From the Vault

Again we become brave to dive into the vault that is my pc folders to find old sample of work that were done in the past.
So my brain has been running low on creativty this week not the funnest of things to have go on. I thought I would put this up as it is one of the more interesting ones that I have done. I have tried a few things in photoshop to this but they never really work as it already look fine as it is just being shaded in with pencil. Yea not much to say about this is was done a few years back now.

Hopefully I have more of a creative week after I figure out where my brain ran off to..... too many dark places for it to hide...... well hope you have a good weekend and yea we'll see if I have that creative spark back.

Q Fan Art

Q 's a character in Street Fighter III: Third Strike He's one of my favorites to draw, and play as. His background is a mystery, don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy, all we know is that he is around whenever a major disaster happens. I'm not a fan, it feels like the idea guy took a half day...

Co-worker: "Hey guys? I, uh, think we need a boss."
Idea Guy: "What? another one? Just chuck something in we'll make it up later."
Co-worker: "Is that a good idea? I mean won't they notice?"
Idea Guy: "Nah, they love that stuff, just say he has something to do with disasters, they'll do the rest."

It's true Street Fighter players love to figure out what parts are cannon, and what characters back stories are, but do you know what they like more? when the continuity isn't screwed over whenever capcom feels like it. *cough* Charlie *cough*

Skullduggery

Trying to show a bit of a different take to the last few edits I have uploaded. A lot of the editing I do to my artwork tends to completely distort it. This is one of my favourite things I have ever draw. It is an anatomically correct skull, which has had the colouring changed in photoshop.

What I like about it, is the fact that despite the slight editing, you can still tell it is hand-drawn. Like so many of my creations, the effect is actually accidental. I was playing around with different colourings and looks, and this happened. And it was a cool accident. But, just don't ask me to repeat it, I have no idea of the exact process.

That is a good thing about art. The majority of it is experimentation. So the textures and colours you make, are discoveries of trial and error. Which is what makes art so exciting. And it is also why it is one of my biggest passions.

It's been a long week

Well what can I say, it has been a long week for me as I am now starting uni again so not been ale to do something for this week. I was working on the idea of doing some drawings and character type stuff but haven't had a chance to do that. But I still manged to find some thing that was created a few weeks back that I haven't shown :) . This was created in Illustrator and as you can see it is just really the same monster repeated over again but this was a fun one that was done. Originally done to be a wacky desktop image it only lasted for a couple of days. My PC didn't agree with it having a trail following any thing that was opened when i moved it to someplace else was not fun. But this image is!

Alchemy it's like... alchemy, for alchemists?

I play D&D on Monday, and this Monday I started a new campaign as my first ever alchemist. Normally a little eccentric alchemists tend to  create potions and bombs, always tinkering with new formulas, my characters mind has maybe deteriorated more than most and after a few too many bad ones his common sense could be better, but don't get me wrong, the mans still a genius.

Now back on track, I couldn't help but sketch him, I even ended up inventing a wee gizmo for him, it keeps track of the daily formulas. The first Image, is a really quick colouring just so that I could jot down what's in my head. The second image was drawn earlier today at work, the glass vials he has are bombs, he mixes them and throws them to do damage and the third image, that's just a doodad. 

Sue Smells a Journey

Today I am showing a piece of abstract art, which is taken from something I uploaded to Deviant Art, although I am unsure this is going to work. I am currently using one of the PCs at work to post this. If it doesn't work, I'll fix it when I get home tonight.

It is supposed to representing smell and journey. I put these two things together because I feel that they are interlinked. Mostly because if you smell something, it can take you on a journey. Even if it is an emotional one, where it takes you back to a period of your life.

Again this is a mixed media piece. With patterns originally painted with arcylics, and then distorted using photoshop. As I have said previously, this is the kind of art I seem most happy with. Because it has the traditional aspects, of which I love, mixed with the fact that the meaning is whatever the viewer deciphers it to be. And to me, that is the magical thing about art.

walk about

hi there its me again. this week I thought of trying something different with taking photos form a walk I had this week with sue, and well here are the pics.

 Ok so this one was not from this weeks walk this was from round new year when still had the snow disappearing but its still a nice shot.

 ok these next are almost the same but I really like this area the sound of the running water and the waterfall have a nice relaxing feel for me.

 This was me trying to take a interesting picture and show the flow of the water but I don't think it worked that well but again its a different shot from the others

And here we are to the last one a close up of the water fall it self. The Dunfermline park is a awesome place to go to for relaxing at the end of the week.