Final three promo pics for the design document and game prototype our group put together. Our game pitch called 'All Wound Up' involves our little cymbal-bashing monkey toy jumping up platforms to escape an incinerator. The primary mechanic is to charge up your jumps and time them well so you have enough power to reach the next ledge, but not spending so long to charge that the incinerator catches up with you. Or something like that anyhow. Spent so long blithering on about it in a 10 minute presentation that I think my brain's shutdown and refuses to talk about it anymore.

Now there's a second half of this project coming up. We're going to be given one of the other groups documents to fully realise and visa versa. Should be interesting to say the least! Until we get given a design doc I'm going to be catching up on some serious Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress.

Got a deadline for this uni project coming up in a couple of days, so it's the opportune time to piddle about with a blog post!

Just some concept/promo art for a Game Design Document my group and I are putting together. The game mechanics, story, look and levels have changed about a squillion times since the start, so there's not much point blithering on about that until after the hand-in. Have some toy monkeys in the meantime.

It's taken a long time (mostly because of my dithering about) but finally managed to finish this massive set of portraits! Go me? These buggers are my slightly extensive collection of cousins, plus my sibling and I at the bottom there.

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.