It’s Not For Lack of Trying Boss The Art Blog Of Jirat James Patradoon

Works in Progress

Shit so I pitched a short comic fight scene to Popgun about human sized cyborg mechas being controlled by humans from their computers and battling it out in a hyper-surreal rainy city – turns out I was ripping off James Cameron’s AVATAR unknowingly, making me feel like a douche, however also making me remember this [...]

JAMES AT SAATCHI & SAATCHI

Late notice I know – but that’s how I roll.

MY HEART IS YOURS

I’m often having those dreams where you come across a monograph of an artist’s work or walk into an exhibition and it is everything you every wanted to do and make if only you had the time or the resources or if your ideas developed further and further into something perfect. I would feel joy [...]

I Don’t Know, Maybe

This was the drypoint that I was doing for the Subtext show that stuffed up. This was the first proof that came out, obviously I wasn’t pressing hard enough in some areas so I went back into it to reinforce some cross-hatching and in doing so obliterated out chunks of the image with blacks that [...]

I want to learn Zbrush so I can make busts and figures and export them to Maya and then rapid prototype them and cast them in different coloured multiples and make little collectible figurines from my garage.
That plan will probably involve going back to school and student life, which doesn’t sound too bad.

Now She Only Dates White Guys

This is a character I drew in 2005. I remember tracing him from a fashion shoot from The Face magazine and naming him after a pair of new shoes I bought. He is pretty much a rip-off of Joe from Battle Of The Planets except he feels solely responsible for the death of his whole [...]

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