Merry Christmas!

to get in the festive spirit, here's a snowman and his parasitic twin



(just don't ask, don't ask...)

doodlehead

I have no idea why I doodle heads when I'm bored. Just one of those things I guess.

Re-jigged

I had to re-jig this illo and start from scratch again:




this time it works a little bit better.

Little Red and Big Green

This is a sketch I did for one of the other sentences from my latest children's book assignment. Little Red tells Big Green off for pushing in the queue for an ice-cream. Out of the four choices, this and the 'Ellie on the roof' story were the ones that I particularly liked and attempted to sketch out.

The Fabulous Butcher Boys

The latest story is up and running over on the Cabinet of Wonders!

Up On the Roof II

I've added the text. Whether it is successful or not (whether the lecturer likes it that is) is something I'll have to wait and see!

what it says on the tin...

Just a doodle, tis pink and a skull... couldn't really think of anything to draw. Ho hum...

Up On the Roof

I created this for my Illustration Practice class - we were given a few sentences taken from children's books and told to come up with an illustration to go with them. In this picture, 'Ellie' is being carried off her grandfather's roof by the wind.

Santa Muerto

Another assignment illustration - unfinished obvs. - our brief is to come up with an illustration after we had chosen at random from a pile of papers, a phobia. I picked out by chance Hagiophobia - a fear of saints and holy things! Here's Saint Death although I've got another idea which I'll be drafting up shortly.

Kafkaesque

I've yet to ink these (I'll be printing them off and doing it by hand) but these and the last post, 'Street Scene' are four narrative illustrations inspired by the Franz Kafka short-story, 'The Passenger'. I'll have to talk about them during a crit session next Tuesday, oh the horror...

All done digitally and I should just add the travel card ID numbers are NOT real (any would-be travelcard scammers...)

Street Scene

Saint Cobain

'Saint' Kurt Cobain, created for this blog entry on Damn Data.

I took a random B&W photo and digitally inked it to create the pseudo-religious effect. I then had a play with the various filters in my very old and clunky photo editor.

Pumpkin!

This started off as a doodle earlier today at Uni. I digitally 'inked' it and added a soft glow via Picasa.

Seeing as I have been working on a Mac earlier today, coming home to work on it on my PC (without Photoshop) was a bit of an anti-climax. My brother has given me his old PC on which I'll be able to upload Photoshop and Corel Painter and have it solely for drawing. At the moment, it's just getting my bro' to bring it over for me which could mean it will be next year before that happens.

West Country girl with a big, fat cat

Life drawing

Today was my last life drawing session within the studio - next week we are being sent off outside to draw. I only have an A4 scanner so this sketch has unfortunately lost its legs and I have to say, my initial sketch was very much out of proportion in the leg area as is this sketch on the right arm - the model had changed pose slightly so I had to redo certain areas and then ran out of time during the session to complete the arm :(

Day of the Dead doodling

These are some just Dia de los Muertos doodles that I created for a friend. Of course there is also this painting that I previously blogged about which I still haven't completed.

evil bunny

Just another doodle. I'm getting into the Hallowe'en spirit early.



EDIT: here's another one, similar theme.

Life drawing

Okay, this is a page out of my sketchbook from my first Lifedrawing class - from a week last Tuesday. I didn't get the whole body within the page but I'm still fairly pleased with it considering how long it's been since I drew anything like this.

wolfman

It could just be a side-effect of the 'flu medicine I'm currently necking, but my dreams recently have been a bit psychadelic and a bit whacko. I do take a lot of inspiration from my weirder dreams such as purple baboons but last night it was posing, Venice Beach-type musclemen werewolves.

Quick-ass doodle on the graphic tablet.

teasers

These are just a couple of teasers from two pieces of upcoming work. I'll be posting up links when they're finally published.







Both created on graphics tablet, slight edit via Picasa