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….
I recently completed cover art and interior silhouettes for a publisher in the UK called Wyvern Publications, the story’s about a ytoung boy who finds out he’s got werewolf blood (shudder). It’s a lovely little book and I was very happy to receive my copies in the mail today, here’s a link to the publisher’s site:
cover art:
here’re a couple of interior illustrations….
Haven’t done a silhouette for a while, and as it’s nearing Halloween, I thought I’d doodle this….
This is based on the drawing demo I put up on youtube earlier today (see previous post)…
It’s been a little while since I last updated it, but I’ve redesigned my website and am fairly happy with it (for now). Here’s the link:
I’ve been busy on a few things as usual, a children’s picture book, a commissioned oil painting and a couple of personal projects on the go. here’s a little silhouette from one of my personal thingies…
A new drawing for a book I’ll be spending more time on next year. I’m working in silhouettes for the book, which pleases me no end, it’s always a challenge to convey emotion in an image without the usual amount of detail.
Got no time to draw up any new sketches for the halloween festivities, but here’re a few from the PC archives, sorry if you’ve seen them before anywhere…. have a great one everybody!
“How would you like it if somebody stuck a pole up YOUR butt?”
It’s Monday morning and I’m still removing the sand from my eyes. I have a whole heap of stuff to do today so I’ll be busily working away all day, so no warm-ups or anything this morning. Instead, here are a few sketches I worked on earlier this year…
and here’s another new one from the book I’m currently illustrating- line art (pending coloured work)…
I’m very busy with family stuff this weekend, but managed to slip out to catch my breath. Here’s a recent sketch I did on the PC…
A couple more coloured images from the book I’m working on. See yesterday’s post for another image from the same book.
Here’s the drawing before the colour was added….
Here’ s the coloured version…
another line art drawing before colour was added…
Here’s the coloured version….
This has been a very refreshing job so far. It’s great to work on something so simplistic for a change. all images were drawn traditionally with pen and ink and coloured in Photoshop and PainterX
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…
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….
‘Gone Fishin’ Line art, Digital.
I’m giving myself the day off today. It’s official- I’ve gorn fishing, I needs me rest.
