Fun with life...

We had a fun life drawing model this week, who was really relaxed and imaginative we got a load of drawings done but towards the end just I started to have some fun with it. These aren't the greatest, but they're starting to get more expressive than my usual (probably as i'm around more gesture based sketchers at the moment) Still a long way to go before i'm confident that I can capture more of a figure (and it's intent) on a page but there's a touch of this (plus I like how i've managed to get a few more bits on the page.)

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!

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.

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...

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.

Guess who's back?!

Not unusually it's been a while since my last post, there's been a few distractions as I've changed job and country again...* I'm only just now re-united with my home office set-up in the new flat after 6 months or so of storage in boxes, it's amazing I'm now fully unpacked and can actually access my art books!

 One of my projects I've been able to do around various other bits - some idea generation for a book cover project, it's nice working rough (not a lot of reference used in these which you will probably notice) mainly pencil and biro I've painted into digitally.

I've had plenty of time with only a sketchbook too so it's been good just playing around with some paper and pencils too.

The image is shaping up into something more like this...early digitized version still working stuff out fixing the drawing at this stage.

Hopefully more random images to come!

 *(Back  in November I started at Moshi  HQ, it's pretty awesome)

Update the blog why don't I...

Ok so it's been a while...

I've had a few projects on these past few weeks, filling the gap between finishing my last full-time position, and starting my next which will be later this month. It's been fun doing some freelance stuff again, and I've been super busy with life, applications etc., and now I'm taking a bit of a break, which after a hectic 6 months is quite, quite appreciated.

 The main plus has been getting on with drawing and painting for its own sake which has been great fun, I've been able to check out Dublin's 'Dead Zoo' for some sketching and also decided to update my blog image a bit (I never liked the old one much) detail above.

Kind of a homage to the wonderfully brilliant Adventure Time, and of course adventure game backdrops, i've been following the Doublefine kickstarter and have just finished Aminita Design's (quite wonderful) Machinarium, which I think must have brought out a hankering for adventure.

Anyway more news to follow soon!