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Empathy – and one of its possible roles in Creativity.

• June 11, 2013 • 2 Comments

Posted in creativity, Design Process, Masters Degree, Reading & Empathy, Teaching & Learning
Tags: creativity, Empathy, intuition, Play, Reading, reflection


Poster Art – Quick Sketch

• June 10, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in East Yorkshire, Hull, Illustration, Poster Art, Sketchbooks, Theatre
Tags: Dave Windass, Hull, Play, Rugby, Sport, Sully, Theatre


“Who Are Ya?!!” – what will be the demographics of “Gamers” looking into the future? – A Thought Avalanche

• February 21, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Education, Games, Masters Degree, Reading & Empathy, Teaching & Learning
Tags: BroGamer, gaming culture, Geek, Play, Sports Gamer


…Reworked Board for Drawing Game.

• January 22, 2013 • 2 Comments

Posted in Board Games, Drawing, Education, Games, Masters Degree, Teaching & Learning
Tags: Atelier, Bloom, Board Games, Drawing, Play


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Gareth Sleightholme / AKA hesir

Gareth Sleightholme / AKA hesir

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  • Current CV – with links – Oct 2014
  • Current Research interests…
  • Linked In Profile
  • Resume (Alt') – Oct 2014
  • Twitter Feed

Blogroll

  • bioephemera
  • Morbid Anatomy
  • Paul Reid
  • The Gurney Journey

Box File Projects

  • Frozen Tears – A Supernatural Western set in Alaska
  • Genizah – Poetry and misc' Prose
  • hesirAnimation
  • Iron-Shod Ape Comics
  • Observational Drawing
  • Rabbit Heart – The Game
  • Shapers
  • The Cthulhiad
  • The Margin (Tales from Hesirion)
  • Toxic Shopping… and other sad songs.

Collaborators & Colleagues

  • Alex Weinle – lapsed physicist, writer.
  • Austin Charlesworth – Diminished Responsibility Films
  • Dave Windass – writer, blogger, playwright
  • Hull Urban Sketchers
  • Roberta Wood – Illustrator/Maker
  • ShortBoyTall – Chris Faill
  • Suzie Hanna
  • Ugly Studios

Concept Art

  • Can Concept Art Save Your Project?

Creative Briefs - Games, Animation, Illustration, Graphics etc.

  • Drawing and Traditional Rendering 1 – Back To Basics
  • Drawing and Traditional Rendering 2 – inc Pareidolia Exercises
  • Links to other Creative Briefs & Mini-briefs >

Creativity

  • 3D Printing – Sculpteo
  • Chris Oatley – Character Designer/Animator
  • Design Matters
  • Drawing & Cognition Research
  • Greyblocking and Composition for Environment Development
  • How Creativity Works – Creating a Personal Micro-culture
  • Theme Parks

Dinner Party Guests (Living and Dead))

  • Brian Blessed
  • Jane McGonigal
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Magliabechi
  • Maria Popova
  • Tycho Brahe

film

  • Location Hull

Inspired by & in awe of...

  • Adam Hughes
  • Andrew Kim
  • Armand Serrano
  • Becky Cloonan
  • Brian Despain
  • Burne Hogarth
  • Butch Belair
  • Craig Davison
  • Craig Mullins
  • Dan Santat
  • Dave Stewart
  • David Roberts
  • Domanic Li – Illustrator
  • Drew Millward – Illustrator
  • Drew Struzan
  • Duncan Fegredo
  • Fiona Staples
  • Francesco Francavilla
  • Gregory Manchess
  • Heinrich Kley
  • Howard Pyle
  • I. N. J. Culbard
  • Jackson Sze
  • Jaime Jones
  • Jake Parker
  • Jakub Javora
  • James Harren
  • James Paick
  • Jason Munn
  • Jay Ryan
  • John Martin
  • Karl Kopinski
  • Kim Jung Gi
  • Marc Taro Holmes
  • Marek Denko
  • Mark Molnar
  • Mathieu Lauffray
  • Maxfield Parrish
  • Mike Mignola
  • N. C. Wyeth
  • Olly Moss
  • Park Jong Won / J.Circle
  • Paul Lasaine
  • Paul Madonna
  • Pene Menn School
  • Ritchie Sacilioc – Concept Artist
  • Rui Nakao – Sketch Blogger
  • Sergi Brosa
  • Shaun Tan – Illustrator
  • Stanley (ArtGerm) Lau – Character Illustrator
  • Stephan Martiniere – Concept Artist
  • Tor Frick – Games Artist/Texture Artist
  • William Stout – Illustration/Comics

Lectures & Seminars

  • Creating An Online Presence
  • Drawing and Traditional Rendering 1 – Back To Basics
  • Drawing and Traditional Rendering 2 – inc Pareidolia
  • How Creativity Works – Creating a Personal Micro-culture

MASTERS DEGREE

  • Masters Degree – Ongoing Project blog
  • Online (partial) glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
  • Semiotics Glossary

music

  • hesir @ Blip fm
  • Trudy's Ruby Monkey

Other Sites & Links

  • Gareth's Amazon Wish List
  • hesir on Deviant Art
  • hesir on Twitter
  • hesir's Coroflot Portfolio
  • Parka Blogs – Art Books Reviewed (video flickthru's)

philosophy/worldview

  • Emma Goldman
  • Ernest Becker, Thomas Szasz & "Anti-Psychiatry"
  • Holism over Reductionism
  • Samizdat
  • Seisachtheia
  • Seven Deadly Sins (for the modern thinker) – Hofstede
  • Stand-back-a-little-ism
  • Stephen Fry
  • The Acceptance of Differing Models of Reality within Societies.
  • The Longnow

Places to go...

  • Abstract Sprocket – Comics Store – Norwich
  • Amazing Fantasy – Comics Store – Hull

Self Actualisation & Learning

  • A Glossary of Game Terms & Theory
  • Antonio Magliabechi
  • Cognitive Media (the people behind RSA Animate)
  • Deep Reading
  • Jake Parker's Map of Visual Storytelling
  • SuperBetter
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Video of hesir

  • Engage with Leonardo 001
  • Engage with Leonardo 002
  • My Youtube Channel

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