Favourite Artist Post 3

It is time again for another favourite artist post.  I've looked at digital painters and now I want to express my admiration for an Animator.

Ryan Woodward was introduced to me when I was creating my motion comic (in the second year of Uni) I found his animating style to be extremely interesting and beautiful.

In the video for Thought of You was brilliant, especially how he used the distortion and stretching of the limbs so gracefully.  I was so impressed I tired my hand at emulating this style in my own motion comic (see the ballerina at the top of the page).

You can find his work >>here<<

Digital Painting Practice

In Uni I've been looking at the Digital Painting magazine, which is filled with such talented users of Photoshop and Painter.  So I took a few minutes out to paint some facial features using what I learnt from the artists advice in those magazines.

I tried using various brushes to see what kind of mark they made on my canvas and I found that I had a watercolour build up brush in my set brushes, I will never go back to a soft round brush and the smudge tool!

Christmas Post!

In celebration of Christmas time I always tend to draw Christmas-y things. Whether it be just for Christmas labels or actual Christmas cards I celebrate by drawing every year.

Character Designs

Another one for University.  The comic book script I was given by Black Dragon Studio's progressed onto making a Motion Comic/Animatic, I decided that I wanted to do this motion comic/Animatic to add to my Animation show reel.  

I decided, though, that instead of carrying the story on where I left it (with the comic book pages) I wanted to work backwards, from the last page and as many pages as I could finish.  It also keeps the script I was given a little broken up, I didn't want to start publishing the whole story without the permission of the company, but I am allowed to post this artwork as my own for now.

A pretty much typical looking Sheriff, although I quite liked the idea of him being a little younger and more hot headed, almost like he's starting out and hasn't got the wisdom to accompany him yet.

A typical looking Mayor type, from the western movies that are always on TV, it's one of the more striking images in my mind even though I know the Mayor could look any way I wanted him to.

Finally, the "boss" of our two protagonists, she is still somewhat pretty but just hard enough looking to intimidate.

Portrait Work

My friends and family have always asked me to draw them pictures for special occasions, like birthday's or for Christmas so here are a few of those images.

Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam was one of the first Portraits I did on Photoshop.

My cousin's children

And a commission for a family friend for a 40th.

Favourite Artist Post 2

One artist I've been following online is thealmightyp on Tumblr, I really love her style of work and how she uses different media to create one image.  She mainly draws fanart (I can understand that) but it doesn't make her work any less beautiful.

I love the way she's able to blend different media into one image as it makes it look a lot more interesting.

Her digital work is something I envy greatly.  

You can find her art on her Tumblr page >>here<<

Personal Project 2

Following on from the mentions of Marta Dahlig, when I was doing my GCSE's I had a project that revolved around the Seven Deadly Sins.

From this project inspired a new wave of imagery for me, and since my final piece from my GCSE exam I have been revisiting this topic ever since.

 So this first image is from 2007, my GSCE final.  It was on A2 cartridge paper and completed in Oil Pastel.

This second image is from 2009 when I traveled the world with my sister, we were in Australia when I decided I wanted to redo this image so it's only completed on A4 with a fine liner pen and Copic Markers.

The last image isn't completed yet (when it is I shall update), but for now I can show the rough image that I sketched out on Photoshop and show a snippet of one of the Sins more-or-less completed.

And for the type of colouring this will be subjected to:

I will most definitely be uploading the final image once it's complete so I can see for myself how I've progressed over the years.  As I have gone through certain phases of favouring one type of media, I have revisited this image, so the may be a lot more of these to come as I progress as an artist.