As I look back at 2024 one of my regrets is failing to continue designing The Wait - and other personal projects. The Wait is a mini graphic novel I've been working at for a long while now. Back when Sputnik: Faith + Arts gave me a small grant to work on character...
Emma Butler-Cole Aiken Stained Glass and I are looking forward to being at Selkirk Farmers Market next week, on Saturday 7th September! We'll be in Selkirk Market Place from 9.30am to 1pm with a table full of glass, drawings, prints, paintings, books, postcards,...
Recently I've spoken to a few people about their life drawing, and one thing that's kept coming up is hands, feet, and faces. It's really clear when I look at work that has these things missing. They're tough to draw - don't I know it! Sadly, they will still be...
Early last year I created some concept art for a feature film. Unfortunately the prop I worked on has since been cut from the story, but I'm able to share it here with you. The first three images were quite general explorations to get a feel for what the director...
The Gaelic King is now available through Amazon, iTunes, HMV and Zoom in the UK! It’s exciting to know the film is out there, and people are watching this story for the first time. I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve done on the film from the last two years....
I now have a new portfolio and two new showreels online! My portfolio has a range of gesture and life drawings, concept sketches, and animal drawings as well as a range of final art from some of my projects. The showreels page [no longer live] has both a character...
If you haven’t seen my previous storyboards from the Animation Base Camp, you may want to start here or here. The story revolves around odd-couple animals at a therapist’s office. The scene below, featuring a bee, was worked on by several different people throughout...
I designed, storyboarded and animated this video for trypraying. The trypraying booklet is a seven-day prayer guide which encourages people to try praying for a week and see what happens. Some of my concept art for the project is below.I began with some rough...
I first remember seeing Escher's work while at primary school. We were given a piece of his to copy, so I dutifully started drawing some of the plants from the corner of his lithograph "Waterfall". I ran out of time, and never finished anything else, but I did gain a...