More watercolour attempts. This time, a series on style icon Anna Piaggi, who passed away just last year. I hope when I’m 80, I’ll be even half as daring with my wardrobe as she was. So fabulous!
teapot monster
Here’s a still from a really short animation (we’re talking 10 seconds short!) I did the other weekend for an online contest which alas, I didn’t win. I had good fun making it though! I won’t put the clip up yet as I want to fix the export settings because it didn’t come out quite right. But I will put it up here when I do.
I got some watercolour paints for Christmas so I’ve been mucking about a bit. You might recognize these handsome fellows from ParaNorman which was in cinemas earlier this year. If you haven’t seen it you should drop whatever you’re doing and go watch it now because it is awesomely brilliant!! For reals.
Merry Christmas!! \(^_^)/
More Sartorialist scribblings. I’m finding that I quite like drawing in pen because I can’t go back and second guess my lines so much.
I’ve been trying to improve my drawing recently so here are some sketches I did yesterday. Top right is a sketch of my mum and sister watching a film and the rest are drawings of people from The Sartorialist website. Everyone on that site is on their mobile phone, seriously! Such trendy, good-looking people though.
I need to do more drawings from life but when I can’t get out, The Sartorialist is pretty good. Plus they don’t just walk off when you’re half-way through. There are a few scribbles up there beside the long-legged lady from before, when I was trying to sketch people walking past my Costa Coffee vantage point. Not terribly successful. Must practice!!
This week I made a bird puppet for the monthly “Creative Challenge” hosted by LAIKA house, the amazingly fantastic studio behind Paranorman and Coraline. He’s a Moustache Bird (to tie in with this month’s Movember theme) made from wire and foam as well as rather a lot of feathers and bits of earrings.
If you click the photo it will bring you to the album of entries where you can check out all of the awesome submissions and cast votes for your favourites.
My viking model, digitally coloured in Photoshop. I’m fairly lousy with Photoshop so I’m actually really pleased with how this has turned out. Wahey! I’ve changed the colours from the original drawing but I quite like him.
I just finished my sculpt of this viking based on this drawing by Nico Marlet. It’s from the Dreamworks ”Art of How To Train Your Dragon” book. I love all the character designs and concept drawings in it and I thought this one would make a good sculpture.
I wanted to try turning a 2D design into a 3D model so I made this guy out of Super Sculpey with a coat of grey primer. I’ll hopefully get around to doing a digital paint of it to see what it’d be like in colour.
It was gloriously sunny today so I headed into the city centre to visit the Natural History Museum for some drawing. It wasn’t too busy as most people seemed to have the right idea to stay outdoors and enjoy the sunshine. I got a few drawings of skulls done and one of the hippopotamus skeleton. I never realised what horrible teeth hippos have! They stick out every which way and grind off each other to keep them razor sharp. Scary stuff!
