Light

Couldn't quite get it, but really feel the concept.

The yellow ocre and browns were too thick, could be remedied but I'll keep it at this and work on coloring layer. Real glad to be over my sausage finger fear.

Space Invaderish

I'm looking to go bigger at this point. Works on small canvas are ok but doubling the canvas size is pushing me to be bolder and more experimental.

Let's gooo!

B B B Birds!

Pigeons are a bunch of fun.

Sometimes pen and pad can be a little daunting, but pigeons just cut that up.

Skulls and the skeletal structure in general solidify in your minds eye, the weight and form of what looks like a fat blob with wings.

Baby Steps

My father would be horrified if he saw this. As would my baby nephew.

I've often trouble with accurately portraying famous faces onto the pad, family members no exception. 

There's hints of my father there but this being my first baby picture.. Yeesh

More Pigeons

I legit saw a pigeon land on its head like that.

Love drawing pigeons, and the single line works a great for them. 

Just some ideas but I'm liking the crowds a lot. As a simple study but also as a kind of pattern too.

Maggie Smith (?)

Finally went back and topped off the Maggie Smith piece from earlier this month. 

Some things worked, many things didn't, but it's all good. The inconsistency of dark to the left and lack of dark to the right make it look like two separate days of painting.

Balancing left to right.

Birds on the brain

Studying bird anatomy a little went a long way this month. I'm certainly no Dr. Frankenstein, but even simple knowledge of head one connected to the neck bone have made life drawing fun again.

McDonalds coffee cups aren't what they used to be..

The curvature of the vertebra - improved spacial awareness.

Make it Pop

Various angles still cause me no end of trouble, and this pose was no exception.

2014 is my "dig deeper" year, meaning accelerated output, quality and creativity. Thick black boarders are something I've rallied against, but they actually make pictures pop.

Pigeon stuff

Pigeons rock.

 
Drawing them should be easy enough but I'm still struggling.

I'll look into their anatomy a little this week to strengthen my bases.

Blobs progress

Not a huge leap so far. I'm always blown away at how long applying the layers takes! Even with a limited pallet.

I'm looking for something to plant in the foreground..

Throwback Mascot

Always great to do something around gaming. This piece for a small Tokyo based gaming community was a bunch of fun. 

ThrowBack represents the Japan Arcade scene but also a throwback in the sense of retro culture so going with the Pacman type mascot seemed right.

Brainstorming ideas was a bunch of fun - still need to get a logo to them so that'll be next.

Laura Carmichael (?)

Previously, on Downton Abbey..

I felt very rusty with pencil, pad and paints this week and so decided to just blaze on. Unlike the Maggie Smith piece, I tried for a tonally realistic base for Lady Edith's skin. 

Proportions in the eyes put the whole piece out of balance but I'll try remedying it in the second layer.

Back to Blocks

Pixels, blocks and cubes have been on the back burner way too long.

Kicked off on an a3 piece here to warm up.

Lady Edith

Maggie Smith

Last year my buddy Zan introduced Downton Abbey. I resisted. I was dreadfully wrong.

Now Maggie Smith has drolled her way into my heart and into the site!

I'd taken off a few months between my last work and this one, but a fun way to kick off the year.

And I'm back.

I was really pleased with some of the work done in 2013, but in all honesty I'd lost passion for what I was doing.

Luckily during the New Year I got to visit my hometown Rome, rekindle the fire, and rethink what of been wanting to achieve. 

Although studying design, I'd fallen much more into the business aspect and away from the creative which was kinda disastrous. Pumping out work and really not enjoying the process or growin my skills.. The amount of times I put my kneecap through pieces that weren't going my way..

So new year, new start, and where better to start than with Downton Abbey!