Tangentine: Concept-Process

6th February '12

2012-02-06T14:09:00.001-08:00

We got our first proper snow of the year this weekend. It's been pretty cold too! Luckily I've been keeping warm by eating cake.

1st February '12

2012-02-01T13:33:00.000-08:00

February already!

31st January '12

2012-01-31T12:45:00.000-08:00

Today's sketch - I'm rubbish at drawing men

26th Jan '12

2012-01-26T12:49:00.000-08:00

Today's sketch

25th Jan '12

2012-01-25T13:29:00.000-08:00

Another miniature sketch.

24th Jan '12

2012-01-24T12:51:00.000-08:00

Thought I'd try working smaller to try and improve the speed at which I work. This is a 2.5"x3.5" sketch.

23rd Jan '12

2012-01-23T13:43:00.000-08:00

I received some lovely new watercolour paper, drawing ink and (finally) a new nib holder. So I thought I'd draw something small and quick to test them... but when is anything I do quick?
In celebration of Chinese New Year I tried to draw a dragon.

6th January '12

2012-01-06T07:22:00.000-08:00

This piece is coloured pigment ink on A3 Bristol board. I'm tentative about starting colouring on it as I like the lineart a lot.

2nd January '12

2012-01-02T13:34:00.000-08:00

First post of the new year! Finally getting back to drawing again after the busy-ness of the Christmas season.
I don't do New Year's resolutions, but each year I aim to get at least one piece finished per month. Last year I managed to complete 16 full colour illustrations, which is a definite improvement on my productivity of the past couple of years. It helped that 10 of those were A5 sized images, whereas I usually work at A3 size... maybe it's a hint that I should try and do some smaller works as well so that I finish them.

It does mean that I have half a dozen larger sketch pieces waiting to be finished, some of which I can hopefully work on this week.
I also spent about 3 hours today trying to get a Wacom Bamboo Tablet, Windows 7 and any piece of graphics software to talk to each other nicely to do a tiny weeny bit of editing done. On the upside where I am now is a lot more comfortable to work, but it is frustrating knowing there are two much better graphics tablets sitting unused in my other room many miles away.

The piece above is an A4 picture that I decided to try and finish, so maybe if I'm very lucky I can get it completed by the end of the week.

7th December '11

2011-12-07T13:48:00.001-08:00

One of the reasons I always give up on digital painting is the fact that I usually end up drawing rather generic digital art... I think my artistic muse lives in my pencil.

30th November '11

2011-11-30T14:07:00.001-08:00

I've not been particularly productive on the art front lately. Both nights and days are dark and I still feel tired after the cold I had two weeks ago. So now I'm kind of just waiting for the Christmas holidays so that I can sleep, because it's going to be a very busy month coming up... fun, but busy.

This picture is something that I started a year ago. It's on A2 paper (42x59cm), which will be the second largest illustrative piece I've done. It's also not something I'd usually draw. I have very limited knowledge of guns, helicopters or apocalyptic scenarios, and there's a distinct lack of flowers anywhere. But I guess we'll see where it goes.

17th November '11

2011-11-17T13:11:00.001-08:00

The worst part about being ill, after the bit where everything hurts, is the fact that even when you're stuck in bed off from work... you can't actually do anything with the time. You just sort of sleep... then wake up feeling rubbish, and try and think of something to do that doesn't involve moving, effort, or focusing your eyes too much.So here's a bit of painting I did last week before I got ill... or had Skyrim.Back to bed now and hope that I feel better in the morning.

9th November '11

2011-11-09T13:52:00.001-08:00

There's this painful bit just after inking when all the energy from the rough pencil lines is lost. Hopefully I can add it back during the colouring stage.

7th November '11

2011-11-07T13:11:00.000-08:00

Finally completed this one. The original sketch file saved on my PC is dated the 1st of December 2010... so... that's nearly a year ago ^^;
But it is almost accurately seasonal now I guess.
Original is alcohol based marker and coloured pencil on A3 Bristol Board.

31st October '11

2011-10-31T15:14:00.000-07:00

Fay Hancocks and myself selling our wares at London MCM Expo - Comic Con this past weekend. We had great fun!
The whole event was even bigger than before, so I don't think I really got to see as much as I could have. But we got to see a lot of great costumes and meet some cool people.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by.

19th October '11

2011-10-18T22:58:00.000-07:00

Between the lack of home internet and preparing for the London Expo/ Comic Con, I've not had much to upload.

So here's a work in progress of some colours. The process for it seems to have been - pick a bit, start to colour it, get distracted and start colouring a different bit - so the overall look at the moment is a bit blotchy.

6th October '11

2011-10-05T23:04:00.000-07:00

Another sketch. I like flowers

4th October '11

2011-10-03T22:58:00.000-07:00

My home internet is down, most likely, until the end of next week. I'm not getting any weird side-effects from not being connected to the internet all the time, but it is rather annoying as it happens to be the busiest month for me needing to send files to people and update things using the internet.
Oh well, I'll have to live without and try and organise things so I can carry on without.

Here's a sketch just about ready to go to the inking stage. I love keeping regular scans of work as it's nice to flick through and see how its evolved and where it's suddenly gotten better, or worse, and you have a record of the process.

28th September '11

2011-09-27T22:57:00.000-07:00

I'm without internet at home for at least the next week, if not longer. So I'm taking the time in the evenings to appreciate the finer things in life, such as being productive and not hitting refresh to see if something new has happened on the internet...
At least that's what I tell myself.

I still occassionally think I see a flashing window out of the corner of my eye.

This image was started at the end of last year as an idea, then the sketch was 90% done in January and I've only just gotten around to inking it. Hopefully between ink and colour wont be quite so long a gap.

22nd September '11

2011-09-22T14:14:00.000-07:00

Generally I spend the weekends at my partner's house, so my 'weekday room' has sort of turned into my sleep-in studio. By that I mean it's a mess.
I have an assortment of markers, inks, paints, pens, paintbrushes, artbooks, sketchbooks and paper across my desk floor and stacked untidily in boxes... and that's before you get me started on the unfolded pile of clothes (they're all clean though).

It's a special kind of organisation that I don't think everyone quite understands, but if I know where something is I'm generally happier than having everything tidied away where I'll forget where I put it.
Luckily I'm out at work for a big part of the day so I don't have to look at it anyway.

Image today is a work in progress watercolour ink and alcohol-based ink on watercolour paper

20th September '11

2011-09-20T13:22:00.001-07:00

Today I re-found my love of paint (the actual medium not the Microsoft software).
I have a stack of canvases and limited experience with painting, thus a lack of confidence in painting straight onto the canvas.
After sketching the design onto the first canvas with graphite pencil, which then proceeded to get muddied up in first layer of paint I was... somewhat unimpressed with my skills.
This evening I tried drawing the design for the second canvas on with a pale coloured marker. Worked a charm! Managed to block out all the colour and work in some detail in about an hour.

I love the way you can mix colours as you go, so you very easily get lots of subtle shades in with out spending ages colour matching. I have to remember to mix enough paint when filling in blocks though, so I don't end up getting half way through a section and running out and not quite being able to reproduce the same shade.

The above sketch in fact has nothing to do with my painting endeavors and is just something I've recently added to the increasing pile of sketches :S

7th September '11

2011-09-07T12:58:00.000-07:00

The days are shorter, colder and wetter. British Summertime is coming to an end.
I also found some pencil drawings today that I'd forgotten I had... I think I should try finishing something once in a while... but I get distracted by other work or a new idea.
I've also run out of paper... Luckily I love paper shopping.

11th Aug '11

2011-08-11T13:20:00.000-07:00

I'm exhausted. I can't wait for my holiday in a week. Still a load of work to do before then.

Here's some colours. The red are going to be a pain to balance to the right shades post scanning. Just this small preview has made the lower flowers a lot more red than they are on paper. Oh well that's an exercise yet to come.

2nd August '11

2011-08-02T14:17:00.000-07:00

I find men difficult to draw. They always come out too effeminate, which isn't what I want men to look like.
Also men and flowers aren't a particularly effective combination.

28th July '11

2011-07-28T14:33:00.000-07:00

I was very much hoping I could finish this tonight, but I think it still needs a couple of hours to polish it off. Unfortunately I wont be able to work on it over the weekend and I need a good night's sleep now before I can complete the week.
Hopefully on Monday I'll be able to get it finished, and work on some new stuff in the mean time.

26th July '11

2011-07-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

Another WIP sketch.
Think I need to fatten this deer up a bit :)

21st July '11

2011-07-21T14:01:00.000-07:00

Midweek visits mean I've not had time to do much colour work, so here's another part sketch.
In other news it is very rainy. Good old British Summertime...

19th July '11

2011-07-19T14:49:00.000-07:00

This is a sketch.

14th July '11

2011-07-14T14:42:00.000-07:00

Not sure it was a good idea to start colouring the clouds with the single angry cloud right in the middle of the picture... but don't worry little cloud, soon you'll have more little cloud friends to keep you company.

12th July '11

2011-07-12T11:47:00.000-07:00

Wow, been a month since I last posted. Guess I have been busy.

But here is my finished frog. Might come back to tidy a little, but lots of other stuff to do and I'm happy with it as is.
Original is Water-based ink, water-soluble pencils and bombay ink on A3(ish) watercolour paper.

12th June '11

2011-06-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

Don't eat ice cream and draw without making sure you wash your hands in between... because no matter how careful you are you'll probably get some on the side of your finger and ruin your paper... :)

24th May '11

2011-05-24T13:57:00.000-07:00

There's something lovely and intimidating about clean lines. They're just waiting for you to mess up and put bright pink on top before going 'well that was a mistake'.

15th May '11

2011-05-15T14:15:00.000-07:00

This weekend I celebrated my birthday. The Earth has officially made another complete orbit around the Sun since I was born.

5th May '11

2011-05-05T14:57:00.000-07:00

Today I voted for the way we elect our government in the UK.
Here are some more colours for a frog.

29th April '11

2011-04-29T13:41:00.000-07:00

One of the great things about being able to scan art into a computer is the ability to manipulate it and try stuff out digitally before you go past the pencil stage on paper.

Being able to look at the composition of an image by zooming in and out and being able to effectively view the image as a thumbnail without having to try and hold the image up on the otherside of the room while battling with myopia is fantastic.

Mapping out colour and tone schemes is very helpful, especially since they're probably one of the weaker parts of my final work.
Both things probably stem from things from earlier in my life.
One because I used to be scared of using strong colours because they seemed to be more permanent and I was scared of making mistakes.
Secondly because someone said I used too much grey in my work.

I might be better at colouring now if I'd ignored the second comment, but I guess we'll never know.

18th April '11

2011-04-18T14:12:00.000-07:00

Looking forward to an Easter break in 3 days time. Hopefully get a chance to finish off some work, but regardless it will hopefully be productive and relaxing.
And in the mean time I've been adding some colours to a frog I was drawing a long time ago.

13th April '11

2011-04-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

Taking a break from the stuff I've been working on for a while to draw some stuff I like a lot - flowers, girls and birds

4th April '11

2011-04-04T13:28:00.000-07:00

This artwork was done for the Kitacon III conbook cover. The lineart was also used for the convention bags.

The original artwork was auctioned at the convention, raising £130 for the Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.

16th March '11

2011-03-16T15:46:00.000-07:00

Doodling digital stuff

15th March '11

2011-03-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

Finally completed something. Alcohol based inks and water colour pencil on A3 bristol board.

10th March '11

2011-03-10T14:20:00.000-08:00

Nothing in particular to fill the gap. Hopefully pictures will be displayed shortly.
I'm rubbish at digital, but having been forced to do some recently I thought I'd doodle a bit. I'm also rubbish at drawing men :)

17th February '11

2011-02-17T13:50:00.000-08:00

After a week of being ill I'm inundated with art work that actually needs to get done. So I'm a bit lacking on the art that can be shown front.
At least it means I should have more to show later on in the year.

This is a half coloured piece done before I got ill. It'll probably/hopefully/maybe get finished at the beginning of March.

23rd January '11

2011-01-23T14:10:00.000-08:00

I think my pile of 'incomplete artwork' is starting to collapse under itself. I'll just have to resort it into a priority order.

20th January '11

2011-01-20T14:00:00.000-08:00

Some more pencil lines on paper : link.

13th January '11

2011-01-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

First week of work done. And only another 50 and bit more weeks left of the year, seems quite short when you think of it that way...

9th January '11

2011-01-09T14:07:00.000-08:00

First post of 2011 is a revisit to an old sketch. Trying to get a pile of sketches into some state of completion so that they're not in a stack staring at me, reminding me of the things I have started and not finished.

20th December '10

2010-12-20T14:10:00.000-08:00

If you're not aware the UK is under snow. Lots of snow. This makes me cold. And somewhat disrupts British transport.
Hopefully I will make it home for Christmas.
First I have to get through the next 3 days of work.
I am very looking forward to 2 weeks off, but having to make sure everything is in working order for while I'm away. Work hard me!

7th December '10

2010-12-07T13:43:00.001-08:00

Playing around with the digital colours some more.

2nd December '10

2010-12-02T13:59:00.000-08:00

Friday tomorrow where I get to hope that the trains are all running so that I can get home for the weekend :)
Then I should be going ice skating on Saturday, which I again hope it's not too cold... or there's a blizzard... and I can enjoy winter stuff pleasantly.
Have another sketch. I'm much more comfortable drawing girls. Men are so difficult to draw :S

Also I may get a Tumblr account just to keep up to date with this :) kimjongillookingatthings

1st December '10

2010-12-01T13:51:00.000-08:00

Happy December! I am not a great fan of snow or the cold, but it can be very pretty.
I am starting to accumulate a considerable stack of sketches. Perhaps I should think about finishing some of them

30th November '10

2010-11-30T14:03:00.001-08:00

I saw the Coca Cola Truck down Oxford Street, and went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and tomorrow is the first day of December. And it snowed!
It is freezing though and hopefully British people will stop being startled by snow and unable to make trains run properly... well hopefully at least when I want to use them :)

Have some non-Xmassy fish

25th November '10

2010-11-25T14:19:00.000-08:00

1 month until Christmas!
I am going to be super excited about the holiday season, and then probably complain about the cold and weather afterwards, so enjoy my cheerful spirit.

I think there's some definite anxiety towards my latest traditional piece, so I've been taking a break from it in the hopes of not completely destroying it :)

So here's some digital paintover rubbish that I did from an old traditional piece.
One day I'll learn to paint properly, but until then it's odd plasticy colours.
Think I'll try some more sketching this weekend

23rd November '10

2010-11-23T14:16:00.000-08:00

I had that type of art block this evening where you know what you want to draw, but you can't put it down on paper. Also I think I'm scared of inking my current large piece in case I suddenly realise I need to change something as soon as the ink hits the paper (usually the way). But I guess I'll have to take the plunge sooner or later.
I'm thinking of maybe learning to paint... or relearning, or trying to learn more. I'm not sure though. New things are scary. but good scary.

I did spend this evening scribbling in a new sketchbook (since I managed to tip water on my last one and warp all the pages _{I'm smart me :)})

So anyways, here's something I started a while back and haven't gotten round to completing yet... just something to play with watercolours/waterbased inks more.

17th November '10

2010-11-17T13:15:00.000-08:00

It's a picture with colours. Alcohol based marker and coloured pencil on A4 Bristol Board.

9th November '10

2010-11-09T15:10:00.001-08:00

Some progress made. Need to draw some stuff back in. Paper's getting a bit messy.

7th November '10

2010-11-07T14:44:00.001-08:00

Going to be trying some more neutral colours on this.
Already noticed something I want to change though, right after I inked it ;___; At times like this I wonder if I should learn how to paint instead

3rd November '10

2010-11-03T15:27:00.000-07:00

Large scale scribbles. It's A2 size which is why it looks rather bad right now as I scanned it in pieces and ont at great quality.

1st November '10

2010-11-01T15:20:00.001-07:00

Finished. Had some problems with the inks either soaking unevenly into the paper or sitting on top of each other instead of blending. but in the end it's turned out ok :)

Original is alcohol based ink and coloured pencil on A4 bristol board

27th October '10

2010-10-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

Drew some more leaves over the weekend. Still needs the lopsidedness fixing though.
It is a very busy week. I am looking forward to the extra hour of sleep on Saturday/Sunday... but the weekend is still so far away

25th October '10

2010-10-25T14:37:00.000-07:00

Looking a bit yellow at the moment. Also having a bit of trouble with some of the inks :S maybe time for nibs to be cleaned. Where does one buy pure ethanol...?

17th October '10

2010-10-17T14:16:00.000-07:00

I nearly completed the line-art for this over the weekend, but got dragged into playing quite a bit of multi-player Civ.
Went to the nice art shop and bought some new paper and pencil refills (that I don't *really* need right now) but I did get a shiny new pencil sharpener for 25p. Bargain!

12th October '10

2010-10-12T11:52:00.001-07:00

Another sketch - Rotten Apples

4th October '10

2010-10-04T13:01:00.000-07:00

Finally complete. It took a lot longer than I'd thought/hoped colouring this, but it's done now... so I can get on with other stuff I guess :)

Alcohol based ink on A4 Bristol board

30th September '10

2010-09-30T14:52:00.000-07:00

So I managed to get a cold, which kept me off work for the rest of last week. I had fuzzy head for a whole week though, which wasn't particularly fun when I have a steady flow of stuff to get done at work right now :)

Also means I have been super slow doing personal work. So this is still only 85% complete :(
I have a half a dozen other sketches from this past week though, but we'll see which of them end up as fully finished piece

21st September '10

2010-09-21T13:19:00.000-07:00

Right now my head feels like a cold is starting to burrow into it, so despite the fact I am mid colouring this piece I will have to stop and sleep. So here is the lineart instead.
I do not want to be ill right now. Too much work to do.

Today I got the copy/paste custom attribute values between files in 3dS Max to work, which was cool for me as I can now copy poses in their entirety for custom rigs.
I did, however, realise I'm probably going to have to make a new scripted pose library for storing poses on IKed rigs so that I can apply the pose relative to the overall location in space.
I'm sure that's very un-exciting to anyone who isn't me.

16th September '10

2010-09-16T13:31:00.000-07:00

Bit of a sketch in between me inking one of my earlier drawings. Don't really like the proportions though so not gone far with it

13th September '10

2010-09-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

Ended up starting a new sketch. I will complete both this one and the last.. hopefully soon

8th September '10

2010-09-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

Drawing something smaller than usual. I have several other larger works on the go also. Anything to take my eyes of the PC screen.

26th August '10

2010-08-26T14:29:00.000-07:00

I hate having to match the colours of a scanned image to the original. Somehow it's never right and you end up butchering something :S

4th August '10

2010-08-04T13:05:00.000-07:00

Busy with work. Not much time to draw. But managed a little bit of colouring in.
Inspired by Monster Hunter and Okami

29th June '10

2010-06-29T15:18:00.000-07:00

Trying to rewrite some 3D scripting stuff and extend rigging tools for Maya. WIP
In the meantime have some linework

21st June '10

2010-06-21T14:55:00.000-07:00

Windows 7 is my new enemy.
Bought some new PC components. Windows 7 wouldn't install.
Took the a hard drive and Windows 7 over to friend who had almost identical motherboard... Installed Windows 7... yay!
after a very busy day at work I come home and try to install graphics drivers on a now working PC... Windows does not want to log in any more... not yay ;____;

Roll back the drivers :(

So I decided to scribble some colours in one of the few bits of working software before sleep.

16th June '10

2010-06-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

More Info about NeverDead

So here's some work related stuff. Press Release Trailer of the game we're working on announced at E3 this week.
Exciting stuff!

9th June '10

2010-06-09T09:15:00.000-07:00

This is a piece that I spent a long time on. The original work is on A1 sized paper. Created using water-based inks and alcohol-based inks

7th June '10

2010-06-07T14:29:00.001-07:00

Enjoying some drawing and colouring in

20th May '10

2010-05-20T14:52:00.001-07:00

It wouldn't be completely stupid to think that after a day of rigging and skinning I might want to not do that once I got home from work.
But no not entirely. Finally dragging some old rig stuff into Maya to try and work on getti8ng an animation showreel together, since most of the work I do is technical based and most of the actual hand animating I've done over the past year is pretty much can't show work :S
So let's see if I can just do some animating for fun.

Yeah there are way too many bones in this to be a good game rig XD Although if you ignore the hair it's not so bad. But why worry about bone count when for once I don't have to.
Would also like to replace spine with better control and solving.
Some joint positions not quite correct.
Hopefully develope some mel tools for streamlining the process

21st April '10

2010-04-21T13:15:00.000-07:00

Cell Shade

20th April '10

2010-04-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

Added some more scribbles to an old image

19th April '10

2010-04-19T07:47:00.000-07:00

Ill today, so a bit of a doodle... then sleep

22nd March '10

2010-03-22T13:52:00.000-07:00

Some doodley stuff. Playing with inks. I have lots of bottles of lovely colours on my desk. Although I should move them out of the light... and so that I can move my mouse.

15th March '10

2010-03-15T16:22:00.001-07:00

For most people digital colouring is probably faster... not me... still working away at this piece.
Hopefully I'll remember to pick up the new ink tomorrow and bring it home

23rd February '10

2010-02-23T11:59:00.000-08:00

I realised I haven't uploaded any new art this year. Well this piece was completed a few weeks ago. The original is just smaller than A1 size and is inks on bristol board.

10th January 2010

2010-01-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

Slow in uploading. Here's the finished piece. In traditional Media.
Happy 2010 to everyone. Best Wishes ~J

19th November 09

2009-11-19T15:39:00.001-08:00

Still not finished. I am very slow when it comes to digital art I guess

4th November 09

2009-11-04T14:28:00.000-08:00

It's so nice to be working with traditional media again. Makes a break from being on the computer all day.
Odd incident/coincidence - I left a maths book round a friend's house (yes I do read math books... Mathematics for Computer Graphics in fact). When my friend saw it he told me he'd recently ordered the same book (he's a programmer) . Maths geek out!

1st November 09

2009-11-01T16:19:00.000-08:00

This is the first time I have properly used Paint Chat. My friend invited me. So I quickly doodle something. I am bad at drawing freehand on PC

28th October 09

2009-10-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

Work continues. Digital colouring takes a while

26th October 09

2009-10-26T02:58:00.001-07:00

Got most of the flats done, even if they're not the correct colour. Doing a bit of shading now. Digital is not that easy. Maybe I'll go back to traditional after this ^^;

22nd October 09

2009-10-22T11:50:00.000-07:00

Here is something that's definitely going to be finished completely. The pencils and inking took quite a while, I was determined to not rush into colouring it but work into the line work so that I don't get bored and skip details.
I've already noticed mistakes :S Well they shall be fixed as I go along.

11th October 09

2009-10-11T01:03:00.001-07:00

A quick sketchy thing. Not sure whether to digitally colour, or do entirely in traditional media :S

9th October 09

2009-10-09T03:55:00.000-07:00

It's raining a lot and it's cold. The nights are growing longer and soggy leaves line the pavements.
It's definitely Autumn in the UK.
I rather enjoy it. Apart from having caught a cold. I want to curl up in bed again.
Here's some more playing with digital colouring.

1st October 09

2009-10-01T14:41:00.000-07:00

So today I was attempting to actually build a stretchy IK rig, since all my rigs are either lost or out of date. However, I'm not the world's best 3D modeller, in fact I'm not that great at all. So off I go to the internet, as you do, to find a decent model to practice on. But... well... have you ever tried looking for something only you've obviously not input the correct search phrase, or else everything you find is not what you're looking for.
Short of it being that I decide it's faster to actually mock something up myself. So what with me and a bunch of vertices all having fun, I got somewhat distracted in the middle.

Hope you enjoy my procrastination of things I do for fun.
On the upside I did find some nifty MEL tools, which I have yet to try out tho.
Also if anyone is a 3D modeller and has some stuff they don't mind me playing with, feel free to throw it my way :)

25th September 09

2009-09-29T23:55:00.000-07:00

Another doodly skecth attempt at using a graphics tablet. The variety to the order you can lay down colour is a lot vaster than I'm used to when I've been working on paper, so I've just been trying out a few things

22nd September 09

2009-09-24T02:43:00.000-07:00

Added some colours to a previous sketch. Not quite finished, but not quite sure where to go with it

17th September 09

2009-09-17T15:11:00.000-07:00

Work plus digging out old animation work and trying produce new animation work, leaves me with little time for much else apart from 3D.
But here's a sample of something 2D I'm working on. Just a small section. The full piece is A1 sized - the largest I've ever worked (unless you count painting a picture on a door for a school exam).
So far it's going alright. Haven't butchered it with the colours yet :)

25th August 09

2009-09-02T23:06:00.000-07:00

I did a bit of an edit to that digital painting I started a few weeks ago. No hugely impressive edit as of yet, just filling in some of the space and colours.

12th August 09

2009-08-13T10:55:00.001-07:00

I spent Sunday just gone sketching out the pages for this year's Manga Jiman entry (I still haven't managed to get last year's entry online since I wanted to redo the tones :S which I...er... haven't gotten round to). The page layout's just about there I think. Spent quite a bit of time shuffling panels across pages in order to try and get the flow right.

So inbetween that I thought I'd best get the design for the main character out on paper. After struggling for quite some time on Sunday with the idea of 'ok draw a military man... what do they look like... oh dear I'm rubbish at modern warfare armor DX' I decided yesterday (in between naps whilst off work sick ;__;) that I'm just going to draw him as somone slightly more interesting.

Still not great at drawing men, but at least I have an idea of what he looks like :)

5th August 09

2009-08-05T12:40:00.000-07:00

More update in the drawn out process of creating this piece. Hopefully it's at least a little interesting watching it build up.

24th July 09

2009-07-29T15:32:00.001-07:00

Back dated something I coloured in during some free moments at work last week. Thinking of getting a new tablet for home use now. Can probably wait a bit longer tho

5th July 09

2009-07-05T15:08:00.000-07:00

Following up from yesterday's post, here's the beginnings on some colour. Enjoy