Sanji Fan Art

I'm a massive One Piece fan and have no qualms about that fact, in fact I celebrate that fact, because One Piece is AWESOME! Now as for this piece of work, I wanted to spend a little bit of time and push a more realistic tone and context, after all Sanji is my inner fool, that's a fact that neither me nor my libido/ego could hope to dispute! As for the final product, I'm happy with the direction I have taken the image and look forward to pushing it further in the next instalment!

Web Design times!

So a little while ago on one our rather informative Wednesday

lectures, we had a presentation on the importance of a strong website for those in the creative industry, books being judged by their covers and all!

So it makes sense to me to search out, or at least point out those I stumble across, that in my opinion work within the confines of my creative ideal... or just things that make me crave the creative process!

http://www.sozi.com/

The first of such finds is the site of Rilla Alexander and her alter ego Sozi. Now what I find myself drawn to, is actually a rather simple concept but it really pushes the concept of the site to that level that makes me want to post about it. The design of the interface works rather well, with the the style of the character driving home a solid format that gives off a clean asthetic, with none of the design feeling out of place in regards to the context of both the character (at least my perception of it), and the site itself.

What really got to me was the simple action of the eyes moving and following your cursor around, a simple play on the old eyes of a painting adage. This small touch really brought the character that the artist is trying to promote to life and infused it with that little bit more character and interest for me as a viewer. I wont touch on the contents of the site because for the purpose of this article I'm only interested in that first judgement and I'm taking away from it a lesson for myself on the importance of small concise touches like this for my own practice!

Must get me some EDWINNNNNNNNNNNNNS!

http://www.weaversdoor.com/edwin-japan-ed71uw-raw-unwashed-jeans.html

Do Want but do i want to spalsh out 90 spendits on em... im thinking they can be my christmas pressie to myself :D

three T-shirt designs i did for the EVE/JINX tee comp only to have them rejected for "one reason or another"... i shit you not... thats what they fucking said, they had rules and i fucking followed them. submitted them at the right canvas scale at the right dpi in the right format with my own images in context... what shit....... wrote an angry fucking rant about them being massive amateurs... such shit!

more sketching

doing a little bit of the old sketching, mixing some very quick charcoal drawing with a little digital messing around. trying to stay in the ring, and have fun doing it. was staying with the movies theme.

A "Z"?

Another quick update, what could it mean?! This piece was a quick sketch for a mothly drawing thread on the three A forums, centering around movies. its drawn with 3 chalk shades, scanned and then fucked with in photoshop. i liked the outcome, felt it fitted the old duke!

magnum snake

Long time no updates. fancied doing a pencil drawing, was inspired by the Tom Selleck and how much he resembles old snake (mgs4), so i firgured i'd have a go at a sort of mash up of the two. i really need to learn how to clean up a pencil drawing for web desplay... fuck it!