Background and colour up

Used illustrator to do the background and get perspective. Also blocked in colours and hoping to create a bit more atmosphere with some more depth especially in the background.

I've so enjoyed trying to incorporate more texture through patterns into this piece.

Total time taken....on going in between life and work.

Hope to finish this soon.

Bless...JC:)

Concept ink drawing

Just had to get something up on me blog. Will develop the background next...any ideas?? Finding backgrounds a challenge.
Used micron-pens .5 and 1.0 for outside.
Bless...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 :)

BJ Builder logo

A logo design I did last year for my father in law who is a builder. I initially did the blue-line sketch to try and capture the essentials of his character. I felt that it was still a little busy so I re-did the image completely. I went with this one as I felt it more bought out his happy persona' in a exaggerated way.
Did colouring and inking up in Photoshop.

Flying machina

Slowly getting into creating vehicles. This is my first attempt. I roughly sketched out idea bottom right hand corner and then used illustrator to create Flying Machina. I feel Illustrator gives that crisp and precise line that I couldn't readily achieve freehand.
Overall I'm trying to get a steam punk feel to the piece.
I will be eventually adding this to the Character concepts (posted Nov 25th/2009).

Hope to colour up this soon.

:)