Never gonna get - my - royalties

Currently embroiled in bitter legal dispute over use of my property by a certain special fan of mine (lets call him Mr A) who took it upon himself to print one of my sketches on a t-shirt.

Anyway, very flattered the monkey is finally out of its cage in print form, and has put all sorts of ideas in my head. Hopefully the first of many.

Sketchly

Here be dragons.

Braaaains

Playing around with Sculpie and ended up with a brain.

Experiments with Sculpie and Vinamold.

 Test pour with a smaller model.

Test in plaster, unfortunately the hot Vinamold blistered the thin layer of silicone so can't get a decent pull from it so will have to start again! Oh well, its all learning.

Monkey see...

Request for an old sketch made me realise I've lost the sketchbook, so redrew this and gave it a little more polish. Moving on to some lighter, less simian drawings soon. But for now...

Pencil (+ Photoshop)

Gordo 'n' Pirates

One step closer to a finalised Gordo. Drawn in pencil and finished in Photoshop.

Also a build I got to assist with at Shambala festival. A real pleasure getting to help out the lovely and talented ROBOTS>>>>.

Fiend friend sketch.

Started as a study from a piece by David Sequeira, but added a body and it grew into into a dino/lizard thing.

Humpty Dump-ty.

Got a new Pentel brush pen so have been having some fun with that, along with some pencil figure studies.

Beefed up a doodle from a couple of weeks ago. Think it lost a little, and gained something in the refinement.

Moar

Sketch dump. Some pages from my sketchbook.

Started raining halfway through the drawing and realised the ink wasn't waterproof, but I think it rescued what was otherwise a fairly weak drawing!

 Same house, less rain.

Faces and face in faces.

P.S. There is a common accusation of drawings being 'dark' because they have skulls. Skulls are not always dark, they're not naughty or rude, we all have them, and the sooner people realise that the better. On that note... trying to understand faces so drawing lots of skulls. An example --

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.