Serial Game Movie

More experimenting with repetition to achieve stylisation, this time from March, in a fish restaurant in Greece. By the end I got to something which I think would make quite a fun character design for a druid or something, but really has very little to do with the poor chap enjoying his calamari across the way. For one thing, he seemed to age twenty years with each iteration...

Meanwhile, the notes are the very first seed of what eventually became The Goliath Window, though as you can see nothing about the story beyond the first idea of portrait painter and sitter emerged that evening, with the possible exception of the idea of a models discomfort at having to pose upside down for St Peter, which arguably eventually turned into the holding the spear aloft sequence. Though just as arguably, it didnt. 

16. First try at a young Ezra Pound, July, British Library, working on English For Pony-Lovers.

17. Second shot. July, BL, E for P-L.

18. Tiny little doodle that Im rather fond of, London, November, working on Souvenir Programme

19. Little girl looking for fish in a pond. With, as you see, some success. (It was a very low fence, by the way. Shes not a giant little girl.) St Albans, September, working on Souvenir Cabin. 

20. Victorian gent in a photograph on a pub wall. Durham, February, working on the thing that later became Wysinnwyg.

21. Statue. Leros, Greece, April,  working on another element that later became Wysinnwyg. (Wysinnwyg gave me the most trouble of all the Double Acts.)

22. Man off the telly. London, February, working on an idea for a Double Act later abandoned.

23. Weather house people. London, November, during the recording of Hot Desk.

24. Your guess is as good as mine. But I wouldnt want to meet it on a dark night.  Dorset, December, working on Souvenir Programme. 

This chap sat over the way from me in the Union Jack pub in Waterloo this February, while I was working on the plot that eventually became Wysinnwyg. You might be able to read the note that says Is the problem that the Sues and Adele come from different sitcoms? The answer to this was... yes. 

From August, in London. How are you feeling about those deadlines, John?

They havent been all that doodle-y yet, have they? Heres a properly doodle-y one, from May, when I was working on Wysinnwyg in Dorset. It started off entirely abstract, but I think at the last minute the middle section sort of morphed into a picture of one of the characters...

Back to the Souvenir Programme notebook, and back to a bloke who sat near me in a pub, this time in Hampstead. Poor blokes who sit near me in pubs. One day, one thems going to notice. That will be a bad day for me. (Though if it happens in Hampstead, Ill probably be ok.)