In Memory 2011

This is my final year project from university. I recently found someone who offered to create some originally audio music for the animation. Together we have put together a completely original piece of work that I can finally call finished.

The animation is inspired by an article about ghost bikes. All across the world people now create these unique memorials to remember those who have died whilst cycling. A completely white bike is placed at the area they died as both a memorial and a warning to motorists to remember to watch out for cyclists on the road.

I cycle on busy roads everyday and the article really spoke to me and inspired me to create a narrative based around those visuals of a white bike.

The animation shows one cyclists final journey.

Lou Digital Painting

Here I have been following some tutorials on making some brushes for hair and skin. Thought I would give them a try and draw my sister's portrait. Reasonably pleased for a first digital portrait painting. Lots of room for improvement.

Rooney German Shepherd

This was done as a wedding gift for a close friend. I have grown up with two German Shepherd dogs and I think they are gorgeous. This was a pleasure to draw as he is a stunning dog.

I found the image to be very washed out and lacking in contrast. I didn't have any pens that would work on such heavy pencil marks so I decided to experiment and used black ink and a really old ink pen. It turned out to be a great mix adding strong lines and deep blacks. Definitely something I will reuse in the future. I was also really lucky with the frame. The image proportions were rather wide and I was expecting to have to trim a lot off but I actually found a really wide frame for it which only required minimal trimming.

Really pleased with the final outcome. It has inspired me to dig out some old pictures of my dogs and create some portraits of them.

Kung Fu Final

Well I have run out of time to do any more. I'm quite happy with my first major attempt at using my graphics tablet. I'm not sure I fulfilled the brief, he feels too much Santa and not enough Kung Fu. The pose could be more extreme and dramatic. I had fun with this, and at times I couldn't stop working on it. Looking forward to doing some more digital drawing.

Santa Colour

Santa Mark II

I'm starting to get my head around my nice graphics tablet. Working with a finer brush to get some more detail into the image. I beefed him up so he can show the naughty kids whose boss.

Kung Fu Santa Rough

Just a rough go at a drawing for a competition.