Young Bigby

Happy New Year!

I've been playing about in Manga Studio today, trying to get use to the layout and the feel of it, had this pencil sketch of a young Bigby from Vertigo's Fables lying about so thought I'd put it to some good use.

The final image is digital ink over the original sketch, I liked the way it looked so left the rough pencil underneath to add some texture, after that it's taken into Photoshop to have some greys added too.
I really want a Cintiq of some sort, drawing on a graphics tablet is just to disconnected. I know you do get use to it the more you use one, but being able to draw straight onto the screen would be a wonder! Anyhow, for now practice is needed...

Catch you all soon!

Fun with Photography and Photoshop on a Friday

Happy Punch in the Face for Sport Day!

Just a very quick post, and the title is self explanatory really, I'm off to wake up, read some Hellboy and drink Coffee, there's a days food and drink to be had and I need to be prepared!

Catch you all soon!

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!

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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.

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