Feature

Here is a little bit about me (and the photos I took for the Encounters Festival trailer for A Productions) in the inspiration section on the Creative Boom website. Very chuft :D

Sketch

Here is a sketch for something, but this is unrelated to how I am trying to do something and looks nothing like the something will end up looking. So as I said, here is a sketch of nothing.

A Liar's Autobiography

Here is the link to the official A Liars Autobiography trailer. The picture above shows our section style that I did with A for Animation, so you can see bit's of it through the whole trailer.

New Something

Here is a sketch of something I will be doing.... some... time.

City

When I first got some water colours last year this was going to be my first picture, then I thought hold on maybe I should learn to use water colours first. I glad I did. Maybe I shall finish this at the weekend? Maybe.

Double with Russia

I did a double with Red_Constructor from Russia. You can see the lomo wall here, And see the full pics here.
A double is when one person starts a film by underexposing a roll of film then rewinds the roll (not all the way in the canister) then posts it to someone then they load it and shoot pics so you end up with double exposed pictures.

Simplicity

First sketch of my new small Moleskine.

IF - Freeze

Cold little blighters!

Encounters Trailer

Here is a link to see this years trailer for the Encounters Short Film Festival. Paul Hill at AProductions Ltd does the trailer every year and it's normally animated in 2D (and in 3d once). But Smith and Milton came up with an image for the look and feel for this years festival.
Faced with this new challenge myself and Paul Hill went out armed with my two 35mm film cameras and a whole load of film stock donated by the lovely people at Photographique. This was in May and June so the right lighting conditions moved all the time depending on location and position to the setting sun.
As a rough idea the ideal lighting times lasted for about 30 mins to an hour but changed from 9pm till 11pm. It was also necessary to have moving traffic in each shot, so you can imagine how long we had to wait for the right conditions. It was a little hit and miss, but the end results were great. Considering the time frame this had to be done in and the varying conditions it was a bit of a tight squeeze.
Paul then took all the locations and figures shot by me and pieced together the main body of the trailer. He also had to get all the clips in from last years winning films and tie everything together and make it all work. It was all composited in After Effects.
You can see more pics (some that wasn't used in the trailer) here and a few here.

Elusive Stranger

I did this drawing 22 years ago. Scanned it in and fixed the little things that were bothering me about it. It mainly consists of song lyrics and album cover quotes. It's quite fun looking back at old art lmao.

CSA Images Design Challenge

This is my design for the CSA Images Design Challenge. Please vote for it here, for a limited time only :D

Walk Cycle

 Here is the walk cycle of the little boy in the Looshkin animation. 6 drawings. It's kinda 3/4 and fast funny. That was what I was going for. Design by Jamie Smart.

Kids Design

I was given a design that a kid did in a class of a character and drew it up. I immediately bagged this one as it was ace. You can see more about this little project here.
I based the pose and the weapons on a punisher drawing. When they are all designed the kids are going to get high rez printouts of them.

IF : Suspend

How on earth I managed to suspend all those sqwidz in formation I will never know :D

Close up of a Painting

Here is a little close up of one of my resent paintings. This was going to go to a charity auction but I did two for safety and everyone preferred the other one that I eventually sent. Well here is a close up of the unsent one, I will post it fully in a few days. I used dip pen and water colours.

Upstart Thunder

Upstart Thunder: Click "Collect Me" to help me win a New York City photo exhibition  One Life Photography Competition

Looshkin the Video

This is an image from Jamie Smart for the short which I did the animation for, you can see it here!!!
Jamie also did a lovely blog about it here. I did the animation in my spare time, it was on hold for about 6 months whilst I was doing the Chapman project at home in the evenings. Looshkin has taken so long to do as Ive been doing a bit now and then but I have loved every minute of it. Ben Mitchell finished it off lovely with the music :D

Bomber

Here is a quick snap I took of a bomber flying over head. It was very loud.

Done

Finished it! :D its about A3 size. The paper was stretched for me by the lovely Mr Sam :D

Progress

Finally started my new artwork for a charity auction. It's on stretched paper as it's going to be water colour, this took about 3 hours. Not finished the ink yet. A lot more cross hatching to do :D

Today

So this morning in the taxi the guy on finding out where I was going (a place that is in a disused quarry) he said "oh there used to be a night club there"! I said oh really! wow that's a cool place for a night club (it's basically a big hole in the ground) he says "yeah Darth Vader used to be on the door!" I was thinking wow thats a little weird to have someone in a costume on the door, bit geeky, may turn people away. He then said "yeah Dave Price was his name", I then said oh you mean David Prowse? He said yes, I then said wow that must have been ages ago (im thinking late 70's early 80's) he said "yes. There is a funny story about that you know, they were going to use his voice, you know as Darth Vader, but he spoke in such a bristol accent it sounded funny so they got this guy to do the voice, don Joans or something", I gave him a moment then said James Earl Jones? "yes thats it, good name that isnt it, got a lot of presence" (I avoided the Luke I know what your getting for Christmas joke) Then I said yeah works better than James Jones doesn't it? He agreed. We chatted then when I got to where I was going he knocked off 2 quid for traffic so I tipped him 2 quid, he was very happy.

So anyway, when I was in the waiting room I planned out my Painting I will be doing for charity, this is the start of it.... oh and my curry was rather tasteless at lunch, you are now up to date on my day as of 2pm..... The end :D

Vote For This Tee

This design has been excepted into Threadless scoring. Fingers crossed it gets picked up. Very slim chance tho so give it a hand and give it a vote, cheers xx

Spider

Finished the spider, going to enter it to Threadless, fingers crossed. ....I think I may be a little hooked lol

Vectoring

I'm vectoring! Wooo! (it is unfinished btw)

T Shirt for Sale

Hey so good news! TeeZilla decided to print my design so yayy! Get you black Robot T-Shirt from here!!

Auction

Here is a picture from the charity auction I donated to. My sculpture is on the plinth and two blue paintings on top of each other on the left of the picture.

Illustration Friday - Jump

That is going to have to be a very big jump indeed.

Illustration Friday - Heights

Here is my Illustration Friday, bit late... falling from a great height.

Film Poster

Here is a poster myself and Sam Church did for a short film. Sam did the painting, I textured it and did the layout and wording. The film will be doing the festival rounds this year.

Boo!

Here are two panels I recently found from the Boo! children's series storyboards I did many years ago.

Bristol Autism Project

I have donated 2 paintings and a sculpture to the Bristol Autism Project. Here is the info for the Show before the auction. If you want to go to the Auction then email the address given in the picture above for your invite (click picture to make it bigger).
Gillian Anderson and Rolf Harris has also donated work :D

Blart

Here is my #skwiglychallenge for today. Did it on the way home on the bus :D

Illustration Friday - Puzzled

Well he looks it I think.

Sqwids in Colour

Finished it, watercolour fun :D

New Photo

I got another roll of film developed, quite let down by it but this one was the best one by far.

Robot Sketch

Here is one of the sections that made up last years Ink Dot picture. This is how it appeared in my scetch book.

IF: Return

It's the return of the bear, a little aged this time.

Fish

More doodles. Fiiiiisssshhh!!

Sqwidz Card

Here is a card I made for a friend leaving work. He liked the sqwidz so thought it appropriate. They  dont look as nice with sad faces otherwise I would have drawn them all sad :(

Tilt Shift

Here is an old tilt shift picture of old market I did. It's adjusted so not with a real lens.