I thought since I showed the color version I might as well show the sketchy version of this image. This was the comic page I was working on in my car before class at Uni a couple of months back. One day I will finish this one page effort and get a story out of it.

This next pic I did a long time ago now...about 2002 maybe. I just recently discovered it on an old CD left over from TAFE days. I quite liked the result of this one. I went in search of inspiration on the net for different tutorials for Photoshop effects and I liked the light shining through water effect. In my early days of Photoshop usage tho I didn’t always use lots of layers so fixing the bits I don't like is a little difficult now but ce la vie.

Shigeru

This isn't one of my favourite pictures but its a good example of the stages I go through when I do a full colour image. There is always a rough sketch. Sometimes really quick sometimes there might be several versions. This one was a quickie. I'm a crap inker but I still try. This was done using fineliners. I'll only ink with quills in more careful professional quality if I'm doing paid work. That being said I've only been paid once to draw something. Inks are scanned into photoshop and then coloured on multiple layers in that program. This was done for a contest that I never actually entered because I ran out of time.

I actually did this picture a few months back but never went anywhere with it. I'm not at all religious but I liked the movie 'The Prophecy' which was followed up by four-ish sequels. The movies were all about a war going on between two factions of angels in heaven. I just thought that if angels did exist, they would have to be damn powerful beings so I drew this as my representation.

This pic only took about 5 minutes to draw but I kinda like it.

While waiting in my car for a Uni class to start (I'm always really early) I started sketching a couple of pages for a comic. This image was the result of one of the panels from that. The rest of the image was this dude standing on a train station platform.

I am slowly working on a comic. After 30 years of drawing I gotta produce something decent sooner or later!!

More animals

Part 2 of the African animal images. These are the second images from this series. You can notice a huge cherat with the elephent image. The small elephent is obviously a resized copy of the bigger one with the levels changed to alter the colours but it still works.

The monkey picture took the longest to do because I couldnt figure out what to do with his arms. Originally he was holding a banana but I ended up with him just hangin around.

Gotta start somewhere

Had to happen eventually I guess. I've never been one to 'blog'. Never really had that many thoughts I'd want to share before. I'm gonna try and be a bit productive with this blog and use it mostly as a running record of my sketches and scribblings that I do. I mostly stick to comic type pictures but occasionally I will post something a bit different.

I am in no way a professional artist but I love to draw so if anyone ever happens to come across this blog let me know what you think. Comments (hopefully positive or at least constructive) are always welcome.


Let us begin........

I did these two pictures a couple of weeks ago for a friend at work who is about to have a baby. The baby's bedroom has an african animal theme so I made some wall hanging to contribute. I did a couple of very loose sketches for these 2 images - just basic shapes, and did the rest in photoshop. I have since done 2 more images for this set which I will post in the next few days and may do some more if the urge comes upon me.

If I knew how to use Illustrator better, it might have been a better option to do these as vector images but I'm too busy to learn another program at the moment.