Some Personal Work
A few personal paintings. Mainly focusing on technique. The candles are in acrylic on watercolour paper. The other three are done in a mixture of Gouache and Acrylic using “Rub-Out”.
Illustrations for the Mistborn Series
I’ve recently finished reading Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy. It was such a great story which kept you guessing right till the end. What I liked about the triology, and Brandon Sanderson’s stories in general is his departure from the Tolekien …
Proko – Basic Elements
Stan Prokopenko has just done a new video on shape, value, colour and edge. As always it’s well done, helpful and the sort of thing you wish you’d seen when you first started painting.
Yesterday’s Work – Gamut Masks
I saw this photo (warning – nudity) on Marcus Ranum’s DeviantArt stock site. It just stood out to me and I thought it might make a good painting. The rest of the pose reminds me very much of a Frank Franzetta character, …
John Howe Documentry
I watched this documentary on John Howe by François Boetschi and Anders Banke. It’s called “There and back again”. He talks about a wide variety of things from how his short-sightedness influencing his perception of the world to his work …
Figure Drawing
I haven’t uploaded any in a while so here are a bunch of pages from my sketchbook. Enjoy!
Amazon Recommends…
The great and powerful Amazon sees fit to send me recommendations according to what I have bought, searched for or added to my wishlist. Many times these so called recommendations have been less than accurate. But this morning they may have got a winner.
Photoshop tutorial
A Photoshop tutorial on how to go from a physical image to a digital version for the web. Covering stitching images together, colour adjustments and Photoshop’s save for web feature.
New Biography Book – Ena Thomas
This book I’ve illustrated has just come out. It’s about a welsh TV chef called Ena thomas. They wanted a funny 1950’s house wife style. Done on stretched 140lb Arches watercolour paper in Gouache.
Y Groes Naidd
Y Groes Naidd is a book I was working on the cover for over the summer. I got a pre-copy in the post a few days ago so I thought I would share the final image plus a look at …