For the new year on Instagram, I spent some time creating a baseline guide to identifying the characters I love so much. This is good, because I occasionally get new followers, and I know how hard it is keeping track of other people’s characters. This is a simple who’s who that you can hold upContinue reading “Visual Diary – Guide to my Page”
Category Archives: University
Visual Diary: Well, Well.
I keep meaning to make more sketches, but quickly colouring work to give it the sense of atmosphere I need it to have is quite good fun. I spent some time working with this one and I’m really happy with the mood it gives out in the end. The character speaking is the sword, WhackusContinue reading “Visual Diary: Well, Well.”
Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Cut!
Huge progress as I finished the lino cut! I am utterly sideways with excitement for how this turns out. I’ve actually done the stencil now but I’m making it two posts because I’ve been putting off writing this one up. And my bandwith is all tied up dealing with a drive video, so I can’tContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Cut!”
Visual Diary – Antonia – It Worked!
This is a good moment in the scene where Antonia and Mitzi try to break into the bath houses. Getting the pose right, keeping the composition interesting, and still keeping this faith to the image I have in my head is very difficult. You have to be very good at all this stuff to avoidContinue reading “Visual Diary – Antonia – It Worked!”
Visual Diary – We are Finding You Some Soap.
I can see my art tending towards slightly coloured monochrome recently – and this is because when I’m creating a whole scene, to fully colour it too would turn it from a practice illustration into a whole project. I’m pleased with this one! I drew it before I wrote about it, and I’ve written andContinue reading “Visual Diary – We are Finding You Some Soap.”
Visual Diary: So… You’re Whackus Bonkus…
Brace for critique. A big success. A good angle, helped considerably by four or five messy ink thumbnails in my sketchbook. You should really see them. You’re going to have to trust me that … oh, for god’s sake, hang on. honestly, I do so much work, and then I do even more documenting it.Continue reading “Visual Diary: So… You’re Whackus Bonkus…”
Visual Diary – Did you… find any girls?
I realise we need some context here. I was going to summarise it, but the context for this is only a couple of hundred words long, so get ready either for some scrummy world building or to scroll. Harriet, the Halfling girl who met them earlier, was still at Reception. The thick red book detailingContinue reading “Visual Diary – Did you… find any girls?”
Paddington – Tom Kerridge Coloured
Doing this has made me realise two things: one, that I am an illustrator, not an animator – and two, when I animate, I can make it look pretty bloody good. Other things I’ve done is import that big pavilion background into the working file (with the four crops), and put these frames (but transparent)Continue reading “Paddington – Tom Kerridge Coloured”
Sewing Project – Old Shorts
One of the big presents I got for Christmas this year was a sewing machine. I’ve handmade a few clothes and items in the past year – my jester’s shirt most notably, and my cloak – and hand-sewing is incredibly time consuming. Today I threaded it up for the first time and messed about withContinue reading “Sewing Project – Old Shorts”
Visual Diary – Christmas Posts!
I took time this year to create some posts to acknowledge my work in 2022. This took the form of two posts I created in advance on Christmas Eve and one I drew on Christmas Day. This first one is actually a redraw of a Christmas post from 2016. This final one was the oneContinue reading “Visual Diary – Christmas Posts!”
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 