Sketchbook: Autumn

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Doodled this in my sketchbook and just wanted to develop it on Photoshop. It was inspired by Arthur Rackham's Autumn Fairies. I found the illustration on my 'Celebrating Arthur Rackham' themed tin pencil case packaging, (haha) and kept it because it looked so great, (the pencils are pretty poor, no wonder I barely used them). Anyway his compositions have such beautiful harmony. Hmm, she's not really dressed for autumn, is she.

Portrait

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Did this Andy Warhol-ish illustration of Sunshee, (She's so hard to draw, used lots of references and still got it botched!) Anywho it was fun. This Blog template thingy doesn't seem to work on Windows Interent Explorer.

Peace Walker

Woot!

went along to Uniqlo Oxford Street (was hellish) to see Hideo Kojima, and the awesome Yoji Shinkawa - absolutely loved the artwork he produced for Metal Gear Solid. Everyone was getting their new copy of Peace Walker signed but I took along one of my old battered sketchbooks I worked in at Uni. They signed my animal pics! Kojima on the right and Shinkawa on the left.Kojima there with my sketchbook, oh yeah and I met Fuad there too!

Umm she ate his porridge!

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just did this sample for a client - subject: Goldilocks and the Three Bears and also a sketch to go along with it.

Ammy of Okami

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fanart inspired by the mega-ultimate-supernova of a game Okami! I've been playing it for quite a while now admiring the intertwining of myth and legend with colour and art. the PS2 is back in business ha ha.

illustration is of Ammy the sun goddess white-as-chalk wolf character along with Issun the bug thing.

Unicorn in Uniform

Just for fun,

did this mock CD cover for Unicorn in Uniform, song by Colour Me Wednesday. Check out the video here

Momma Nature

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Sheesh, this took ages. It was another excuse to draw animals. The figure in the illustration is a sort of mother nature character. Erm, can't think of any other information at the moment - my eyes have burnt away and my brain is a mush.

Sketchbook: Tiger

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I was flicking through the Metro and found a chance to draw one of my favourite animals, although the article made me sad :( below is an excerpt from the poem, The Tiger by the great William Blake.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame that fearful symmetry?

...Waiting

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Just wanted to create something vaguely Hopperesque and I wanted do some backgroundy stuff, although it does seem to be lacking character; something which has been nagging at me.

Smaug

"There he lay a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber".

-The Hobbit or There and Back Again

Sunshiney Hair

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Its warm in the day but I start complaining in the evening when it begins to get cooler and my fingers become ice-cold. Dunno why but my fingers and hands are always cold, Why?!

Anyway, started noticing the birds lately and realised how much I missed looking at those tiny sparrows, I wish there were more. They barely visit the garden anymore. At one time a couple of sparrows built a nest and laid some eggs in an old teapot we left discarded in the garden hanging on the fence...I've always wanted to look in there, I know the sparrows have long gone but it feels wrong some how, I don't know why blah.

Meow Meow!

Meow Meow?!

Nooooo, not talking about Mephedrone, I'm on about cats. Having once owned a cat, I've been left with a cat shaped dent in my brain which I need to fill every so often, so I do this by drawing them.

I once read a poem, I think in high school that I never really forgot about. There was a particular line I feel that captured the 'essence of cat':

"Cats, no less liquid than their shadows

Offer no angles to the wind."

Okay then two lines.