Long Time No Post

It's been a while between updates but you know how life gets in the way. But it is time to start showing off what I am working on. I am making a short 8 page comic about the Elf character that I made up last year. I've been wanting to do a mini comic for a while now and I've wanted to do a story about the hopeless elf for even longer so I am killing 2 birds with one stone. I hope you like this first page I hope to post snippets of my progress more regularly. I have still been working hard and I may post some of it soon but time got away from me.

I've been trying out all the new stuff I figured out on the previous project I completed. I love learning new techniques and I always do when I start a new project.

Hope you enjoy.

Draw-A-Day February Day 20

A King and his throne.

Been working on an idea I've got and felt like doodling down this idea. Hope you like it.

Draw-A-Day February Day 17

A fully coloured short comic about a scared elf with a dream.

Draw-A-Day February Day 16

The little comic to practice fully composed images. I'm gonna ink and colour this sucker up tomorrow. Hope you like.

An experiment

I recently tried out a technique from Andrew Loomis' 'Creative Illustration' called informal subdivision which is used to create a more informal composition to your illustrations. Below is the scan of the inks that I created using the technique.

I felt that it created a composition I wouldn't of created naturally but a couple of things didn't fit like the size relationship between the characters so I tweaked it after scanning and made the sizes more accurate.

I think with the tweak it works nicely as an image so I may well try this technique again. I recommend checking out the book and trying some of the techniques.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas(or your own religious or non-religious winter holiday) Everyone!!!

Hey I'm Still Alive

Hey, it's been a while hasn't it... well I have a really good excuse well first things I got a job and did that for 2 days and on the second day while cycling there I fell over the handle bars of my bike and broke both my wrists and my right elbow. See that's a really valid excuse isn't it... well onto more positive things while all casted up and unable to do much with my arms I got really into watching cartoons again. Mostly 'Adventure Time' and 'Thundercats' both awesome for their own reasons (I also got really into 'Mythbusters' but that doesn't really tie in). Well while watching these I started thinking about how much I wish my stories could feel more personal, more like me and all the drama that I usually think about more when I can't do it, and started formulating how I could use this experience to create my next work. I started imagining it and the visuals were really vivid in my mind and it killed me that I couldn't draw any of it down. Soooooo it's been almost 6 weeks since the accident and I am almost fully healed (or atleast it feels like it) and I've picked up the pencil and paper again and finally put down some of that imagery that I came up with. None of it has a name yet and it is still early and it was quite quick but it looks so close to how I imagined the visuals and I hope I can continue making it even better. Hope you like and I hope there will be more of this soon.