Budget Cuts on Top Gun

No story behind this. the sketch sort of just.......happened.
The regular line-work in the digital rendering didn't come out that well (a few miner mess-ups), but I like how it looks with the basic brush effect (to an extent). Still needs some work, but I'm tired, so this'll do for now.
Enjoy;

Tom's Tinned Octopus

For my class's "28 Illustrators Later" blog.

Original (rough) Sketch and 2 Adobe Illustrator renderings;

Prints for sale.

Zombie Me

I just realized that i never actually posted this. It is a zombie self portrait from my class's comunal blog;

Hope you like it. And if anyone would like to purchase any of my work, or would like commission work, please drop me a message.
Thanks y'all.

Teal'c, Horse, Daffodil...

The installment of my Art Blog Begins with some personal work for one of my class's comunal sketchbooks. The sketchbook was entitled Portraits and we had the chance to depict anyone we chose. So I chose Teal'c from Stargate SG1;

Once I had done this, it seemed only right that I digitalized the illustration;

Next is three a horse I had to draw for a class project. He is a rebellious, bucking horse, and I rendered him with three different basic pallets ;

This is a horse for yet another yet another class project. He is depicted as beng old and frail. The idea of this is to portray the horse, a strong, muscular, majestic animal as the oposite of that;

This final piece is a watercolor and pencil painting of Daffodils. The flowers themselves had begun to wilt by the time i got to paint them, so it made for an interesting image (in my opinion anyway). this has been mounted as a split composition (you can see the line down the middle) however i dont have an image of that at present;

I hope this installment of my Art Blog was enjoyable. Tell your friends and feel free to request a print of any of my digital work (might be a slight fee tho. Nothing substantial. I'm not that famous...yet).

Facial Expressions

I got myself a new printer/scanner today, so I took it on a test run.

One of our teachers asked us to do 10 self portraits in which we had to pull faces, to show the the movement in the different facial muscles. I spent 10 minutes on each of these, rendering them using shape to shape. enjoy, and feel free to laugh.

Frowning

 Licking nose

 What you talkin' 'bout fool

You did what

Look into my unfinished eyes

Attempt on Pacman

Why I never wink at girls

Theres a fishing hook in my lip

Don't even ask

My precious

Fairy Tale Project

A Few weeks back we (my Illustration class and I) were given a brief. The brief was to recreate a scene from a Fairy Tale in a style of our choice. I decided to go with the story of Pinocchio, basing it on the stylings of one of my heroes; Mike Mignola. This meant taking a darker view on the story, which is already quite dark when you read the original. The following are my character designs for Pinocchio, the Lame Fox and the Blind Cat:

All my character designs were rendered using Adobe Illustrator, and Colored using Adobe Photoshop.

I created my own text for this project, based on the point in the story where the fox and the cat betray Pinocchio. My text reads;

Through Darkness, yonder shadowed wood
Lays land, there place thine coin in mud
And through true magic, kind and old
Increase thine fortunes by tenfold.

I'm quite proud of myself for that, considering i came up with it pretty much on the spot, only tweaking a work or two after for rhythmic quality.

Next up is my final composition. I decided to leave the cat out, mainly because i was having trouble illustrating him as blind without being insensitive, but I'll come up with a more artistic reason for my teacher when i hand this project in tomorrow. Something to do with his figure loosing all definition when reduced to that size, rendering the coloring in of him useless and causing it to clash with the rest of the composition, making him the focal point when he shouldn't be. Again, that was all on the spot, so I'm quite happy.

So without further adue (i can spell that word), enjoy and blog to you soon;

sketch-bookery

So I haven't updated my blog in a while. So my plan is not to come back with a bang, but rather to for the sake of proving that I'm still alive and kicking. So with no further a due, I give you a short collection of my sketchbook work;

This first image is Cake Shark. That is not the actual name, but it fits in my opinion. The story with this is, I drew a shark, he looked happily interested, and i was in the mood for cake. 

This next group of images are from my newly formed Poshtipus collection. This isn't really a step at upper class or anything. Quite simply, my flatmate got a new tattoo of an octopus and I decided to draw one. Insert monocle and mustache, and you have Poshtipus. The tea idea is my mate Michael's idea.

This is, quite simply, Santa.

This final image is the Coca Cola Whale. My mate Keith put it best when he said, it's only a matter of time before they do this. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing this. I, personally, done see the point in whales. They're big, pointless and tone-def. At least this way, they're useful. And if you don't agree, good for you.

I will do my best to blog more regularly, perhaps posting college work. until then, merry commercial  Christmas everyone. Hah, bumhug