Earth Was Really Dying...

This is a quick narrative exploration for my Frontiersmen project.  It shows the colonists leaving Earth for their new home, the journey and the arrival.  The idea is that it will act as a kind of origin story for the inhabitants of the colony.

composition studies and sketches

some of these are reffed from concept art, some photography, some made up.  Having fun :)

tiny thumbs

Here are some tiny thumbnails.  Just playing whilst chatting on the phone to a mate. No theme on these just enjoying myself:)

It has been a long old time since I updated.  Having a baby sure does keep you busy :)
I attended the London concept art workshop last week and was lucky enough to see Levi do a matte painting demo.  I loved his thumbs and he kindly segwayed into a demo of them for us.  He basically has his canvas postage stamp sized in the middle of Photoshop and does not zoom in.  His mastery of light is humbling but the process is great regardless for getting to the core of image making.  Going to do plenty of these!  You can see Levi's wonderful work here:
http://www.artoflevi.com/

lunchtime speedies from BBC's Africa

I have been loving the latest Attenborough BBC nature series: Africa.  The cinematography is just incredible.  These are all 15-20 minute speedies reffed loosely from the show.  If you have not seen it then check it out :)  All on iplayer right now:)

post 100: forest ambush!

Its the little red mech that could again.  This time about to do a forest ambush from the canopy.

freelance art dump and a baby!

Hi all, I went freelance about 10 months ago and have been having a wonderful old life since!

I have also made a beautiful little baby girl called Martha Belle.  She is amazing and being a dad is magic so far! Here she is:)  

One of the projects I have been contributing on has now been published so I can share the work from it.  I know the compositions are a little odd  in places but that's because these were all background slides and invariable had other things overlaid that were the focal points.

dragon mech

Been doing this over a few lunches.  It is a mech wrestling a dragon for my frontiersmen project.  He is really red and a bit shiny :)