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New Portfolio and Showreels

New Portfolio and Showreels

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...

The Life of Birds

The Life of Birds

Today I attempted some gesture drawing from an episode of The Life of Birds. As I reached the end of Planet Earth II last year I realised I really should have had my sketchbook out. It's good training for cafe gesture drawing, which I'm normally pretty hopeless at. As...

Gestures

Gestures

Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.

Animal Gestures

Animal Gestures

Haven't drawn much in the last few days, so I spent some of my morning doing timed sketches from artists.pixelovely.com [now https://line-of-action.com/] - a great site for gesture practice. These were 30 second drawings.

Inktober #1

Inktober #1

I've been taking part in Inktober - a challenge to do one ink drawing every day of October. They've all been posted on my Twitter but I'm just now getting round to posting them here. I haven't followed the official prompts; instead I'm drawing costumes through the...

30 Second Horses

30 Second Horses

Some wind-down sketches from this afternoon. Also, the first little bit has been released about the project I've been working on for the last eight weeks. I've been a Story Artist on the Animation Base Camp, a trainee programme with mentorship from Sony Pictures...

Glasgow Botanics

Glasgow Botanics

I sketched a little in the Botanic Gardens over the weekend. Alongside the plants there were some marvellous statues. 

Animals at Kelvingrove

Animals at Kelvingrove

Yesterday I had a wander around Glasgow's West End with some friends from the course. While they had a look round the various exhibits at Kelvingrove I sat and drew some of the stuffed animals. Here are some of the best / least creepy sketches ... I think the penguins...