Decided to cobble together a new Steam-sized avatar for myself the other day and, well, I got a little carried away. Not ragingly arty of me I know, but it can't be a bad thing to play around with layers, effects and textures.

Recently finished this for the pin-up contest over at ReMIND, a beautifully drawn and written comic which I've been following for a while. Hopefully I've done it justice! Link to the comic below, do check it out if you get the chance.

Thought I would share some naked chaps from life drawing at uni. These are a good few months old now but I'm still rather pleased with them (and that's saying something, being the raging art perfectionist/egomaniac that I am), if only because the experience of drawing the wobbly bits on nudes has been incredibly helpful in anatomy/form the usual gubbins.




All done in oil pastel on roughly A2 around.. march-ish time.

I really wish I had the chance to take life drawing classes sooner, my first year at uni being the first time I'd ever done it. Having a teacher on top of it all to push and poke me in the right direction was a massive help as well. 'Twas a nice gradual build-up over the months to the point where I could sit for a good few hours non-stop, concentrate on one picture and not feel the constant urge to wander off and put the kettle on.

'Sbeen a while so figured I ought to post something-or-other on here. I'm doing brilliantly at this blogging lark aren't I? Oh well, I'll get there in the end I'm sure.

Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuun some sunflowers (and a wee bee, who knew!!). Painting on kitchen tiles is certainly a new experience... so are the sunflowers for that matter. Took a while but I think I did an alright job; certainly my 'clients' upon viewing didn't demand I immediately expunge it from the tiles and beg for forgiveness for my hideously rendered flora.

I'd get a close-up of the bee but sadly with my non-existant camera skills I wasn't able to get a photo that wasn't blurred to buggery. Suppose we'll just have to admire it from a distance.

Something I've been meaning to focus on more lately is digital art, which I just seem to keep putting off. The times I have gotten around to doing something I've been too afraid to get past 'draw outline, fill it in, cell shade'.


Welp obviously I have kicked my own arse enough to cobble this together! Was nice to do something original with one of my own characters for once. Curse you teeny tiny expresso coffee!!



Bullied Frodey into a round of iScribble yesterday evening, whose infinitely better picture is on the left hand side. GUNS and MOTORBIKES hoarghhh I feel manly. I'd link to Frodey's blog but... what is this? The horrendously talented bugger doesn't have one?! This is not a thinly veiled hint thrown in Frodey's direction at all, no siree.

Aaaaand lastly another round of iScribble with another talented bugger Jamie! The axe, no-spy sign, Engie-chu and "That dispenser is a SPAH" belong to him.

This blog is distinctly lacking bloginess at this moment. Can't believe it's almost been a month since my last update. Still, this here entry is proof that I am unf, so very into this blog as I haven't screamed about how old the previous entires are and destroyed the entire thing.

Haven't got a lot to say? Couple of commissions, me cousins and an a3 poster thing which can be summed up in "ARGH, MY HAND, THE UNHOLY AGONY OF IT ALL". Still, it was fun to do, and karma charger just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

'Sall for now, hopefully next time I'll have something insightful and mind-blowing to say next time in amongst my offerings of artery!

Running around after toddlery chiddlers for the best part of a week is incredibly knackering, not entirely sure how parents manage it! So sadly I haven't had much time or energy for drawing; or to draw anything original anyhow. Maybe I'm just getting old. Have some sketchings from LIFE.

Kew Gardens has some incredible plants, trees and foliage doofiggery to draw, but I got distracted by the animal life in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. Huge moth there called the Atlas Moth. The one I sketched hadn't been out of it's crysalis long and was still drying off.

There was a water dragon mincing around one of the pools who kept leaping away and swimming to the other side of the pool once I started getting somewhere with a sketch. Good practise for trying to get a form down quickly I guess, but still frustrating. Cheeky blighter knew it too.