WIP, model testpiece

Ongoing tests for a giant keyhole. Or not a hole -- but the negative space of a keyhole? Anyway.

Painting on latex (original model made from weight plate and clay).

Several layers of latex later and pretty much dried.

Fibreglass mother-mould -- not my neatest work! But it'll do; it only has to be strong enough for the latex to hold its shape.

Plaster poured in, it will ultimately be made from resin but for a cheaper test run plaster'll be fine and easy to smooth and shape if another mould has to be taken from it.

Demoulded, worked out ok! A couple of tweaks and the real deal will be ready to go.

People and other animals

Realised I don't think I've ever drawn a dinosaur. In my head they're still too cool to have actually existed, they'll always be a fiction to some extent. The fact that an asteroid may have wiped them out always seemed a fittingly epic end.

A sketch that'll turn into a larger graphic in the near future.

 Puzzle time and speedy jottings of strangers in a cafe.

All pencil on paper.

The gas man cometh

Illustrator and Photoshop. Being quite an untidy sketcher I'm starting to see the appeal of vector art -- a bit fiddly, but lovely clean lines.

And the original --

Masks and a Joker

From the Black Mirror Batman comic (though haven't read it), saw this and couldn't help jotting down a version. Distorted, grotesque features are a bit of a cheat -- the unusual proportions are much more forgiving than a clean, pretty figure -- but a bit more fun.

And a few gas mask roughs for another pic.

All pencil on paper.

Moondog

Blind Odin impressionist, rough-sleeper, and composer Moondog.

Pigeon skull icon

On the subject of pigeons, quick illustrator play around.

Pidge

More doodles. Self conscious pigeon probably isn't the fairest of them all.

King Monkey

A doodle or two with a king monkey.

Here's Jimmy

A couple of older sketches, neither of them quite finished, but say-laa-vee.

The media's favorite (one time) flavour of the month, and the biggest news story that never was -- The J-Bomb

And a brain hook, could be a train of thought, a song or an idea, but they can be very difficult to remove. 

HB / B Pencil on paper.