I tried something new with this session: I recorded my screen as I drew! Watch the video below for a look at all the drawings I normally never let anyone see ...It was a good exercise as I can spot when I'm struggling with a pose, and start to noodle. In those cases...
A colleague took a video of some gorillas while visiting his local zoo, and I asked if I could sketch from it. The interactions between the gorillas were fascinating to study.
On Saturday I joined an online drawing class from Wild Life Drawing featuring five-week-old wolf-dog pups from Watermill Wolves. They were alternately incredibly active or completely asleep.
Back in 2009 I wrote The Dance for NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, which takes place every November. Sarah is a maidservant in the court of the king when a magnificent ball takes place. Though she is cleaning, Sarah is asked to dance ... For Sarah's...
Manaus is Rudy's son and as such has been through many of the trials she has. There is something very interesting about the 'relationship' between a writer or artist and their characters. It's possible to be very cruel to them to serve a story. I don't remember...
Having lost her seal skin, this selkie meets Fraser and his dog.
These drawings are from last week, but it took me until now to cherry-pick the best to upload. They're all studies from Bodies in Motion; most of them are of neutral expressions but some of the short poses (between 30 seconds and 2 minutes) were of a variety of...
Recently I taught some animation workshops for groups of mainly high school aged children and youth. This is the first time I've taught animation in any depth, though I ran one workshop on pixelation a few years ago. My main goal was to give a basic framework for...
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...