of mine.

One of the first steps I took when I decided to make the career change from theatre to illustration was to enroll in a part-time course at Chelsea School of Art. Early on we made a class trip to one of my favourite museums in London: The V&A . We were asked to sketch an object on display and then create a piece of artwork influenced by it...

The biggest version I could find of it on my computer. oh dear!

I sketched some monkey carvings and this pagoda from the China Collection and cobbled together the illustration shown here This was one of the first things I did at on the course and it was also the first illustration I created in Photoshop.

The smaller prototype - I wasn't very organised about getting proper photos taken of the finished piece!

I ended up making a sort of 3-D sculture-ish thing out of it (See shoddy prototype photo). It was then selected for the Museum's 'Inspired By' exhibition later that year. Even though I didn't win any prizes or anything, I still got a bit of a kick about seeing my work in a display case at the V&A. It's funny to see how much my digital work has changed as I've got more comfortable working on the computer!