I am an Illustrator!!!!

I have achieved my dream of becoming a proffessional Illustrator!

I am living and working in the Beautiful City of Cape Town. I work for an illustrious animation studio called ClockworkZoo. I am currently employed as a Backround artist and am loving it!

WoooHooo!!!

The Abomination!

This image has existed in my head ever since I watched the latest Incredible Hulk movie. As fond as I am of the Hulk himself, I was disapointed that he defeated the Abomination as easily as he did.

The Abomination was supposedly designed by Stan 'Mr. Marvel' Lee as a matchup for the Hulk. In fact he was supposed to be even stronger than the Hulk. It is a pitty that he got crunched in a matter of minutes in the movie.

So...in response to this defeat I decided to make a more aggressive Abomination. I grabbed a ball point pen, a sheet of cartridge paper and just went for it. Thereafter I scanned the image in to Adobe Photoshop and added colour. For those who have watched the movie you will noticed that I changed his look. I decided to go for his original comic debut colour scheme and then added a few of my own twists.

'The Boxer'

My computer speakers played 'The Boxer' by the Chemical Brothers as I began this particular piece. As with the last few digital pieces I have done, this one began its life as a sketch. The sketch was drawn using black, red and blue Bic click pens in an attempt to find a new dynamic way of drawing. To a degree I believe I was successful.

The scanned sketch was subject to colouring, cutting and a few contrast changes. I wanted to achieve a sense of power and awe eminating from the character. I am as of now fond of boxing as subject matter and intend to find a couple of good photographic referances to work with in the near future.

Selected works

This is a selection of works I have completed over the last few years. Probably from about the end of 2005. I felt that it would provide some insight into what skills I have and what subject matter I prefer.

Angels and honesty

Today I produced a new digital painting of an Angel. It took me about roughly three hours to complete. I know I should be working on them for longer, but I can always go back to them at a later stage. As with my last digital piece, I scanned in a drawing I had done in pencil and then proceded to colour and manipulate the image in Photoshop.

The original sketch was created as a tattoo design for a friend. I looked at it earlier and felt that it was fine subject matter for a Digital Painting.The above pic has most of the colour in place, but not many highlights or a background had yet been added.

This is the 'Completed' Piece. Im still figuring out whether or not the 'Haze' adds to the angelic-ness of the piece or detracts from the piece in general. I will most likely try a few more effects on this piece in the near future...

Closeup...

I decided to post a closeup of the 'Queen of Peace' digital image. Its been my desktop background for the last couple of days and I noticed that a closeup really allows one to appreciate the detail on her face.

Step in the Right direction.

...for those of you who dont know...during the last Month or so I have begun using digital media to produce images/ illustrations.

I have always been blown away by digital Video game character art, comics etc. and had always wondered how they did it and how I could achieve that level in my own work.

Well I am finally uncovering the mystery and feel like Im taking a step in the right direction.

The image I have produced is entitled

'Queen of Peace'. It depicts a young girl whom is dressed in '

Gothic Lolita'-esc attire and is making a 'Peace- sign' gesture.

The image began its life as a sketch, which was scanned into Photoshop and thereafter digitally manipulated. I personally find it the easiest and most satisfying way to go about it.

I worked at 300 DPI on an A3 canvas as I thought it made the most sense in terms of good print quality. I mostly used the brush tool on a low opacitity, building up form layer by layer.

This is 'Queen of Peace' (below) as of this moment. It took me roughly two and half hours to reach this point.

Dreams of honesty and art

My greatest passion in life is art. Ive been drawing for as long as I have known. Life has lead me down many different paths, but my art has always been there with me.

I have decided that this is the year that I make my dream come true.

That dream is to be an Illustrator.