The Giant returns again: Redux

In this version I've tweaked the text to go along with the perpective. I think it helps the image. Not sure if it helps those who want to read the text. hhmmm.......

The Giant returns again

Here is another version of the giant picture. I tried in the original to give a sense of scale and perspective, but I don't feel it worked particularly well. This attempt isnt perfect but I'm happy with it. Overall I think the second version is the most succesful version. Yes.

The return of the Giant

Here is a new version of one of the first pictures that I posted on this blog, back in November last year. Because the original was a large drawing on board that i had no great pictures of, and that I no longer own, i thought I'd redraw it so that it could potentially be put in my portfolio. Above is the finished piece. Below is the original dip pen drawing.


Below is the original drawing that was done with pens on a fairly large scale.

A scribble boy

Oh, and photoshop said unto me "scribble and lo, a scribble boy shall appear", and I did an lo here he is. Yes? of course!

Dip pen+ink+photoshop+wacom pen=this

This is one of the first pictures I've done using a dip pen and ink. I'm quite happy with it. Also features a new way for me to draw shoes. hmmm? Yes.

Learn Japanese - Numbers=Suuji

Angel found in space

The above picture was taken by the hubble telescope. Originally believed by scientists to merely be a billowing 90 trillion kilometres high (9.5 light years) tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. However Scientist Rick Bishop took the image and filtered it through a computer simultaneously with a page of the Bible. Revealing the startling image below (please click to see a bigger version):


Originally scientists thought it could even be a picture of God himself, it turns out its actually a giant space angel. The area of bright light on the angels shoulder is currently thought to be the entrance to heaven itself, which is contained in the body of the angel. Scientist Rick Bishop has named the angel Rick Bishop the Space Angel.

Of course I'm being silly, but I really like the hubble's holiday pictures from space, and this one in particular. So I decided to mess about with it. I'm feeling good about this picture.

Here is another swish picture from the Eagle Nebula, everyones favourite Nebula:

Ichi=one=1

Today I started to play around with how to show nmbers in my series of pictures illustrating Japanese words. The image below is a early go at ichi, number one:and below is ni, number two:

I was going to add another character until I had a wee crowd. I wasn't really happy with this approach, it didnt feel like the most interesting way for me to go, or the most challenging. After an afternoon of playing around a finally settled on another picture of a whale (my new favourite thing to draw). With each image another fish, or maybe sea creature will be added. I will try and show the whale in different positions in each one to give the series abit of range, it will be hard though while keeping the image this cramped, I don't want to zoom out too much or the inside of the whales tummy and its contents will be too small. Im happy with this picture, and am hopeful that the number series will come out okay.

Playing with photoshop

Here is alittle quick bit of playing in Photoshop. Its ok but looks a little bit like felt tip pens on the hair, which is not what I really want. I like the nose.

Meet Mister Scribbles

Here is mister scribbles. I don't know why I'm putting him up. but I am .