Happy Eastarrrrr

I felt like hand drawing something today.
With tomorrow being Good Friday, I decided to Piratise  (new word) the Easter Bunny. Makes sense right? Well perhaps it doesn't, but at least it makes for an interesting variation from the norm!

I am positively  **EXPLODING** with excitement at the thought of returning to college after the Easter bank holiday cluster. Why you ask? FLASH!!! Nope, not Gordon, and not getting naked, but the animation software! I've been wanting to learn how to use it since forever, and that is just what I will be doing as from April!

Anyway, I'm off to have some holiday now! See you all again very soon! Being the social superstar that I am, I will be taking my laptop with me!

TTFN!

Familiar Face

Police medic: (to dazed criminal) "What was the last thing you remember seeing?"

I drew Batman!

Not really much more to say, I've always been a fan of the Bat, definitely my fave of all the comic book heroes! He's appeared so many times, in so many different styles! And I enjoyed pretty much everything I've ever read or seen with the famous Dark Knight (yes that also includes the Adam West series!!!)

Obviously I have to tell you that I do not have the rights to the character, this is purely a piece of fan art and I'm not going to try and make any money off it etc etc!

In any case, hope you like it! It was a very quick sketch and an interesting experiment with lighting and shading techniques.

Rear Window

Well it took me a little longer than I would have liked, but here it is, as I promised. A more colourful and some might say atmospherically lighter doodle (than the previous few).

It is a slightly modified version of the view from my office (dining room table if I'm being totally honest). You can't quite capture the depth of the real view by drawing it with 2d vectors and flat colours, but I didn't want to create a photographic reproduction. After all if that were the case I'd have taken a photo!

I was going to add more detail but felt that I didn't want to saturate the picture with too many features. For me this was an exercise in depth, layering and scale. There is very little going on in the way of perspective, I'll save that for another day!

Giant Worm!!!

Well folks it is going to be another eventful few weeks!
I've got tonnes to do and no time to get it done, (but that doesn't mean it can't be fun).

After posting up the Butterflies at Sunset image a few days back I felt the need to experiment a little bit more with silhouette styling, and brushing techniques. I came up with something a lot darker, but not without its charm! (Weird bug-like hairy charm).

Next time I'll probably create something with a little bit more colour, but for now, please enjoy the dark worm in all his toothy glory!

Butterfly Sunset

Good day to you all!

Today's artwork was entirely inspired by the beautiful weather which has been warming up the UK (albeit by one or two degrees C) for the past few days.

I love summer evenings, the grassy scent in the air, the occasional waft of a BBQ cooking bangers, the late nights, and the warmth. I can tell you all that attempting to spend an evening outside after a sunny winter Yorkshire day, definitely does not reflect these feelings, but it did make me yearn for them!

So it took me a while to put this image together, it is one my most complex Photoshop creations to date using no less than 36 layers, but I feel it was truly worth the effort! Experimentation with blur effects and various brush techniques have paid off, and I really love looking at this picture. Makes me feel very relaxed indeed!

I hope that you all have superb weekends! I've got a lot of web designing to crack on with, so it's going to be a busy (but productive) one I feel!