Black and White = Fun

I recently had a fun time learning a few tricks from the excellent James Paick, so my next few post are going to be some of the results.

First up are some black and white images concentrating on creating depth and a clear visual read. They were a nice change from the colour images I often have to do for work.

Busy, Busy, Busy

I've been extremely busy recently with our new family arrival!  And along with his older sister he is just about the cutest thing ever. 

But as the wheels of art are always turning here is a Sargent study which I never got around to posting and by law all concept artists must produce...or it certainty appears that way.   

Futurepoly Week 2

Week two of Futureploy was with the excellent enviro artist Matthew Barrett the focus for this class was buildings or vehicles. I decided to work on a building and started the process with some thumbs. The first sheet below was just exploring styff in general but by the second one I had got a nordic style hut in mind.

After the thumbs I decided to concentrate on just the building and produced these sketches to decide on a final design

There was something about 5 that I liked so went with it, but after I finished I felt that I hadn't pushed the forms enough made a few tweaks to emphasize some of the forms.

and with that week 2 homework done :)

Adventures with Futurepoly

I've said before and I'll it again "Learning is fun!"

I've always got time to learn and try something new as the journey is always the most fun for me, so recently I signed myself up for a futurepoly course which is run by a bunch of very talented artist from ArenaNet. It's made me try a lot of different approaches to my work, and experiment so my next few post are going to be homework from the previous weeks classes. I would post it now but I've got homework to do.....I haven't had to say that for a long time :D

Sketches from Dr Sketchy Nottingham

Hi, the blogs been lacking posts recently, I've been away from my normal computer set up but that doesn't mean I have been sitting around. My sketch book has been getting alot more love and I've been really enjoying life drawing including going to...Dr Sketchy Nottingham

which has another event coming up this weekend on the 19th of June.

Here are a few of my favorites from previous sessions.

Studies...again

Here's another batch of the studies, hopefully i can internalize the information i've picked up whilst doing these and use it in my personal work.

Studies

I’ve been doing a far amount of studies recently....up until i hit DIY hell...and I thought I’d post some up here to log my progress, and push myself to get back to them now I'm through the DIY and have a bit more time, they're a mixture of photo studies and still life’s