I just found out about a website called Illustration Friday that seems to be chocked full of really great illustrators and artists.
Every week everyone links there drawings all based around one central theme, the theme this week being "Forward".
I think I might just have to join in with this every week, seeing as I had a whole lot of fun working on this drawing.

In other news, I made this earlier today as well:
I also made myself an account on a website that allows you to sell art prints, iPhone cases and all sorts of good stuff!
Good stuff like this!


I'm sure anyone wearing that stuff would look SUPER cool.

Have a look at it all here!

Super.

So something that has taken me by surprise is just how much I have been getting in to my University work this past week.
I've always enjoyed my Uni work but most of it was enjoyed with an air of reluctance.
Since my course seems much more strongly aimed at graphic designers, most of the tasks were given seem much more suited to that title than that of an illustrator, so there always seems to be something I would prefer do no matter how good the project is and I feel that probably made me put a little less effort in to my work.
This term our tutor has decided to let us chose our own projects and it has already really improved my work ethic.
Its given me a chance to pick something that lets me go all out illustration.

As another very, very lovely addition to that, my Drawing Studies tutor who I have previously mentioned is pretty darn cool has pretty much given me a kick up the backside and got rid of the excuses I have been using to not work on my books.
I've been determined to have a book finished in time for Thought Bubble this year, but Helen talked to me in my last lesson and told me that if I get a book finished in time she will take it and sell it at a book fair in May!
As an added bonus that is what my Drawing Studies project is, so I dont have to worry about work nearly as much now.

I've been working pretty hard, doing a lot of research and doing plenty of drawing, to prepare for the book.
It seems a little daunting trying to make the entire thing in little over a month, especially since I have no idea how I'm going to get it printed yet, but I suppose learning all that stuff will add to a good grade when I hand all my work in later on.

I'm trying to remember to scan drawings a bit more often now too, so look at my DeviantArt or Tumblr to check out all of that, heres a few of the thing's I've done!

Really got in to my drawing today, just doing random doodles mainly and then eventually getting in to a bit of work on a personal project I've been working on these past few weeks.

I don't have much to say in this post, I have to hand in lots of Uni work tomorrow so I haven't been up to a great deal of interest these past few days.

I have had the odd bit of time for some personal work, and what I intended to be a very quick doodle turned in to a drawing I got quite obsessive with that you can see below.



p.s: I am completely aware of his two left hand problem, it was either a horrible horrible hunting accident, or by the time I noticed it I couldn't be bothered editing the drawing.
I'm going to believe the former.

I've just been looking through some of my files and found all of the drawings I did whilst working on an animation, I was getting ready to post them up here when I realise I hadn't poster the actual animation, so here it is!

My University asked me to make the animation for them to use as a Christmas e-card that they would send out to there associates and such, which is pretty cool.

All of the art was done by hand, and was edited in Photoshop to be animated in Flash and a little bit of After Effects.
Below you can see a big list of all the original drawings I did for the animation before I edited them in any way. (meaning they still include all the little bits where I went wrong)

It took up 16 pages of a descent sized square sketchbook.

So I haven't really written a blog post in quite a while, or even uploaded much for quite a while now.
Basically, the last few weeks of University have been keeping me pretty busy, and plenty stressed out.

It's been a practical avalanche of deadlines and I was pretty unprepared for it.

I got through it though, and I have a few weeks pretty much free now, which is nice.

I still have a bit of University work to be done, but I can really relax a lot more now than I've been able to do any time lately.

So, I'm finally going to be playing a lot of the game's I've yet to complete, watch plenty of films and hopefully get some good progress made on a few personal projects.

I'm a good 20+ hours in to Skyrim and still going strong, so I'll undoubtedly be playing that plenty, and I am very close to getting the platinum on Rayman Origins which is by far my favourite game of 2011.

I also have a hell of a lot of PSN games to play through since Sony have been giving out plenty free for Christmas. (me and my dad are having a Plants vs Zombies completion battle)

And of course, Christmas is just around the corner, so who know's what new things could crop up that will nibble away at my time like a ravenous time-hungry hamster.

I finally went and got myself a Tumblr account.
I've been meaning to make one for a while, but just never got around to it.
All I'm putting on it is random drawings without really bothering to type much, so I can just post them as soon as I can unlike this site where I tend to save pictures until I have a descent amount to show, and quite often forget to add a few I did less recently.

At the moment, it is mostly images of a character I have recently started drawing called Carlyle the werewolf.
I randomly came up with him a few days ago and have been really enjoying drawing him since.






As an extra, heres a drawing of BigFoot I coloured with watercolours too.