Another in the Animal Series i’m working on.
Started this a while back and abandoned it as it wasn’t clicking for me, but have it done now…..
The Octopus
Finally! Back to the animal series, and the octopus is complete.
This too a lot longer than the others because of the suckers and tentacles.
Damn near killed me….
Ripple (Death By Oil Slick)
New one for Illustration Friday topic: Ripple.
The word was chosen to coincide with a fund raiser to help with the Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe (Oil Spill), other entries can be found here.
My first response to the word Ripple was, as usual, puerile and mildly perverse, but then I figured it could give me a chance to do something that I hadn’t done before, which was using the Water Colour brushes.
It was also nice, as they requested a particular size, which gave an added limitation to the piece.
What began as doodling away with the pencils, ended with some subtle colour washes and fiddling around, and I’m kinda happy with the way it turned out. Makes me feel all arty….
Girl And Bear
Saw some pencil work recently that reminded me of how wonderful pencil work can be. I particularly like pencil for soft toys and children so, in an attempt to get away from using Painter’s Artist Oils brushes and have ago at the Pencil brushes, I went with doing a bit of both.
But as i have been doing a lot of fairly straight ahead nice work, I couldn’t help adding a little bit of blood to this one…
Update: Submitted this for Illustration Friday topic: Trail.
Willie O’Dea In The Heat Of Battle
Willie O’Dea is a Limerick man and former Minister of Defence for the Irish gov, but resigned recently over a recording ‘scandal‘.
He also pulled a strange photo shoot for the press a while back, and one dark evening, during elections, he and some of his ‘representatives’ knocked on my door and assured me he ‘represents the area’ and ‘knows where i live’ should i ‘need anything’…. i’ve kinda been endeared to him ever since that.
Update: This illustration has now been published! Info here.
The Gorilla
Don’t afraid. He only eats graps…
One in a series of animals I’m working on.
This took a while, primarily because of the hair. First real attempt at doing any kind of hair, and it was tricky getting both the colour right and the underlying form of the muscle looking right.
The Newt
He’s really quite serious.
One in a series of animals I’m working on.
Interesting Woking on the skin and trying to get it to look the smooth semi-translucent look these guys have. Never realised there were so many variation in the colours too. Awesome.
The Parrot
“Squawk – fancy that!”
One in a series of animals I’m working on.
Really quite happy with the attitude caught in this one, and with the way the feathers turned out – without having to go into too much detail.
The Koala
Drunk on eucalyptus leaves, it sleeps high in the tree.
One of a series of animals I’m working on.
Creature
A blend of maybe elephant, tortoise and insect. If I thought I wouldn’t ruin it by continuing, I’d paint in the small fire it’s supposed to be standing beside, that is warming the girl who was lost on the coast where it lives.
Maybe I’ll revisit it later….