Old Lady on the Tram

I have been incredibly slack with my personal work for a while now.. I want that to change. Here is a quick value painting done from an oldish sketch... Time to get back in the game now!

Just some more doodles...

Haven't posted here in a while since I have not done much else but work for the past few weeks.. so here are some quick doodles...

 

Brush Pen sketches..

I have this Kuretake brush pen that I bought literally years ago when I was working at Iloura. Last night I did some doodles with it. I like it.

Tram Sketch

A sketch from the tram that I never quite finished properly.. but people seem to like it this way. :)

Character Design, Week 1

So I'm currently doing 3 different Schoolism courses, which I signed up to quite spontaneously about 3 months ago. They are "Caricature with Jason Seiler", "Gesture Drawing with Louis Gonzales" and "Character Design with Stephen Silver". I am really enjoying having little projects to do each week and while it can be time consuming, I feel like I am at quite a crucial stage in my life in terms of personal and artistic development, so I am feeling pretty gung-ho and I am learning a lot.

This week I started my Character Design course (I am already a fair bit further along with the other two courses and will probably post some more work from those in the coming weeks). The first lecture and assignment for Character Design is pretty low pressure; we were given a simple written description of a character and asked to submit one finished drawing to allow Stephen Silver to gauge our skill levels and have an understanding of the kinds of things we need to learn. I got a little carried away and did 3 versions of the character. I am terribly excited about this course. There is probably nothing in the world that I enjoy more than character design. Yay!

March Sketches

Some birds in here and even a building! That's right, things are changing around these parts....

 

The Aquarium Cafe

Did a little paintover of a recent sketch.. I did this sketch in a local cafe that used to be an aquarium. I used to love visiting the aquarium when I was growing up; there was a huge variety of fish there and they even had a small crocodile (which, in retrospect, was kinda cruel given the size of its tank). When I first moved out of home I decided to get goldfish, and I loved watching them swim around in their bowl. Unfortunately though, I was terrible at keeping them alive. I did everything the aquarium guys told me to do, but for some reason, the little buggers just kept dying on me! I became a familiar face at the aquarium during this period (not something that I am proud of..).

Eventually, I gave up and packed up the fish bowl. Since then, as I mentioned, the aquarium has closed and been turned into a cafe that does killer breakfasts. I'm a bit of a regular there now, and on one recent visit I found myself remembering all the fish that used to be there. I imagined their little ghosts swimming around the heads of the customers; an idea that I found a lot more cute than creepy... Anyway, that was what inspired this sketch.

 

EDIT: I forgot to mention that my ultimate favourite variety of goldfish were the pearlscales, AKA golfball fish. They are goofy little fish that are shaped like golfballs (as if that wasn't self-explanatory), and I LOVED them, so they are the fish you see here.

Tram sketches for November

Just some sketches from the tram this month...