I mostly do representational artwork. But my day job as a graphic designer often has be doing lots of patterns, so it is only natural that I at least do a FEW more abstract works. I like to think I keep them fairly approachable. These are a few of my favourites. Prints can be found here.
A series of personal drawings I put together featuring cartoon children. I wanted to come up with a process of quickly turning around artwork that would start out as a traditional pencil sketch and then could be quickly finished off digitally. Enjoy!
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!”
When I started this one, nmy son had discovered a big book of poems on his bookself and was having me read it to him every night.
I thought some of the poems were a bit too old for him, and some of them somewhat… dated (the book was from my wife when she was a little girl) but he loved them all the same. This was a favourite.
Started off as a traditional pencil sketch and the colour finished off digitally. Enjoy!
This is one of the few fan art pieces I have in my protfolio right now. I have… philisophical problems with posting such stuff online, so I rarely do it. I thought this one turend out rather well. I always like the fun familiy moments between Barda and Scott.
I was trying to put my own spin on it while keeping pretty close to the Kirby original. Enjoy!
We needed something to go over the couch in our livingroom. And I had been toying with the idea of some sort of birch tree painting for a while now. Finally decided to do something about it. All digital from start to finish. Enjoy!
I have always loved the artwork of fantasy artist Brian Froud. This was my meager attempt to ape his style somewhat. It also gave me the opportunity to use a solid grey as a base colour and build all the other tones in strict black and white. Was fun drawing all the different types of faces. Enjoy!
As the noon day of Centauris approached, Jenna heard a rock fall down the nearby escarpment. Wary of slave hunters, she prepared herself for a possible ambush. There was no way she was going back to the slave markets.
This was a fun personal project where I got to try out some ideas on digital painting. Turned out pretty good. Enjoy!
Zor-len daintily steped over the wreckage. There was no way she was going to ger her uniform soiled. Not on her salary. Besides, these jerks she blasted from the sky weren’t worth it. She wasn’t even sure why she was hired for this assignment.
“Time to put on a smile and see if these losers fall for it,” she said to herself right before she greated her captives. She needed to find out what all the fuss was about. The marks always fell for a pretty smile.
Who doesn’t love a good pulpy-style sci-fi drama? This personal project game me the oppurtunity to try some digital painting techniques while using a very limited (and somewhat flat) colour scheme. Started out as a quick pencil sketch and totally redone in Photoshop. Enjoy!
During the summer of 2018, there was a hashtag on Instagram called #drawthisinyourownstyle and I wanted to participate. This was NOT my original design, just my interpretation of someone else’s work. In fact, this isn’t even the image I originally posted. I felt the symmetry need some work. This is the final result. About 90% of the work was done on my iPad. Just a basic pencil rough by hand and a bit of Photoshop cleanup afterwards makes up the other 10%. You can see what I had originally posted to Instagram here.
Enjoy.
A very goofy and silly experiment that I thought was worth sharing here. Experimenting with colour.
Enjoy!
Eye Opening Design 