Some Work from Work!

So I haven't really had much time to do any drawing lately so thought I would post up some boring bits of work from work! Yay!

I work for a company who are a toy, party and fancy dress importers. I mostly do product photography/image editing along with creating new artworks from existing product artwork. I help out with the catalogue at the end of the year and occasionally get to design new artwork.

This is one of the first new design pieces I got to do for them. They had existing pirate themed artwork and they wanted a new display box made up for little penny toys and bits and bobs. These are the illustrations I did for the box along with a screenshot of the side of the final box. All illustrations were hand painted in Photoshop. I had so much fun with these I wish I got to do more in this kind of style!

This is a more recent piece, where I had to create a basic male face to be used as a backing card for dress up accessories like moustaches, side burns, eyebrows and beards. Not my favourite of pieces as I had to work to a set style in order for it to match the existing artworks in that range :( Everything was created in Illustrator.

Moving on to some photography work...this is some of the image editing work I have to do from time to time.

In between Photo shoots, we make do with using work colleagues as models (I hope they don't mind me posting these :P) For these wig items as an example, I had to cut out and "photoshop" the wigs onto the real models faces, as well as doing some colour correction on a couple of the images.

So yeah, that's pretty much the more exciting parts of my work! Some of the more boring stuff involves making information labels, cutting out photos of products and making cutter guides for boxes. I quite enjoy the job, although would much prefer to be doing a lot more design work! I sometimes feel I get a bit lazy as the job isn't particularly challenging :P

Anyway, sorry for my boring work filler post :D haha I am sorting through some of the Games Design work I did for a friend so will hopefully have a slightly more interesting post next time :)

Lines Lines Lines

...Oh how I love lines!

This is a drawing for a friend of her World of Warcraft Elf; Debonaire. I love how she came out with all her detail and it was such good fun to go back to drawing with just lines and no colour...Enjoy!

Well hello there Blog world!

Ok...so I remembered that I have a blog! Ha :/ I feel quite disappointed in myself that I haven't made the time to draw and finish anything decent enough to post up here...surely it can't have been almost 2 years since I last posted something big?! I promise that I have been doing stuff like; working on some concept and 3D work for a friends game (will try and get permission to post some shots up!) sketching and designing some tattoos for friends and then I seem to have gotten caught up in making a lot of textile and crafty things which is nice working in traditional mediums and creative physical things.

Anyway, now that I've settled into a new house in a new big city, there's lots of creative things to do and explore!! Can't wait to get back onto a life drawing class and fingers crossed, search for a new more creative job...exciting stuff! I will do my best to get on here more with my creative bits and bobs.

For now though, I do have something to post to update this desperate looking blog; a piece that I have been working on for the last 8 months or so in the free time that I have managed to scrounge together. This is a digital painting of a character for a friend's online competition. I LOVED working on it and loved how it turned out! Tried a few new painting things...I kinda get scared when I have to add colour to lines cos it never turns out as good as I first imagine but I am happy with the outcome of this one :)

Enjoy...

Competition Entry!

This was kind of an experimental piece. I had an idea of what I wanted to achieve but fancied taking a more painterly approach than normal! I kinda like the outcome. There are some obvious problems with proportions and things but I don't really mind as I think I achieved what I set out to do!

It was also an entry for a random online competition! I got 2nd place =)

Creature Design Class

Had some extra lectures at the end of Uni with Leavon Archer; a games artist.
Had the chance to loosely design some stuff. I decided to do something I don't normally do and had a go at designing some kind of wierd fantasy creature.

I started by playing with ZSpheres in ZBrush and just sketched over it until I got this wierd lizard looking giraffe thing with a super saggy neck :D
Then took screenshots of the face front and side and developed a concept:




Really really good fun! Was nice to focus on using some Zbrush for the most part and then really getting into the painting too :) Fun times!

FInal Year Project

My Final Year Project was an Investigation into the Character Creation Process used within the Games Industry.
It looked at all aspects of design development and concept work, and then the 3D Modelling and production of the character aswell.
Heres the progress of the project work to go with my dissertation:

Idea Development:







Final Idea:


Final Beauty Render/Painting:


Orthographic Views/Design Sheet:


Sculpting/Modelling/Texturing:



Final Posed Model:


It was an awesome project to work on. Shame that I ran out of time and she couldn't be finished to the full standard I had hoped!

Character Development Module

In my final semester at University I did a module looking at character development methods. A couple of the outcomes are the Zombie Mario and Sci-fi ish Nightelf below:




I really really enjoyed doing the Mario paintings! The 1st one was inspired by Left 4 Dead if you hadn't already guessed :D