Dream Project

Mesolithic Hunter site at the Irish National Heritage Park

This week, the Islanders are doing a theme week on our Dream projects- where you plan or wish to work. My entry to that, ill put up here in my own blog too. Its a bit more fanciful, as my dream job doesnt exist but sure its a dream project right? What would be great to do is to make whole real life reconstructions from start to finish. So start with the research, then sketches, drawing and painting until you get a full reconstruction illustration and then finally doing the building of that reconstruction. The first part I already do, just need to convince people to let me do the 2nd :).

Viking Longphort at Irish National Heritage Park

Would be so great to have a chance to see you're illustrations in action and start from a vague sketches to fully realised house. Get to see all the pitfalls and intricacies of making that site, filling out the place with various clutter etc. Could make whole settlements, even whole parks! Like the Irish National Heritage park in Wexford or Butser Ancient farm in Sussex etc. Imagine getting to walk around in one of illustrations? Actually be inside your illustration, seeing it in the flesh, getting to touch it! Cant get better than that right?

Early Medieval ecclesiastical Settlement at the Irish National Heritage Park

As I said previously though, such a job doesnt exist at the moment but Im working on it ;). Perhaps someday ill build it out my back garden or just keep creating illustrations until someone lets me do it :)

Butser Ancient Farm, Sussex