Sculpture sketch

An ongoing experiment. A while ago I tried casting a pig head and didn't want to waste anything, so thought I'd find a use for skulls, always fascinating. Lots of soaking, boiling, scrubbing, to clean them up. Much of it was left to maceration and natural decay to clean, but because of the freezing winter this took forever.

Fresh out of the bucket.

Dry and de-stinked (mostly).

Primed and ready for painting (the initial plan).

I had been playing around trying to get a rust effect on different surfaces, and wondered how it might work on one of the skulls, so painted on a layer of resin and dusted the surface with iron powder. This was sprayed with  vinegar, hydrogen peroxide and salt. More weathering and treatment is needed to get a little more depth and variation in the rusting but I think it might turn out quite well, if you're into that sort of thing.
The teeth were removed for bleaching, haven't decided whether to leave them white and pop them back in, or give them the same treatment.

Sketch dump -- Chimps

Told you there would be more chimps. Been sketching lots of monkeys and apes from reference, working towards a character -- Gordo, Space Monkey (based on the real Gordo). Possibly developing a couple of images for a t-shirt print.

This was just a doodle that got out of hand, no real plan behind it.

Tied to the WIP'ing post

A couple of Works In Progress.

Some concrete slab test pieces for a lighting idea. Essentially a backlit cracked concrete slab. Just need to learn how to wire up a light-box.

Photoshop. CS5

 Cement and Sand... CS1

It can probably be much thinner than this, just a concrete facade over the lighting unit, which should make it light [weight] and low profile enough to hang on a wall.



Expect to see more monkeys (or Ape hybrids technically) in the near future. Part of ongoing chimp studies for a character, this just spilled out by accident.

Brushes and texture play

Sketch whilst playing around with PS brushes and making textures.

Not finished, but done.

An Owl. It was dragging a bit and I could feel myself putting off other drawings for it while messing around with colours, so thought i'd just move on.

Owls

A bit of vector work for a card and an owl that grew out of the sketches for said card. A work in progress (WIP) at the moment, a little more refining then starting on the colour.
Illustrator (top), Photoshop (Lower)

Harmless

Quick play around this afternoon, slapped a bit of colour on one of the characters from the last post.
Photoshop CS5 and Intuos4.

Sketch Dump

Lots to get through today, gone back a while to cover all the old stuff, as well as some new bits and pieces. Some i'm not too thrilled about, some i'm more pleased with. Onward and upward.

A portrait of a lovely girl on the train. She was mostly made of lambrini, mascara and shrieking.

 Trying to draw a pose from imagination but ran out of patience when I got to the face.

 Trying to draw people purely from the edges of my vision, quite fun seeing how much you can gather.

Starting experimenting with ink and an atomizer/disperser (i think its called?) -- a thing for splatting ink.

Practicing lips, lovely things, but difficult to draw.

It started with the lipstick and grew out from there.

The next two are all from squiggled lines, and built into faces, hence the odd proportions. 

 A biro doodle that got a little out of hand. It started with trying to draw circles. All biro, all gradients achieved with super fine hatching. What fun! No sarcasm.

Some sketches for some character design.

Planar head

An exercise from a little while ago, trying to get back into digital painting. Click to embiggen images.
Wacom Tablet, Photoshop CS5.

And a progress shot --

Done

Re-posting with a few bits finished off. Learnt a fair bit. I'd like to have another crack at it with a new design, maybe plan it a little more carefully --
Illustrator CS4