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

Keep ticking

A few sketchbook pages of not much substance (yet), but its a been a while so need to keep it ticking over. A post for the sake of it almost.


Sensory bombardment, WIP, a sketch now but am working it up into something a little more finished.

 A few people, face are a never ending struggle (and hands, feet and bodies for that matter)

 Mana-tea?

 And the long clinker, pressuring people into embarrassing speeches from over their shoulder, with their super sized clinking spoon.

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.