I like doing really fast sketches on... well, pretty much anything. Here's a quick scribble that started out as a blob and grew into an angry looking monster.
I've been working on a flash game recently, doing some background artwork and other aspects to go in the game. Here's the latest addition: a bookshop carved into a mushroom. I quite like the simple bright colours on this one:
I used to keep a lot of toads as pets and they're pretty interesting creatures. There's a very famous one from children's literature. Here's my drawing of a toad, coloured in photoshop.
Here's a painting I made in photoshop. I decided to try drawing straight into the package, without doing the drawing on paper first (which is how I usually work). I came up with the idea after doing a really random bit of scribbling:
And then I worked up the rough drawing in photoshop. Photoshop is a great tool for artists. It lets you add in colours super fast and of course it's cheap (once you've bought the software) as you don't need any paper or to buy paint and other materials.
It's a good job he's a friendly crab. And I'm pleased they don't get that large in real life.
Here's a drawing I made for one of my illustrations for the Uggy is Green book. I found it while clearing out some papers the other day and thought I'd post it here as it makes a nice pencil drawing. It took a bit of getting right as it was a challenge to make him look excited, and not just happy.
I'm currently working on two jigsaws for a client that feature a teddy bear character.
Although I was given a teddy to use, there were still a few things to work out with the design of the bear. Here's some of a stack of sketches I made while trying to get the look right.
Drawing teddy bears is a lot of fun. It's basically a ball for the head and a smaller one for the mouth area. Then another ball for the body. But, as you can see from these two, there's a lot of scope for altering their appearance.
This is really cool. I recently had to draw a baby's head and needed to brush up on my drawing skills for infants. Drawing children can be a real challenge as their proportions are very different to an adults. And the slightest alteration can make a real pig's ear of your drawing.
Anyway, there's a great little video tutorial on Youtube that shows you how to get the proportions just right in a child / baby's face.
Meet Baby Buddha. A character I've been designing for a client recently. Although this fellow was eventually superseded by a far more cartoony version, I thought I'd post him here as I think he looks too cute to be confined to my sketchbook for eternity.
Here's a super rough sketch I made just for the fun of it. It's a couple of rats in the library, possibly stealing books. I drew the image from my imagination but looking at it now, it's very reminiscent of one of the scenes from Ratitoulle. - a brilliant movie if you haven't seen it yet!
The image was drawn in pencil on paper. Although my finished artwork is coloured using the graphics tablet, I find it much easier to do the drawing part the old fashioned way. I just can't get the hand-eye co-ordination, no matter how I try. But it's nice to get away from the PC anyway and draw traditionally.
