These next characters come from Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword, a fantasy novel I adore. As it's set in the desert land of Damar I took inspiration from The Prince of Egypt for design. Harry (full name Angharad) is the heroine, and I show her here near the beginning...
Captain Frederick Wentworth, for those who haven't read (or watched) Persuasion, is the love interest of Anne.
Having lost her seal skin, this selkie meets Fraser and his dog.
Fraser was enjoying a walk on the beach with his dog when he came across something extraordinary ...
Inktober is an annual drawing challenge which I've taken part in before, but this year I've decided to do it a little differently. As the name suggests the drawings are supposed to be in ink, but this year I'm going to cheat and draw digitally. My aim with this...
While boarding the Pigeon Crumbs animatic I posted a few weeks ago I drew these reference sketches and character models to help me figure out how the character would look, feel and act.
A few months ago I created a new logo for NarniaWeb, updating their lion so it can be used across more media. The previous logo was quite a small image that worked as part of the header to their website but didn't work so well in videos or printed on t-shirts as it...
Recently I animated a couple of elements for the new Skoog advert, which you can watch below.I animated the girl's moustache, plus several 'flourishes' throughout the video. I've added a couple of examples as gifs below.
One of the good things about taking the train is getting the chance to doodle away. Here are a few drawings from a recent trip. Mostly I just scribble, but the first group below are some characters from an old story of mine. I've been wondering about storyboarding the...