Icarus

summoning a dog-headed god

sailing to disaster!

Year of the Snake

Hmm we're already in the year of the horse, but better late than never!

Starwars Challenge

So...I've not posted in a while!

Lots of things have happened in the last 9 months (no not that!) and in amongst all the change going on around me I've found it very difficult to do any personal work. However, things have settled down and besides feeling a little burnt out, things are better than ever. Here's a quick work in progress painting for the Star Wars challenge we've been doing at work.

I'll keep making tweaks to this in the weeks to come. 

If you're still here, thanks for sticking around :)

update: you can see the finished piece here

Pre-bed doodles

Japanana

So I visited Japan recently and spent a few days as a resident artist at Kayamori house and farm project in the mountains of Nara.

The weather wasnt great, heavy rain for the most part, so what was intended as a plein air visit was reduced to a more house-bound approach.

A charming building, with lots of character (and I became convinced that there were ghosts after my host, Aiko, showed me a number of books by the fantastic Shigeru Mizuki). In the 3 days I got a few paintings done, but another visit is definitely on the cards! 

Thanks to Jamie and Aiko for being such great hosts!

 A sheltered corner of Kayamori house's garden, where I hid from the rain and got eaten by mosquitoes

And then some random sketches done before bed!

 

 And this is the linework for my Yokai pinups project, starting with the Shirime!

Pre-bedtime doodle.

So much wrong with it, but hey, at least i had fun!

Food, the mother of all vices

Huntress

...which started with this sketch over two years ago

Fan art!

Just found some photos of some old fan art from a few years back. i was playing Katamari Damacy and LBP a lot back then, so made these little sculptures to dot around the house :)




and a snow katamari!

tanabata

A little something something for Chinese New year.

Enter the dragon!

lunch time doodle

Take me away from here

Film study

Random concepts

Speedpaint 1

Here's a quicky trying out a looser style.