Kidzilla!

Ok so long long time no post.
No excuses, just a new piece. It is the fourth in the monster series, though I can see that I never posted the first three here! Will get onto that :) for now enjoy KIDZILLA! RAAAAAARGH!

Uber-tank-alicious

Hey guys,
Just a wee painting I did yesterday while the Mrs was away. Free cookie to the first person that can name the illustrator I was thinking of when I did this ;)
Also can you guess what my process was on this one? I'm intruiged if the effort was worth it...

Robot Speedpaint

Hey guys. Another wee update, the ressurection of my blog continues!
Here is a wee speedpaint I finished off today. Did it over a couple of days - but wasn't a long time at all. Actually pretty stoked with it. Not long ago I couldn't draw boo out of my imagination, and although this is pretty cliche'd and goofy, it came out easy. All that practise must be paying off!
Might work some more into it later in the week. Or just draw something new :P

Inspired by THIS pic a friend painted... Click to see.

Watercolour Sketches

Bought myself a wee watercolour travel kit just before xmas. These are the first experiments with it. A good way to keep the practise up, but still get some sun, and some rest for the eyes away from the screen. These will just keep coming. Slowly but surely. Until I have hundreds, THOUSANDS!

Piggy Pencil

Ref study for another pic.

Nouveau girl

Long time absent. So long its past excuses! Here's a line drawing I really enjoyed doing. Bit of Mucha influence. Reminds me of Josh Middleton too - if I could be so bold. Reference was a cheesy shot for a Farmers catalogue. Might paint it up. Get back in the groove. Y'know.
Peace

Life Drawings

Life drawings from tuesday night. My gesture is getting better. And I think I captured her volume reasonably well...

Speed Study

Another speed from a TV still - this one from Heroes. I seem to be watching a bit of TV lately.... Weird, cos I never used to - and I still never turn the TV on, its just these high budget shows like Deadwood etc you can get out on DVD or download. Its pretty cool, and also kinda a worry... lotta time goes into watching these things...

Speedpaint and Studies

Some speedpaint concepts Ive done using the Barontieri brushes, and a tutorial by Vyle.
Interesting way to work.
Very inspiring and definately helps through the generation of abstract shapes.







A speedpainting I did of Wild Bill from 'Deadwood'. About 20mins:

Life drawings and Imagination scribbling.

Here's the first imagination drawing I've done in a very long time:
It was quick and painless and even though the anatomy is screwey, I'm really pleased with it :) so there :P




Here's some life drawing and Loomis studies.
Got the Loomis back out after sitting next to Paul Tobin in the life drawing class.

Maui Tames Te Ra - Process pics

Ok another catch up post.
This was my entry for the "God's At War" thunderdome on Conceptart.Org
Here was the final:




Here's a couple of process sketches, first up the image at the end of round one (the halfway point?)
And lastly the very first initial sketch that I did :)

TV Study and imagination drawing

More updates, keeping pace with my CA sketchbook, so this is a bit of a catchup (again)...




This was a portrait of 'Nate' from Six Feet Under. Not a great likeness but I learnt a fair bit about tone from this particular study :)



This one was an imagination drawing, based off custom brushes with no aim. I just let it evolve. Inspired by Andrew Jones and my time in Sydney

Pencils!

Another dump, getting this puppy up to speed :)

Faces and tonal studies

Bit of a dump to catch up the sketchbook, since I'm gonna link it up to my website soon :) These are not that new tho - a little bit older, but got missed from the blog.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait - I did this puppy last night before bed. Took less than an hour. Tried to get a sence of our little studio at the flat, even if only vaguely :)