Category Archives: Visual Diary

Sat down after a couple solid hours’ housework to draw Drake and Antonia in their classic halloween outfits. Did warm up drawings of the view out of my window to get my eye in and scribbled a bit to loosen up my hand. Found a good reference and made a good sketch. But when itContinue reading “Crappy Illustration Morning”

This one is a mixed bag, but I learned a lot from it. Trying to colour tonally and THEN colour as well as that seems to dirty the piece overall. I’m going to have to take my skills one step further and simply pick tonally correct colours to complete the composition, which I look forwardContinue reading “Women Drivers…”

Did some sketches of Techo to get an idea for a lovely clunky Knight with some good shapes. I actually had an illustration by Chris Riddell in my head when I drew, from last year’s ditching trip, of a knight on a horse. You can see I chose my favourite image for composition and workedContinue reading “The Littlest Knight”

I had this idea when I worked the Wonderland Ball at the Grand, a very luxurious charity event decorated to become wonderland. There were many actors who greeted the guests, such as an Alice with her looking glass who asked if I was a henchman for the Queen of Hearts (we were obviously staff). IContinue reading “My Watch is Two Days Late!”

It hit me while daydreaming that Antonia holds Mitzi across almost every universe. I devoted my afternoon, therefore, to making a video. Colouring them all separately was an exercise in patience and a labour of love. I played with a LOT of transitions but I think the wipes were most effective, because in certain pausedContinue reading “Fool”

Jamie’s suggestion that I draw Drake and Ludwig as Jed and Octavius was in my head for many days. I’m absolutely stoked to be in October again: I want to draw Antonia as the mad hatter this year.

In the context of me loving this: Weighting of the speech bubble less than ideal. It messed up the composition somewhat. I think the type font could be better. Castle wall could have been less saturated and perhaps higher contrast, and I should have changed the brickwork to a more conforming blue but forgot. MoveContinue reading “Filthy Royalists!”

Been enjoying living in the Castle scenes after my research on castles yesterday. I was a bit feverish after walking home without a jacket in the storm, and as I fell asleep the moving images were terribly realistic. Thumbnailed these poses a few times and worked from a few references. Playing with texture and painterlyContinue reading “Dirty Roundheads!”