Painting from last night/this morning

Here's a piece I started last night in prep for for visual development for my pitch. I can' t really use it though since my pitch is set in autumn but is was good practise. I spent some time beforehand getting the drawing underneath properly structured which really helped too. I was trying to capture that dusk feeling when the sun is below the horizon yet the sky is pale and it bounces some light around.

Bird Girl Character Sketches

It's been way too long since I've posted, but here are some character sketches for the idea I'm developing for the pitch, working title 'Bird Girl.' The summary of the story is:

A boy discovers the girl that appears one morning in his garden is in fact a bird who then flies south as autumn ends.

The storyboard is slowly coming together, along with some layout concepts I'll post later. It's been the most time-consuming part of developing the idea so far. Hopefully it'll be done by mid September. I'll follow up this post with some more development notes in the next few weeks, and some posts about what influenced me and helped me develop the idea further.

Recent Drawings

Just some sketchbook stuff/life drawing.

GIFs

Couple of recent speedpaints

I did these quick paintings today and yesterday evening, no more than 1/2 an hour on each. I prefer the top one.. very 'Victorian Christmas' ..or something. Warm colours all round really, I wanna do some paintings in the morning for balance too and different lighting..but whether I can be up for then remains to be seen... I WILL TRY.

Recent Sketchbook Stuff

Oh god I've not updated for a while. I won't get in a panic, though, it's not like I've ever updated frequently. Here's some sketchbook pages, with the ring-binders and everything, warts and all. I think Christmas means more proper location drawing. I'll fix that soon, hopefully. In the next few days I'll be uploading some recent life-drawing too.

edit: I realise the image sizes are pretty big, and people sometimes complain about that, but I like it that way, you can see drawings properly. It's not as if people are still using dial-up or anything. Tell me what you think.

Light Thief Teaser

Here's a piece of concept art I did for the film I'm working on at university, working title 'The Light Thief'.

Sketchbook Days Gone By

Sketchbook days.

Pencil, Brushpen, Watercolour and trusty aqua brush.

Statues

All drawn in various galleries at the V&A, London.
Pencil, pen, watercolour and orange markers.

Happy Father's Day!

Here's my Dad, up and about, like he usually is, off on a morning walk, exploring. He'd go barefoot if he could. Bugger socks. I'll keep it short and sweet because he already knows everything I could say. I'll just say although I've not seen as much of him this year, what I've taken away with me from him I can't thank him enough for, how he's taught me. And other things like clapping my hands together when there's something to be done and discarding socks at the first chance. Have a great day Dad!

Happy Mother's Day

Here in England today it's Mother's Day, and here's what I'm giving to Mum. Don't usually paint digitally, but I managed to do this without too hating photoshop too much. The immediacy with picking colours has started to come to me too.

Anyway the most important thing with this is that she likes it, and it means something to give her a picture of home now I can't be there so much.