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.

Life Drawing with collage

I very rarely use collage in my work. No particular reason, I've just never been fantastic at it and never bothered to try it much. But as part of our life drawing classes using mixed media we had a session using collage today. And it was pretty fun!
Here's the last two I did (clothed, not nudes), each 35mins, although the shiny paper didn't scan well:

 

The Adventures Of Cloud and Blue

Some sketchbook scans of an idea I'm in the process of working into a children's book. Just for fun, really, and an excuse to use brush pens more often!
The Adventures of Cloud and Blue will be in two books - one follows Cloud, the other follows Blue. After a snow storm, Cloud finds herself separated from the burrow and must try to find her way home. Meanwhile, Blue sets off to try and find her.

Doodle Time

Because I wanted to doodle, so here's the Guardian for you. With new threads. Quink ink, watercolour and bleach  in my lil' sketchbook.

Visual Studies pics

Some images from the last visual studies session, probably will have more soon:

Doodle of Max cutting food up and a self-portrait using Faber Castell Markers. I really, really hate having to do self-portraits. Particularly with only a hand mirror...

Life Drawing Mixed Media

I'm not normally one who likes mixed media, but this week's life drawing was painting with rags and cardboard, then I messed around using acrylic, ink, and pastel. Clothed figures are a lot different to draw than traditional nudes, but it's fun!

Uni work

Oops, left it a bit long for an update again...been busy with uni work. Here's a couple of finished stuffs:

 For an editorial brief, 'Poisoned Pictures', an article about viruses and trojans being attatched to images in Google image search.

Aaand for our Book Cover brief, the title being 'Occupational Hazards' (this is the penultimate version, the final isn't saved as a compatable image file...) This was actually pretty fun. Might put up some sketches from it later?

Still no internet, but have some cats

Some work for one of the recent projects at uni, in which my theme was cats / dogs. Here is one of the final pieces which sadly doesn't scan well - it's painted gold and varnished and glittery - and the other is a rough visual based on words with 'cat' in them. Which is your favourite?

Video Games will Ruin My Life

As said, clearly I play too many video games. I blame this entirely on my friends. You know who you are.

Which is why I'm sharing a sketchbook page covered in Pikmin, due to epic amounts of time being spent playing Pikmin 2...

Artsfest!

So after a successful weekend, I have a few photos to share (courtesy of my sister) of my stand. It was incredibly windy, which made things interesting, and threatened rain on and off (though we only got a little shower). Sadly, I didn't get a chance to look around much, but I did meet lots of interesting people!
Hopefully will be back next year too!

Setting Up Saturday

Sunday

My stand, with stuff pinned down with clips and rocks due to the wind!