It'll never last...

Three days, three blog posts. I seem to go through spurts of uploading loads of stuff all at once then having nothing for months. I think at the moment it's primarily a procrastination thing. I've got a dissertation to write, commissions to work on, storyboards I said I'd draft about for our 4th year film. Lots of daunting things basically, so instead I busy myself colouring doodles or, in this case, a postcard idea for D-con that didn't quite make it.

Interestingly, while I was trying to fettle some settings to make the picture less dark I accidentally inverted my shadow layer which, with the tiniest amount of tweaking, yielded this.

I quite like how it looks like there's two light sources now, one electric and one natural. I just wish I could take credit for it...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Nanny!

Had a meeting with the rest of my team and ended up watching whatever Jo Frost's latest program is called while we had some dinner. For some reason one of the idents before the advert break had a toy helicopter in it and some how we came to the conclusion that this must therefor be Jo Frost's' method of transport.

So I drew this...

Sketch dumps

What follows is a collection of pencil farts plucked fresh from my sketch book. Actually some aren't very fresh at all, some are weeks old... You've got the day I decided to draw dragons, some messing around with ideas on drawing faces (mostly plagiarised), some observational drawing, some people I saw around Dundee and Edinburgh drawn from memory later, a couple of passing in-jokes now immortalised and a smidgen of Phoenix Wright fan art. Hope it makes up for ridiculous hiatus.

Dr Who-Now?

This is a commission Piece for a friend who asked me to draw a picture of her mum with the tenth Doctor for her birthday. I need to work on my caricatures I think, had a bit of a struggle with this one.

Disserstractions

I thought this was funny when I started drawing it, but I think that writing my dissertation for pretty much twelve hours straight has addled my brain.

Open the door, Get on the floor, Everybody lay the Smack Down

This is a painting I did for my friend Ryan for his birthday, acrylic on canvas. I actually started it last year for his 21st but ran out of time. Then when I came back to it this year I discovered that I only had about 4 hours of work left to do on it. Gutted.

Doesn't matter anyway, Ryan seemed to like it and I know a few folks in the studio were interested in seeing the final product, so here it is. The wrestler is supposed to be Ryan himself. The dinosaur is no-one I know personally.

Something that... isn't... uni work...?

Apparently I'm still occasionally capable of drawing things just for the sake of drawing them. It's very liberating and I really wish I did it more often, but usually it makes me feel guilty...

Rachel's been preparing work for her portfolio over the past week or two and today she decided to do some painting. She had a nice reference picture she'd found on the internet of a girl sitting in an autumnal forest and since I was sitting next to her (Rachel, not the girl in the forest) I found myself sketching the girl's face. It turned into me trying to work the copic markers and this is the final result. I've tweaked it in Photoshop slightly because I think when I scanned it the colours came out kinda faded, but then again it might just be my laptop screen. Let me know if it's too bright, or any other criticisms really. Really need to improve.

Also need to update this blog more often...