It's really difficult to visualize the things I hate and why I hate them.

I don't hate tigers, btw. I do however hate the white tiger fraud.



Wip for an idea that I'll probably scrap.

Some uni project work. Quite like these. They are in a book format.

http://www.coasterforce.com//joey/PRINT%20IS%20DEAD.htm


And an acrocanthosaurus, cuz it's got silly little eyes and cool backbone and a big jaw and such and yay.

Magpie. Tissue paper, gel medium and acrylic on brown paper. Edited in photoshop.

Found the time to draw this guy last night.

Mixture of stuff. Some of it's really old, some from today and a few pages of uni work dumped on the end.

Rooks are a social member of the corvid family. If you see a group of crow-like birds together in the trees, they are probably rooks. Was just experimenting.

You can see this in context here... (sort of, it's unfinished) For the time being.

Ugh.

Lots of uni project stuff. Really not enjoying the briefs this year so far... Likley my own fault.

Was going to put this in Flash and test it out, but then remembered I don't have Flash installed anymore. So whilst I install it, I'll post it here.

I'm not dead. Just busy. Struggled a bit getting my head round the projects this year thus far...

I was sorting out my portfolio for the project on which I posted about here, when I thought I should perhaps take some photos and post here. sorry about the terrible quality. I'll have to take some better shots at some point once I have time to breath.

Some Uni stuff.

The following is a rediculously over-thought theme for a current Uni project. I had a mess of ideas which seemed kind of contradictory, or silly, or just violently in disagreement with my opinions on, well, life... but in writting them out like this, I think I've made sense of them. Sort of.

Deep Space - The Human Condition
Narrative/Theme
The more science attempts to define the difference between non-living matter and living organisms, the more the boundary is blurred. Conciousness is, in my informed opinion, nothing more than a product of biological life.
The only real difference between living and non-living matter, is that living matter obtains and uses energy. And it uses energy to do what defines it as living, growing and reproducing.
If man-made “organisms” obtained energy and used it for growth and some form of reproduction, the boundary would be blurred even further.
In a fantasy, post-biological future, where conciousness could some how be considered a separate entity from biology and not just the product of it, could conciousness appear to behave like a hermit crab searching for found objects to inhabit? Allowing such man-made organisms to “breed” and “grow”.

This is a pitcave. Sort of.
Acrylic, soil, gel medium, paper, cardboard, tissue paper, ink, tea leaves, coffee on wood.

Fancied trying something quite different.
Paper, gel medium, acrylic, watercolour, tissue paper, pencil and sharpie on paper. Based on one of my own photos of London that I took last winter.
Sort of inspired by http://sesfitts.deviantart.com/

Some pages from the tiny sketchbook I carry everywhere.

Drains. <3

Acrylic, gel medium, tea leaves, coffee, soil, ink, cardboard, tissue paper and pva on wood. Based on a photograph from here.

These are a couple of my favourite gel transfers of photos from Chislehurst Caves.


And some photoshopping. Still playing around with combining stuff from my sketchbook.



And a very flamboyant looking Allosaurus for good measure. Probably should actually try a proper dino painting in photoshop. Ya know, where I actually attempt to finish something?

Ink, gouache, paper, tea, soil and glue images of drains, all based on photos from 28DaysLater, except the first one, which is based on an image I found here. I think I've finally found ways of controlling ink that I'm happy with. I'm particularly happy with the very last picture.

http://www.10000foxes.blogspot.com/



Reference photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelmage_photos/3598484260/

I've choosen pages from Ember that are visually interesting and I've set about illustrating them by combining scans from my sketchbook, my digital photographs, scans from the book itself, found textures and purpose created textures in Photoshop.

Finally got a new sketchbook... So, it's sketchdump time!

And Frith said to El-Ahrairah...


I <3 Watership down. So here's a doodle of El-Ahrairah, the hero of Lapine folklore.

Just pissing about in Sai. Drew a dino. Put it in a bird cage. And it's so so dreadful. I dunno why I'm uploading it.

What are you looking at? It makes perfect sense...
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html

Finally fallen into the trap of using light bulbs for this Ember project thing. Electric lights are a major part of the story and I've avoided using them in images for a long time because I was worried it was too obvious. I've been working in my sketchbook and then scanning things and then printing things and working into those, and then rescanning and then combining elements in Photoshop, to get these. I thought it would be cool if the light bulbs themselves allowed you to see elements of the images, since electric lighting is the only light in The City of Ember. So I took some photos of lit bulbs and combined them with found textures and things from my sketchbook.

Some of many experiments for my uni summer project. They are all photos which have been edited in a variety of ways, almost entirely traditionally, only the first one is photoshopped at all. Mostly they are bleeched in some way, some have latex, drawn elements, some are from printer abuse and some are gel transfers. These were all photos originally taken by a friend and used with persmission.

:)

Wanted to try drawing a a dino doing something more than just... standing there. So here's a sketchy Spinosaurus nomming his catch. That must be a huge fish, given that he was the largest carnivorous dinosaur!

Sketch dump from the past few days. Experimenting with SAI Paint Tool http://sai.detstwo.com/sai/

First picture of Arrow that I've finished in literally years. :]

Uni project work. Photo, pva glue, soil, clay and acrylic on illustration board. I'm happy with this. I want to do more, but It needs to be on a hard surface. Paper creases up horribly with so much pva on it. So I need to buy more illustration boards. (Or maybe some old wood would be nice...) Such a shame these photos were taken on a low MP setting, it would be cool to do a huge one.

I'm finally posting the individual Owl and the Pussycat illustrations. Enjoy!

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!'
Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

I'm glad that buying gouache wasn't a total waste of money, because it's qualities are useful for this uni project. Here is another cave painting, this time I started with a black wash as the background. Would probably be better had I mixed a black instead of using it straight from the tube, but still, I quite like it.

This guy inspired me to (amongst other ideas) actually use some of the hundreds of photos I've taken so far for this project in artwork. This first one wasn't that successful, but I used clay to build up texture on the rocks which I then painted over with acrylic. I like how what I've added leaves the boundary of the photo.

...this one is far more successful and my favourite of this post.

This mess was intended to be a textual experiment. I don't like it, but at least now I know that I can get rust to grow on black acrylic and show up. This is a cheap canvas, covered in clay, bin liners, acrylic, photographs, ink and rust. I think I'll be using bin liners again, which were also inspired by http://www.kubicki.info/ He uses photographs of raggy material a lot.

This last one is a photograph with soil, pva, clay and acrylic on top.

Started a painting of a Xenomorph. God knows when I'll finish it.

Doodles...

<3

I was looking after a little Sparrow, but he sadly died this morning.

I FINISHED SOMETHING!

Acylic on illustration board.

Work in progress pics...

I'm not dead, I've just been busy with things other than art.

Here are some gouache and ink illustrations from photo references of Chislehurst Caves, for uni project work. The caves were used as an air raid shelter for 200 or so families in WW2, making them a lot like an underground city... This seemed like a good reference for the City of Ember. Gouache is really gritty and earthy.

I intend to clean this up and paint under it in photoshop. Baryonyx, or maybe it's Suchomimus or Spinosaurus? It's jaw isn't long enough really, amongst other faults.



I used a skeletal reconstruction of Baryonyx and some pictures of crocodilians and iguanas for reference.

I'm remembering how I hate watercolours. :|



And how I love Allosaurus.

Crystal Palace Park ruins.

Couldn't be bothered to turn the scanner on.

Virginia Opossum and Racoon. From reference in a book about mammals.

Dino doodle dump. Allosaurus, baryonyx and t-rex. From skelletal refs.

More experiments, these ones are better. From photos I took at grotty London Underground stations. First is pencil over marker, second is pencil over gouache.

Some lame experimental things for uni work.

Finally, some actual work for the current uni project. Ink, pastel, watercolour, pencil... Just making a mess and seeing what happens really. Pit caves. Yes.