The Lonely Humans Companion to the Cosmos
For my final project of university I began working on a sci-fi comic book as a way of expressing my rollercoaster ride of a final year. With the clock ticking on the project I began to panic and realised what I was creating wasn’t going to be the big finale I had been planning all year long. I ditched my plan and started fresh, realising I was spending so much time worrying whether what I was making would live up to my high hopes and not enough time enjoying myself. I started brainstorming a new project and as they always do, one came to me at three in the morning. What if I made an travel guide for the cosmos?
As soon as I started the project I began to sprout ideas left, right and centre. I was finally enjoying myself again, for the last time at university. My plan was to cover as many parts of a modern day travel guide, but make it space.
I started out by working on some ads which could be thrown in, I knew I had to make them as ridiculous as possible and i’m quite proud of living up to this. The main goal was to keep it stupid and funny, so while my hands were busy drawing and painting dozens of layers for prints, my mind was constantly whirring away at cosmic puns.
Throughout this entire project I was able to get back to making art for the fun of it, which admittedly when forced into the pressure cooker of university it can be easy to lose the passion. However I left this project feeling fulfilled and proud, I had made exactly what I pictured and spent and couldn’t be more happy to have finished my degree on such a high.
