International Self-Portrait Day

Set a challenge at work to knock out some self portraits for the occasion. I've never done this before so i thought i'd try two styles: straight up pencil and mirror (with digital fiddling) and high contrast comic style. Not quite there but were good fun to do.

Apologies for the intensely threatening face. It was a gift from my parents.

Random Sketch Madness

Not posted anything in ages due to some work commitments so i thought i'd throw in some real messy sketches i did recently. Less practice penmanship, more the brainwrongs of one off man mental.

Japan Project Update

So the Japan Project animatic i did is now up on YouTube if anyone fancies a look (and a listen). Its pretty low quality and is only a test piece but it gets the idea across so dig in and, if yer feeling particularly generous, why not donate to the Red Cross in the link provided.

http://www.redcross.org.uk/Donate-Now/Make-a-single-donation/Japan-Tsunami-Appeal

Cheers!

Squid sketch

Another quick wee style test in squid-o-vision.

Jack job

Wee line work photoshop job of an old favourite.

Latest Sculpt.

Here's me latest attempt. Its a caricatured bust of an old admiral or something. I kinda made it up as i was going along. Loads of fun to do though and took about 2 days, start to finish.

Stills from 'Japan Project'

I thought i'd post some stills from a personal project i worked on for the Japan Tsunami appeal. It was a 2 minute animatic drawn digitally frame-by-frame and put to some music. Unfortunately i'm still waiting on the permission to show the video because of the soundtrack copywright. One day....

As with all the images on this blog... click on them to enlargesize.

Banshee Sculpt

This is another early attempt at some Super Sculpey work (with my first armature). Its a Banshee creature from our game 'Fable II'.

Sketch

Sketched this up in photoshop the other day... trying to get into that whole 'Childrens Book' illustration feel.

Early Sculpey Attempts

Here's my first attempts at using super sculpey from a couple of years ago. Its a robot thing from Frezzato's 'Maser' series and a creature from Henson's 'Dark Crystal'... Not great, but a start.

The Boon Hoose opens.

Hullo me!

So, i thought i'd try out this whole 'blogging' thing to see what all the fuss is aboot. Hopefully it pushes me to get my finger out and start producing more personal work. Here goes!

I'll start with this image i did of myself, my wife Becca and my wee boy Adam (as well as his favourite toys). A reasonably successful xmas present... well, its made my wife cry... which means I totally won xmas.