Monday, May 16, 2016

Waifs and Strays



Time was I was very disciplined about finishing everything I started.  It was a good way of forcing myself to work through problems.  As time has gone on I have accumulated a lot of work in different states of unfinished which sit in a work folder.  I dont know if its a good thing or not.  Of late it is typical that I will work on a few different pieces at a time so some just  get forgotten about.  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Fungi

Fungi
A switch back to traditional medium for this one. Done in gouache.  Finding it hard  to preserve areas for highlights.  Certain if I was to do it again would have tackled it a bit differently.  

Monday, May 2, 2016

Goo Gun Guy

Goo Gun Guy
A lot of the random doodles of late have ended up as characters.  Here is another one to add to the collection. About half way through I was playing around with filters and added a poster edge filter which I kept and then worked on top of.  

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Colourful landscape

Colourful landscape
Went back through some older work and  finished this one- dont think I posted it before.   Could keep refining this forever I think.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Camouflage 2

Camouflage 2 
 This one was worked up at the same time as this previous image.  The starting point is below.  Tried to keep the palette under control.  




Tuesday, April 12, 2016

After William Callow


After William Callow

Tried a study of a what looks like pen and washes.  Tall order for me in Photoshop.   Worked on it for a few hours but still lot left to refine in it.  The detail packed into the original is immense.  The house is still there  but the street scape has changed somewhat.  


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Monday, April 4, 2016

Camouflage

Camouflage


Tried out a full on illustration.  It dropped out of a photobashing exercise.  Looking at the starting point i can see I could have taken a more dramatic direction but this is where I ended up.  I think when I take this as a starting point it, rather than confining opens up more possibilities.  The battle with this was to cool the palette down which I tried to do maybe could have gone even cooler in passages.  

Big Bear Game Art

  I started creating a series of promotional art for a ficticious game.  This was to practice going through the design process.  I have foun...