Life drawing at Vincents
I've been making it along to Vincents again recently. It's always frustrating when you havn't been for a while, but I've managed to brush the cobwebs off and had an ok night last night. Here are the drawings from the night. They begin with 2 minute poses and progress to 20 minutes for the portrait. Each age is A3.
Exhibition at the Dowse winds up
It has been a hectic end to summer. Friends have had babies and weddings. The Hobbit is cranking along full steam, I've been doing freelance work in between drawing dwarfs and marauding in pine forests with the Weta airsoft posse. I've also been training with viking blooded Nick Keller, thereby losing the beginning of the Weta-Belly that was forming much to my dismay :) The days have just flown by, but there have been some great times in there. Now the air is chilling and the light changing as Autumn rapidly takes hold of Wellywood.
The White Cloud Worlds exhibition at the New Dowse in Lower Hutt has now closed. Thanks to everybody who stopped by and visited, and for all the kind words that came back about the work and the book. It has been a tremendous experience.
We recently had a day of residency out there (that I forgot to mention ahead of time - sorry!) where I had the pleasure of meeting a host of attendees. Many were genre art fans and hobbyists, though many were not and simply came to the museum unaware it had been hijacked by robots and monsters. Thank you to everyone who came and flipped through my sketchbooks, complementing my chicken scratchings beyond their merit. Patrons gave me names of authors to read, artists to discover and films to check out and generally made what could have been a nervous and awkward afternoon into a relaxing hang-out. Here are some pics from the day that Paul recently posted on the White Cloud Worlds blog:
For those that don't know us, and didn't make it along, the pics are of myself, David Meng, Paul Tobin and Nick Keller respectively. Also, if you were the friendly young English artist I met, please do send me a pic of your Brom inspired Centaur piece when you get back home. I would really love to see it :)
The White Cloud Worlds exhibition at the New Dowse in Lower Hutt has now closed. Thanks to everybody who stopped by and visited, and for all the kind words that came back about the work and the book. It has been a tremendous experience.
We recently had a day of residency out there (that I forgot to mention ahead of time - sorry!) where I had the pleasure of meeting a host of attendees. Many were genre art fans and hobbyists, though many were not and simply came to the museum unaware it had been hijacked by robots and monsters. Thank you to everyone who came and flipped through my sketchbooks, complementing my chicken scratchings beyond their merit. Patrons gave me names of authors to read, artists to discover and films to check out and generally made what could have been a nervous and awkward afternoon into a relaxing hang-out. Here are some pics from the day that Paul recently posted on the White Cloud Worlds blog:
Environment Sketches
Whenever I read a good novel, I find my mind constructing the locations in vague yet somehow simultaneously vivid detail. I am often tempted to try and draw those elusive images out of my imagination. However this impulse usually strikes right when the story is getting so involved that I cannot put the book down. So I don't, and I finish the book - usually getting such catharsis from the story's completion that any desire I had to draw those images quickly disappears, and my attention shifts onto something else.
As a Christmas Present last year, my brother generously gifted me the first two novels of 'The Deepgate Codex Trilogy' by Alan Campbell (he must have been quite confident I would like the first one!). The first is called Scar Night, and I read it while camping on the Coromandel Peninsula over Summer. It wasn't a stand out favourite of mine among all the novels I've read, but there were some cool moments and some great locations in the book. As usual I blitzed through to the end without so much as thumbnailing a location or character, but I really want to break that cycle. So I am trying now to put some of those images down.
Of course the process always twists and changes the original thought. Especially now, many weeks after I closed the book, so these are more "Inspired by" the book in some way, as opposed to directly designing it's locations.
Anyway enough words, here are the first very quick sketches (pencil sketch and photoshop colour studies).
As a Christmas Present last year, my brother generously gifted me the first two novels of 'The Deepgate Codex Trilogy' by Alan Campbell (he must have been quite confident I would like the first one!). The first is called Scar Night, and I read it while camping on the Coromandel Peninsula over Summer. It wasn't a stand out favourite of mine among all the novels I've read, but there were some cool moments and some great locations in the book. As usual I blitzed through to the end without so much as thumbnailing a location or character, but I really want to break that cycle. So I am trying now to put some of those images down.
Of course the process always twists and changes the original thought. Especially now, many weeks after I closed the book, so these are more "Inspired by" the book in some way, as opposed to directly designing it's locations.
Anyway enough words, here are the first very quick sketches (pencil sketch and photoshop colour studies).
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