Feeling Blue Today

some random fast sketches while i was watching a documentary last night.

Morning Warm Up

drawing some weirdos

Fellas

just messing about

Warm up sketching

Some quick drawings to loosen up

pen sketches

sketch fast-don't get caught up in details or porportions at first. You can always fix them later-get the feel of it first-or at least thats what someone told me once, or twice.

Warm up sketches

just some fast random sketches

Draw from terrible films

So, you haven't been at life drawing at a while and you need to keep the old skills up?
Here is what i do, i use netflix and draw-but there is a catch-if you are interested at all in it, if it has production values or an interesting plot-Just Say NO!!
Pick something you have no interest in at all-turn that sound right down. You don't want any errant dialogue catching your attention.
Then draw, draw draw.
And thats how i came to watch the scorpion king 3

Spaaaaace

drawing spacemen

Random sketching

just keeping the dust off my sketching hand

Star Trek in a nutshell

So i have boiled star trek down to the captain sitting in his chair and some shirtless fella (usually the captain) trying to cave someone's skull in with a foam rock.

Zombie

yeah, i sketched some sort of zombie head. Never drawn one before.

Telly Sketches

So i try not to watch any television without a sketchbook with me, always handy since the best reference is from life.

Morning warm up

Warming up in the morning for a day of drawing-having some silly fun with doodles.

Dark Crystal kinda day

Sketching away at nothing in particular and then i go off on some mad brian froud-y, Dark Crystal kinda tangent.

New Header?

a very early sketch for a possible new header for the blog.

Ancient Books

Some prep work for some book props.
Say that three times fast!

Pet Peeves

So, in designing for animation you have to simplify, otherwise you are gonna to drive animators into a murderous rage. But its always peeved me when an arm or other limb is removed there are only two ways of presenting this.

First is the Ham method-the arm or leg is solid pork or you can go the Hollow person theory, once a leg or arm is removed it is found to be totally hollow, filled only with blood and a full bone sticking out.

Its can be a tricky problem since most cartoons don't really want you to go too bloody or gory.

Gotta be another solution right?

warmup

Quick drawing of a fella with a 'tache before i get stuck into some drawing for the evening.

Coloured floaty heads

messing about while watching old 50's science fiction films on netflix.

Sunday

warming up with some noggins.

grumpy lady

start of a sketch on a grumpy old lady

Kid Magazines

from an unsuccessful test a while back.

Vroom

freehanding out cartoon cars without any prep work before hand is pretty hard, but fun.

August

Ooops! been a bit lax with the blog again.

Back to the blog

Its been a while since i was on here. Have been neck deep in a project the last month, but now i am back, and hoping to get this blog back on track and updated frequently. thanks for your patience.

Superhero

Quick sketch, decided to sketch super without reference-good god i am bad at remembering such a simple costume.

Some heads again

just some scribbles to loosen up-heads are so much fun to draw.

100 hands

quick arty challenge with some mates this week, draw a hundred hands.

Some robot sketches

Some robot head concepts from a test i did a while back. Just some fast drawings for ideas

Sketching

A few quick sketches from the notebook

Heads UP!

heads-ohh yeah!

You better watch out for him

He'll rip your lungs out Jim.

prop phones

gotta keep the hand in so here is a page of prop telephones.

Oh, hello.

No pints on a monday

warming up

from the vault

its late and my eyes are murdering me. So here is the easy way out, instead of scanning in a new sketch i can show another sporty car from the colouring book.

Dyno-mite!!

explosion

Why does it always rain on me?

Bring an umbrella-just in case

Warming up

i dunno-some sort of fella with a spear?

Page of sketchy heads

Quick page of sketches with a light slap of colour

Rocketeer From Memory

Well i happen to love the Rocketeer, so i thought i would knock out a super fast sketch without resorting to opening up google or anything. Plus a sketch from a terrible film i watched called the wraith last night.

Surprise Moustache!!

indeed

Doodling

spaceman

Tiny Hulk

Some quick morning warm up drawings with good old sketchbook pro

pickup

another from the colouring book-with a little simple dab of photoshop colour from me.