Farm Animal Sketches

I've been reading a few blogs lately about ways to improve drawing. Apparently you can become an expert in any field with 10,000 hours of practice. I dunno about that! I'm sure you have to have a flair for the subject matter. Reading all these blogs just made me want to constantly draw....non-stop.
Anyways I began some practice with some sketches of animals.

I'm slightly Tom Hardy obsessed...

I thought as my traditional portrait of him went a little wrong...I would practice to paint Tom Hardy digitally. I made some new brushes which I love! I fiddled with a load of the settings on Photoshop which really helped. I kinda have too many to choose from now. My digital paintings always seem to come out too smooth and never enough texture - this is something that I really wanted to work on. I downloaded some free oil textures to experiment with. It's coming a long so far...only thing is....it's going to take so long to finish! If only I had a cintiq...

Beach Pier Background.

I'm working on backgrounds for a former classmate's masters film a the moment. Exciting :B Look at his work HERE!
The film takes place on a pier - I was given great reference photos and some artists work to look at. This is the main artist that the backgrounds were supposed to take inspiration from! Janet Bell - so cute and simple, and I love the colours.

Janet Bell

I wanted my version to have similarities but with added shading and I guess my own style of drawing - even though I don't feel I have a particular style really. 

These are a few props of trees and houses that would be in the backgrounds with the added Janet Bell twist.

And this is one background I've kinda finished..ish! I won't post anymore for now as I don't wanna spoil the film!

Hair Doodle.

I think I'm actually going to use this as a proper blog now..finally. I tend to post all final finished things but they will go straight on my webbysite. 

Rushed sketchy, random stuff can hide here then. We'll see how long that lasts. This guy isn't fond of his new 'do.

Whut The, Doodle!?

I'm terrible with organising my mac sometimes. Finally cleared it all and started again but I still managed to find things hiding in folders. Sneaky.

I tend to doodle in Photoshop and then save it...somewhere and never see it again! So I found this "masterpiece"  When did I do this!? I'm scared.

Doooodle

I've made my own website! Here!

It's such a simple design and it still took me ages to code. The only thing is...it's very bare. I really want a brand new portfolio of work. I feel like I haven't drawn for ages since trying to make this!
I've been watching too much of The Ricky Gervais Show. I love the style. I would love to try and make a portfolio with a bit of that influence.

This was a doodle for the About Me section of my site. Sausage fingers. The eyes are bonked too. I need to practice more!

Animal Backgrounds

I've been doing a bit more freelance work. I was asked to produce some backgrounds for a children's website. The website features a range of animal characters and games. I had to produce backgrounds to show the animal's environment. The style had to fit into the tone of the website and the characters so I tried to do it quite simple - less detail and less photoshop painting! (which I love too much). More backgrounds can be seen here!