Storyboards Scene 1

The final storyboard images for scene 1 (without text directions). Just in time for hand in next week!

The End is Nigh!

Here's a book cover I've been working on this week, for the YA book 'The Doomspell' by Cliff McNish, as well as some of my development thumbnails.

Last week in the studio before final ever hand in at the end of the month! Time flies!

Spectrum Character Design

Hey all! Here are the updated character designs for the three main player characters from Spectrum (a mobile game concept I'm working on). You may have seen the initial designs on my sketchblog, but these are the relatively final images:

Scarlett, the close-range fighter type

Klein, the defensive builder type

Blaine, the long-range fighter type

And a bonus experimental gif of Scarlett! 

My business cards are here as well and we're all getting ready to head off to London next week so might be too busy to update for a little while, but will still be putting up some rougher work on my sketchblog. I'm also going to be doing a giveaway once I've completed 50 pokemon warmups, so keep an eye out!

Business Cards!

It's almost time for our trip to London to meet agents and companies, and the New Designers show is also coming up fast, so most of the class has been working on getting some business cards made up - including yours truly!
Mine are supposed to be varied in style but still cohesive as a representation of what I do and how I draw or visualise. Here are the final designs to be sent off tomorrow:

And on the back of all of them will be this:

 

Some of my classmates reckon the back image is a bit intimidating, but I'm only smiling! I don't really like drawing myself but I am proud of my hat. Also redesigned my website if you haven't seen it yet!

Fun times!

You know that feeling where you want to draw, but don't know what? And how you work on something for hours but end up disliking it...

Business card design number one!

Illustrated Quotes and Sayings 8

This is my final for the Falmouth Illustrated Quotes and Sayings book 8!
My quote is: 'I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle,' (from Terminator 2.)

And a matching cover:

Colour Rough

Here's the colour rough for my Quotes and Sayings Book entry. (My quote is "I need your clothes, our boots, and your motorcycle." From Terminator 2)

Initial Rough

Colour rough

Storyboarding update

Been storyboarding for my neo-noir project! Here are a few of the visuals to give you an idea what its looking like so far (with directions/text removed):

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!

Character Design Process

Been working on some character design this week; these show you the process. This heroine is a young reporter whose friend has just shown up dead on her doorstop...

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.

'Motion' Visual Essay

 Since finishing up the posters I've spent the last week and a half working on a visual essay focusing on motion, and using Parkour / free running as my inspiration. I'm working towards a possible graphic novel final illustration, but thought I'd share a few of my best sketches first:

There are more scans and images of my sketchbook work, process and sequencing at my SKETCHBLOG if you're interested in seeing more.

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

Insomnia

3 day project: Editorial image for an article titled 'Insomnia: Relax...and stop worrying about lack of sleep'.

And away!

2nd year of Uni is over, just waiting on the results now. Been manic recently - had an interview for an internship at Disney online in London and my sister came down to stay for a week during which we had epic marathons of Game of Thrones (oh yes). Been doing some doodles in the meantime, trying to get back into the swing of things, and this one is what I did while watching '24 hours in A&E', a great TV programme that reminds me of my sister (who's doing nursing). Fineliner, scanned and messed around with colours etc on the PC (although I have a MacBook now, still getting it set up). About an hour's worth of work but hopefully will be posting more later.

Arrivederci amigos!

Essay Writing Fact

Tokyo Linearts

More work from Japan project including final isolated lineart for Tokyo...

Book Cover - Eye in the Sky

1 week, Thursday to Thursday, spent on a book cover project for the book 'Eye In The Sky' by Philip K. Dick. It's one of his lesser-known but awesome books.

Some development work from my sketchbook:

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.