anthro cat sketches

Sometimes it's all too easy to tell yourself you don't have enough time to draw, or whatever else it is that you do. These sketches only took about 45 minutes. I'm glad I pushed myself despite thinking "I don't have enough time to draw today".

sketchbook - character design

 

Just a quickie from my sketchbook, enjoying drawing anthro cats at the moment. 

Swarm

This was meant to be my Illustration Friday entry but it's about two weeks late. The theme was 'swarm', though I think this would probably go better with the word 'spore' since the children kind of look more like floating spores. The bottom image was a value study. The final watercolour has had quite a lot of colour correction as the finished piece turned out very insipid.

update / more plein air

oh dear.. good thing I didn't make any promises! Between a bad cold and other commitments I missed getting my Illustration Friday entry finished on time (see previous post). I didn't want to rush it as I thought the painting had some potential, so in the meantime here's a quick plein air I did before breakfast.

Illustration Friday entry - preview

Only one day to go, here's a preview of my Illustration Friday entry for this week.

Picture book project - concept art

More concept art - these are earlier pieces that were painted digitally. Again most of this is likely to change as these were concepts done before the story had been formed. The character had regular human-like hands here for instance.

Picture book project - concept

Still working out colours and technique, so here's another simple composition. The colours are probably getting close to what I want, but the technique I'm not so sure yet. I don't want it overly fussy looking, but am definitely still struggling to control the medium. More to follow.

Picture book project

 

 

Some good news to report, I have teamed up with author Jennifer Poulter who has taken my initial concept art and done a truly brilliant job of working them into a story for picture book form. Above you can see some new concept art created since receiving the finished first draft of the manuscript. At this stage I'm still trying to establish the look, so nothing here is final. If you missed the earlier concept art I posted here/here & here, it was all digitally painted. I'd like to reinterpret the world created thus far in watercolour if I can manage to get to grips with this medium. I still have a ways to go on this front.

Plein air study

Brisbane river is still muddy from the flood.

Plein air study

More practice with watercolour.

Watercolour study

 

An outdoor painting that I redid back in the studio. Studying light, colour and composition.

Plein air watercolour

More outdoor painting.