Still Life

The still life was a uni assessment item. I haven't done many of these. It had to be shiny things and fruit on a piece of fabric. Obvious irregularity in the shape of the bottle and the vase. But the mangosteen looks almost real!

More sketches

Here is an early version of Princess Petunia, based on my ferret, Fifi. The fish is based on a picture of a carp that I found.

sketches

I thought I should have a go at drawing human stuff so this is an attempt at my hand. Good place to start!

Blary Bear in the sun

Blary Bear is somewhere much warmer today. He has disturbed the fish and they aren't sure whether to join in or swim away. Blary Bear doesn't care. He is enjoying the sun!

Blary Bear at the South Pole

This is Blary Bear. He likes to sing. I have set myself the challenge to do a small drawing each day for blog. I am calling them Blog Drops (short for droplets but also a bit like peppermint drops etc). Ha ha.
No doubt I have been influenced by Happy Feet, The Golden Compass and probably a c#%! advert. I hope you like him.

Princess Petunia

This ferret and her zombie rabbit friend, Zeezoo have been running my life for the last month. They are part of my major submission for Creative Character Design at COFA. I am very pleased with what I managed to do and have learned so much this semester.

Now, an explanation. No posts for several months thanks to the deteriorating state of our old satellite internet connection. However, with the new NBN satellite link now installed we can look to a communicative future, at least until HTML5 runs everything and maybe that won't matter. So I will be posting more regularly again I hope.

Doodle Land

I love gel pens and, as you  can see, they are lots of fun to doodle with. I start with some lines and swirls and then keep going. In this one I could have tried to fill in all the white space but decided to stop here. I might do some more on this but that is the thing about a doodle. It has no finite end!
Trouble getting onto blogger with my dreadful rural satellite connection. So not posting as often as I would like. Off to Cambodia for a couple of weeks on Saturday and am hoping to come back with lots of photos, ideas and sketches.

Escape the rat race!

It's a busy week this week with school reports and other end of year activities. This is an image I created but didn't end up submitting for one of my Graphics and Contemporary Society assignments. Combo of original photos, paint work in Photoshop and posterise in another program. Hopefully will find time to get something new up maybe tomorrow!

A pencil sketch

I bought some new soft coloured pencils the other day this is a sketch I coloured with them. The cat is still in 5B with just his nose coloured in. I scanned this into Photoshop, trimmed off the edges and reduced the brightness.

Blue flower wasp and friend

This is my little ferret friend, Dancing Moon. He is talking to a friendly wasp he met in the garden. Blue flower wasps are very laconic and beautiful creatures to find in the garden. I am experimenting with poster effects in Photoshop.