Some stuff...

I wasn't gonna show more work till I had done something I was PeRFeCtLy content with but that ship is never scheduled to leave the harbour so....yeah. I wanna play around with paint textures a little more...having some fun with them right now.

First up is an illustration I did for my ex Art teacher who was retiring...she is an endless source of encouragement for me and always gave me confidence when I was struggling.

  

...We also did Secret Santa at work and I got a lovely work colleague name Cristina to think about gifts for. She is a vegan and a lover of all things nature and animal related (excluding their slaughter/taste obviously!). This was a quick piece and again I was playing about with paint textures and over use of the sharpen tool!

The next few pieces were part of a hometown project I was working on over Summer, which came to a stall when I got bombarded with non art related work (because I need to eat etc. etc.!) I am however reviving it (slowly) so watch this space for more background/concept work.

...This awfully unflattering 'Gross-up' is a portrait of a dear friend (who probably doesn't like me anymore after this!), which I painted for a Zine we were working on when we had time in our lives! :D Heavily inspired by Ren and Stimpy of course... I may make some small changes but it was a lot of fun!

...And finally I was painting up some old prop designs for an idea I had based on an old Irish Myth...Less happy with the rendered stuff so will again revamp when I can...(and actually FINISH an idea through to a satisfactory outcome!)

Finito!

So much stuff to deal with over the past few weeks, so just another post of the generic stuff. Sketches I made at Annecy Film and Animation Festival 2013 and some other doodley design bits.

Why? - Berkeley By Hearseback

Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Ego

Loch Lomond - Wax and Wire

Small Update

Had a small chance to keep to myself this Easter break, which is nice (I normally have to work at a dank and horrible amusement arcade continuously!) So I've been keeping up with a bit of Uni Work as well as spending some time in museums doodling some dead animals! Also been doodling like crazy whilst watching films I've been meaning to catch up on, like 'road to perdition' (awesome), 'dancer in the dark', 'garden state', 'the importance of being earnest', 'good will hunting' and errrmmm 'the devil wears prada'. All the classics.

Dead animals stay still so much longer it's great.

Been drawing basically anything and everything, just for practice. Also, been enjoying fineliners and brush pens a lot recently...

AND cannot stop doodling in this beautiful Chinese notepad, bought for me as a souvenir by a beautiful friend, Amy Elsam (links to the right, check her out she has awesomeee stuff!>>>) And you can't help but admire this Engrish...

HEY, LIStEN! (annoying Navi voice)...

thomas newman 'road to perdition'

the shins 'caring is creepy'

deerhoof 'super duper rescue heads'

Shello

I have been sorting this blog out a bit... Some links to me Portfolio and other things above ^ Have a lewk if you are interested, if not... do not look ;)

Vespa Model!

I had to create a model for Blitz games studios as an application for one of their open days...the brief was either a model of a character, vehicle or environment so I decided to have a crack at modelling a Vespa Scooter! (It's the closest I will get to owning one, most likely!) So here it is. the deadline was today so I couldn't add more but I may well do this later sometime :) Most of the textures and materials I used were Mental Ray ones plus a couple of rusty and tarry textures I downloaded free courtesy of http://www.creativecrash.com/. I really owe any aesthetics to the materials and textures! 

I created the glass by using a thick glass mia material and adding a bump map to it to give it the streaked appearance, and accented this by adding a chrome mia material to the reverse side. It needed more tweaking but I am new to bump mapping in general so it was a nice surprise when I got this unexpected result almost by accident!

ShizZzzZz...

All I have really done over Christmas is doodle faces and watch Avatar: the last airbender, as well as eat my weight in turkey and mince pies. No regrets. I don't know how much film work I can post...so I wont post any andddd you can make the assumption that it's so, so good.

Couple o'Lifies

So out of practice it's 'actually hilarious' <quote. Made two I liked mind! thank 'heysoose christy' for free life drawing.. for one more year.