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Blog No.10 Illustration for BLÆKK vol. 4
My new illustration for the story THE RHANA’IN’S GIFT by Jack Schouten. This sci-fi short story is set in the desert, so sand and blood were my main visuals for this commission.
Headed for the Door
“Headed for the Door” in its dense glory is a world-ender—one that commits to the idea of a breakup as actually meaning as much as you think it means in the moment. Appropriately, the video, directed by Marsha Balaeva, who potentially took some cues from Maya Deren at some point in life, features lots of…
Faraway Lightning
“This astonishing paper cut-out stop-motion animation follows the fantastic journey and trials of a birdman character, who falls from the sky at the start of the video. A beautiful, mournful fairytale that will stay with you.” Time Out According to director Marsha Balaeva, the new video she has created for the song “Faraway Lightning”…
Coming To At Dawn
A hand drawn animation made to a song “Coming To At Dawn” by Canadian band “Sunset Rubdown” introducing Moonface.
Life Drawing
Working from a life model is very exposing for an artist, any mistakes and flaws in the drawing are instantly obvious, so it creates a challenge to get things right in 20, 30 or 50 minutes of the pose. There is a great team of life drawing enthusiasts in Preston who run a weekly class,…
Joe with the Jam
BC greats Frog Eyes recently teased their upcoming Pickpocket’s Locket LP with a stream of its stirring “Joe with the Jam.” Now, the band have paired the heart-pumping number with a fantastic, cut-and-paste style animated video. The visual treatment, directed by UK artist Marsha Balaeva, uses thousands of drawings covering the tune’s various characters. This…
Sensitive Girls
This afternoon Stereogum premiered the new, animated video for Frog Eyes’ “The Sensitive Girls” by London-based, Russian artist Marsha Balaeva. For Balaeva, “what attracted [her] most was the theme of urban gloom and despair, where everything you look at is palpably wrong and menacing, yet fascinating in some way.” The animation itself is fully hand-drawn…
Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips
According to director Marsha Balaeva, the new video she has created for the song “Faraway Lightning” by indie rockers Moonface — one of Wolf Parade vocalist-keyboardist Spencer Krug’s side projects — uses metaphors to illustrate the five stages of grief. “At the start of the journey the hunter meets the pangolin in the Underworld who…
Batman and Apollo
Victor Pelevin’s novel “Batman and Apollo” completely re-wrote the entire concept of vampirism, while at the same time explaining the reasons behind the prolific nature of the vampire myth. Pelevin shows vampires in a completely new light: they appear completely human, have a normal lifespan and don’t drink blood for food. What sets them apart…
