More Works in Progress

WIP

New Painting

Put the finishing touches on a painting i had been working on this evening. Was able to knock most of it over the other day and finish up the last bits this evening. Will be taking the last three paintings in to the gallery tomorrow. Pretty stoked as four of the first five paintings in the gallery have already sold.

Ninja Kitti

I guess the advantage of working on multiple paintings at one time is that you get the satisfaction of finishing two in one day!

Its interesting how much of a different process that the canvas painting is to digital. Its a lot slower and you have to wait for stages to dry before you can approach the next, there's no undo function, no editable layers and you can't just pick up objects and reposition them on the canvas. Makes me realise how spoilt we are in this digital age.

On the flip side, you can paint in the sunshine and not be huddled over a computer monitor :)

Latest Painting

Just put the finishing touches on my latest RvB piece. This is my largest canvas so far (762mm x 1016mm). Actually think I preferred working on the larger scale - gives you a bit more freedom.

RvB Development hits full steam

Have some big development plans in the works for RvB, including a fully fleshed out world, story and cast of characters.

I feel like I'm really starting to find the focus for this project that it deserves. Putting a couple of the characters to canvas has really spurred me in to action.

Here's some development sketches I've been scribbling down lately - some of which you will notice have been turned in to paintings. You might even notice a new character - Ninja Kitti.

Stay tuned as more stuff is in the works. Have a couple of paintings in progress and a few other projects on the go for RvB.

Have also updated the branding on my RvB blog and will hopefully giving a little bit more focus to it in the upcoming months.

The sockmonster

Did this lil fellow for A wacom "Anime monster contest".

I swear this creature is real, but as to whether it would look

like this I can only speculate.

Consider it, an artist's impression. :)

Tim Burton Exhibition

Went and saw the Tim Burton exhibition at ACMI on the weekend.

Fantastic! Absolutely loved it! I never realised he had such an extensive body of artwork. Was really inspiring. I loved seeing how he has carried his personal style through his art over the years and managed to evolve it.

I reckon any Tim Burton fan gets along to see this.

The exhibition has inspired me to do this little character concept with some very distinct Tim Burton influences.

Tassie holiday sketchbook

Alana and I have just got back from a ten day trip to Tassie and I was pleased whilst down there to be able to get a chance to do a bit of sketching. It felt nice to be drawing something that wasn't using a wacom tablet.

We even got the idea half way through the trip to do a sort of childrens book semi fantasy take on the trip. Was kind of an excuse for me to draw myself and alana as these little cartoon characters whose take on the situation was a little more fantastic than it was. (I will post that illustrated story in my next post).

For the meantime here are a couple of unrelated miscellaneous sketches that I also did. Please excuse the quality of the images as they are from out digital camera as my scanner is out of action at the moment...

Skullboy wallpaper

Made a desktop wallpaper of my skullboy pic last nite for anybody thats interested.

Enjoy...

Skull Boy

Did a bit of an update on a sketch i did a little while back. Had a bit of time spare last nite so thought i'd try and get this closer to what i imagined doing for it in the first place.

Character

Some more scribbling last nite...

Skullboy

This is a character design i was working on last nite. Sort of a tragic white boy rapper who thinks he's black. Was planning to turn this character into a Forza livery as a kind of humorous drift racing team called Skullboyz.

Work in Progress: Part 6

Getting close to finished...

Work in Progress: Part 3

Spent another 20 minutes on this piece

Work in progress: part 2

starting to add a bit of color...

Work in progress

Just started scribbling...

Work in progress PART II

Have now added Alana to the xmas sketch...

Jack is back!

Jack: the pumpkin headed assassin character that graces the current cover of my folio and online gallery, is the subject of my latest sketch.
This is a work in progress: just the initial sketch so far...

Sam and Leela

Working on a sketch of the family for our xmas card project, so just started warming up with a sketch of Sam and Leela. Amzing after just 4 days without drawing how rusty you feel.