brief update

Again, I'm not posting as much as I want to. There just aren't enough hours in a day!

With no time to work on much concept art lately, I do have an alla prima painting from earlier this month and few more to put up once I get them photographed. Some life drawing and concepts to come once I get them all scanned too.

Work is keeping me busy, which is excellent!

oil on board

This painting was quite fun for me and a first for painting the figure alla prima in oil. I have another process shot somewhere that I'll post up later.

I noticed there were a lot of deadlinks since my website is down and being reconstructed at the moment, so if you're interested here are some links to the updated pages:

Figure painting
Still life

Wayhey! It's been a little quiet here this month, but fortunately not so much IRL.

You know how it is, everything happens all at once or not at all, which was totally the case this month. It started off with an interview, followed by an invitation for a 2nd interview. Then a week later, an emergency interview with Rare and an interview with a developer in london, followed by an offer! At the same time I'm running two month-long freelance contracts for a games company and a film production house, and doing a course at Central St Martins to brush up my storyboarding skills. Happy days!! I havent felt this busy in a while and I love it!

So I start on Tuesday working for perhaps the most influentual games corporation in the world that I could only have dreamed of ever working for in the past and I can't wait, but here's a little clear out of random stuff I've been doing between work and play.

Life drawing March/April

Bic biro sketch

Ink

Red Riding

Sketchbook

Lifedrawing Jan/Feb

Portrait time

Conte portrait

Pen portrait

Enviro illustrations

Stages of artistic mastery

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I've been going through an art slump lately. I was going through all my past work when rummaging around I stumbled upon this "stages of artistic mastery" chart I'd saved ages ago and it made me feel a lot better about my state of mind.

I didn't make it and I don't remember where I found it, and you might have seen it before. Still, it's worth looking at often to put things into perspective.

Quick Character Update

I thought I'd add some older characters of mine that I'd not posted earlier.