A 2D Practice and Needle Felting...

Having a go at improving on my 2D painting and shading skills.

My first attempt at the very stabby and adorable needle felt craft. You can see my plastered fingers in the background, but he was worth it. It's based off an adorable rabbit character called Molang, you can see the tutorial video here. Please excuse the terrible picture quality, there will be nicer images eventually :P

'A Muse' Illustration...

A Muse relaxing in the field, lost in thought :)

Happy Halloween!..

Have a creepy day! :D

'Curiosity' Illustration...

Here's an illustration I made called 'Curiosity'. Everything's been super busy recently and it's just starting to settle a little, so I thought I'd put this together while I had the time :)

Child of Nature...

I had a lot of fun sculpting the leaf pattern on this one. Looking forward to what's next :P

A Jolly Babybel...

Because it's chilly where she is and she's pretty happy about it! 

2 Birthday Presents!..

I've been making things!

Firstly, I was lucky enough to be commissioned to make another Hare as a birthday gift for a customer. Here she is in her new home:

The other present was for Jon's birthday. I wanted to try and make a figure of his engineer illustration:

Here are the results:

I'm pretty chuffed with how she turned out and I think he liked her too!

Onwards! :D

A Few Bits & Bobs...

A couple of sculpted things:

The Birthday Otter - a gift for a friend.

Tiny Birdies - Because miniatures fascinate me at the moment.

I've also just received my copy of 'Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2014'.

Wow! I read a couple of sentences and already learned a huge amount. It helps with everything from generating your first ideas, all the way through to whether you need an agent or not. It's truly excellent (thanks Phil!) and I've already started writing a few rough 'Dream Cleaners' stories. It's exciting to be excited about them again, and I look forward to what comes next :)

What I've Been Up To...

A few bits and bobs!

A Natty phone buddy, as requested by Jon. She came out okay, I'll get a few more pictures soon.

 

The beginning of the previous Natty and a sneak peak of my Halloween project!

The next plushie dino-dog of sorts! The Puggasaur!

More updates as I remember! :)

Dachsusaurus Lives!...

He's finally all painted and alive!

He stands quite nicely but I definitely learnt a lot about making a better armature for the next one.

A bit of a close up. I tried to add a little extra texture with the paint, just to make sure he wasn't so flat colour-wise.

He's pretty darn cute if I do say so myself! Now back onto my Halloween project! :)

Today's Practice...

A few bits from today:

A practice drawing of one of my favourite actresses at the moment.

A bit of fun using only the lasso tool in Photoshop.

More Practice for Funsies!

First we have Sergeant G. Piggy, reporting for duty!

Secondly, a drawing based on the Harley Quinn figure I have:

And thirdly, some weird little creations:

A few studies and then some more silliness next :)