Rose

A new warm-up painting and process vid for the giggle

 

 

Process Vid

I started messing about with recording my morning warm up sessions, so here is one of them for your viewing pleasure!

Morning Warm-ups

Lately, in an attempt to improve my digital/painting technique, mostly in regard to tone I have been doing half hour to hour long paintings in the morning.

They are done in black and white and aren't rendered much. My hope is to get an awareness of detail and tone in certain areas in order to direct the eye of the viewer and suggest enough detail in the other areas to the point that it would hold up with a single viewing... I mostly fail :D

I add these, almost daily on instagram, feel free to have a glance here

 

Jack is back

I was recently commissioned to do two designs for t-shirts for a company in London that do Jack the Ripper tours.

 

The first is a playing card design, the Jack of... Ripper I guess

I wanted to make him pop out of the card, like he was coming for you and added a little street scene behind him to explain the light source on him.

 

 

This second one was to look like Jack had split you open and lifted your guts out, gross but REALLY fun to paint, took me right back to my days as a kid reading 2000AD and staring at all the gross details in the stories :)

I tried to keep it a little comic booky so as not to be to disturbing but still look realistic enough to be recognised.

 

 

 

My Bluebell

Beena my love as a Celtic Queen, she loves Magpies (two for joy) and bluebells.

The Practical Potioneer

A digital painting of Severus "Snivellus" Snape from the Harry Potter books.

The sketch from a corner of a page

I liked the half hearted sneer I was getting as I worked the face, but this was more about me hammering digital paint into submission and trying to make it do something new for me rather than showing the character, but it would be nice if I got both. Either way, I like the whole thing, although I don't like snape himself.

Black Night Pages

Hello all, I hope you're all loving the new year.

Here are the first two pages I have done for the next Islander Art Magazine comic type thing, since it's titled Black Night, I went for a scary story.

The story itself is an old campfire story, I just padded it out a bit.

I tried using the Loomis method of skewed perspective and jagged shapes to create an unsettled feeling throughout.

I also added a layer of noise over the inks to help it match the font I chose as well as make it a bit more rustic and remove the clean finish of digital inks.

New things

Been working on some new pieces for an exhibition I plan to have. All related to Celtic mythology in some way or other.

More Fairy lady

More work done on this one, a little refining here and there.

Practice

Trying to paint freely in photoshop, using a textured brush to start making random shapes and then seeing something in it and running with it. This is what I did today.