21st July '11

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

This is a sketch.

14th July '11

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

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

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

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

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

5th May '11

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

29th April '11

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

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.