When Purple Rain freezes over...

...You get Purple Snow! Temporary of course. A sneaky peak of one of my lastest digital work.

I have three in the works that will hopefully see me take my skills to a new level of sooper-dooper ness.

I lost my phone this weekend. I walked off and left it on a train, man I'm stoopid. I was also a bit under the weather today, so couldn't make it into work. I'm a little annoyed because I'm learning Flash at work, and its one less day on the 30 day free trial I'm using.

I'm hoping to post some reviews of picture books and other illustrators work, in the future.

Apologies for incoherency of this post - I'm dead tired and am struggling to get my thoughts in order.

Mars Attacks!

K, where to start? I have'nt been blogging for a couple of weeks, which is a tad naughty of me I much confess. I blame it on the combined effect of working a full-time job, trying to have a social life and also working towards my long term career plan of becoming an illustrator. The numbers just don't add up - somethings got to give, and over the last two weeks its been the art!

To redeem myself, I have done nothing but paint this weekend, which brings me nicely to the above painting. As you may notice from one of my previous posts, I had already started a similar painting - two weeks a go, I managed to fluff up that very painting, and ended up having to chuck it. Boo Hiss.

Depressing as that was, I regrouped and restarted the piece, determined to make it even better than before. As you can see from above, 'Mars' (as it is titled) has come out a lot smarter this time.

Next week I've booked a couple of days off work, so I can have a long weekend spent slapping up 'Mars' until it's finished. I've also made a start on a few digital pieces, which will be putting in an appearance next week.

Sketches

A page spread from my sketchbook. Picture on the left is a winter samurai with lolly pop club (graphite and pencil). On the right is a nomad wandering through a field (acylics, wax crayons).

On The Board...

Started this painting today - it will be submitted to Fuselit when it's done, although I've already missed the bleeding deadline.