Happy New Year!

Paradise

I'm currently doing a course on drawing a graphic novel. One of the exercises was to think of a famous person and draw a one page portrait of that person's life/achievements.

Here is my response:


Please let me know your reactions in the comments below..

Catch up

I might as well put some of my digital recreational sketches up here...



I'm scared of colour, that's why I kept the face grey for the time being...

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These are all drawn with MyPaint.

A Post...

...just thought I might as well post a little experiment I did with the new release of myPaint.
I won't even start to compare it with commercial software, but it's free and in the creative industry it's the person who sits at the computer who should be creative, not the software.

Breeze - a Graphic Short Story

Have a look at it. Let me know what message you take from it. I hope to get to write something about my thoughts about the story at a later stage.

Divisionists

It's been a while since my last blog entry... As I don't believe in excuses I won't give any. I just didn't write anything for a while.

While waiting for a job I went to the National Gallery today. A brilliant place. The BP Portrait Award Exhibition was very inspiring. All those different styles, and incredibly precise craftsmanship of the artists. If you look through them online, some of them look like photographs - but they aren't. I found interesting that quite a few of the models were either girlfriend or house mate of the artist. The people closest to their daily lives. Close enough to sit through sittings spread over several months.

After that I went to the "Radical Light" Exhibition about Italy's divisionist painters 1891-1910. I knew Giovanni Segantini's work, but I was impressed with the way the whole group - especially Agnelo Morbelli - depicted the North Italian sunshine. It made me realise how limited our daily intake in colours is if we only look at a screen all day long. There's so much more colour out there! (The illustration in this Wikipedia article shows the visible spectrum and how little of it is covered by a traditional CRT screen, I guess a LCD screen isn't much better).

The majority of the contemporary paintings in the portrait exhibition had a very white lighting. Almost like taken with a flash. The light in the old Italian's work is a lot richer with lots of red commas wherever they could put them.

This day at the museum made me want to paint...

Life Drawings

A charcoal drawing from a life drawing class.

Wedding Dance

I had the pleasure to attend a beautiful wedding. Here are a few impressions of the dancing...

Frozen Pitch

Here are a few frames from a recent pitch.. in colour, this time. I quite enjoyed playing around with GIMP's colour functions...

Amelie with a Polaroid Camera

A frame from a job I've worked on over the weekend.

MySpace Storyboards

MySpace are producing this community based film called 'Faintheart'. They were looking for a storyboarder and gave a part of a script to inspire potential storyboarders... Here's what I came up with.

Details

Some details I liked in my drawings on recent jobs:

Inkscape

Was just playing around with this new software
on my pure Linux machine (I am still struggling to get it running properly)...

Old sketches

My scanner doesn't work with my new Linux Computer, so I was looking through some of my old material and thought I should share them with you.


And here are some T-Shirts I airbrushed years ago.

Hug a Hoody

My neighbour...

Pole Dancer

Is that how pole dancers go to work? Research for a project I'm working on...

Style

An attempt to find a more efficient simplified drawing style. Inspired by Temple Clark's storyboards.

In the Tube I

A little sketch of a fellow commuter reading in the tube...

From my Sketchbook

...just a dynamic sketch to bring a bit of movement onto this site:

Saudi Impression

A mother with her baby in the plane to Saudi Arabia. I liked the anonymity of the covered mother and the intimacy of the child..