Catching Up

Ok, I've decided I may as well just upload to blogger instead of trying to use my own host. Much more to come!

The top image was an entry for an interesting competition, and everything else is doodles.

Coat

I haven't updated this blog in so long because blogger started cropping my images unless you click them, instead of resizing them. I'm guessing it'll happen again now, so it's probable that I won't update the blog until it starts working again... Whenever that is. Sorry T_T

Scrapbook

I entered an art competition on the NZCGI forums with this piece and won a ticket to the Massive Black workshop here in NZ in November! The idea was interpret the theme 'consequence of time'. I put up a walkthrough here as part of the rules of the competition.

...and another couple of random doodles, the second is from photo reference.

Bison

A Bison skeleton drawn from life at the Auckland Museum, then a bunch of sketches I referenced from photos (trying to cartoon them up a bit), and lastly an unreferenced self portrait of myself drawing on the Cintiq that I did on the Cintiq at work.

I stumbled across a completely amazing 21 year old artist yesterday named Rebecca Sugar. Her style is both lively and spontaneous and technically accomplished, and she's also a most talented writer! This is evidenced in her quirky and affecting 12 page comic Don't Cry For Me, I'm Already Dead and her ongoing series Pug Davis. One is a short story about two brothers that love to quote the simpsons, and the other chronicles the epic space adventures of the mighty dog-person-thing Pug Davis and his camp sidekick Blouse. To top it all off she is a wonderful animator, and has a couple of pieces of her work up on her Youtube channel. You best be clicking those links!

Tinker

One random image, one drawing done based on this image for someone on DA, and a pic done for a friend's architecture project at Uni.

Surface

More random doodles. The Joker was from reference - what I believe was a photo of an early concept for Nolan's version of the character. I've been playing around with markers lately and finding they're great fun! I'll chuck up some more more marker pics later. Also - the girl at the bottom of the sketchpage is all kinds of screwed up sorry, but I liked Regan's scooter and David's cow skull.

A series?

Jeff pointed out that these four images seem to form some sort of a little series. I did them all around the same time but didn't intend for them to work like that - so what was it that made them go together so well? My initial thoughts were that they all seem both somber and surreal, but on closer inspection I realised that they're all looking down and to the right. Sheesh, talk about uninspired! The very top image, by the way, was done for my friend Rachel's birthday.

You should go check out Jeff's blog if I didn't already arouse your interest in the previous paragraph - the man has talent! I'll add him to the tiny list of artfriends on the right of this blog.

And here's a couple of sketchpages that haven't been posted elsewhere, to keep the punters happy. The girls arm didn't quite work out.