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.

SPIKE

SPIKE

Been playing around with/trying to get to grips with vectors, and reading some Spike Milligan, so this happened.

Idea or style influenced by another artist but can't find them again, so can't credit or link them! (for now)