Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
AOB posts – so unique they just don’t fit and refuse to be categorised!
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 …
If I’m immersed and emotionally engaged with the work, the results will have more chances of engaging the customer and the audience as well. If I’m just going through the motions, then the work itself will probably come across as dry and mechanical. And so the key that unlocks engagement always comes down to finding that vehicle which allows empathy to become passion and flow out as creativity and conversation.
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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 world in 1987 on my first trip to the USA, buying …
Project brief Wall art for children’s rooms. Commissioned by Wallpix Deliverables Artwork for print in a range of physical sizes, up to really quite large. Creative process One of several ideas for a range of artwork, the theme being Water Creatures. With some emphasis on a boy’s room, this great white shark character started with …
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 …
An end-of-year montage of school work. I spent the last 18 months working on something to hang on the wall in the FayJay foyer. The challenge of delivering timely digital artworks on a variety of subjects, with a variety of tools – sometimes figuratively with one arm tied behind my back, was fun. I will share some of these pieces in isolation, but for now here is a thumbnail kaleidoscope of my London Art College Digital Illustration assignments.
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