Nothing to see here

not been 'feeling it' this week but carried on regardless. I may give these a treatment at some point. I have nothing else to add..

GRAFFIK!!

In the last couple of days I've been looking at more graphic design type inspiration. So rather than posting up another set of sketches I thought I'd give them a treatment of sorts. I think they look good considering the took all of a couple of minutes. Certainly wouldnt look out of place on the wall of your local Pizza Express :). I think we'll be seeing some more of this type thing.

Selected Zoo Efforts

Please excuse the lack of blurb to go with the sketches. In the last post I wrote a whole thing about studying a subject but blogger is rubbish and didnt allow me to copy and paste within itself so I lost it. Anyhooo.. here are a few more sketches from the zoo

Meerkat

Beach Sketches

So not content with stalking people in the park, I've taken to the beach. I took my sketch book with me on holiday, not sure if that is sad or committed!

AVP - The reprise

At the request of Christian I have dug out some other prop designs for the Alien V Predator game. You'll have to excuse the photos of them as I couldnt find the digital versions.

Back to sketches

Colour and Shape

I decided to put the sketches on hold momentarily. I'm on holiday soon so I'll get alot of those done at airport departure lounges and the like. In the meantime here a couple of colour pieces. I didnt know what they were going to be when I started them and still not sure to be honest :) I need to practice putting people into environments.

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Yes these again

More park stalking

More of the same.

Shock! Horror! a new pen

You'll be unsuprised to see more of these. I've changed medium slightly, the pen isnt as forgiving as the biro so I have to be commited to the stroke (as it were). As well as this I've been considering what it is I actually want from these. The answer I think is simply to keep drawing without fear or over thinking it. These keep those mental barriers down. I'm sure they'll pay dividends when I come to do something more polished in the coming weeks..hopefully

More...

So I was talking about hit and miss, these are more the miss side of the spectrum but hey. I made the mistake of seeing a couple of people on motability scooters and thought they would be excellent candidates. Boy, did I underestimate their speed, they could shift!

More Moleskin Sketches

The weather has been against me recently. No one wants to come out and play :(

Pagoda Sketches

I wanted to take a break from drawing people, especially as I'd been feeling a touch stalker-like and decided to draw the peace pagoda (and oriental lion statue) located at the lake. It was going okay until it decided to rain.

I think it's worth pointing out that I use a black biro to draw so Im forced to draw one line rather than over construct the drawing, which I can be guilty of. Plus I cant erase it should I not like, hence sketches will be hit and miss. You learn more from the mistakes than you do the successful ones. Well, that's what I tell myself anyway

I think there will be alot of sketches like these forthcoming so feel free to go through my archive for more digital and colourful work. That should tide you over until I have time to do some fresh ones

More sketches on the move

Just so as you know, each sketch is only 10 seconds or so in the making.

Sketch-ercise

So, some of my friends may know I'm 'training' for a London to Brighton Bike ride. So I've been cycling around a nearby lake at lunchtimes.

I've begun to encorporate some sketching it too. Essentially, I do a lap, then stop do some quick sketches of people and swans or geese and bugger off and do another lap. I must say I've been loving it. Its very cool trying to sketch people without them noticing. I used to cringe at this sort of thing but in my old age Im relishing it :) Plus a good friend of mine wanted me to carry on with traditional media as well as the digital stuff.

Life Drawing week 10/10

So, the final week of life drawing. I thought I'd play it reasonably safe and do a charcoal number. Apparently my sketching technique altered (for the better) after dabbling with paints. I wont have this weekly commitment of life drawing now so my posts may not be quite as numerous but they still will be regular, you'll just have to try and be a little patient with me :) it's not easy finding the time when you have a toddler running around!!

Night Watch Character Designs: Anton Gorodetsky (v1)

In my effort to beef out my more realistic character work in my repetoire I've decided to illustrate the main characters in the Night Watch trilogy of books. There are set in the real world but have a supernatural twist. I've taken descriptions from the book and along with some artistic licence come up with my own interpretation.

For my first attempt I'm generally happy with the way it turned out. The pose is a little flat and it is devoid of much expression but I've planned a cast shot so it should make more sense once all characters are in situ. The character isnt completely finished, I'll be tweaking once I have all of the cast in place no doubt. What I can actually see happening is that as I develop my style with the other paintings I'll end up revisiting this again. Annoying but getting better is the point right?

Life Drawing week 9/10

Some warm up sketches done using oil bars and a half finished (if that) painting that I need to get around to finishing. It was going well but takes so long just to lay down the first colours before you can do any clever or interesting things. My fault for using a palette knife I guess.

So, we are nearly done with the life drawing. I am working on a character illustration in my own time which I'll post when its done ( lucky you ) . The life drawing has really helped as you'd imagine.

Life Drawing week 8/10

These are some colour sketches with oils. I was a bit cheesed off I could get them to a more 'complete' state but 2 hours isnt really enough to do one painting let alone, studies, test piece and final piece. Still though, got me thinking of doing a more final piece for myself at some point

Blog alert!

A close friend of mine has taken the plunge and created her very own corner of the internet. She's a very talented writer so it's well worth a read. The first post is cracking so she has quite the standard to live up to.

http://culturalcesspit.co.uk/wordpress/

Life Drawing 7/10

Sorry for the delay in posting these up. The honest reason is that Im not happy with them. It occurs to me that a) you just cant paint anything that good in an hour and b) I get very frustrated with painting traditionally. Too much time in Photoshop I suppose. Im sure it will do me good somehow. These are a couple of warm ups and a 'painting'.

The result is something I'd sneer at walking past the 'art' studios at college. The shame...