A First.

After having this blog for a couple of months, I'm finally getting into the notion of doing art. Which for me is great. And at long last I can show some stages to a WIP (Work in Progress). This is a simple idea of a cloud surfing courier being chased by the police and nearly losing her package.

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

I'll keep on updating on this, probably next week, as I've got work tomorrow. And next will also be a debut of a sort, meeting some other local artists, so all in all. everything is great.

Show Time!

Well I never did manage to re-encode my old show-reel but it was suggested that I upload it to YouTube. And so I did. Well here it is.

Basically it's a video of the majority of the successful motion capture shoots and data I cleaned up on Vicon iQ then in-putted into MotionBuilder.

Fools and Demons.

The past couple of weeks I was part of a local art workshop in which I helped to design a couple of banners that included drawing and painting masks. This in turn gave me some ideas for a few drawings based around masks and how demonic they can look.

Two demons based around the comedy and tragedy masks of theatre

A demonic jester

Memories.

As I stated in my last post, I struggled with scanning some old sketches that I did in blue graphite but after some time spent with the settings I managed to get some decent results. Anyhow here they are.

Chimp

Evolved Snake

Circus Bear

The Fool

 Scarecrow

Mummified but alive!

Blue and Black.

Somehow rustled up an old sketch from my days when I used blue graphite for my sketching. Most of them didn't scan in particularly well but as I had gone over this one with ink. Currently attempting to compress a video of some more of the animation I did at University, here's hoping it'll pay off in the next few days.

Dedication.

Well as all artists have an inspiration, one of my fantasy art heroes is Paul Kidby (http://www.paulkidby.net). His work has probably fuelled most of my day dreams since I saw his first book cover illustrations on various Discworld books.

Here is a sketch that bears similarities to his swamp dragons. Enjoy.

Baby Dragon

Randomness.

A random pick of some of the drawings I've done the past few weeks. So hopefully I'll be getting my creative juices flowing as I've joined a local art collective, I was also meant to go along to a creative industry meetup in Manchester but completely forgot about it but that will hopefully be on the books next month. 

Everyday elf and demon-man

Horned beings

Mermaid Sorceress

Angry Elf

Old School.

Well thought I'd share some of my past of exploits from my University days. The following video is the presentation video for my group project in my last year, essentially it was a group based dissertation to make a game engine and explorable world based on the myth of Robin Hood.

Here were some of sketches that I drew during my groups very important meetings ( ...in the pub).

Well that's all I could muster up as most of my work was lost when a hard drive decided to corrupt itself. Right will try to upload some more ideas later today.