Squirrel

Drew this on the train on the way back from London. In a huge rush so there'll be better banter later.

Apoligies

So quick explanation, I have chilled and realised that my Dad's comments on the painting being alright kind of just made me realise it wasn't right and I just wanted someone to blame for my poor piece of work. Anyway because of this I have redone it and I am a lot happier with it and just happier in general. So happy I have three pictures for you today.

A lot happier with this. The colour work better, it is cleaner and the dark red works well with it.


So it's a friend's birthday and I drew them a picture. It is one which has never been on here and may possibly never be seen. Not because I don't like it but just because I'm keeping it secret in my little moleskin. In fact all of my moleskin work is secret. But anyway I decided that I wanted them to know the card was from me so made a smiley face out of it. Kind of like a real life character although I was thinking how rad it'd be to get some of those printed, they wouldn't be that hard to make. Maybe this is another thing I'll claim I'll do and never bother to actually do.


And finally I drew the snake from the last post on my wall because I felt like my poscas don't get used enough. Ignore the shit thing next to him, it was something that never got finished and I can't remember what was meant to be going on with it.


So that's it. I'm off to LCC to check out the Graphics department. Lots of drawing on the train...maybe.

Two things

So I redid that stencil in four layers and I thought it looked alright but then I showed it to my father who said "It'll look alright when it's finished." So as always the angered child I decided to just pour paint on it and hope it would end up looking good. It didn't.
So pretty much the canvas now lies in two pieces in my garage as I destroyed it because it is shit and I cannot do anything else with it because of the fucking drips.



Second thing which I do like is a new illustration. Python, well an adder, or it might be a pyhton, dunno what they look like.

Stencil weekend

So I kept getting really pissed off with different things in the stencil I did the other day and I ended up just redoing it because it was bugging me so much. I'm pretty happy with how it's came out. I'll probably stick with the multilayers, I don't think I can do justice to the whole two layer deal.

Stencil again

So I repainted that stencil I posted last night. This is what annoys me with stencils, they always look better than the previous but you'll have done something wrong which is something really obvious which you forget.

I also don't like the drips on this one, i'm gonna do it as a portrait on a much smaller canvas. Maybe try and get a better white as the one I'm currently using looks like someone had a piss in the paint. Lips are now red which I think looks good.

Stencil session

So I've been a slack man on the painting game but that's gonna change. Multi layers are out, black and white is in. Decided to try a new stencil. It's pretty scruffy because I did it very quickly to see how it worked painted. It's like my sketchbook work it's all just planning something better out. I'm gonna start the proper one tomorrow except it's gonna be rad and clean. Quite like the drips idea, that was originally only so that it didn't look weird just cutting off but I'm considering doing it on the canvas.



So I forgot to put this as I was sleepy but this stencil is yet again a wonderful photo taken by my dear friend Anna Victoria Best. I did a different stencil of my girlfriend using her photos and it came out very well.

Stresshead

I need to get round to sorting out my workspace. I've got so much shit I need to do and I end up doing nothing because my desk is a fucking state. It's annoying that I only get motivated to clean it at night because I can't due to everyone else trying to sleep.

I love having a moleskin sketchbook. My girlfriend got me it for my birthday and it's so useful. I'm just drawing anything in it. My big sketchbook is work I want people to see while this is just anything I think of. I want to have by the end of the year a two or three big sketchbooks and loads of little moleskins full of things.

Munny

So I bought a munny a while back and didn't do anything with it because i was kind of scared to put a mark on it. So I was talking to mate of mine about how I had it planned but didn't have the money to buy poscas and didn't really want to paint it and he disapeared off into our classroom then came back with a massive box of poscas he'd just bought. So here's my first munny. A lot of things I hate but I guess you live and learn.

Guess how old I am?

So today was my birthday and I got lots of cool stuff. A new camera, a sticker maker, shirt, books, etc. I'd go ahead and say it's been my favorite birthday so far. Woke up and I didn't have many presents to open as the camera was expensive but everything I did get was well thought out and either exactly what I wanted or something that's hugely useful to me but I didn't think to ask for. Then I got to college and my girlfriend came in and turns out she's been conspiring to get me lots of stuff without telling me so I got another load of presents off her. Stoked.My mate Tom Whittle had the opening of his first solo show type thing "One Night Stand with a Thirsty Brush". Was pretty good, I was stoked.

So I don't really like this as I didn't think it out well enough and I kept trying to do more to it and thinking of things.

Wabbits

So tshirt design for pretty focused. Ah well, might make a few of my own depending on people being into it or not.

So I got bored at college and wanted to make an old character better so pulled out the rabbit.

Buffalo head

So this is the start of a character for something I've been planning a while. I've been trying to get it to look better but I thought I'll just put it down on paper and draw it and hopefully it'll evolve like my yeti.
This is kind of a plan for a t-shirt so that's why the pole and his tee are blank as they would have type on them if it got used. Who knows, I'll show you it as it evolves.

Lizard Evolution

So I felt I'd kind of ignored these lizards for a while so I thought I'd try drawing them again. I want to evolve them a bit. My yeti just from drawing him repeatedly has came along a lot from the first time so I feel I should give more time to these. I'm trying to play with the eyes more as they are a bit to simple on their own.

Sasquatch

So I stopped being slack today and finished this months Pancakes and brought my colour sketches home to photograph and show you all. This is concept for some illustrator work I'm going to do next week, actually I'll be honest it's concept work for some illustrator work I'm claiming I'll do but probably won't finish next week.

Excuses

So I apoligise for the slackness, I do have a build up of work to post but I'm also doing loads of important stuff related to uni so that's taken priority. I'm gonna get some proper updates done tomorrow with my new drawings of my sasquatch in colour and different angles.

Shrubbish

So i'm back on it and I think I've found my work pattern again. I keep starting new projects and some of them are finally coming to an end which is nice.

This is a character for my group of jungle monsters which I've started drawing. Again this looks like it'll drag out but I'm having fun.

This guy is kind of like a shrub creature, the one being done on the big sketch is getting a lot of detail added to him, this is kind of just the concept of him.

Flying Monkey

I like doing mixed media but I dunno if this one worked very well.

Gonna have a blast at doing some other things like this, maybe without colour.

Stresshead

So this was meant to be up last night but I had a power cut and have had no gas or electricty till this afternoon.

I'm going through a major crisis at the moment, I've got to the point on my course at college where I need to start making decisions which will affect me through out my life. I want to do illustration but I don't want to work freelance as I could easily end up making no money at all, I kind of want to go into Animation Illustration as I'll be able to do illustration but for a company doing the concept art for their animations. Thing is I think I could do this but what if I end up stuck working for some shit company who just do online cartoons and I don't want to just stop doing graphics. Ah, it's a hard knock life for us.

So anyway, this is a new character and I like him. I think I might make a menagerie of these creatures.

Mundane Clown Posse

So this is another portfolio page. I dunno if I like it or not. The girl got cocked up with the colour of her face. Also the the ring master looks all faded due to the flash.

Portfolio

So I have started working on my portfolio as I was reading about different courses I'm considering and my portfolio will be a lot stronger if I have my own work in it which shows my interest in the subject.

So because of this I'm doing some of my favorite characters in larger versions in colour.




I also have got a new desk which has meant I have a totally new work set up so should be hammering it for the next week or two.

Mandem

So I quite like the style of this character but not the actual execution of it. I feel like it's got a lot of potential but it's failed to reach it. I'm gonna have a play around with this style for a bit.