Found and Lost
Old Illustration Style.
Pencil Sketch + Photoshop.
Something I've been working on for a very long time. It started as a simple pencil sketch. I scanned it, redid most of the line work again digitally and then split the job of finishing it into colour and lighting.
The lighting and correcting of all the really horrible anatomy issues took about 90% of the time. For the colouring, I tried to emulate the look of the old water colour storybook illustrations. I might try a few other colour finishes if the mood takes me.
As the title suggests, I have just spent quite a long time writing a long and interesting post about all sorts of exciting things. Sadly I took so long to write this epic my session timed out and I lost the whole lot when I submitted it. This is mainly as a result of some error in my website code. I'll put the job of fixing it on my list of things to do once I finish my time machine.
So in an attempt to present at least a little of the lost content and avoid the chance of losing it all again, what follows is a simple summary in the style of an FAQ.
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When I started I didn't realise how much there really was or how much time it woruld take to get it all up. So now it's on to the task of scanning, uploading and decribing fresh new pieces, so the pace of updates to the gallery will slow down a little (read: quite alot). Perhaps it'll give you time to consider each peice or perhaps you can just berate me for my apparent laziness.
Additionally I intend (as the mood takes me) to steadily go back through the gallery and expanding some of the very terse descriptions. A single line describing the media and the amount of time taken doesn't really make for very compelling reading.
Finally I really need to start uplaoding all the music tracks that were on my old site. The only thing that's really stopped me so far is that each MP3 and WMA file is embedded with my old web name rather than my shiny new one. I think It would just seem wierd to download a track from 'Arbonox' just to find that when it was played in my favorite audio player it didn't say that.
So, I think I've rambled enough here, I have a big day tomorrow, talking at The Next Generation event at Gateshead Sage to prepare for.
Its is a well know fact that nothing happens on its own,
Even Autumn is called into being.
So rare is the site of the perching tree fairy that it is often speculated
by the layman that they live their whole life on the wing.
The studious and patient can, in time, witness proof to the contrary.
Pencil Sketch: 2 hours
Photoshop: 4 hours
I really need to get faster.
Very cartoon (read "anatomically creative") A piece of work from a many years ago now. It's been said that she bares a resembalance to Lara Croft. I don't mind but Its not intentional.
