Bored

Last night I decided to work on an image, just for myself, before the work load for Uni really kicks in again. I sketched it up last night and have started the rendering today. Pretty happy with how it's coming along. I just hope I don't screw it up, especially the face. I hope to get it finished by the long week end.




I'm using water colours and inks. Fun times!

mecha

another experiment! this is a mechanical junkyard i played around with custon brushes. i made all these mechanical brushes myself from black and white photographs i took of my boyf's car engine and also from his friends nissan silvia and one is also an aston martin engine ;D
i might turn this into halo fan art :)
this is fun!

im a graphic designer heh

hi! hi! ive been goin mental on photoshop experimenting with custom brushes! most of these i made myself and some were downloaded heheh i made this for my boyfriend cos he is pstar! hahaha might make some stickers for him

heres another painting i've just started
its a painting of Imogen Heap, she is one talented
woman

just practicing, pretty quick sketches copied out of book and so on.. not very happy.

heres a quick eyeball i whipped up in
Photoshop! wootles

hey guys heres my sketches for
the editorial project.
FIrst one is beethoven drinking the
poisoned drink and the second one
is his evil doctor mixing the poison.

Another Sketch

I have another sketch up. This one may go in place of the little pudgy kid on the laptop. What do you guys think?



I am thinking of using watercolour/ink again, though I'm still not too sure what to use. Amy suggestions would be more than welcome!

panda girl

its finished! ive actually completed a digital painting! i will call this one my first cos its one thats actually complete! i dont think its the best it could be but for now im content. i would love to paint in a more loose and free style cos i think the way i have done this is too contrived and overdone. i will not be afraid of marks! i love to see the brush strokes!
btw the shiny bit on the hair looks shit can someone tell me how to do it?

heheh check out my name stamp! ;P

hey guys heres another
colourful picture experiment
they are really fun to do but
so hard to figure out the colours
argh

been trying to change my photoshop style... the old style didnt do it for me... not very much fun to paint..

the new style? much more fun!

A rough sketch on my grandma, the kindest and funniest lady I've ever met. In the reference photo, she had just coloured her hair black, thus the flat black tone. Hopefully I'll find time to do a proper one for her.

this is wicked!

How good is it having a working blogsite again? I'll even post some stuff soon - you dudes are producing some sweet pieces, rock on! Cheers Mr Polli for your comment - yeah, I do want to develop the inks and water colours heaps more, so you should be seein more pieces done in this style.... Got me a wacom tablet a'comin this week! Whoot!

Stay outta trouble u clowns,
Stu

Hey guys im so glad this blog has been
revived woot!!, awesome well heres
my latest experiment, i just went apeshit
with colour, kinda inspired by an artist on ca.org
called ZhuZhu, if you've got any spare time go
check him out and yeah if you can spot who the
celebrity is ill give a nickel.

hey just an update.. ummm i'm getting bored of it though.. might put this one away for abit... do something else...

hey ho lets go! i aint dead ;p

hi all! ive been practicing some digital painting this is done with the same default brush im still building up my collection and reading up on texture overlays and such.. really keen on learning more about this media im quite enjoying it! this painting is incomplete but i thought i would show off what i have been up to. i know its quite simple and its the same boring composition but i wanted the portrait to be striking with colour and not complicated. i would love to say ive been doin heaps of stuff but i just got a new dvd player that plays divx files and my boyfriend gave me a whole heap of anime!!! you can understand geeks! but its actually a good thing cos ive been highly inspired to come up with stronger compositions plus! the stories are just too damn exciting!!! i would love more digital painting tips! help! thankyou seeya soon!

DREEEEE

argh damn transformers are so hard to do
if i didnt love them so much i wouldnt bother
by far the hardest piece i've tried, here is the
progress so far still got heaps to do on it

Alright, I've finished it at last. I'm pretty happy with it. Let me know what you guys think.

Editorial Sketches

Hey guys, how have we been? Good I hope!

A big koodos goes to Tyler for giving the Blog life again. There's been a heap of great work put on here guys!

But down to business... I need your opinion on which image to use for the editorial spread. It will be out of the first two that I post up. Which do you guys prefer?
The third image will be used, but that will make up part of the second image. Oh and if you see anything wrong with the images or any way I could improve them, sing out and let me know. These are just the basic sketches. But I need to know what others think.


This was the hardest the draw. I know the guitar looks a bit off but that will all be in shadow so all you will see is the outer form of the guitar. It was placed in a weird position so it was difficult.


This was my first image. The most simple out of the three... the only reason it's contending with the first image is because I felt I did well with the emotion and expression upon the face of the singer.


This will be the image of the child downloading the song. I wanted to use a littler person, as it would be easier to empress the notion of them doing something wrong,being cheeky, by downloading the music.

This is the second sketch for the editorial project. I'm surprised by the result. I've never sketched anything this detailed before, or rather ever. Must be possessed when I did this. Started last night and got it done before lunch today. Next step will be the hard part, painting. :/

tori amos painting

hey just a sketch for a new digital panting. shamelessly composed straight from screenshots from my tori dvd. crits very welcome, expecially before i start painting.

Sketchbook

hey dudes. just a couple of pages from the sketchbook... will start a more finished peice tonight.. keep up the work tyler and ned..

mic z

Right, I'm just gonna keep posting WIPs of this piece until I get sick of it, which hopefully won't be until I've finished it. Also this gives everyone else a look at my terrible work ethic, which is why not much has changed since the last post. But I've pretty much finished the Little Sister, so now I can move onto the rest of the image, which I'm hoping won't be as difficult. Then I can come back and fix all the little things.

C&C away!

PS I know her nose still ain't right, but I'm thinking that as small as she'll be in the final piece it hopefully won't matter.

Goddamn hardest thing ive tried to paint
has taken me longer than i wanted
but yeah still a work in progress
i present Bumblebee, hes awesome.

Little Sister WIP

OK, well here's what I've rested upon with my sketch before I start to fill it out. Might move that hand and the shell casing around a bit as I go, and there'll be some kind of detail in the background but that'll be something I do as I go as well. The foot was really a placeholder in the last one, probably should have mentioned that cos it was fairly rubbish.

And Tyler's right guys, we all need to put into this blog is we're gonna get anything out of it, so get with the posting, even if it's something quick. Once Tyler's finger have fallen off someone else is gonna have to do it, and I dunno, but I'd kinda like to keep my hands intact.

*EDIT*
I've put up a detail of how it's turning out. I'm pretty happy with it so far, although it took me a while to settle into it. Mouth is a little bit off and the nose has something off about it too. So if anyone can give me some insight it would be awesome, I've been looking ot it too long.

Heres yet another one, cmon guys dont be slack
if i can churn out this much work so can you!
Bring it! lets pound this blog!

Alright guys im gunna go all types of
crazy all over this blog, im gunna post until
my fingers fall off and all of you guys should join
in we dont relaly get to see what everyone else
likes to create outside of uni so come on just post
anything at all its all good, heres a little environment
from me, i find it really difficult to do them.

Awesome work guys lets get this thing swinging even more
two more posts from a screenshot of the movie Underworld
and a deftones film clip

Just finished the sketch for one of the conflict diamond project. And Tyler was bugging me.

Little Sisters

Hey guys

Well this is a sketch for a painting I'm doing for the hell of it. It's based on a couple of the characters from BioShock. Nerdy as it may be if you get a chance to play this game you better, it's better than any movie I've seen this year (OK maybe not transformers, but that was a whole world of awesome). Anyway, the little girl is a "Little Sister", basically a pawn in a fairly twisted genetic Utopia, protected by a "Big Daddy", whose basically a huge mother of a tank. The whole thing has an art deco vibe, so it's a pretty interesting premise. I'll keep posting progress up as it goes along, and feel free to crit anything I put up.

A series of mishaps

This project has been slightly ridiculous, the result of not having a clear direction and concept up front, plus not being in a constructive frame of mind. This particular brief was - and still is, as I haven't finished - to create a hypothetical book cover for an illustration publication. Before the internet really came into play, illustrators would pay to get their work published in a collection which was then posted to various companies who may have needed their services. We were asked to design the front and back cover along with the spine. What you see below are pieces that include all of these elements - created as a single image which has to work also when it's folded. At the bottom is the first concept which I just sat down and drew without planning, and that set the precedent and rough ideas. I then spent a lot of time rendering the piece above it which has more refined concept, but the image still didn't read properly even though the idea behind it was stronger. I finally sat down and created the third image not to long ago, and ironed out all of the legibility issues - creating a pen outline of the final image (the second image down). The fourth image, directly below, is a rendered version of the final compilation. This is the piece that completely frustrated me a few days ago, as I rendered it using photoshop and I'm not at all proficient in this area. So, four days later, and the image is nowhere near where it should be. However, unfortunately you have to learn the hard way with this, and I now know how I'll approach it for the final. This should be up in a couple of days - perhaps I should've done it by hand as I did the first two, but I do need to push computer rendering. Please take the time to click on each of the pieces as they're fairly detailed and you'll be able to figure out the ideas driving them.

Concept for Youthscape 2008

A quick ink and watercolour piece to perhaps be used on the Youthscape invitation forms. I love this method of working, so I think I'll be persuing ink and watercolour as mediums a fair bit down the track. My main concern at the moment is to do much more sketching - way out of practice, so I want to push that for the next few weeks.

COME ON ILLUSTRATORS!

Come on guys where's all the artwork?
lets stop being slack pull together some stuff and post it
we have to create all the time otherwise our skills go stagnate
I challenge everyone to post
at least one piece of work within the next week
it can be only a sketch it doesnt matter just post something
because this blog is going to the cows so come lets rock it.
oh yeah heres a pic im working on at the moment crit the absolute crap out of it.