Peter Jackson caricatures

This is a pen sketch I did quite some years ago. Found it the other day and thought I'd post it online. I cringe when I look at his feet but oh well.... always a WIP, always learning.

I'm still happy with the shading and hatching. 

This one I did up last year. I know at the time I was aiming for a clean feel to it. Which I did find challenging because whatever lines you choose to leave out you hope you can still capture the look of the person.

Done in P/shop

Mr Leafy Final

Here's final image done up in p/shop. Next step will be to put it on a canvas. Verse from the Good Book (Bible).

JC

Going banana's

I have a thing for monkey's.... I know, kinda weird aye.  So I've been kinda going a little banana's lately and started to draw around this concept - one thing lead to another and voila' you have the above image.
Everyone is going banana's and yes I've been watching a little too much tv lately, especially the news which makes you go banana's.
I do like banana's though, especially on toast with butter....yum.

JC...:)

comic with friend

A good friend of mine has giving me a comic draft. So I'm slowly putting together concepts for it.
It's aimed at a young audience...with the characters been somewhat a group of misfits that fit together to make up super hero's.
Going to be a great challenge. It'll be a 12 pg mini comic at this stage. Would love to get it in print too.

Sorry for the late blogging as of late - Time....arrgghhhh!!!!!

Hope all is well to everyone out in cyberspace...:) Bless JC

Wedding Caricature

A wedding caricature I did just recently. Did to A4 size printed out on nice paper and framed up.

This is the first drawing I've done in the last few weeks....hard making the time. I swore to myself that I wouldn't mentioned how starved I'd be for time on a blog but it's challenging balancing life/work. 

Take care and as alway's thanks for visiting.

...JC :)

Chris Martin caricature

Taken from inspirational song "lovers in Japan", Coldplay. Went to concert earlier this year, awesome. 

Tools used...inked and coloured in illustrator CS4 - gradient done in P/shop.

Facebook Avatar

Just a fun image I did for my facebook pic. I was inspired by illustrator Chipwass, especially his colour schemes. Slapped in a little texture and hey presto'.
Inked up in Illustrator and coloured in Photoshop.

Batman vs Luchadore

Loving those luchadore's.... I'm a fan of Nacho Libre so it felt fitting to slip him in here.

I'll need to fix up that leg coming forward on Lucha (knee a little flat).

I'm going to colour up Lucha and then start work on the background... I'll try this in Illustrator.

Any thoughts, tips are most welcome!!!

Bye for now :)

Batman fanart

One of my favourite classic super-hero's. I'm going to have him fighting someone..will post that in day or two.
Hope to also have a background environment!!!

Cartoon Animation stills

As promised in an earlier post here are some image stills from a recent job I had.
The hero dog above was a lot of fun and the challenge was to create a dynamic look within the constraints of the brief.

One of those constraints was that the animation was to be in 2-D (either front or side-on). So I had to make sure that the pose's were readable and easy for the animator to articulate.

Here's the rest of the animals for which was the interior shot. It was challenging also to find a way to create a visual interest between all the characters so that they could be read easily as the camera moved past them. In the final animation the mouse was moved from the trap as it wasn't seen as appropriate.

Exterior shot of clinic. Also side profile of characters.

I really enjoyed doing the exterior as it's something I haven't done alot of within illustrator.

Major reason for using illustrator was that once images were complete I could hand over the files and not have to worry about resolution...so yay for illustrator.

Lobster Johnson fanart: Feathering technique

Just started to colour-up this image. I've tried another technique which I like the look of. It's selecting the area's to shade and then feathering. This gives the image a much softer look. I initially had the outlines all in black (to harsh), so I coloured them respectively to the subject.

Definitely stoked with outlook so far.

I learn't this technique from Shane Lewis. Check out his tutorial. His blog is definitely worth a visit - he's got some funny-as pics!!!

Will post finished image later.

Bye for now and any thoughts on your colouring process would be very welcome.

Happy 70th Super Ma!!!

Caricature of my wife's mum. 
Big 70th birthday coming up so it seemed doing the super hero costume was called for.
I've been studying a digital artist called Jackademus. What I like about his style that I tried to incorporate here was the shading. He's an awesome artist, go check him out here.