These are my first seven contributions to this year’s Kaijune challenge. Check out https://kaijune.tumblr.com/ for inspirational illustrations of giant monsters from some great artists, including the initiator, Riley Phillips!
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The second, and probably last, of my contributions to MerMay this year. These have been super fun to do, so I might plan for a more organised and fulsome approach in the 2019 time budget.
Here’s a scan of this latest exploration of the yeti design for my Hamley book. This is pretty close to the look I’m going for, plus I got to experiment with some new rendering techniques.
This is the coloured version of day 46 of my 365-day drawing challenge. For each day of 2018, I’m drawing my character, Nature Kid, working from a prompt list. The day 46 prompt was Kaiju, and my interpretation was a giant, city-destroying rival to the great Godzilla.
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This is a map of Tsukishima, the crescent moon island that my kid lit character Hamley calls home. Thought I’d include a gif showing some of the development stages as well.
Here's a scan of this latest exploration of Hamley's cottage design and environment. Getting closer to what I'm looking for, and I got to experiment with some rendering techniques
So excited for the new GeGeGe no Kitaro series! I feel like the world should be getting more Shigeru Mizuki-related stuff now that sensei has passed. Here's my Kitaro piece from a while back—about time I did a new one!
This is the coloured version of day 36 of my 365-day drawing challenge. For each day of 2018, I'm drawing my character, Nature Kid, working from a prompt list. The day 36 prompt was 'Berserker', and my interpretation was an furious, entranced warrior slaying some kind of monstrous beast.
This is the coloured version of day 23 of my 365-day drawing challenge. For each day of 2018, I'm drawing my character, Nature Kid, working from a prompt list. The day 23 prompt was 'Shelter', and my interpretation was a homage to the bus stop scene in My Neighbour Totoro.
This is a collection of my 31 ink drawings from Inktober 2017. All the prompts in my list had some connection to the picture book I'm working on, so I'm treating this as a preceding connected piece.
You can grab a copy of Prelude to an Excursion on my Gumroad.
Ballpoint and brushpen on copy paper, digital colour. 810 mm × 288 mm.
Revisiting my late '80s / early' 90s obsession. And I mean OBSESSION. I sure loved me some turtles back then. I completed the ink drawing for this over ten lunch breaks at my day job, then scanned it and colored it digitally in Clip Studio Paint. I worked the color in such sporadic sessions that I can not even estimate how it it took.