Sketchbook

I hadn't done a lot of free drawing since I left uni so the last few weeks I've been going out to museums when I can. These are a selection of my sketchbook drawings.

Ipswich Museum:

Dublin National Museum:

Cambridge Zoology Museum:

Alpine Soundtrack

Two versions of an entry into a supremebeing competition to create an image inspired by the phrase 'alpine soundtrack.' The wave pattern in the sky, emanating from the mountains, is drawn from a cool special photo of what actual soundwaves look like that I found.

P.s: this is the first thing I've made using my brand new CS5 rather than my slightly dodgy version of CS2! :)

Chinese Dragon

It's been a while since I did anything new. This is possibly a competition entry but mostly just a more extensive experiment with the layered pattern/texture technique I've developed recently (as you can see on the scales and the hair.) Also, I love dragons! :)

My First Sleeping Beauty

My entry for a ballet poster competition; 'My First Sleeping Beauty.' Part of the competion is judged on voting, so if you like my entry, please vote for me here: talenthouse. :)

IP1 again

I worked on this editorial for IP1 a while ago but couldn't post it till the magazine came out yesterday.

Colourful Things

Here are some of the more colourful things I was working on before my Karin portrait. Am starting to add nice worn/scratchy bits to my work to take a bit of the flat digital edge off it, as well as messing around with layers of scanned paint textures to create patterns on clothes, trees, hair etc.

Karin Drejer Andersson

I finally figured out how to link my images from flikr to avoid copyright issues thanks to Marcus Butt! Therefore I will start posting nice images again.
I've actually been working in lots of bright bright colours lately so this was kind of a swing in the other direction which I enjoyed. It's a portrait of Karin Drejer Andersson, who some of you might know as a member of the bands 'Fever Ray' and 'The Knife.' I'm a huge fan of her music and saw Fever Ray live last year.
This kind of reminds me of those creepy Victorian Memento Mori photos that I like. :)