Projects - Sam Hardacre

True Grit

Six weeks down, fourty-six to go! This week's piece was infulenced by our recent viewing of the Coen brother's take on True Grit (definitely worth a viewing or three). I hadn't really intended on doing a portrait of Jeff Bridges but I thought it'd

Unfinished study

I think I'm starting to get into the swing of things with this project now. I'm drawing more regularly and starting to push myself into learning skills I weren't expecting. Over the last two weeks, I've found myself becoming more keen to try producing

Chaplin

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Charlie Chaplin and it was only a matter of time before he was the subject of one of these illustrations. To be quite honest, I'm surprised I left it this long and it's only week

Hand

A little late posting this one, I've had a bit of a busy few days working on another project. I decided to try another study of basic form which ended up being my left hand. This one was admittedly rushed as I've had little

Wife feet

This week has been a bit of a struggle to do something that I would be happy to post. I toyed with the idea of doing a Sherlock based piece to mark the final episode of series 2 airing this evening but I wasn't

Marilyn

So I'm kicking off my 52weeks, 52works project with a pencil portrait. I've not done much pencil work since my college days so I thought it was a good starting point as it's something I want to improve on as the year progresses. I'm

52 weeks

For years now I've been banging on about getting back into a more regular routine of creating art, primarily illustration. I've periodically picked up my pens to do a bit of illustration but these occasions are few and far between. The quiet periods is

Project 50 // Black and White

Nearly on the final stretch of Project50. The shots here sit within the Black & White category.

Project 50 // Colour

Continuing to focus on certain areas, this time I was trying out colour for emphasis (or absence of contrasting colour in some cases).

Project 50 // Composition

Another set of photos from Project 50, this time trying to focus on composition. I think I've achieved some interesting shots with an odd one which isn't too great. I suppose it's a plus that I know where some went wrong and can learn

Project 50 // Exposure

As I wrote before the project began, I wanted to split the project up into 5 separate sections to focus on different disciplines. The first ten days focussing on exposure and relying less on corrections in post-production. Corrections to exposure that is, I allowed

Back to basics

My active participation in photography has lapsed rather badly this year due, in part, to time restrictions, lack of inspiration and in many cases, plain laziness. There have been occasions where we've attended an event where my camera could have been put to good

Need to read

I'm currently sitting in the office of Oli and Chris having just got back from this year's DIBI conference reflecting on the work I do and the drive to learn even more. On the drive down from Newcastle, Mark (aka greenboyroy) and I were

Project 50 // Week seven

On the home stretch and still not completely out of ideas, although some days I was admittedly cut down by late nights and... ahem, alcohol. Day forty-four ~ New boots Tonight we went out for a few drinks and some food. Lu bought some new

Project 50 // Week six

Week six has been a mixture of inspiration and... well, not so much. Despite that I kept on going, really just trying to find my feet with off camera flash. Day thirty-seven ~ Magicman I've been interested in close-up magic on and off for the

Project 50 // Week five

Five weeks in, only two weeks to go! This week has been interesting as I've made the first small steps in to strobist photography! Using Rick's recommendations, I got my hands on some great gear for a decent price. I'm still working out how

New exercises

For quite some time now I've been eager to pick up my pens and pencils again to do what I spent most of my teenage years doing, drawing. Before I discovered the wonders of the web, I was very much an analogue type of

Project 50 // Week four

Nothing much to write as an introduction this week. Some days I've been filled with inspiration, others I've been completely lost for ideas but still keeping it going regardless. Day twenty-two ~ Starman This shot was inspired while browsing a blog post displaying some lovely

Project 50 // Week three

It's that time of week again, for a round-up of the last seven days. Like last week, it's been pretty tough to come up with ideas and it hasn't helped that the weather has been poor. Anyway, I managed to keep up with a

Project 50 // Week two

Continuing on from last weeks round-up is week two of Project50. This week has been quite tough, a couple of days I was lacking inspiration and others were no brainers. On with the show! Day eight ~ Reflection First self shot of the project. I

Project 50 // Week one

It's been 7 months since I finished the behemoth project that is Project365 so I decided it was time to start another one. My decision to start Project50 was greatly influenced by a few photo buddies wanting to do it too. Project50 is very

Taking on another project

On the run up to Christmas 2009, I started seeing lots of chat and murmurings about something called Project52. I seem to remember seeing mentions of it the year before but this time there were a fair few people chatting about it, so I

283/365 // The Busker

We went to the album launch of Roger Davies' new album, The Busker. It's currently only available on CD but it'll be on iTunes in the near future.

280/365 // Collie

For my birthday, Luisa's niece and nephew bought me my first Hero of Burgertown toy which happened to be named Collie. It's kinda strange since I've got a mate named Colly who shares a studio with Jon Burgerman. Todays photo is dedicated to those

276/365 // The Alps at 36,000 feet

Today we flew back from Malta. Lu spent most of the flight resting but I was looking out of the window at the sights. We flew passed Sicily, along the west coast of Italy, over the Alps and across France. Unfortunately, the clouds got