Not too long ago, I submitted some images that i hand drew to an illustration competition. Unfortunately, i didn't win, or even get shortlisted.
I drew a series of pictures called Mary Jane's Picnic, which portrays a 6 year old girl, Mary-Jane, whose toys keep killing themselves. It's an idea about exposing childhood ideas that your toys are alive, but how do they feel when you move on to another toy? Can they handle not being the favourite? Do they have feelings at all?
(note how each toy is alive in one picture, but dead in the next one).
I drew 7 images, coloured them in with marker pens and paints,all in black, white, grey and red (for contrast) and submitted 4 of them to the contest.
Teddy hangs himself
Kitty ties herself to tracks
Kangaroo shoots herself
Froggy jumps off a tower
Piggy drowns himself
Giraffe decapitates himself
Lion gasses himself
And finally, a group shot!
