I prefer the robot. All hail the overlords.

This weeks it's... well... I'm not sure if I'm honest. I drew this on the bus and decided to scan it in and clean it up. I think it would have been a lot easier if I had an eraser. No really, I drew it all in pencil then over with pen, only to realise I had no eraser, so that was a lot of time spent cleaning up in Photoshop.

Its just the flat colours; no highlights or shadows, this is always my first step when I colour something.

I'm going to go with steam punk(ish) mercenary, although there's a quality about the original I really like, it was going to be a robot.

Anyways, I'm off to bed, so see you next week!

It's Gone Crazy, Everypony!

Weclome to the (slightly delayed) start to another week. I am not going into the complete failure of trying to post this. Thanks technology, once again why we will never be best friends.



Anyways, *breathes* today I have a piece of requested fan art to show you. This is Scootaloo, a character from The Hub's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. People who know me, are surprised I have kept this area of my life such a secret. The idea was for a messy, arty Scootaloo to be printed as a sticker for a class of Primary School kids.

She has been hand drawn, and blocked in on Photoshop. She is basic, but that was the request. It is an odd thing to be asked to draw a creation, which is not the same style as the original. She has made a group of 7 year old school kids very happy, on their first week back to school.

Silly Airships

So airship this week sounds fun! I thought I would throw in some additional challenges for myself this week. the first one was to use a software that I neglect rather often and that is Illustrator along with that challenge I thought I would record the creation of the image as well, so that is am other thing to do is to get that sorted out and edited down.

As you can see its more of a silly go at this type of thing using bright colours to show that and happiness to it as well. Created through the use of shapes and different gradient effects on it. It has been a while since I have last used Illustrator properly but this week been dabbling with it early on and thought I would give it a good shot. Just need to find some magazines I have that have some tutorials for using this software and practice them to get a better hang of it.

Ahoy! I see land! Of course you do, it's below us...

Yeah you get to see the messy pencils

So Sue's already told you it's theme week, and this time I get to draw something flight(y?) here's a quick sketch of an airship, my friends moving down to Manchester and had a leaving do, strangely exactly when I'd planned to clean this up. It's another one on my to-do list, I'll upload some other sketches I have, there were a few designs, I was playing with a wee fleet of airships.

I'll  probably do another version just to sort out some of the lines that don't quite fit and maybe some perspective fixes.

I think this would be a fun place to explore, a floating city of civilian airships.

Good luck and catch me next time.

Edit: Apparently I'd set this for tomorrow so here's the update.

I'm Flying High

This week we have a theme to work on. This to to create a bit of a challenge for all the artists involved. This week's challenge is aircraft/ flight. The idea is that the artist has to interpret that however they want. And as long as it is creative, there are no holds barred.

I decided I wanted a little bit of fun with this challenge, so I created a hot air balloon. Which was a lot of fun to make.

It is a little thing I made with paper and wool, reminiscent of the things I made at Primary School. I have name him Joe, and he is currently stuck on my wall. I created a small box out of paper, and the 'balloon' is basically a circle drawn round a CD. The balloon is spray painted, and the basket is coloured with pen. It was all stuck together with double sided tape, where I stuck it on the wall to photograph.

Then, when transferred into Photoshop, I used a photo I had taken of the sky, to use as a background. There was a lot of erasing involved, but it was pretty painless.

I wanted something I could physically make, and with the balloon I achieved that. I did find the task a bit of a challenge at first, because aircraft and the like, isn't something I ever really draw. Which is why, after a passing glance at Art Attack, on Playhouse Disney, I decided to make something. And the whole process was fun, and that is why I create things. For fun. It certainly made things easier once I decided how to make this challenge fun.

See you in a week. :)

Blue

So here we are again another week come and pass. Here we have an image that was created early on in the week (top) which I have just finished sorting out and creating the other image (bottom)

Attack of the stickmen!

So I've not had the chance to be as near my laptop as I'd like but I made a couple of fast drawings, I got a new brush pen for my birthday and wanted to try some scribbles to see what happened. The first two images were done in about a minute the second one was a little spaceman spiff inspired and the third one was originally a pencil sketch I made at work.

I like this pen a lot, but the ink isn't nearly as black as I'd like, when it runs out I'm going to try and use some nice ink (another birthday gift from the same friend) and see what happens. I may just buy a fine inking brush it would probably get me closer to the line thickness I'm looking for and give me some practise.

Here's another little thought for the week, I've noticed my figures and poses are sometimes really poor. So I'm trying to draw stick figures when I can see if that helps, I'd recommend other people go back to basics if something isn't working. I don't have any taught experience so I could be wrong about it, but I find it helps me.

I think after this I might start linking people to the blog, so again, feel free to comment or advise on anything here.