Hello lovely people,
How are you all on this new Monday?
On my side of things, everything is pretty good, although I am very exhausted indeed.
You may have seen on my Instagram that we have been having problems with our neighbours being very noisy and ignoring our (polite) requests for them to be quieter, which resulted in us having to sleep on our sofa for...
Hi everyone,
Here is the sketchbook PDF for February!
I managed to fit in a little more sketching time this month than I had managed last month, although not quite as much as I would like yet. Hopefully Feb will be different. :)
Sorry for my silence the past week, I have been working on the commission I have mentioned before and struggling somewhat, plus I needed to revamp ...
2019-02-06 18:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Here's a small painting I did today as a practice for the bigger painting along this concept I've had planned and sketched out for a few months now.
I wanted to practice painting the birds, along with the tattoos and the transition from tattoo to bird.
It was quite the challenge, but I now feel a little more confident about starting the bigger painting.&...
Hi peeps,
Thought you might enjoy this new piece I did today.
I had an odd bout of Inktober nostalgia, and decided this concept would look cool in red and black. I filmed myself inking this for my video on Saturday, but I thought you might all enjoy a preview of it before then. :)
...
2019-01-17 17:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey peeps,
I don't know how many of you read my update post from last week (if you haven't, give it a peak, I ask you a bunch of questions about future posts and rewards ;), but in that post, I mention that I have recently been commissioned to create a video series by a big company....
2019-01-14 13:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
As you will see in today's Youtube video in a few hours, I finally got round to trying Oil Painting!
I've had oil paints for a long time now, since we use them in the prosthetic make-up industry extensively, to paint silicone pieces, such as heads, limbs,...
2019-01-12 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My view from the plane when I was flying home after Christmas
Hi everyone,
I thought it was about time I put together an update post, so that you can all know what to expect to see in the coming weeks. I also have a few questions and changes to pass b...
2019-01-11 14:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Happy New Year!
Apologies for my lack of updates in the last few weeks, I only came back to the UK a week ago, and had a lot to sort through. My January is looking very packed so far, with both general life joys, like taxes and car insurance stuff, and work related projects, like sponsored videos and a commission I need to finish, so I'm going to need t...
2019-01-07 17:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi lovely peeps!
Long time no post, I'm so sorry!
Merry Christmas to all!
Do you all celebrate Christmas? How did it go?
If you don't, what did you do instead, if anything?
Over here, we had a very simple celebration, with a movie (Bohemian Rhapsody. Twas pretty great.) and some delicious food on the 24th, and a more extensive dinner with som...
2018-12-26 17:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
So, I don't know if this is of interest to any of you, but in the interest of transparency, I like to be very clear with all of you about what rewards you will be getting for your pledges at any given time, and even more so during times like now, where things work a little differently than normal and feel a bit more hectic. (especially physical rewards, as they can be the m...
2018-12-10 15:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi lovely people,
Here is the finished piece from the WIP I shared a few days ago!
I titled it "Eternal", and I'm honestly really quite happy with it.
Working on smaller pieces that only take me maybe a day, or a couple days to paint has been incredibly beneficial to my practice I think. I feel like ideas are flowing more freely, I feel less tense about paintin...
Hey everyone,
Here's another Sketch to Ink Video, this time of the last day of Inktober, day 31 "Anew".
I apologise for the blurry footage at the beginning, because my camera is behind me, I don't always notice in time if the focus is wrong.
It's a pity too, because I think this sketching footage actually gives a good idea of what my process is like, with a ...
Hi peeps,
As promised, here is the sketching footage from The Conflict!
I think this concept came to me after attempting a different one earlier in the day and failing. I was annoyed, tired, frustrated and worried I wouldn't manage another drawing that day, but then I let myself relax, breathe, and reconnect with what I really love drawing ; eery, weird, slightly dis...
2018-12-03 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
My scanner has a yellow tint that is really difficult to get rid of in Photoshop, and it is very frustrating......
2018-12-01 16:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi lovely people,
So today, I thought you might enjoy seeing my "failed" attempts at Inktober 2018 drawings. :D
With Inktober, especially in the beginning, there is always a risk I will really dislike a piece I created, but I need to be careful and make the call early, so as to have enough time to create another one in the same day.
Hence why the pieces you see b...
Hi peeps!
Thought you might be interested in seeing a little list of the stickers I will have available very soon!
Thank you to all of you who helped me choose by voting on my polls earlier this month!
I have ordered all the above designs, with 30 of each co...
2018-11-27 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi lovely people,
Here's a quick sketch I did today to relax, and try to exercise my sketching muscles after so long.
It felt good, although my first attempt at sketching yesterday failed miserably as I was just too exhausted (you'll see that sketch in next month's PDF, haha). So I j...
Hi guys,
So here are the results from the poll I submitted to you last week!
Thank you to everyone for voting!
The Cracks and The Embrace were tied, so I decided to make The Cracks the booklet pre-order complimentary sticker, and to print the Embrace as a separ...
2018-11-17 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi peeps,
I have a sponsored video to get out on Saturday, so I did a couple of quick paintings for it.
I felt extremely rusty, and am not over the moon with either piece, but it felt good to ...
2018-11-16 14:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It's doooonnnnneeeeeee!!!!
Granted, a week late, but hey, I still have 31 more drawings than I did a month ago! So that's something! :D
Right as I finished this one, it started pouring down outside, and it felt like everything was falling into place...
I wanted this piece to reflect last year's day 31, with the same sense of relief and renewal, of shedding one's outer layer and start...
2018-11-10 17:43:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi peeps,
As some of you may know, all pre-orders of my 2018 Inktober booklet will come with a free postcard, and a free sticker.
I need your help deciding on the sticker design, so below are 4 mock-ups I put together, and a littl...
2018-11-09 19:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I HAVE ONE DAY LEFT!
I'm so excited! (In case you couldn't tell XD)
I went for a design somewhat reminiscent of my 2017 Inktober series with this drawing, with a plainer background, and the focus more fully on the human figure. It felt good, and like a sort of small tribute to a year passed.
I think I will finish it all as I did last year, with more positive design ...
2018-11-09 18:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi peeps,
Here's "Autumn" for day 29. It was obviously heavily inspired from the time of year, haha, and from the gorgeous colours that have covered our garden. And from the view from my window.
I find Autumn beautiful, cosy, and inspiring, but also melancholic, and ever so slightly sad. I often feel a mixture of emotions during that time of year, and I'm sure I can't be the on...
2018-11-08 18:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Day 27 "The Wishing Well"
Day 28 "The Gift"
Hi everyone,
Here are my drawings for days 27 and 28 :).
I'm on track to get Inkto...
Here's the full picture from the sketch I sneak peaked in my Lenses :)
Another paper themed one...
This one, to me, is about feeling fragile and small, delicate and precarious, on the edge of a darkness that threatens to swallow you whole, in a world too big and too mysterious to ever notice you are gone. But it is also about noticing the stories around us, the tales from those going throu...
2018-11-02 17:35:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Here's day 25 of my Inktober series, "Papercuts"!
This one is about cutting yourself to mistakes of your own doing, wearing yourself down bit by bit, cut by cut, but trying to see it and be aware of it, and grow from it. Sometimes, we go through things, or we try to build things that we think are good for us, when in fact they are the results of the w...
Hi all,
Happy Halloween!!
What are you guys doing for it? i was never one for parties and going out, but as a prosthetic make-up artist, Halloween was obviously exciting, and today, I miss that profession quite a bit.
[For those of you who are maybe not aware, I used to be a prosthetic make-up artist for the film industry. I quit about a year ago to pursue as I was missing the ...
Hi peeps,
Sorry for my silence the past few days, the wedding was intense, and then I've been extremely tired for a few days. I think I might be falling ill, although I rarely fall fully ill, I mostly get extremely tired for a few days, feel like I'm falling ill, and then feel better again. Hopefully this is what is going on at the moment.
I was hoping to get two pieces done on...
2018-10-30 22:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
I just wanted to let you all know that prints of my Inktober drawings so far are now up on my shop. :)
I promise I won't take as long to send those as I did the sale orders, haha.
Also, as a heads up, I will be uploading all my originals during the week coming up, so you have a couple of days to reserve any piece you would like ...
2018-10-28 16:25:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi peeps,
I managed to fit it two inktober pieces today! I'll be racking up a couple days of no drawing again tomorrow and Saturday because of the wedding, but at least I have halved the number...
2018-10-25 21:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post