Old 3D Work!

Merry Christmas to One and All!

I wasn't planning on really being online today, but as I was having my morning Coffee I started browsing through some forum threads on a website I used to use a lot around 5 years ago called SimplyMaya.Com, and came across an image I created for a Spaceship modelling competition that they ran. The image is a little small unfortunately, maybe I'll try rerendering it larger at some point if I can find the old files.

I came second place, but was still really happy with the image I created and the ships I modelled.

It's making me want to get back to some 3d modelling again, and I think I'll have to revisit SimplyMaya a bit more, I met a lot of nice people there.

Have a great day everyone!

The Devil in Us All

Hi virtual explorers,

Posting an older picture today, that I was surprised to find I hadn't posted before.
I was considering doing an updated version of this and going back through earlier posts found I'd neglected to put this one on the blog.
Its my take on one of those once popular "Magic Eye" pictures, but made up of hundreds of small cartoon heads.
There are in fact 1666 in this piece.... Spooky as it was only upon counting them once finished that I found that out!
I plan to do a new one of these very soon, and am going to attempt to make it a lot more complex, and with more detailed faces within.
One idea was to do Stan Lee's face, made up of hundreds of Marvel characters, and oneday I will most likely try it out, but I think I'll save that one for a leter date when my drawing skills are more improved.

Hope you like it and until next time, keep creative people!

Click on Image to Enlarge

Art Space Design

Hi All,

Been ages, again, but I just wanted to share what I have been working on over the weekend.
In an attempt to boost my motivation in the realms of creativity I decided to redesign my workspace.
I am planning on creating a work area that can be dismantled and reassembled like an Ikea flat pack so that the time building it is not limited to the home I am currently in, and it is also designed to be built in 3 stages, around existing furniture, so that the cost can be spread or it can be finished further down the line.

Drawing table/lightbox combo to take up to A2 paper, room for 2 24" monitors, printer, A3 scanner, 2 pc's (Or one bigger one if I ever manage to upgrade), lots of assorted art materials and paper, Consoles, games, Blu rays and TV storage, enough room for my boxed comic collection (that can be hidden from view) and still enough room for some statues, collectables and ornaments on top.

Nice.

And if I don't end up building it, it was still good design, modelling and rendering practice, Click on image for large size, if anyone wants storage design solutions I am for hire, message me on any of the various social media links, Twitters good, catch you all soon!

*Updated* - I added in a shelf under the Drawing table/Light Box, and a Cork Board above it for pinning artwork and reference etc...

IPad Art

Hi Internetters and Internutters,

Today's post is a first for me, I managed to acquire a secondhand Ipad a couple of weeks ago, and although it is an old one (1st gen) and limited in what apps I can get for it I managed to find a decent enough sketching and painting one to try out called Pen and Ink by Stepping Stone Software.
A basic enough app, with layers, a good assortment of tools at your disposal including smudge sticks and a few different types of pencils, brushes and pens, it lacks the abilities of magic wands etc.
But as far as the actual painting is concerned it performs well and has enough features to do be able to create a nice enough piece.

I hadn't had a good enough chance to try it out until, on a long train journey home from holidaying, I decided to open it up and gave it my first proper go. I'm pleased that although it's not able to get the newer versions of Sketchbook or Procreate, the cheaper app I found works pretty well anyway, and that even on a moving vehicle I was able to paint something that didn't result in a childish scrawl!

Here is the painting itself, and I am sure I will post more works of travelling art in the future, until then have fun and get creative!

Latest Day Job Project

Hi!

Been a while, mainly due to being busy at work, so thought I'd at least share my latest garden design that I've just completed.
Contemporary garden design for a terrace house in North London.
Some aspects were asked for by the client, but she wasn't entirely sure what she wanted to do with the area so I got quite a bit of freedom too.

Work on my graphic novel series continues, but mostly on the writing side so not much I can post without spoilers, sorry, you'll all just have to wait!

Catch you all soon.

Click image for larger size....

Strange Inspirations

Wow it's been ages!

Just a quick post on strange inspirations and where they come from.

I have been sketching on and off lately but not anywhere near as much as I should, but today I decided to do a sketch I'd been meaning to do for a while.

A while back I was with a friend having a few drinks at a local pub when I decided after putting it off for far too long that I needed to use the toilet. I made my way through the network of tables and went into the rest rooms. I went into a cubicle and in front of me was a large marble effect wall.

As I scanned my eyes over its surface I began to see many different shapes, some started to take form of faces, bodies and a few monsters! Much alike to staring at white fluffy clouds and seeing objects and faces the marble did exactly the same thing.

I got out my phone and rather than take a selfie I snapped several areas of the wall for later reflection.

Here is the sketch that resulted from one of the areas of marble, and although far from a perfect picture it's one of the most fun I've drawn for a while.

The lesson I think I will take from this is that for all the practice at realism and learning the muscles and anatomy of the human form, which are most definitely important, you need to have fun with what you're creating or else really it's all a little bit pointless.

My aim from now on is to still keep learning, but try to relax more, loosen up my lines and style, care less about trying to draw a certain way and just enjoy what I draw.

Basically draw for drawings sake.

Have fun people.....

The Boxer

Good Eve all!

Today's post has a kind of triple reasoning behind it today.
The first is because I wanted to practice anatomy, the second has to do with style development, and the third is inking practice.
Well, the third didn't actually get done yet but it will do later on down the line (maybe) so there you go....
The second was pretty much just to further develop the style I've been drawing in of late and to try and incorporate that more and more into every image I create.
The first, well, that's kinda obvious!
I did a few full body sketches today but this was the most fun so that's what got posted.

See's ya later people, I'm off to sketch some more!