Recently completed this one… Still playing with the watercolours and getting a little more confidence together slowly…
Category Archives: narnia
NEW WEBSITE AT LAST!!!
So, at last I have a new website. I’ve spent the last few days on this and not much else, I’ve been wanting something a little more managable for quite a while and took time out of what I was doing to (finally) make sure I represented myself and my art properly. Here’s the link:
Feel free to let me know what you think….
Puddleglum….
I drew Puddleglum a number of years ago and thought I’d have another go, he’s such a melancholy old bugger and his features make for fun drawing….
Lions on Hilltops….
I adore the Narnia books, they rank up there as my favourite books of all time. I’ve read them many times over the years and will probably continue to do so. here’s a doodle from before Christmas 2010…
Wardrobe…
This image is an old one. I’ve spent a little while tidying it up this morning as I’ve always rather liked it, not quite sure if it’s finished yet, but here it is as it stands…
Tumnus…quick TV sketch…
Sketching after a hard day’s work….
Old work, recently inked…
Before I start my day at the drawing board, I generally do something to warm up. It may be drawing something completely new, reworking something I’ve done previously that I may not be entirely happy with or inking up old sketches. Here are a couple of older images from my sketchbooks that have been inked over the past few days….
‘Granny’s Magic Slippers’- originally drawn a couple of years ago….
‘Broom Cupboard’- a reworking of an old drawing from a couple of years ago…
‘Paint Like Arthur Rackham’- Commission for The Official Corel Painter Magazine. This image was discarded in favour of a simpler image. It was drawn on paper, scanned in, then inked and painted using Corel PainterX. I’ve already posted the line art for this in an earlier post…
More whispy forest maidens….
I’ve just finished this TV drawing. I have to say that the inking is my favourite part, call me weird, but I absolutely adore scribbling over the faint graphite drawing with the pen- very satisfying indeed.
So… the photo shoot went really well. the photographer was a very interesting lady, plenty of fresh insights about life and things and I found the 2 1/2 hours just flew by. I didn’t even really mind having my picture taken, which is kind of a first for me. It did help that whatever flash she was using didn’t blind me in the process.
Workwise, things are looking good. Coming to the end of the book I’m working on, just one illustration to go and a cover then I’ll go through and tighten up a few patchy areas throughout the other illustrations then it’s done. I received another book commission through yesterday, so along with the other couple of things I have on the go, I’ve got me quite a nice little pile of illustrations to be working through over the next few months. My horscope yesterday said something along the lines of: “Be prepared for a very busy period ahead…” Seems they were right. Ten deep breaths, now focus Mr. Pocock….
Father’s Day….
What a fantastic day it’s been so far. I was quite suddenly woken up at 7 Am by my eldest son Niall…”Happy Father’s Day!!!” he exclaimed. Rubbing the sand from my eyes and bidding the wonderful dream I was in the middle of goodbye, I looked up to see my beautiful wife holding my youngest son Finn and Niall with an armful of gifts, and of course, the toys he can never put down they all jumped on the bed and I opened my gifts.
It’s Father’s Day here in Australia today. It’s been a pretty emotional journey through the day so far as I count my (many) blessings and gaze on at my boys with absolute love in my heart. I became a Dad at the age of 36, later in life for many, I just know I wouldn’t have been ready for such a role any earlier I also feel as though I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m about as happy as I’ll ever be and the overwhelming sense of pride and the surreal honesty of looking on at my sons as they play is almost more than I can bear at times. the tears aren’t far from the surface today
UPDATE…… Just gotten back from lunch at the local cafe and went to the park with the boys. Finn took his first step today!!! Also, his first tooth has come through…. Very exciting. 
My Dad, my sons Finn (left) and Niall (right) and I on Dad’s trip over from the UK a couple of months ago….
Niall (2 1/2 yrs old)
Finn (10 months old)
The boys and I at the park today… Can you tell I’m not a big fan of having my photo taken?
I did some work for a client yesterday, I had to produce a dragon silhouette for a company’s logo. It was a great job and I came up with a fair few designs I rather liked. A few of them were far too elaborate for a company logo though, this is one of them….
Gone Fishing…..
‘Gone Fishin’ Line art, Digital.
I’m giving myself the day off today. It’s official- I’ve gorn fishing, I needs me rest.
Black and white art….
I’m currently putting a booklet together for (potential) publishers showcasing some of my line art. here’s the cover. If anyone’s interested in purchasing one, let me know via my email address:
aaronpocock.yahoo.com.au
Narnia….
Here’s a recently inked older drawing of everyone’s favourite melancholy Marsh Wiggle. Puddleglum’s such a great character isn’t he. (Graphite drawing inked in Corel painterX)
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a trend with the movie adaptations of great books….. It always seems to be about the fights, and the battles and the wars and things. The subtleties of the story rarely come across, or isn’t paid enough attention to. It bothers me that with so many violent movies around, they have to balls up timeless classic like the Narnia stories, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (almost) suffered the same fate. Thankfully , Peter Jackson was fairly sensitive to Tolkien’s poetic side…. Eragon, now that I’ve been privy to the actual story itself , to me, was a complete waste of space. I remember eagerly awaiting the movie, only to feel VERY let down when I saw it. Wouldn’t it be great to see these fantastic stories treated decently, with a lot more focus upon the characterisation? (… I am very aware that it’s hard to distill the essence of a thousand page story into a one-and-a-half hour movie… But if it is actually nigh-on impossible-why even bother?).
I’d LOOOOOVE to illustrate The Narnia Chronicles. After all these years, I still think they’re the best children’s books I’ve ever read. They hold the same sense of wonder for me now that they did when I was a youngster.
Here’s the original sketch I drew a while back….
