Xmas Update

Hey guys, I've been working on Victoriana most of the holiday so far, but have been posting a few doodles and bits up on my sketchblog. It's going to be a busy Christmas but we'll see how much work I get done.
Here's a coloured sketch to prove I'm still alive!

More Character Design

 A continuation of the last post, here's some more character design stuff for my neo-noir movie. Inked by hand and then quick slap of colour on photoshop.

Our heroine (whose name i still haven't decided on - maybe Claire?) in some cool threads. She looks a bit moody, but then an old friend has just turned up dead on her doorstop so it might be excusable.

Anna is currently one of my favourites, which is a shame, since she spends most of the movie dead and only really appears in flashbacks. Here's the proof:

Finally, Liam, who gave me so much trouble and he's still being developed. Such a hard character to pin down! Slowly getting there.

Still a few more central characters to design, then on to storyboarding! I'm looking forward to it!

Have You Tried...Vegetables!

 

Speculative Illustrations for a series of vegetable-based recipe cards

I've recently started trying to eat healthier, do a little more exercise and so on, which is the inspiration for this.

Shrimp, The Most Magnificent Sea Creature

The Most Magnificent Sea Creature, the Shrimp
I don't know why either guys.

Poster Designs

An inter-department brief at my uni asking for poster designs for the English and Writing Guest Speakers was given to three others and myself. Here are the plain images I produced (text has a possibility of being changed so I've left it out):

 Group poster for the first block of Guest Speakers

Poster for Liz Kessler, well known children's fantasy author

Poster for James Robinson, author of radio dramas for the BBC

Gaming icons

A few bits from a gaming A-Z zine I'm working on every now and again...ink brush and coloured in photoshop. Think these ones are obvious? Any feedback on these styles is appreciated!

Goal Required

So today Max and I did some drawing in Falmouth (or, he did and I complained about the cold more than I drew). The results of which are above though the digital colour was added later.

But seriously I need some goal to aim for, it's hard to get the inspiration otherwise. At least now I have time to plow on with Victioriana...

Yo Kiwi CD cover

Way back at the beginning of negotiated projects, I started a brief to design a CD cover for my band Yo Kiwi. Unfortunately I was ill for most of the second of the two weeks I set and have only just got around to finishing some of the artwork! This is the cover for our single, 'Sol Man'. To have a listen head to http://www.facebook.com/yokiwiband/app_178091127385 .

Reportage - Japan Project

As promised, here are the final reportage illustrations from my time in Japan. Both are drawn by hand and coloured digitally.

TOKYO:


KYOTO:

Japan Development

 Further work building on the stuff I draw in Japan / photos I took etc. And Eva 02, which we saw, and which was awesome if gross. Mix of media here: watercolour, gouache, ink.

Pokemon Challenge (cont)

 Day 4 - Favourite Eevelution (s)

 Day 5 - Fave Legendary

 Day 6 - Most Terrifying

Day 7 - Most Adorable

Sorry guys, will try to stop spamming you all with Pokemon. Also apologies for the really rubbish backgrounds, these were just sketchbook doodles with a bit of photoshop colouring but felt they needed some kinda base...just didn't want to spend ages on them, just doodles ok?

Information Illustration - Consoles

The dummy book cover and two colour final artworks for the information illustration project. 4th Gen consoles were painted in gouache, 6th gen were drawn by hand and coloured digitally.

6th Gen Console superflat!!

Illustrations for my current information project about video game consoles, these four are from the 4th generation (hard to believe we're on the seventh!). Traditional lineart and digital colouring; the flatness is epic.

Pokemon Challenge

So, as an attempt to lash out against my huge workload, I have decided to do the 30 day pokemon challenge. Basically doodling a pokemon every day, but I'll upload the good ones in bulk to save spamming people with updates.
Here we go:

 #1 - Favourite - Wartortle

#2 - Least Favourite - Mr. Mime

#3 - Favourite Starter - Charmander

Long hibernation

Didn't do much artwork over Christmas, but have gotten started on an information project about Video Game Consoles (on which I waste far too much time). Here's some sketches deciding on how to illustrate them:

How many of these did you own?

Angry Arthur

Here's my three colour artworks for our recent uni project, children's book illustration. The story I illustrated was 'Angry Arthur'. These were done by making lino prints, ink and pastel, text added digitally.