I struggled with this one. Choosing the colour and getting the texture right was difficult, and I don't feel I've completely succeeded in either area. This was a study of a canvas bag. I guess I need to paint more cloth!
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Tutorial: Storyboarding in Photoshop
I've realised that the way I use Photoshop to storyboard isn't that well known. This way of working uses Frame Animation within the Timeline panel. It takes a short while to organise new shortcuts and change a few settings, but once that’s done it’s easy to add new...
Doodle
A few weeks ago I began working as a character and storyboard artist on an animated feature film called Spiked. I've been drawing a lot but of course I'm not able to share what I'm working on yet, so here's a little doodle I drew today!
Tree Seasons
There's a little maple tree outside my window in the new house. At the beginning of the year when we had quite a lot of snow I did a quick study of it because I loved the way the snow blobbed around the branches. A couple of weeks ago, I did another study. It's fun to...
Loading .tpl files into Adobe Sketch
Updated 18th October 2017 Kyle posted a link to this Photoshop blog post today, announcing that his brushes will now only be available through an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. If you have already purchased and downloaded his brushes from Gumroad, you can still...
Collie Character
There's been idea in my head that I've wanted to storyboard for a while. I've begun drawing thumbnails, but before going any further today I decided to get down some rough character designs. A dog features in this story, specifically a Border Collie, so I did some...
How do I delete the white background from line art?
Over the last year I've been Googling the sentence above - how do I delete the white background from line art? I know that I know how to do this, but I keep forgetting. So I've decided to write it down so that I can reference it in future, and hopefully help others as...
Heads and Tails
I did these sketches last month but only got the chance to colour them today. Most of them are very quick gesture drawings, around 30 seconds. The portrait was drawn in about 5 minutes. I think the fish came out particularly well!
Create
I've been going along to several events at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this week. As part of the EIFF's Youth Hub events I took part in a filmmaking competition. Each entry had to be made in under a week, and include the dialogue "young and the wild" and...