FOXEY

Decided I wasn't quite happy with the fox painting, so I tweaked it a little bit, added pen, better eyes, more borders.



Here's a quick painting I did yesterday because I was bored of painting backgrounds for my film (which are all done now, pics up soon!) =]

Shoop!

Meet Shoop! Like Shuck, but stupider. His name always has a "!" on the end of it, he's a "!" kind of dog. :D

The end is nigh re: film project, so I drew this. Kinda stress-relieving I guess? I like how utterly ridiculous he looks.

Doodle

I read something about vertical marathons, people who run up lots and lots of stairs must be insane.

Doggie Sketchins

All I seem to be able to draw at the moment are dogs, dogs and more dogs. Must be something to do with the fact that my film is all about... dogs :B

Aw, shucks! More backgrounds...

Yo. More backgrounds for my film, what fun! Nearly completed them all now... :)

Rising Sun, Dragon, Girl

See, I did finish it in the end! Watercolour and some acrylic for backgrounds. I think I'll reverse that in the future- seems to make more sense :D 

Painting Horses

A commission I received from a friend of my Dad's... He wanted me to paint his wife's horse for Christmas, and finally I have finished it! Pleased with how it came out- especially since I had to paint the head without the headcollar like in the reference photo!

What I love about big paintings (this is 30''x20'') is that there is room for really expressive brush strokes but at the same time you can really work in there with detail. Though I wouldn't say it's my prefered size (A3 for the win.)
and here are some details:

Moor Backgrounds and Rising Suns

Ooh, look, backgrounds for my next film! :O I'm painting 18 of them, by hand, with acrylics because they rule. They do however get severely raped by my scanner- the night sky is nowhere near as blue in real life. 

Also... Here we have a WIP of a drawing I plan to include in my portfolio:

Pen Scratching

I skipped through The Third Man today for references on long long shadows and dark nights... lots of great stuff in there! Got a bit inspired as a result... It's not bad, but I like the two characters and what may or may not happen... who is after whom I wonderrrr? :D 

Wolvesss

This year's animated film is going to be about demonic wolves/dogs. So I've been drawing lots of grr-y type things. Hopefully I'll get more film pre-production drawings up soon! = ]

The Dark Knight- wai so srs?

Gah, I heart The Dark Knight in the face. Such a good movie. So I did some big head caricature things, for teh lulz ;)

It was nice to break out the watercolours again... it's been a while!

Violette

Acrylic painting, 20x30 inches, on canvas stretched over board.

It's been so sunny it has made me all sleepy. This was for Mo's birthday. She's going to get it framed next week- exciting times! That's all from me, think I'm gonna go crash out on the sofa now. Mmm, sofa. 

Referenced from a piece by Flosaurus on deviantart  called 'deconceptualised': 

http://flosaurus.deviantart.com/art/Deconceptual-1119296

Reference pic used with permission.

2005 paintings

Some old stuff I found under my bed that I

thought was kinda interesting. First one is from a live model, I believe she was called Nikki. And the second is from a photo. I think it's nice to see the one from life has a lot more energy in it, even if it isn't finished. I'll be painting over these though to have a go at more painting this summer. So I thought I'd record them before they were whited out :3

Also just spotted another one from my DA account that was painted at around the same time. This one had no reference whatsoever (you can really tell :C)

That's all for now!

Mohawk Girl Coloured

Yay, here she is coloured in, all digital-like. Many thanks go to thedreamwolf (check her amazing art at thedreamwolf.deviantart.com) for teaching me pretty much everything about digital colourings. As a first proper go at colouring, I think this is not half bad. More to follow over the summer I guess! :D 

Drawing Walkthrough!

Ah, film deadline's passed, so now I can go back to drawing for fun again! :B

So I thought it would be fun to do a step-by-step doodah of a picture I've been working on recently. Well, actually it's a picture I drew a long time ago, but I came back to it. Yay! (This kinda sad but... she's based off of Naima from America's Next Top Model. =[ )

'Kay, so first things first, where it all begins: The sketchbook doodle!

Yar, so there's a lot of stuff going on in the picture. Her costume is a bit mental. Is it tribal, is it goth? I just don't know. The arm on the right is weird. She's got two right arms, for starters. One stumpy arm (I couldn't draw the hand) and the other arm doesn't look very nice at all. So, a few weeks and a film deadline later, I go back and change it! 

Redraw the first! 

A quick tracing over and I try to out repositioning the offending arm... and fail. And oops, she's got naked! :O

Redraw the second! 

Finally I drew the arm in a place that I liked. Wewt! This is thanks to Yusecki being my arm model. No way could I do hand perspective off the top of my head! :3 Ah, abusing housemates. So fun. 

Inking!

Aaaaand then it's inky time. I gave her a much simpler outfit and shoes I stole off of heat magazine, roffle. 

I'll try and colour this in chunks too. Might try giving her the traditional paint treatment, or when I learns, a cell-shaded look. Watch this space! (But not too closely, 'cos it takes me ages to get round to doing things.) But yar, hopefully I can end up with an image that is good enough for the new portfolio! 

Over and out! Laters. 

Can Can Cat PreProduction Designs

Development work for my 2nd year Uni film, Can Can Cat.





WIP acrylic painting:

Unfinished

An old canvas I found in my bedroom. A girl sat with a violin I painted in portrait class. I never got to finish it, and I've painted over it now.
Just thought I'd document it for old times' sake. =]

Ratatouille Doodles

I went to see Ratatouille on the 13th. It was super mega awesome. I did some doodles =]

Four

Four Paintings of Four Faces =]

I really love painting, I should do it more often.

Recordings of past Green Day obsession...

Yes, I was obsessed once. I did two pieces of Green Day artsies.



Detail:



And a more classical 'portrait':