Speak No More Evil

I remembered that I have ink and a nib pen. It was fun.

Wolf Woman Double Face Heart Padlock Gemini Drawing

Just for the fun of it. Colour pencils.

Vectorise This

 

My idea of fun is sitting around turning loads of drawings into vectors. I was mostly thinking about t-shirt printability when I made these. Some I did just to mess about. But mainly for t-shirts and that sort of thing. Some worked better than others.

1. Worked really well. Thick lines. Detail remains. Possible shirt.

2. Blown up big on a shirt with some type. 

3. Sort of worked... unsure. Blown up with the right typography could work really well.

4. Pretty much exactly as the drawing was only with black lips. Would work.

5. Hasn't really worked too well. Don't think this is strong enough compared to the others.

6. Love it. Might get this printed on a shirt just for myself. Again, blow it up large, full front of shirt, and put some type across the top.

7. Not so much for shirts. Was just playing about with the 'Love Is' set. Stylised them alot.

8. Not as strong as the last one, but that's because the original drawing wasn't as good.

9. Love this. Clean lines. Very, very clean.

10. Just because Sad Bear is awesome.

Work In Slapdash Magazine

 Few bits of my work have been printed in Slapdash Magazine. The layouts not fantastic for the best presentation of work. But it's still printed in a magazine. Better than not being printed right?

New Fisheye Photos

 

Swing Chairs Thing 1

 

Swing Chairs Thing 2

 

Tombstone 1

 

Tombstone 2

 

Trees 1

 

Trees 2

 

Flower 1

 

Flower 2

 

Washing Machine In Braches

 

Bottle 1

 

Bottle 2

 

Other Bottle

 

Old Couple 1

 

Old Couple 2

 

Old Couple 3

 

Old Man's Sweaty Back

Professional Project: Illustration Number Ten - Hessonite

Hessonite is a semi-precious stone. So I immediately thought of jewelery and then fashion illustration. So that's the style I went for.

 

Sketch

Add ink/watercolour

I thought the hessonite should stand out more so I desaturated the clothing. Not sure if I like it.

Removed the splodges. Not sure if I like this either. I'll pick one later.

Swimming Lessons

Acrylic, gouache, ink and watercolour on some good quality paper. 

In between uni work, money work, living, sleeping and the copious amount of time I spend eating I like to find some time for finger painting. There's some brush work in there, the face was brushed in & the outline of the armbands and stuff like that. The rest was finger painting fun. If you wanna throw down your finger painting skills against me come be my guest. I will crush you. Ha. Thick.

Smoking Girl

Letraset pens, fineliners, ink, brush, pencil, water. 

The hair could be better.

Always Looking Toned

 

I've evolved my style to encorporate skin tone which I think makes it look so much better. Especially with the tone that sits around the chin and stuff. Next time I'm thinking about going for full colour on the tattoos as well just to make it brighter. But that requires a lot of patience which I don't have much of. But as for this, I love it. This is probably my favourite draw I've done this year.

Always Looking Envious

 

I've abandoned the dating system. Another piece that I found time to draw in between spending 14 hour days on Illustrator. This is one of my favourite pieces that I've done recently. I think that the face has worked really well, the red and the green are subtle but highlight the areas well and the tattoos just give detail.

Always Looking Shaded

 

Got around to doing some of my own drawing for the first time in a while. Still using the same style but this time I went for a bit of shading with some grey brush pens. It's payed off on the face but I think i went a little bit overkill on the torso.

Work In Progress? The Gypsy And The Moon (Again)

Since last time I posted this I've added up extra layers of paint to most of this. The headband was originally green but it ran too much into the leaves on the rose so I switched it out to purple. The goats skull I painted in yellows and browns and then went over the top in a thin white acrylic so it's translucent. It's actually a bit whiter than it looks on the photo. I've also blocked in the background in a dark purple/dark blue/black mix to try and get it to look like a night sky, probably gonna add some stars on top of that.

Close up of the face. I'm really pleased with how the hair came out, it took a while to work over each area indivdually to get the gradients right in the seperate curls but it was definitely worth it for the effect it gives out.

 

Close up of the lettering. Pretty standard tattoo style script/cursive writing, which I do a lot. It's a lot harder with a paint brush than with a fineliner.

Professional Project: Illustration One - Rio Carnival

 

The first illustartion for my professional project is complete.

Book = Spiral

Word = Sway

Wikipedia = Sway DeSafo

End Point = Rio De Janeiro

I'd say my process for generating random subject material seems to be working on that one. This is done almost entirely in marker pens. I bought some Letraset ones. They are amazing. Outlines in fineliner and background in black ink. I think this is a good start to the project and I am pleased with the outcome. It reflects the mood of the carnival in the colours. I tried to input some influence from Brazilian artists work that I looked at, but this mainly just came through in colour as their styles were so far removed from mine that it would have gone totally wrong had I tried to go any further.

February 21st 2010: That Girl Over There

 

Random drawing I did at uni. 20 minutes trying to use styles.

More Stickers

After all the fun I had making and sticking my stickers the other week I thought I'd knock up a few more in a different design. I went with the stumble woman as you can see. Works well. I think I'm going to make up a load of different designs to stick about the place. See how many I can fit onto a page. Like sticker Tetris. Only they won't dissapear.

Work In Progress: The Gypsy And The Moon

So this is an extension and recreation of a piece I did on December 13th 2010. I liked the elements it had in it and I felt that it could be bigger and better and more colourful and detailed. So that's what I'm going for. I've scaled it up from A4 to a large board. Probably A1 height but a bit slimmer in width.

Drawn out in marker. Usually when I use markers everything goes horribly wrong but this seems to have gone quite well. Good strong lines.

Close up face.

Close up goat skull.

Started painting it. Acrylics. Like the blue.

More to follow.