Category: News/Updates

Anti procrastination motivation

Try saying that title 5 times quickly.

I recently completed my latest uni project, the brief being to produce three elements of a visual campaign for or against an issue of importance to us. After some deliberation and sitting about not doing much I arrived at the idea of procrastination. It’s an issue that really is very close to my heart.

Anyway, the ultimate outcome of this project was three web pages designed to motivate the average internet user into doing something other than Facebook poking people or perusing pornography. The idea is that you set one of the pages as your homepage and every time you open your web browser are reminded that you should be doing something worthwhile with your time. I have no idea how effective it is to be honest since I haven’t got round to setting any of them as my homepage…

Do take a look:
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Site re-design complete!

If you are one of the excellent and few people to have visited my site in it’s previous incarnation; you may have noticed that things have changed around here. Gone is the sombre black and dramatic fog that characterised the site before, look how squeeky clean and functional it is now! And with extra stuff! Admittedly certain parts are still being done up and populated, but for the most part it’s there/here. You get the gist anyway.

If you haven’t already, do take a look at the tutorials section where you’ll find my brand new tutorial on making a grass effect brush in Photoshop. Even if you can’t be bothered making the brush yourself (shame on you) you can still download mine! (you rotten cheat.) I plan to have a few more tutorials on the way fairly soon…

The downloads section is currently near completion and in the unforeseeable future I plan to have the shop section up and running so you can purchase prints of my work, should you desire to.

Site re-design in progress

Despite my current site only being fairly recently completed, it has been decided that it could be better. And so it shall be!

My brand new site is going to be made brand new again, from the ground upwards. The new site will be optimized even further and have a smoother more functional design, I even hope to have a few new sections. It’s in the early stages yet so I can’t say how it will look or exactly what it will include, but it’s going to be good!

In other news; I’ve been working on a new style of traditional illustration. It’s a more laid back look than my usual work and would work well for children’s book illustration I reckon.

Don’t ask me what the inspiration was, I just like octopi It was drawn over a period of a couple of hours with a technical pen.  and a fibre tip pen. Sooner or later I plan to colour it with watercolour.

Tourists of Turkey

I’m finally back from my holiday to exotic Turkey, and now I’m 2% less pale. Nearer to cream than white at the moment, that’s a tan by my standards. I spent most of the time reading books eating food and lounging about the pool, but I did manage to get some drawing done too; while lounging about the pool mainly.

The faces below all belong to tourists and holiday makers I saw about and found interesting or amusing enough to draw. If you just got back from your holiday to southern Turkey you may just see your face/moobs on here. sorry 😀 I should point out that most of the people on here have been made slightly more grotesque than they are in real life.

The sketch at the very bottom left is the Turkish coastline as seen from a boat.