At long last, after lots and lots of hard work to make it happen, the new tutorial DVD ‘The Wild Girl’ is available. Full of hints and tips and an insight into what it takes to make a fantasy painting in acrylics happen. The DVD is approximately 1hr 40 mins long and is available from:
pocockillustration@gmail.com
email me if you need any more info, here’s the trailer…
I’ve gone all ‘proggy’ and moody with this latest tune. I’ve been doing a little soul-searching lately and have come out the other end a much more well-rounded and happier person, you know, if people could actually program the deep meaning of words such as ‘gratitude’, things would be a whole lot easier (for me anyway). So, to cut a long story short, I’m so wonderfully grateful for my life, my gifts and the people I’ve been blessed to share this latest version of my story with. hope you enjoy the music.
…We may not be blessed with physical wings, but when we cut out the noise and breathe, we CAN fly. Hope you like the music…
My latest video demonstrating some wonderful brushes I received last week from the talented David Jackson- ‘The Brushman’. David makes custom brushes for many applications and his watercolour brushes are brilliant. David can be contacted at:
Sorry about the lack of arty posts recently, I’ve been very busy with commissions and dealing with personal stuff, thankfully things are getting back on track.
I my have mentioned it before, but aside from my art, I’m also a guitarist. I used to gig regularly with blues/rock/folk bands and every now and again I’ll spend some time in the studio recording. We recorded this one last year sometime. It’s for the incredible Lloyd Sandersons album ‘Left Phase Blue’. The songs were all written by my songwriting partner Peter FitzGerald and myself. feel free to have a listen…
…And here’s a painting of my old Gibson acoustic (just because)
I don’t know why, but I had the overwhelming urge to put a ‘dance’ tune together, hopefully managing to put a little of my own spin on it…
New music, very much in a ‘world music’ style. My (musical) reaction to events currently taking place in the world…
A couple of quick drawings from yesterday…
Here’s what I did with the lion drawing….
Here are a couple more tracks I’ve been working on lately…
Recent youtube demo. I’ve been asked often how I go about painting in photoshop and how I make the art look as though it was painted traditionally. This one addresses those questions, feel free to have a look and shoot me any questions you may have…
Anyone for a belly dance?
I’ve been a musician for nearly 25 years now and have had many a great time playing with bands and goofing around in recording studios, nothing beats the thrill of playing live but I’m a 40-something, married father of two young boys and have to confine my musical escapades to sneaky musical doodles on various bits and pieces of software, (until I’m a 50-something old fart who yearns to bring back the good times from his youth by playing in one of those dodgy ‘tribute’ bands or a blues band or something….) nevertheless, it exorcises the music-demons in me and I get to share it with the world on youtube- YAY for youtube… Here’s my latest musical effort, it’s kind of a Gothic/New-Agey/Mike Oldfieldy/Instrumental of sorts…
Here’s a youtube demo I put together re: the inking of this cheeky little chappie…
Been having a play with the video camera today and, as I’ve been asked often about my inking process I thought I’d put one or two inking demos together. This birdie was was doodled for that purpose, I’ll be putting the video up on youtube in a day or two, but here’s how he looked when I’d finished, I definately tipped my hat in Arthur Rackham’s direction for this (and make absolutely no apologies for it)… Happy weekend everyone!
new demo video from my youtube channel…
New youtube demo painting the recent sketch (see older post below)…
I don’t talk about my musical side very often as this is basically my art and illustration blog, but as it’s for the preview of my new book I thought I’d mention that I’ve recorded a new tune to go along with a few interior pages of ‘Journey Into Faerie’ written by Sally Odgers and Illustrated by me… here it is:
Part FIVE of my latest painting demo:
part FOUR of my latest youtube demo, ‘painting a mermaid in acrylic on canvas’:
I’ve just started working on a canvas here… We had a storm overhead for a while and I needed to do something that didn’t involve working on the computer so I painted this and recorded it as I went, I’ll add more as I go…
here’s part one:
And part two:
I thought I’d splash some colour over the old witch (see last post). here’s the youtube video:
I’ve had the sudden urge to scribble down a video or two tonight… here’s one I just added to youtube:
