I visited Bristol Museum today and sketched some of the creatures there. This tiger was shot by George V in 1911, which is some sort of distinction I suppose. It was in an amazing crouched position and at first glance appeared to be ferocious. The longer I looked at...
This little guy appeared while I played with Kyle T. Webster's great gouache photoshop brushes today.
This is one of the first sketches I did for the fire in "Dreid", my VFS classical animation. I took a picture of the sketch when I had to throw the sketchbook it was in away, and I only found the picture this weekend.This little bird was in the same sketchbook, but...
Today's quick doodle. I want to try and get away from relying on my sketch lines. I'm finding it difficult to translate them into finished, clean lines!
Some cats from my sketchbook. Coloured in Photoshop.
I had fun painting with gouache last night! I bought three more tubes of paint as last time I only had yellow, red, and blue. Also I planned ahead a bit more, taking some designs from my sketchbook to paint instead of attempting to make them up on the spot.
I used to paint at the table by standing on a chair. If I did that now I'd be in danger of hitting the ceiling.
Since I began playing around with digital gouache brushes I wanted to try out the real thing. I bought some paints today and smudged them about in one of my sketchbooks. I like how they're a combination of acrylics and watercolours! And yet, unlike either, gouache...
Here's a sketch from my notebook. I was looking out at our bird feeder and began to imagine an outlaw robin ... they're so shy, no one would suspect him!