Thursday, 8 March 2012

Pencil portrait of Angelina Jolie


What is it about scrap paper that you can often produce your best work, yet when you sit down in front of a drawing board with "proper" paper and tools it all goes to hell? Anyway, someone's getting some free advertising today!
I'm quite pleased with this drawing of Angelina Jolie, I think it's recognisable.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Running and Fitness TShirt

A little variation on the design. You can still customize it but you'll have to add your own text if you want ;-)
girl running exteme perspective drawing

Monday, 5 March 2012

Customizable Fitness Tshirt

I inked the drawing from the previous post in the traditional way - brush, dip pen and hunched over back :-). When I scanned it in I felt the girl's outline was a bit rough and inconsistent in places so I cleaned it up a bit, imported into Inkscape and used the extremely useful Trace function to "smooth it out" before exporting back out and into PS.
* Edit : I have made a slight alteration - I hope improvement - on the design as I felt it had some issues around the perspective *



Saturday, 3 March 2012

Running Girl Work in progress


I have decided for this design to go "oldschool" as they say. I used Photoshop to get the girl's figure right (it's great to resize and rotate parts of a sketch), printed it off then traced it onto card. Once the figure was traced I added the buildings which I had sketched out in the simplest terms in Photoshop. I've tried to use an extreme angle here to make the image as dynamic as possible.
Here are the almost completed pencils which I'm going to ink in the traditional style.

Friday, 2 March 2012

Colin Farrell Caricature

Colin Farrell caricature
Here's my attempt at Irish actor Colin Farrell. For me he's one of those hit and miss type actors - probably been in more stinkers than hits but the films he's been good, like In Bruges, he's been very, very good and at least he has character.
Caricaturing is a skill that is hit and miss for me too unfortunately, it's about exaggerating a certain set of features that make a face unique but without going so far that it becomes unrecognisable. I'm not there yet.

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Craic Dealer TShirts, Key Chains and Buttons

Some of my Craic Dealer range all gathered together ... for your "convenience" ;-)

I Love tshirts blog features Craic Dealer Tee

Mind Design Grafx has been kind enough to feature my tshirts again. Take a look at his really cool tshirts blog I Love TShirts