Spring: Pencils

Initially, the buildings weren't in the picture, then I decided to add them to give more of a sense of space. I'm not sure it was the best idea, I think that they might have over-complicated the picture. What you gain on one hand you lose with the other, it's all a matter of balance.

Illustration Friday: Spring

It's a good thing that this week's topic for Illustration Friday is Spring, after last week's topic I was in the mood to do something lighter in tone. I've been working on this for too long today to be able to say anything insightful about it, I do know that my eyeballs have dried out so I'm going to have one last cigarette for the day and then I'm off to wonderful, lovely bed. Ahhhh, Laramies...the sweet smell of poison.

Thank You

I decided to have a go at Illustration Friday because I'm not always great at giving myself a brief to work towards and I thought having something sort of imposed on me would be very useful. I didn't really expect anything in the way of feedback considering how many people take part so I was quite surprised to get any comments at all. Thank you to everyone that has stopped by and taken the time to leave comments. You've made it an even more positive experience than I thought it would be.

Now it's time to get cracking on something for the latest topic!

Monster - Pencils

These are the pencils for the Monster illustration, I got some Col-Erase light blue pencils for my birthday and decided to try them out. From what I can gather they're pretty much the standard pencil for animators. They're really nice to draw with and I can see why animators love them so. For some reason the shade of blue came out incredibly lurid when I scanned them in so I tweaked them a little to resemble the original a bit more.

Illustration Friday: Monster

Sorry, but I think the topic has changed to Spring as I was posting to the Illustration Friday site, this was done for the previous topic. I was trying to get this finished before the topic changed and was in a hurry and didn't notice. This is the first Illustration Friday I've taken part in. I was running a bit late because I was working on some typical monster stuff for the illo and then realised I wanted to push myself a little and not do a typical monster (as much fun as that may have been). I figured that the scariest monsters are usually the ones that you can't see and this is what I came up with instead.

Pootling

Just some more pootling about on the 'puter. Seems to be some sort of pointing thing going on, dunno what that's about.

ICA Wallcomic

I've just added a comic strip to my site, it was part of a large project for the ICA that many cartoonists were involved with. Click here to take a look.