Sepia life drawings
- At February 24, 2019
- By Adam
- In animation, illustration, Sketchbook
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Time for another life drawing post! This outing onto the paper was great as I actually felt I captured more of what I was going for in each image. The model had brilliant figure and structure for drawing, with the outside orange street lighting casting an unusual fringe glow. I was using a slightly sepia paper already, so started sketching in a burnt umber/dark sepia charcoal stick pastel thing…I’m not exactly sure what it was! It definitely helped me loosen up though and focus on what I was drawing a bit better. I try out different styles when I’m doing it, mainly to have fun and experiment, but also sometimes it gives me these happy accidents 🙂
Birds of Mauritius
- At January 21, 2019
- By Adam
- In Sketchbook, Travel
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When we were over on Reunion Island there was time for a short trip to the Mauritius. It’s an AMAZING island with beautiful scenery, delicious food and very kind people. There was only one downside to our trip and it was that we were robbed on the way to the airport, losing all our possessions (including passports, camera, sketchbooks, phone, etc)…they just left our suitcase as they obviously couldn’t carry that! But even though it was a tricky few days following and not the cheapest trip after all the extra costs, we were so thankful for the people who helped us and made the experience more of an enlightenment than one massive downer.
I did this sketch when trying out the software Krita. It’s really decent and FREE! It was completed after the trip, so it’s probably a little flatter on the ‘life’ side of things (I always think an on location sketch has a bit more ‘oomph’ than something from a picture) but alas the sketchbook from that day was nicked! I hope the perps have had a good read of it and it’s inspired them to take up drawing themselves 😛 Maybe not hey.
British Summer
- At August 02, 2018
- By Adam
- In Sketchbook
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It’s been a LOVELY British summer this year (and we’re not even finished yet!) Lots of sunshine, blue skies and the occasional downpour to ward off the hosepipe bans. One of my main aims with drawing a scene is to try and capture it so that I can look later and feel like I’m there again. Some artists do this so well and evoke a feeling of the weather and atmosphere like it was a snapshot in time. No such luck for me! But I paint quick watercolours like the ones below. The positive side of this is that I sketch more than I would if everything took much longer. Plus, I use it as a memory-jogging tool, and it seems to work! Here are a few pictures from my sketchbook during the summer months (and fingers crossed for another great British summer next year!)
Rainbow card
- At July 18, 2018
- By Adam
- In illustration
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Hey hey! Here’s a mid-week watercolour illustration for you.
My girlfriend, Josie (@josiecerise) recently toured with M6 theatre for a cute children’s show ‘Whatever the weather’. It was a lovely play for the real little kids, with no real dialogue and lots of great imagery. At the end of the tour I made them a card in my fave medium, watercolours! So here it is for all to see. I do a lot of watercolour cards for birthdays, gifts, etc and they’re fun 🙂
P.S Josie wants me to mention she is small but not THIS small 😉
Charity Pet Portraits
- At February 11, 2016
- By Adam
- In illustration, Updates
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I was going through a few old sketchbooks last night and there’s some interesting stuff worth posting or revisiting. You forget how many ideas you churn out in a decade or so of doodling.
For now though, I’ll post this from 2014 when I drew pet portraits for charity. All ink and watercolour. Surprisingly how many people sent me photos saying ‘if you can draw the one where he’s happy and smiling’ when the picture was of just a dark hairy blob! It’s funny looking in on someone’s life and how they turn their pet into family member (my Mum refers to her dog as my brother sometimes…)
Storyboards – how cute can you go
- At January 06, 2016
- By Adam
- In Updates
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I’m working on some development for children’s TV right now but found these storyboards whilst looking through old files. It was a project with a very classical mid-century Western animation feel to both the characters and approach to action. Think Disney, Bluth and everything in between! All set in a beautiful winter wonderland, so it’s in keeping with the weather right now!
It was quite challenging to draw in this style yet not just copy what is already out there. It’s not my preferred choice either, but you often get called on to emulate other styles in animating, storyboarding and illustrating. Some people are amazing at this! I can get away with it for storyboarding, but I am by no means an illustrator who copies styles day in, day out. I much prefer to work in animation and my own style of illustration.
You can see some of the variety of work I’ve produced over in my sketchbook section here, to get a flavour of those said styles!