Tonal Studies – Cones, Cubes, and Spheres
This semester has mostly been about tone. Apparently we’re struggling with tone in our work, as a year group. Perhaps our outlook is bleak. It’s fine, I welcome the practice. It also feels like an art...
View ArticleRed and Green Should Never Be Seen
I don’t paint often, but when I do… I’m glad that I did. I wasn’t hoping for much in this exercise — to use only complementary colours and white — but we had a few hours to play with and I had been...
View ArticleSketches of Spain
We produced a lot of work on the Seville drawing trip (or at least we should have done), but of it all I felt I got the most out of the afternoon we spent among the marketeers and browsers. These...
View ArticleRestauranto: Behind the Scenes
Restauranto was a lot of fun to make, particularly because it was made in collaboration, secondly because seeing things ‘alive’ is still the most exciting thing one can do with models, and thirdly...
View ArticleBlank Book — The Fixed-Layout ePUB Template
Introduction If you don’t care much for my story, download Blank Book here. I have recently been digging up all the dirt I can on eBooks for children’s picture-books for a research project I shall be...
View ArticleHighly Commended
I felt it was time to post my work on Boyhood, a book I worked on for the last half of the second year of my Illustration BA. I did actually post some bits on Dribbble, but only one person I’ve met in...
View ArticleLazy Bleddy Cat
It’s not that I don’t like cats; I just disagree with them. It could be a primal opposition, but I doubt my uncertainty and assume it fact. Point is, my feelings are completely instinctive....
View ArticleThe Icing on the Cake
I’ve got a lot on right now, and this is my excuse for not blogging recently. I’d like to upload work from the previous academic year as there is plenty to share but I really don’t have the time....
View ArticleThe Master and Margarita — Development
Now that I’ve posted this sketch, I have to stop developing these characters. At least, I should. I am currently working on a series of images from the story The Master and Margarita by Mikhail...
View ArticleThe Master and Margarita
Another timely update, of course… but I’m late for good reason; I no longer work for the devil, as a henchman for the dissemination of magic that nobody believes in. Instead, and since August, I have...
View ArticleTo Pull One’s Finger Out
The semester is over, no more taught sessions until January. Half-way through my final year and it feels like it, but it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Speaking of idioms, our latest project was...
View ArticleI Had To
I just had to, you know? It’s 2013. I’ve built a metric ton of web-related things in the last few months, and developed a whole load of cool techniques and such. Meanwhile, I’m peeking at my own site...
View ArticleCafé con Leche
I’m not sure if it is that I don’t get out much, or that it is not often sunny enough in England to enjoy being outdoors, but I find when I’m out in the sun I tend to drink a lot of coffee. I wouldn’t...
View ArticleThere’s nothing particularly special about this picture, I just couldn’t put...
Poldhu Cove. Instagram
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