Sharpie River

Here is a fun little landscape painting/drawing, not sure which, as it was painted in acrylic and then drawn with a sharpie... It was quick and fun and I might have to do some more in a similar vein.

I have since been told it is not a river but a yellow road... oh yeah, maybe it is!

Cubist Pen testing

Hi all,

Now, i am not really a supporter of Smiggle stationary. In the past I have found their pencils to be more wax than colour and their pens to be more filler than pigment.

Last week my daughter Charlotte, spent a whole 5 dollars at a smiggle store and got a grip of coloured ball point pens. I liked the colour range so thought i would try them out.

Here are the results. They are good colours and flow quite well...go figure.

 

I was happy with those little tests so went on to do something a little bigger.

 

Rare fun to be had with ballpoint pens!

 

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...