Kozyndan English Gallery Cartoon Drawing 360s
This panoramic was originally commissioned by SONY and the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. We went to Gateshead and Newcastle (Gateshead's more affluent cross river rival) and quickly had some very amusing surface impressions of life in this Northern urban area. Those impressions coupled with events going on at the time (war in Iraq, fears of air terrorism), our amusement at Chav culture in the UK, and the return of the veggie eater monsters from our original London panoramic 3 years earlier formed the basis of this panoramic which revolves around a competition by the two championing robots of Gateshead and Newcastle.
Battle On The River Tyne Newcastle Kozyndan
Like Sands Through The Hourglass Kozyndan
What we said about it at the time: (...so are the days of our lives) A little street in London that we love and hate. Great produce and crepes and record shops, close to all kinds of yummy adult video stores and gentlemen's clubs, but also a place where we had a huge fight while on a whirlwind tour of the city on Spring Break. It is sort of about time passing, moments of action, lifetimes, events. It's also got a family of veggie monsters having a feast. We are still not sure how those 2 things fit together in our minds when we were laying this piece out - your guess is as good as ours.
Looking back: Still one of our favourites in the series. I think the balance is just right - variety and flow of characters, variety of topics (from the passage of time, to our love for each other, to the war in Iraq), and nice colour scheme. In case i haven't mentioned, all the images we paint digitally are generally painted in true colours (as they would be in real life). At the end of the painting process we decide what colour the image should be, try different over all tones by adding adjustment layers over the colour until we get an overall colour we like. Gotta love the flexibility of Photoshop.
This piece also was the debut of the so-called "veggie monsters", who have since appeared in another panoramic that was set elsewhere in the UK, a few other drawings of ours, and also were animated in CGI for a live action trailer for RES Fest by motion theory that was based on our panoramic series (what a fun project that was!!).
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