Amphibian friend - three

Amphibian friend - two

Amphibian friend - one

Recent sightings have got me back sketching frogs and toads. A few weeks break have left me a little out of practice . . perfect!

Jon Jones - draft

Girl portrait 3 - draft

Pepper one

Paints up next.

Portrait two

Paints up next.

Blocks two

More roughs coming up soon.

Sekaido - draft deadline

And just like that, you've got to know when to put down the pencils and pick up the paints. Far from perfect but it's solid enough at this point to work over.

The perspective is a little off but a deadline is a deadline.

And then this.

Half cat, half .. half. I'd seen a few ideas recently that is been looking to replicate.. None of which have come out on top but the drip effect is something I need to pursue. 

Honoring to apply a dripping effect to the Sekaido piece if time permits.

Slicing and Dicing

Settled on a theme, time to get pencil to pad.

After a bit of experimenting with grids, dabbled with the sliding pixels.

Cubes add depth to the work - previous attempts pixelating visuals into 2d didn't work out. 

Maybe it's getting a little muddled, but dripping and drooling is gonna add to that floating effect.

Sketching

Haven't had much time recently to get paints down but managed a quick sketch for later.

Tones

Wanted to go as rough as possible for this piece. 

The parts that give description to the features always get my attention - in this case the hair.

Once the appealing parts are covered I generally blaze through the rest leaving a bit of a monstrosity.

11pm

It's 11 at night but had to get this piece down.

Moving from geometric shapes to the human form - it's easy to get locked down into a phase but I'm hoping the next piece will bridge the two.

Sketch came out ok so that's always a good omen.

Mel Blanc - Deadline

Wrinkles

Sekkaido - Final Sketch

The previous sketch seemed a little too simple, so decided to build more layers and textures.

Also insects are going to break up the colours a little, as will the sleeping women.

 Composition was tough, but once the sketch is there, it's a huge weight of my shoulder. 

Pixels!

I've had pixels on the brain the past few weeks.

Not too bad for a first try, squares themselves don't lend themselves to interesting textures, but I've got a few ideas in mind for the next piece.   

Speed Acrylics

Not happy with the actual result, but the main thing is to learn and take forward. originally I was thinking the composition with the sketch wasn't too bad.

Looking back, the eyes could've been better. Symmetry is once again the monkey in my soup.

Jigsaw Concepts

Mocking up some ideas for the childrens book.

The story is about 60% complete.

Cherry Pop probably won't make the cut.

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake has been eating so much of my time recently. It's pretty fantastic.