Monday 25 March 2013

Weekend Sketching...

Been a little busy with work this past week, and doing a lot of stuff with Maya and Unity (still kind of at the basics with it but it's a pretty sweet bit of software) so hankering after some drawing and sketching massively.



Scored some new pencils and a few smaller sketchbooks in the hope I might be able to get a bit more done while waiting for things, also smaller sketchbooks just seem to make for pleasing artefacts.



Just been doodling after listening to an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere' on Radio 4 Extra (which I enjoyed.) Guess the idea of keys, rats and a subterranean city stuck with me for a while. I'd really like to do more narrative stuff in future too.


Been a plenty of really cool stuff going on with some of the (v.talented) guys at Mind Candy giving some insight to their way of drawing, painting, capturing figures etc. Including some gesture based stuff, I like the below as it incorporates a bit more force and flow in the figure which lends it a bit of weight my character bits sometimes lack. I've also been looking a little at Matessi's Force book but haven't fully embraced that yet, early days but it's good to acknowledge something new.


Shame I didn't finish the figure and get both feet and hands in - although I liked how it turned into the makings of a potential character (referred to as 'Blammo'); An obsessive figure perpetually wound up and ready to strike, but  kept eternally waiting for his varmint. Some of this comes from the pose which I may not have necessarily have thought to look at before.

Lastly just some Biro drawings because I bloody love a good Bic medium, and get a bit too much of a kick out of rendering things with them sometimes...



Just looking back at these I'm starting to see how nice smaller sketchbooks are for rapidly exploring different stuff in a sequence. Hopefully fill a few and post some more!


Tuesday 12 March 2013

Old pictures of the day!


I've been revisiting my old sketchbook for scans recently - I love these old drawings - they're not the greatest but they're a lot of fun, dating back almost 10 years some of them, and sll pre-digital... I'm actually pretty envious about how stupidly carefree and silly these are...(or perhaps I'm just envious of how much free time I used to have to draw pointless guff?)

A Brief History of Fun 










Some Other Weird Stuff







That is all.

Sunday 10 March 2013

Space Travel!

Just an older piece I dug out for an ongoing comic project of mine -thought I'd stick it up here since I've been doing some writing for it again. I'm currently looking for 3 non current job images as part of an quick profile thingie for some of my colleagues, so may stick up some older pieces that i'd forgotten about up here...

Monday 4 March 2013

Book Cover


Just a quick update on the cover illustration side project for a friends book - here's the final(ish) version. Being doing this around an awful lot of other stuff so glad to get it finished after a fair few months! It's been ages since I've spent such a long time on one image, but kinda nice not to be racing through it like with game concept stuff.