Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
Painting, digital or traditional in the conventional, or unconventional sense.
A Christmas card re-imagining the Nativity scene After several years of DinoBunny character holiday season greeting cards, I took digital pen to touchscreen to birth a new composition … with at least one dinosaur contributing. The cryptozoology Nativity scene spotlit by some sort of extra-terrestrial or celestial guiding light Drawing on an earlier scenario In …
Four prehistoric animals in coloured pencil A scientific beginning This childhood archive artwork features four prehistoric animals, including a dinosaur. The dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, given the small forearms. The stripy tail may not (or may) be scientifically accurate. What is interesting and evidence of my great passion for dinosaurs is that this quartet …
Digital dinosaur illustration with skin texture experimentation This digital illustration piece evolved as a tangential work from another project, leading to experimentation with Photoshop texture brushes. The realistic skin rendering of this dinosaur was and enjoyable creative deviation. Initial sketch I had the idea for a wildly alternative nativity scene whilst working on the DinoBunny …
Digital watercolour jackdaw and tomato sketch This digital watercolour piece is a quick experiment with Photoshop brushes. I made a pencil sketch one lunchtime, when I dropped part of my meal—a cherry tomato. An inquisitive jackdaw took the opportunity to also grab a snack. Initial sketch I saw the jackdaw observing me, unfazed by my …
For children’s books Visiting Brighton’s Phoenix Art Space Open Studios this weekend (May 11th 2024) reminded me of the workshop I attended there in 2016, Drawing Fantastical Characters for Children’s Books with Chris Gilvan-Cartwright. The sessions explored ways of creating and developing characters in an experimental, playful and intuitive way. Consequences warm-up We warmed up …
The Red Max fan art
Traditional painting exercise I used traditional watercolour and brushes to brush up on the process that a child may use to draw their favourite characters. I selected a minor player in the Kitten Mews series of picture books that are in development. The elephant’s Gerald, who will have a sibling (also an elephant FYI, as …
Baby driver My road to digital artist has been, in some ways, the scenic route. As a very small child, I would point and shout the names of passing cars and my love of the automobile has continued to this day. Drawing was also a talent I displayed and one of my favourite subjects to …
At the close of 2018 my body was going haywire. I became overwhelmed by extreme fatigue, respiratory problems, and incapacitating headaches. I was experiencing heavy depression, constant mood swings and a non-stop flaring of binge eating. I was terrified. I thought I had come down with some permanent damage like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – the …
On a recent visit to the attic (looking for some particular 80s synthpop vinyl records) I stumbled upon a cardboard box full of one of my childhood’s greatest drawing inspirations-Snoopy. Charles M Schulz’s simple, elegant flowing line which defined the brilliant beagle, is perhaps the strongest blueprint and starting point for my own character designs. …
