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 ^^

Back from China!

Wow, a long and difficult, but beneficial trip to China! I had the great fortune of working in an animation studio as an intern for a month, the Glory n Dream studio, and was asked to work as a concept artist for an anime, called Anima Warrior. It reminded me of my days watching and loving Beyblade, Digimon and so forth - the really 'kid friendly' animes. I learnt a lot about photoshop and following strict deadlines, and working on graphics tablets. Made me want a new one!

There isnt a lot I can upload from the anime on here, especially since it is the earliest parts of pre-production, and it would be very unprofessional of me to upload it. Maybe in time it will come up on tv and then I can? :) Its been commisioned for 48 episodes in China as it is, so we shall have to see.

Here are some designs from my zoo trip, and I've been doing more to improve my work, following artist studies and character concepts, as well as some sketches in China. hooray ^^

Alex Tomlin's Showreel

A short showreel of work in progress and work created throughout the first and second year of Animation at University.

Character Design revisited

This is Kobe revisited, from 'Red Locust'. His new turn around isn't done yet, but I drew him again a little younger this time. He definitely suits having a more aqua skin tone, the green just didn't work for him. Maybe he'll smile in the turn around...

Life Drawing and Character design: revisited

Remember Enda? Here is his full character sheet, with expressions, etc. I used it when I submitted my portfolio to China and was successful in gaining a month of work experience there, working on 'Return to the Sea'.

Recent Art