Apathy

Red Heads

An old painting, I did this a few years ago but it still makes me smile ^^

Wishbone

Again, playing with paint. I started this picture as a digital one, but as it turned out, my graphics tablet isn't feeling so well. So I redrew it as a painting and then hopefully will come back to the speed paint version on photoshop.

It represents a lot of things, I love to draw angels not as beings of protection or holy ascent, but rather, like beasts: like a werewolf, perhaps. After all human beings are supposed to be too intelligent for their own good, and therefore corrupt - i imagine an angel to be more pure like a beast, or a child, and perhaps they suffer for it. Here, the angel's heart is literally stolen, his body ripped open by a demon/human action. It also started as a ref to one of my stories 'Canary Factory' which focuses on man's destruction and corruption and how it affects otherworlds. But I will come to that after I have finished the Morgan trilogy. :)

Pitch Work

Working lots on my pitch! I want to bulk it out as the best I can. I have to come up with a preferably two minute film, and present it up for vote. With any luck people will vote for me, and I will be able to direct next year: though the merits of being an animator for another film are also very beneficial. I shall just have to do my best and see what kind of films the majority want to see.

Here are a few preliminary sketches, though they will be more refined when I have finished the new ones. For a rough taster, its about a dog named Precious, who can see that which man cannot: this includes disease and death. However she can also see Death's true intentions - to help, not to harm the sick. She's a funny looking this, and I am hoping for something really stylized and quirky.

The Tree of Temptation

After meeting one of my favourite Artists at a local fair, Ed Org, I couldn't wait to start painting again - I love his traditional work but couldn't get my hands on paint whilst I was at home..but now I can! It's been ages since I have done traditional painting, but I love it. So I decided to something feminine like Ed Org does - and tried to depict the biblical story of Adam and Eve, as Adam is tempted by the serpent. While I don't believe poor Eve was to blame in this story, I like the idea of her and the serpent being one.

Got to keep working on anatomy in this one, I did guess a little, but it gave me a chance to think more about the arms which sometimes can be tricky.

Love is Free

Inspired by the legend of Cupid and Psyche, this is Cupid letting the butterflies free from their cage with his keys to the heart, the hearts being the locks on the cage. The butterfly of course, represents innocence and purity, and was the traditional form of Psyche.

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out as i was going for a cartoon, still frame type approach. The background was fairly simple because I turned this into my Deviant ID picture, so needed room for text.

My next picture is going to be much darker though, much more speed painted. Hopefully that will give a completely different feel.

Mega Poster!

I finally finished a remake of my mega poster! Its so huge but i was so happy to do it, and see how much ive learnt over the last two years at university in anatomy and color. It holds most of the characters from my book series, and hopefully the second book will be done soon ^^