I went on a date with a boy called George Watson. That night me and George were wondering around Soho looking for a place to get a drink. We stopped at a pub and outside was a group of young men shouting: "Oi Oi, Lads lads, what you on tonight?", "I'm on the Strongbow tonight mate!'. For some reason, we both both found this hilarious, and it became a running joke between us for weeks after. We both joked that we would base our FMP's on this incident, but in the end be both ended up actually pursuing this idea.
George studies fine art, so decided to produce a painting entitled 'Oi lads, I'm on the strongbow tonight'. I was inspired by the masculine connotations of this quote, therefore wanted to translate it into a menswear piece, like a shirt.
As a staring point, I started doing some illustrations of these 'Lads' and some various strongbow containers in a little booklet. I chose to do these illustration in a separate little booklet as I was worried that they were going off on a tangent slightly. However, I realised later that they fitted in really well with the rest of my project and incorporated them into one of my main sketchbooks. Luckily this idea still relates strongly to my theme of symbols of working class culture as 'lad culture' and cheap cider are commonly associated with the working class. I plan to scan them into photoshop to create another print similar to my homeless print.
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