AUCTION OF TRANSFORMERS UK ART

AUCTION OF TRANSFORMERS UK ART

Many moons ago I used to work on the UK edition of TRANSFORMERS. Published by Marvel UK it was one of a number of titles that came out of the London office. At the time I was working on Thundercats but my work came to the attention of the Transformers editor, a certain Mr Simon Furman. Yes, that one. He asked me to work on the book. That was back in 1988. Here we are 30 years later and some of that original art has come to light. The pages are from about ’89. As they have been kept in a portfolio for the last thirty years they are in really great condition. I have put them all up on eBay so that some lucky person can have it in their possession, rather than it just sitting in a drawer in my studio.

You can see all 10 pages at ebay.co.uk/usr/andrewwildman

Good luck.

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TRANSFORMERS SKETCHES

TRANSFORMERS SKETCHES

Many of you will know that a little while ago I produced a series of (so far) three Transformers Sketchbooks.

The sketches were all commissioned by a number of very generous ‘patrons’. The project ran on Patreon for a while and the three books went to print. At the beginning of the project, and to get things rolling, I completed a number of sketches before the patrons came on board. these sketches feature in Book One. I have now put them up for auction as they are just sitting around in the studio gathering dust.

You can see the listed sketches on my ebay page at ebay.co.uk/usr/andrewwildman when they go live on January 26th

 

NEW WEBSITE

NEW WEBSITE

For a while I have been meaning to put together a new website. I have been running at least three for a while. Sites that dealt with different aspects of what I do and it was time to consolidate them. One website to cover my professional TV and Film work as well as information about the talks I do in Schools and Colleges. All that and the blog. We all need a blog, right?
So the new website is now live. This is the first post that is going out as part of the blog on that new website. Once this is out and working I will follow up with regular posts about what I am up to as well as information about new sections and images that will be appearing on the site and any upcoming auctions of some of my old artwork.
Thanks for following all my previous incarnations of blogging etc, but THIS is the one that will stay.

More soon

AW

FLAT OUT!!

FLAT OUT!!

Recently I was caught inside a bit of indecision.
The amount of time that I have been working on the kids TV show in Wales was suddenly going to be cut short. Budget concerns and all that. Staring in the face of only having two days a week of income from that wasn’t fun so, I put the word out to see what other opportunities came up. Almost immediately a couple of gigs were presented to me. One, to design a new TV show and one to be involved in the design of a new animated movie. This put me in the position of not quite knowing which way to turn…

One of the projects didn’t work out so it was a choice of… do I leave the show that I am working on in Wales. Which incidentally I am co-creator of. Or do I jump ship and go work on the movie. By the way, the movie would mean being away from home all week and a lot of travelling etc.

Still with me? life is complicated sometimes, right?

Anyway. I pondered these choices. The third possibility (and in some way quite an attractive option) was to not do the movie (save on all that travelling and hotel living), continue working part time on the show in Wales (you know, the one that I co-created) and just spend the ‘downtime’ doing sketches and selling bits of art and some books online to make ends meet. Sounds pretty cool and laid back, I thought.

Then something happened.
I was out walking our little dog, Eddy. Oh by the way, Eddy (well an animated version of Eddy) will be appearing in the kids show. Ya know, the one being produced in Wales, ya know, the one that I am co-creator of etc, etc. So, I am out with Eddy and I suddenly notice something out of the corner of my eye. A quote stencilled on the back of a car. A bright blue Subaru parked up the road. I read it and moved on.
Now then. there is an old saying in life coaching circles (and there are many variations of this) that goes something like ‘you are always where you need to be’ or ‘you are always in the right place’.
I looped round the block and passed the car again. And stopped and read the quote. It is by Colin McRae, the Subaru rally driver who tragically died in a helicopter crash a few years ago. It read…
“If in doubt, flat out”
And there it was. the answer right in front of me. DON’T kick back and just survive. Don’t step over doing things because it will be difficult. I was in doubt what to do so… flat out was the way forward.
I got in contact with the relevant people and put together a plan to be able to work on BOTH projects. Yes, it’s going to be hard work but, be involved in making a movie and work on your own TV show? Bit of a no brainer really.

Thanks Colin. You created a breakthrough for me there.

And don’t forget; you are always where you need to be. Not because you necessarily want to be there, or would choose to be there. But because it is where you are. And wherever you are is the place where you will have an opportunity to learn, grow and experience. Anywhere else is not where your life is happening.

Speak soon

A
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If I knew then…

If I knew then…

I had the pleasure today of giving a talk to the Foundation Art Students at Brookes University in Oxford. Have done a couple of these and they are always fun. Being able to give the benefit of hindsight to the students is a joy. My career has had many ups and downs and changes in direction. All seems a bit chaotic at times but as I look back at some of those moments when everything seemed to change I can see that it wasn’t all just good or bad luck. Hindsight is a wonderful thing that sometimes enables us to see what we would have done differently to avoid certain circumstances. But for me, it is not that kind of hindsight that is interesting. What I can now see, and what I love to tell the students, is that if I knew then what I know now I could actually have caused some of those career breakthroughs rather than just rely on the luck that sometimes came my way. These insights have formed the basis for a new online lecture that I am developing. This will be available on my website or through an online lecturing platform. I told the students today that I was going to use them as guineapigs. Many thanks to them for letting me test it out.

More news on the online lecture when I have had a chance to fully develop it and film it.

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