Poisonous Pin up

Um yep just a drawing of poison ivy as a 1950's pin up after a day in her garden. I liked it ok but I didn't get the face quite right. It looks distorted and squished slightly. Three point perspective is hard! Oh well I learned something. Want to try it again when I get sometime, just the head and expression.

Mothers day doodles

I made a card for this mothers day just past. Unfortunately I couldn't find an envelope the right size to post it to Mamma Williams but as I'm traveling back to the land of sheep and rain tomorrow she'll be gettin' it then :D Can you tell that I had been looking at the concept art of Elsa and Anna from Frozen as children before I drew this? Lil' Rhi's pretty cute. Not that I look much different now.

Girl on Fire

Off out to finally see the new Hunger Games film. Finally gotten a little bit of time to myself. Thought I'd express my love for miss Everdeen and the woman who gave her life Jennifer Lawrence. Here's a Art nouveau drawing of her in her famous flaming red dress from her interview with Ceaser Flickerman.

I'm not sure how I want to colour her yet. I'm sure I want to do it by hand as I do with the other Hunger Games inspired piece from yesturday. I think that one suits markers as I want it to have a blockier feel. I want to get across a slightly utilitarian feel with those district pieces. I think it well reflects the subject matter. This one I thing should be softer. Showing a slightly sad, slightly scared girl. I'm thinking maybe ink and water colour.

For Finnick

More book related doodeing. I had an idea for comic con. I wanted to Art Nouveau illustrations representing the 12 (and possibly 13...shhhh!) districts of Panem from The Hunger Games. I was going to base them around each districts primary industry. I started with 4, which is fishing because I had lots of ideas, also many peoples favourite character from the series is Finnick Odair. I found some pretty good reference. There was a girl on deviant art who did a lot of reference photos with drappery. As soon as I saw them I though Alphonse Mucha and that's where the idea steamed from.

This is the initial skecth. I want to frame her head with the district seal. Mucha's work often had decorative circles that drew the eye to certain parts of the composition. I think part of the fish tail will turn into a box that will have Panem written in it. Another staple of Mucha's work. I can't wait to colour this! Lovely shades of blue and I intend the background to be a partly deco looking sunset on a beach using golden orange tones.

Crazy Critters!

Here's some doodles I did for a stop motion project. I'm not sure what's happening with them but I'm fond of them so I thought I'd share. I got frustrated with this project for a while. I started off with a bear character and struggled to get much of anything I liked. I warmed up eventually and the got a lot better. Especially buy the duck. I seem to like drawing birds. I did a few bits of graphic design, signs and stuff and adverts for airmail.

Drawing the Green Light

Re-read The Great Gatsby recently and as my favourite book of all time I couldn't stand not showing my appreciation with a drawing. I also have such a massive interest in art deco design and the fashion design from the 1920's. I felt like I could give myself a chance to run a muck with opulance. I looked at the program for the ballet adaptation to get a few ideas.

Oh look it's me!

Working a little on creating a brand for myself. Thought I'd start with a little doodles of me. Think this old design for the blog is looking a little old. Think I'll update it and this little illustrator sketch could be perfect! The inspiration comes curtsy of one of my favourite artist/cartoonist Bruce Timm of Batman the Animated Series fame :D