Random Illustrations

Some of these aren't in good condition, because they've been in the middle of the traffic jam that is my house.. But they're just random things that have come into my head.

Portraits

Over the last year I've made a lot of portraits of myself and some of the people I know. These ones were made using my 10 colouring pencils.





This is me, drawn on an aeroplane. I was really into Tim Burtons drawing style at the time, so it turned out quite creepy.


I always try and use a variety of colours, even ones that wouldnt obviously work. I think this makes great tone and shading, and you get a more varied and interesting picture.

This is another one of me, using all the colours in my set, its quite stylised.





This is based on one of my old teachers. She's a lovely woman, but her face lends itself so perfectly for a sinister portrait. She'll never know..

Pokemon

When I was growing up, I loved Pokémon. The idea of having loads of monsters, creepy or cute, running around, and being friends with them completely captivated me. So I decided to make a creepier version of the main characters, Ash and Pikachu. I started off with just a simple drawing of Ash, who's a young boy. This was a black and white, 2B pencil sketch.

Then I drew a monster wearing Pikachu ears on a separate page. Then I put the two together using Adobe Photoshop.

I then coloured in Ash with photoshop. Generally using brushes and the dodge and burn tools. I love how this has turned out.

I then started roughing out how I wanted 'Pikachu' to look

And put the two together.

Added a background, and turned it into this! Very proud of Ash, Pikachu still needs some work, but its a working progress.

Sketches of Characters

I've also decided to make my own versions of some of my favourite cartoon characters, and draw them in a certain style. All these were made with my normal coloured pencils

First came the Joker from Batman, this is just the details of his head infront of a big J.





Next is Skeletor from He-Man. I just love this characters design, very grim reapery. He's infront of a large S.





And Magneto from X men. I had a lot of fun thinking up how to do this. He's essentially an old man in a hat, but I decided to just put the eyes in to make him more sinister looking. And you guessed it, he's infront of an M.






Finally comes good ol' Spongebob Squarepants. A childhood favourite. Colours on this are so vivid.

Special events

I always make my own presents and cards for people.

This is fathers day 2011, done with normal pencils, he loved that, mum, not so much.

And this was my dads birthday, just a straight portrait, again with normal colouring pencils.

Baby Sitting Ad

Well times have been hard. I needed the money so I decided to make an advert and try out babysitting. I wanted something a bit funnier than just "Hi I'm lovely" so I'd stand out. And it worked! So this is the picture I drew for the sign.

Caricatures

I have been asked to make a caricature of a friend, in a pokemon style, so this is his head on a raichu's body, as requested. He loved it and recomends me to anyone who wants a portrait or characature made.

Animation

For one of my final year pieces I decided to move my art and sculpture along by making an animation. It was in response to Aardman, as I used to dream of working there. This animation was about a polar bears struggle against global warming, took ages and got me very frustrated, but I got there and loved it.


This is his smiling face, also a T sound.

This is an M, or closed mouth



And an O. Its all quite simple, but very effective.

Summer 2010; Dawn of the Illustration!

Typically, after I'd finished my art exams, I finally had a surge of passion for art! I decided to draw just about anything that came into my head. I have a set of about 10 high quality coloured pencils, to which I've used and used, until they turned into stubs.

These illustrations were really bright, colourful, and interesting. Some were based on people I know, and some were random.

The first to happen was this creepy fella', in A5:

Then came a set of 3 together, these were on an A4 page.

GCSE Art

So the "talent" started young. *ahem* I've always been ridiculously interested in everything that doesn't exist. So fantasy stuff, myths, monsters, eskimos, yetis, dragons, all that junk.



Here is one of my final pieces for my GCSE art project, to the theme of "Barriers". Really wanted to play with the idea of a barrier keeping things out. This is using watercolour pencils.

Im pretty sure i had more than one piece of work for the first 15 years of my life. But oh well. Maybe that will be found later.