more cupcakes and more dinosaurs

I had so much fun painting those dinosaurs the other day that I decided to paint a whole set of em. I think these would make nice adornments for a child's bedroom wall:
I also painted some cupcakes because everyone loves cupcakes. These have sold pretty well in the past, so...
All of these are on 8x8" canvases. I'll put them all up for sale at some point.

Also here are some sketchbook pages because I always assume everyone wants to see these for some reason:
Keep on bein' cool, Cool Dudes.

a new thing, and an old thing

I recently rediscovered a 12" by 12" canvas that I've had knocking about since October. Figured I'd paint some cute dinosaurs on it.
I've also came across something I made at university, just before I started my second year, that I'd totally forgotten about. It is a postcard made out of one week's worth of junkmail sent to my parents' house.
The front:
The back:

misc

Did some sketchy paintings just for fun for the first time in forever. Here's some people:
and some video game dudes:
I dunno, man...

degree show progress, day like 5 or 6 or something

So, yeah, I forgot my camera on day 2, I was busy on day 3 and Blogger was down from day 4 but whatever! My show space is up and I think it looks pretty rad!!
Yeah!!!

The show is on from June 6 to June 11, 10am-4pm in the University of Portsmouth Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue. Admission is free. Illustration is on the third floor.

degree show progress, day 1

Started setting up my space for the degree show today. So much still to do but it's looking pretty good already if I do say so myself!

Jabberwocky

Some character designs and concept art for an interpretation of Lewis Carrol's Jabberwocky for a brief set by LittleLoud Digital Entertainment. The brief was actually set months ago but I've only just got them back (I sent off the originals (and I didn't make copies (because I'm an idiot.)))

Connections, connections gift packs, new paintings

My animation is finished. It is called 'Connections' and you can watch it by clicking on these words here. It is, at its base level, a story of a phone call between two young lovers, but it also is about much more than that. I intended to downplay the signifance or individual identity of the characters so as to show the diversity and complexities of the connections and communications between humankind, nature and the universe on a much wider level.
It is what I've been building up to since September, and the final animation is the product of about two months of work. I am immensely proud of it.

At the degree show in June I will be selling these super-extra-limited-edition gift packs to compliment the animation:
Each one contains two unique hand-painted 1-inch pin badges, a flipbook depicting the first and last scenes of the animation (the phonecall bits; the scene just after the intro and the scene just before the end credits) a business card with a frame from the animation printed on it, and twelve small stickers each depicting a tiny snippet of a frame from the animation or from some other miscellaneous piece of unrelated work.
They will probably go for about £6.

I've also been working on a few new paintings, now that work on the animation has ceased and I can finally find the time to do so. A couple of finished ones are here but I have a few more in the pipeline as well.
I'm currently looking into a means to sell paintings online, so watch this space.

sketchbook styles

Some more sketchbook stuff. As well as the main characters and narrative, I'm spending a lot of time figuring out how the background elements are going to look. I want to make sure everything fits together neatly.
Also, here's a design I did for Lewis Carrol's Jabberwock, for a much smaller brief:

bits and bobs

Some of the pieces that will make up my finished animation. All the individual elements of each scene are hand-painted, scanned, pieced together in Photoshop and created frame-by-frame to be put in motion later in Premiere. The most efficient method? Not really, no, but it works, and it adds a certain hand-made, rough-around-the-edges quality that goes so well with the way I paint!

another animation test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LakcRXl2yJE < click that.

This is a fairly rough test for the intro of my first foray into the world of animation. If I have time at the end I'll go back and fix some of the issues it has, but otherwise this will probably end up in the final thing.

I'll try to post some stuff that's not on Youtube soon, I promise. Right now though this animation is taking up all of my time and I've not really got much else to show.

Stay frosty, dudes.