The Adventures of Prudence and Trayfoot

Prudence and Trayfoot are a couple of characters in a comic I've been working on that involves wizard apprentices, mischievous adventures and the funness of being young ^_^

Sketching in the Foyer

Whilst waiting in the Foyer to the IMAX Cinema, Science Museum, I thought I'd sketch some people! I made a pact to myself that as I would rather go out and draw from everyday life than spend my Mondays at Life Drawing, I need to take advantage of every moment!

What do I hope to get from doing his?

- Well, at the moment I have become slightly bored with life drawing classes. I feel I have done enough of 'drawing the body without an outline' and 'focusing on the tones, shadows and forms the body is made up of'. All I would like at the moment is to either draw the human anatomy in immense procission and accuracy or drawing people and the environments they are in whilst capturing that sense of atmosphere and place. Also, I some feedback from last year was that I need to work on my faces - so I guess I need to work on incorporating personality into each figure I draw! 

Holiday in Southern France

Holiday in Southern France.

Digital illustration for a 2 colour, riso printed zine - a collaboration between some class mates and myself.The theme was ‘holiday’ and I chose to illustrate some friends together on their holiday in south France. 

(More) Digital Illustration

HELLO BEAUTIFUL!!

Here we have a screenshot of a piece I am working on at the moment for a collaborative zine with my class mates from uni. The theme is Holiday and it is to be riso printed with Yellow and Blue coloured inks. I wanted to use my manga characters and have a shot of them on holiday somewhere in Europe (Spain?). I have been using mostly the brush tool to fill in the flat colours. The hardest part in the colours and getting the right shades/hues (never know the difference) so that they fit with the characters actually colours that I envision and so the illustration is balanced ^_^ Ah and I cracked out the graphics tablet for this - I highly recommend them if one does not already own one :-)

I'm nearly done so I will be uploading the final artwork soonas and then when the zine is printed (going with Hato Press)! Yeaaaah.

Doodle Plate: Summer Briefs '14 entry

I entered this for a competition by Doodle Plate. I enjoyed getting the paints out and mixing all the colours! Inspired greatly by Shaun Tan, these quirky creatures sit on a hill during sun set. Keeping busy over summer!

Digital Illustration

Currently, I am teaching myself Illustrator. I am working on a character called Sharona Moon for one of my comic stories. All I am using is the Pen tool and Brush tool and I so excited already!! I love flat bold colours anyway. I could take these further and screen print them too...hmmmmm.

That's what I am working on at the moment during that month of my summer holiday!

Character sheet for 'Wind Spirit child'

digital illustration of a Wind Spirit child

Looks cool doesn't it?

For the past year, I have been working on an 'indie fantasy role playing game' with some friends from South Bank University and Wimbeldon College of Arts. I am in charge of character design so I made a test for a character using Photoshop so that another guy in our group can model it in 3ds max! This was my first time filling in my drawing with digital colour. I think next time I will try Illustrator (less pixelation). Other than that I think she looks beaut! 

The character is a child of the Wind Spirit. She can fly and manipulate the wind (totes fantasy derivative). In this alternate world, it is common to have 'children of the...' Wind Spirit, Fire Spirit, Earth Spirit...etc. It just means they possess the attributes of that spirit. And they get to wear a funky outfit!

To paint/colour in digitally is just like physical colouring in and drawing. For me, the more I work at it and practice, the more control I have over the stylus. Painting by hand would have been way quicker for me and I would physically have an original artwork but don't they say it's all about trying out new things?

Watercolour practice

I am trying to work out how I am going to render my manga comic series. I am thinking for the cover I could use watercolour and print it in full colour, and then for the inner pages they will simply be black and white pen drawings with grey pen for variation? 

Ideabook

I've started this new thing called an 'ideabook' where in this book I draw out ideas and sketches from my imagination. I already do a lot of drawing from observation so I need to balance the two. Plus, I want to work on my ideas and to strengthen them by practicing and training my mind to conjure up thoughts and ideas - hence: 'ideabook'.

So far there are mostly sketches of a new manga series idea of Wizard apprentices...

manga series

A manga series  I am working on. I hope to get the first few chapters down and printed this summer ^_^

These girls are in their battle outfits! Think X-men Evolution meets Tokyo Mew Mew.