Not very exciting - some linework done for the first bit of illustration based on stories by Jane Livingstone. Will hopefully develop more soon... I started to plan this over nov-dec, and unfortunately got sidetracked as things got super-hectic. :( I hope this month will allow for more drawing, I'm already so late getting back into things XD

some feathers from ze sketchbook

2012!

Happy 2012! I feel like this year is a year for doing everything you love. Just, for one year, forget about 'money' and 'careers', the future and the past, the things i 'should be' or 'should have' done... and get on with hobbies and crafts I let fall to the sideline because I had worried about all these things for the past two years.

Yesterday, I went to a dance class which I probably looked ridiculous doing, mostly because I had no idea what was going on and how to keep up. I was flailing about the floor definitely not doing what the teacher was showing us but even though I was probably being laughed at I just did it, laughed at myself and got on with it... and it felt good! I think this is the attitude to take with most things in life. If you enjoy doing it, it doesn't really matter if you're rubbish or not... and if you are, when you keep doing it you're only going to get better, so who cares anyway! And if people are judging you, then that's their sad little problem... ;)

So with that... as part of this year's resolutions I'm going to carry on drawing, doing drawings, doesn't matter if it leads to anything... continue to look for part-time jobs and anything I can do that is involved in a career path that I love (i.e. the arts...). I don't give a shit if everyone is looking for creative careers, finally forgetting about the small-minded world of art school, at least I can go out there with a slightly naive but optimistic attitude.

comic

My work for a comic exhibition in Brussels... Just the one page for now. And development video. :)

Degree show

Long overdue, here's photos of my work on display at the DJCAD 2011 degree show and D&AD New Blood down in London... next to the work of Claire Borwell, Ailsa Cullens and Julie Bryden.

Starting to post some of the research & development behind my comic concept which is a fiction featuring a little history of the whaling industry in Scotland. Here's some observational sketches to try to capture the general shape and movements of whales... I've been watching the show Ocean Giants to get inspiration, visiting the Discovery ship in Dundee and also the McManus museum... I want the reader to sympathise with the whale as well as the main human characters...

I'm no writer, which is one of the challenges of this whole project. I can easily come up with a starting idea but constructing a story is difficult!

Another test nebula painting. This time, going for a more stylized look, I doubled the layer of the original painting and played around with filter effects in photoshop until I got a texture I liked to lay over the top of it to give it an edge... I really like the result.

Test with brushes, painting nebulae.

D-con 2011

So I drew some geishas and stuff on moleskines for this years d-con... forgot to take a proper record of them! But have got these photos I took on the day... (one of them was taken by my sister, so I suppose I haven't lost all evidence) And a photo of my table and prints, complete with coca cola/m&m's fuel....

Piss-take on the show 'The Only Way Is Essex,' drawing the cast as zombies.... Want to draw the rest, and Joey..... the boy's intelligence is shocking. The show would be far more interesting if they ate brains.... Look what too much money does to people...! Zombie!