Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
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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 …
Dummy book roughs and cover art for a doggy tail
Project brief Commission by independent author Jan ten Sythoff to illustrate two of his children’s short stories. Toys is about a boy whose toys start to war with each other. Jan provided the manuscript and some ideas for the composition for four illustrations. We delivered the final document design as a PDF with the text …
Project brief Commission by independent author Jan ten Sythoff to illustrate two of his children’s short stories. Meatballs is about a boy who makes friends with an alien. Jan provided the manuscript and some ideas for the composition for four illustrations. We delivered the final document design as a PDF with the text and full-colour …
What if the monsters were the cute things being chased by Halloween itself, and by our avid consumption of them?
Bedtime reading to induce the strangest dreams – from any angle Return from The Far Side I was delighted to read that Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side … comic? was considering a return to the drawing board, right here in 2020. Or rather, a return to the digital tablet. I blundered into this …
Childhood memory Drawing animals is one of my strongest early childhood memories and when I started the character design for Yggy, I recalled a certain image. Fortunately, I still had the original reference; “The Ladybird Book of African Mammals“. Back to school One session in my refresher course “Drawing Skills” at what is now Greater …
Claiming my identity as an artist and leading a relevant lifestyle has probably been the hardest and at the same time the most purposeful thing I’ve ever done. Art is the longest game, requiring hours and days and months and years of building your foundations and expertise, battling with the kind of adversity that comes …
