P.Macca in NYC 1964

I like doing this sort of portrait using a whole bunch of technical brushes and printing textures.

Beatle Macca in NYC 1964

New sketchvideo up on UX Mastery. #8 - Personas

The latest UX Mastery video (#8) is up with my hand drawing all the pictures. It is all about making Personas.

I am going to put each one of these up on this blog and maybe a facebook link from here on in to let people see what I have been spending my time doing recently.

UX Mastery page

3D type

Here is a type thing that was put together in Zbrush. Definitely want to do more type stuff in Zbrush.
I was thinking this looks a bit like it could be some kind of Arabic or Yiddish or something...

3D Text

Back on the Blog

Hi everyone....anyone?

Sorry, it has been a while since my last blog post. I am trying to get more artwork up here on a more regular basis. I have been really busy doing whiteboard animation work. I'm thinking about a whole new website, this one is about 5 years old and getting a bit stale.

Anyway I am going to kick it off with a few repeating patterns I have been getting into.

Layered Landscape

Here is another in the layered landscape theme. I was trying to get it as bright and saturated as possible but still easy to read...

5 levels of complication

 I have been doing some more work on repeating patterns and tonal tiles. This tile has 5 levels of tone and can be put together to make pretty interesting patterns.

Here I took a tiny photo of guitarist Keith Richards and reworked in into a big tonal portrait. It would be great to make this as a giant wall mural using octagonal tiles. I am making a few more portraits to get the procedure more streamlined.

Scraps

I am really fascinated by making these sort of shapes. I think I first saw something like this done by Saul Steinberg from back in the 50's.

It is a sort of abstract construction, random shapes that looks like something solid but don't really add up to anything specific... I call them Scraps. Anyway, I had fun shading and colouring it and thought I should do more of these, maybe even try and make a little sculpture or some repeating patterns.

Big Roo Road

Here are a couple of sneak peeks at what may be the biggest, most detailed drawing i have done for years. I worked on it on weekends over summer.

The big Roo Road is all about details, everything is in focus like a pattern and it is also a bit narrative with a single character moving through the landscape. I haven't quite finished it but here are some details...

Queen Purpuss digital book cover

Here is a book cover I painted over the summer for Author Robert Lawsons digital  fantasy novel - The short reign of Queen Purpuss the 40th. It was fun getting all the cat fur painted in.

Geometric man

Hello, I've been a bit busy chasing work to post lately but have been doing all sorts of artwork. Hopefully I can get some of it up in the next little while...

Colour and thick outlines