Comic Tests

Original marker sketch and vector-graphic concept panel from a comic of Zen stories that I’m thinking about these days.

Click through for some more marker sketches of character concepts.

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Photo Portfolio: Baja, Mexico 01

The beautiful colonial town of Todos Santos, on the west coast of the Baja peninsula.

27 photos

Photo Portfolio: Jerba Island, Tunisia

I’m trying to get my photograph portfolio incorporated into the blog in a way that simplifies the viewing process.
Here’s an embedded slideshow from a collection on Flickr.

What do you think? Too fast? Slow? Small? Would some more sample images from the set be useful?
Your comments help me improve the site.

37 photos in set.

Cars Sketch

Letting my eye wander over the cars ahead of us on the highway.

Pencil, digital

6 x 6 cm

 

Matsumoto Sketch

Sketch for a watercolour piece in the style of my Thirty Days work, 2010.

A family friend owns this building in Osaka and I took some reference photos on a recent visit.

Pencil, 21 x 30 cm

Paper Village

I’ve been making a cut-paper village for the centrepiece of our Christmas table this year.

Here’s a test with their lights turned on. Click through to see (and download) the plan.

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Osaka Sketches 03

A sketch from a recent trip to Osaka.

O-Bento.

Pen on paper.

14 x 18.5 cm

Osaka Sketches 02

A sketch from a recent trip to Osaka.

Girls on steps.

Pen on paper.

14 x 18.5 cm

Osaka Sketches 01

A sketch from a recent trip to Osaka.

Bento boxes.

Pen on paper.

14 x 18.5 cm

Kaiju: Red King Pixels

A digital sketch in preparation for the watercolour piece, below, that went into last month’s show.

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Eleking on Wood

Eleking On Wood

Acrylic, stained wood.

Approximately 15cm x 15cm.

 

The found material (wood) had a great texture and I loved the ragged edge. I worked the white acrylic up in layers, using thicker and thinner areas for some depth.

Featured on Artotate

Stella Koons-Manet has posted a piece about my Kaiju series from Thirty Days Project on her excellent Tumblr blog Artotate.

Thank you, Stella!

Album Art: Tim Gerwing’s “Masked And Dreaming”

Tim Gerwing has released his latest album: “Masked and Dreaming“.

The cover art features the portrait/mask I made for Tim, as photographed by Robin Campbell.
Full images of the cover art are here:

Outside

Inside

Blue and Orange Spray

Four originals done with brush, pencil and toothbrush.
Three of them are in the show at Kafka’s until November 1.
One more added here as a bonus for my blog readers.

Anchimata Blue Orange Spray

Pencil, ink.

23×30.5 cm

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Kafka Show: Opening Reception

 A great crowd of really good people came out to the opening reception on Friday night.

Tim Gerwing played his music from Thirty Days Project and Aya prepared a table full of amazing catering. Read More