One of the last times I was up in Edinburgh I sketched these at the museum in Chambers Street. Though I took no notes on colour at the time, thankfully National Museums Scotland has a searchable database - it's fantastic for research.
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Climb Ev’ry Mountain
While watching The Sound of Music again recently I was struck by the scene where Mother Abbess sings 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain'. I decided to do a tone/composition study because the lighting and cinematography of the scene is so lovely. When Maria enters the room, it's...
Statue Sketch
I liked this bust of George Roberts, Provost of Selkirk in the 1800s, and had to draw it.
Animation Workshops
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...
Working on The Gaelic King
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....
Life Drawing, 27th June
It was the final life drawing session last week, modelled by Ina. I'll miss the weekly sketching, but hopefully this will push me to draw more the rest of the time.
Show Jumping Horses
I keep mentioning on this blog that I want to do more drawing from life, so when the stable I've begun riding at advertised an informal show jumping event I went along to sketch the participants. At the beginning it was hard to put more than a couple of lines down,...
Life Drawing, 13th and 20th June
Some sketches of models Hayley and Garry from the last two weeks.
The Gaelic King Trailer
Scots warrior-king, Alpin, must fight to rescue his brother and regain the kingdom of Dalriata. The Gaelic King is an independent feature I was a story and concept artist on. Truffle Pictures has closed distribution deals for the film across North America, the UK,...