Victorians: Series 2. Also more pig stuff.

I had an unstoppable urge to paint a bunch more victorians today instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing. They're much bigger than the first set - on roughly-A4-sized card. I tried to go for a bit more variety in terms of age and build and class this time to keep things interesting.

Also here are a couple more concept sketches from that Three Little Pigs thing:

3 little pigs adaptation. Warning: Wall of text.

Part of the Visual Narrative unit on my Masters course involves creating a sequence that communicates the story of an already very-widely known and frequently adapted narrative. In this case, the story is The Three Little Pigs. Since the story is so well-known it gives us a lot of leeway and opportunity to play with it and change it up.

For my story I've decided to create a wholly unnecessary ramped-up sequel. Years after the events of the previous story, the Brick House Pig has become a successful builder and realter. Everyone in wherever-the-heck-this-story-takes-place knows that his brick houses are the safest way to go and have built a happy thriving little community. One day a new wolf (maybe a descendant of the original Big Bad Wolf) rocks into town and tries his hand at taking over where the original Big Bad Wolf left off. Knowing that huffing and puffing will no longer suffice, and the approach of climbing down the chimney clearly won't work, he has somehow procured himself a tank. The pigs in the town have to work together to stop him before he blows all their houses sky-high and eats them.
The story's ending involves a bit of irony and role-reversal as the pigs have to trick the wolf into leaving the safety of his tank so they can drop a brick on his head and kill him.

Here's some sketchbook stuff, comin up,most of which admittedly is from an earlier story draft that didn't really make sense and didn't go anywhere but still informs the current script. I'll post whatever I've got of the finished narrative (probably a script and some storyboards and a couple finished pages and concepts) once I've done it and turned it in. I'll probably post more sketchbook stuff within the next few days as well, why not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

masters

Hello friends!
So I recently started a on a part-time MA course in Illustration and Sequential Design. As well as the one main project that spans the course's entire two year timetable, there are also a number of considerably shorter units that run alongside it. Here are a couple of things I have produced so far for one of the considerably shorter units, the Visual Narratives unit.
The first was to produce a sequence of images that conveys a surprise. This is my weird response to that:And then there's this short animation, produced in five hours as an introductory piece to a group presentation of a modern cautionary tale. Voice acting is not one of the facets of my professional repertoire, as you will surely discover.
Anyway I'll post more uni stuff once I've actually done more uni stuff. Still early days yet. It's mostly presentations and seminars, written work and mindmaps so far.

So here's a totally unrelated thing I made for a sort of secret santa thing with some people on Twitter: MadamLuna is an artist as well. You can check out her blog here: http://electricopolis.blogspot.com/

a bunch of stuff that is impossible to categorise

On a friend's advice to "just churn stuff out", I just churned some stuff out. Here is a new mini canvas and some canvas boards:

 A larger canvas. More of a huge doodle than anything else:

 And some new pages from this year's Sketchbook Project. I'm still on the theme of Heroes & Villains:

 

Oh, and a very special thing that arrived in the post from Laura Jayne Weeks!

More Victorians

More of 'em! I just can't stop myself.

Etsy

Victorians

I felt like painting some victorians today, so I did that. I painted some victorians.

 

I put them up on Etsy for an absurdly low amount of money. Check 'em out!

Also,

portraits, mostly

Had a couple of commissions from my friend Jo for some very simple portraits. This is them:
I also painted some fanart for my buddy Gigi's wonderful webcomic Cucumber Quest, which you should be reading if you aren't already:and here's another thing:I'm still trying to come up with that zine page. I thought maybe this could be that, but I don't know.

love birds

I painted this thing today. I was supposed to be making a simple black and white, easily photocopyable page as part of a zine. I have absolutely no idea how it turned into this. None. I'm so pleased with it though!

enough with the dinosaurs already jeeze

Series 4 and 5 of my little dinosaur canvases are finished and that's it! I am done. No more dinosaurs.Series 4 stars Dimetrodon, Dimorphodon, Oviraptor and Diplocaulus.Series 5, here, stars Protoceratops, Spinosaurus, Ichthyosaurus and Dilophosaurus. The dilophosaurus, I was a little disappointed to find out, did not have huge neck frills or spit acid out of its mouth like in Jurassic Park, but was still pretty rad anyway.

As usual, these are all up on the ol' Etsy.

In other news, I got started on my submission for The Sketchbook Project 2012. This year, I got Heroes and Villains as my theme. Here's a little sneak preview:

mini collages for sale

Finished off the last of my mini collage canvases. The will be the last ones I make for a while, I reckon. I've put them all up for sale on my Etsy store. £7 each with free shipping. Check 'em out.