Graphic Design and Illustration.

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Sketch Faces 2019

A series of faces I sketched out and then inked in my sketchbook, scanned into the computer, and then had some shades of grey put in. I started off with a solid grey tone, and then added the light and dark values where needed.

Quick tip when trying to draw something like this out:

Draw a whole bunch of circles, ovals or squares out quickly. Make them all different sizes and get a nice pattern or composition. These will be all the faces. THEN start drawing all the different faces however you want. Makes it MUCH more likely you will have a nice composition of faces than if you just drawing faces randomly.

Enjoy!

Waiting at the Station

Arjana always liked to make a bold impression.

Gold was always a stand out colour. It just has a quality all it’s own. And would contrast nicely with the muted teal and blue tones of the spaceport. She would be easy to spot in the bustling hub of Epsilon Eridani Intergalactic. Every day, untold thousands crossed its courtyard all the way from Bernard’s Star, the mining colonies of Alph Proxima, and even distant Earth!

Earth, where her new charge, Randall, was from. He was new to the outer colonies, so he was assigned a guide to help him adjust to his new life abroad. Arjana was assigned to him last minute, so they had never gotten the chance to meetup over the ‘Net before his ship left Earth, putting him out of communication while his ship traveled the jump gates across the stars.

She checked the flight status on the readout on her artificial retinas. The indicator was flashing green so everything was on time. Good. Should be a nice, routine case.

If only she knew.

This was a fun one to paint. Started out as a pencil sketch in my sketchbook, and was quickly transferred to my computer where digital colour was laid down fairly quickly. I deliberately tried to keep things pretty loose. A stylistic choice I’m trying to maintain as much as possible throughout my work. Hope I did the African features justice. Was loosely inspired while watching Black Panther, though I don’t really think I quite matched the beautiful costume designs of that movie! Enjoy!

Abstracts

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.

The Oxfordians

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!

Fall Birch

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!

Retro Alien

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!

Colour of the Month, Blue

 

So every month for the year, I’ll be posting a quick description of a colour, along with a little bit of colour theory to help out in colour selection. This is my way of making sure I get back in the habit of doing a major post to my blog once a month! So this month’s colour, Blue, just happens to be my favourite. And since this month is my birthday, I thought this would be a good place to start.