Wolfie

On the look out for a few more red riding hoods.

A break from the goats

Gruff version zillion

Not quite black and white anymore...





This Blog used to have just the B+W image below.

Random Robot

Visual vocabulary muckabouts.

gruff gruff gruff

Where is this going? If anywhere...

Gruff overload

Since the last intrepid adventure, our hero has been to tackle the yoga monster after his hard-drive side kick had spluttered to a stop after emitting an alarming noise. He returns with an almost identical first picture (but no sky, did you notice? My, what imagination this guy has!) and a 'sparse' second picture. Call the president.

(edit: Added three more mouth watering images, yeehawww)

Billy Goats Gruff version 3 the spaghetti western

This is a mix of charcoal pen and then Illustrator for the colours. Billy goats is now a Western... sort of. I think I prefer the lines of the previous version, but this has more life to it. The next thing to do is find a way to combine the best elements of both somehow. Dash garn it.

Genius

It all turns up at once:

There is this incredible animation
and I found that because my uncle had told me about this amazing short film which was nominated for an Oscar, have a look at the trailer.
I've also found Anime Studio which I'm playing with before the trial runs out...

Billy Goats Gruff version 2

Another go at Billy goats gruff. I did the whole sequence, but the writing wasn't all that good. Here is another go using rhyme. I've also redone the goat a bit. Each Gruff will be different eventually.

And this is the same image with overlayed textures and other fancyshmancy.

Which is 'better'...

Billy Goats Gruff

I passed my first semester. Hoorah. I now have 6(+) weeks to do my diploma project which is to be aimed at a particular age group of human larvae. I don't really go along with this whole 'pitch it to an audience' thing. If it's good, people will buy it is what I like to believe, although people don't seem to be buying Shaun Tan's work. What's wrong with all of you? His new book "The Arrival" is out now and it's amazing.

Above is a a sort of rough for the first page of BGG, just to see how things fit on the page. It may end up looking something like this or completely different, I haven't decided yet. You may notice that I've adapted the text a little.

One Legged Nightmare

I've just been looking at the work of one of the guys about to finish the masters course, Simon Wild. I love his work, take a look (It's nothing like the drawing below so don't be put off by it). Some of his influences are obvious but somehow he's made it his own. Below is a quick doodle to get into the spirit of play Simon seems to achieve so easily.


Still imaginary life.


Reduced palette, desaturated, overlapping. The bird King

Red

This is for a competition on a website that invites people to draw something on a different theme every week. Have a look and join in here

More Geek Art

More experimentation.

Blending layers and cloud drawing experiment

First crack at drawing a sky. I got lots of ideas from here.

Photoshop experiment

The Ladder Sequence

One of the sequences for my module. Mixture of pen, pencil, acrylic ink and gouache. I stopped doing green backrounds after the first few as white seemed to look much better.

Pencil work

A drawing from my second set of sequential images. All pencil work.

evil plants

10 minutes in photoshop.

Random Illustration

Quite abstract, had fun doing it.

Deviant Art

I've been looking at some images from deviant art (this one in particular) and this happened. The background was fun to do.

And yet another

Some sort of ancient stone in a hamlet.

Bash them out

Another one, did this as soon as I posted the last one, so less than 30 minutes. Why can't I do this with real art materials?

Geek art

Mixing colours is a pain, and certainly not easy or cheap to play with if you're trying to learn how they work. I'm gettin more and more frustrated with real painting and so rather than stop drawing I've caved in and started playing on the computer again. I tried ArtRage 2 for a while but just couldn't get anything I liked. Having not painted in Photoshop for months, I thought I'd give it another go. I set the brush mode to multiply and airbrushed this out in about 30 minutes.Yes, it is 'geek art', as a certain tutor would say, but it's fast and so much more fun to play with. When I start next semester I'm going to get back into painting digitally, although I also want to learn 'proper' painting too.

Experimental

I painted the first of my sequential images, and it's terrible, a big lump of brown mess. So it's back to flour mill pappy. Here are some sketches to see what I can come up with. Pretty random, not concerned with quality, just pure experimentation, see if I can loosen up enough to do something useful.

Acrylic Ink, hold the soda

I've got into using acrylic inks with a brush rather than with the aquash pen. The great thing about them is that they are so easy to mix as the bottles come with a handy dropper. So 3 drops sepia mixed with 5 drops scarlet and you get a pleasant old fashioned red. Below is the sort of thing I'm now racing to do for the Sequential Image project. I have my sequence sketched out on acrylic friendly paper, I now need to get the palette right and get painting.

More character designs

Still not happy with my drawings/character for this module and time is running out. Here are some more alternatives I've been trying.