Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
Jeff’s internal projects.
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 …
A herd of regal real creatures This project was to create a set of unicorn characters to appeal to children with an emphasis on a degree of realism. These are what real unicorns look like. Children’s bedroom decorated in pink with three pink unicorn framed arworks, Snow, Pink and Candy Creative process I used Adobe …
Vector art for artists’ sake This piece was an assignment for my Digital Illustration Diploma. The challenge was “Vector art” using Adobe Illustrator software. Digital perspective I focussed on the implementation of perspective, revisiting my engineering and technical drawing background. Rather than creating from scratch I brought in some “off-the-shelf” art to hang in this …
The Red Max fan art
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 …
