Robot - Drawing and coloured in Gouache designer paint - A4 size.

Orange - illustration Friday. "Back off our Holidays.." lol ^^

Illustration Friday's topic of - Traffic.

Gouache Designer Paint.

Concept Sketches for this illustration.

Illustration Friday - Topic TINY.. Illustration A4 , hand drawn and 

painted in designer Gouache. 

Baby Dragon - Farts along very nicely thank you!! :)

Gouache Designer paint illustration in a A6 Sketchbook.

The Crowman: Illustration Friday topic HAT :)

Painted in Tea and Gouache.. Plus, darn good FUN :)

Orbit  :)

A piece for Illustration Friday entitled - TROPICAL.

A quick one for the title of Whimsical. :)

It's off on an Adventure. Me to one day hopefully!

Illustration entitled: BOUQUET. :D

*The Baby's got blue eye's.. Illustration on the topic of PRIZE.

The Eye monster doesn't own a set of blue eye's, so.. Personally, I think 

the baby as a means of escape, he looks trouble!! :)

Original drawing, before my decision to digitally colour the work

rather than paint it.. It's a time issue.

Illustration for - Illustration Friday topic: OLD. Here you see painted in 

gouache, the oldest (only surviving) last Dodo on Earth. Recently discovered

fast asleep in a burrow on the island of Mauritius. Old Barrie.

During the painting process. Very enjoyable fun :)

An illustration based on the title; WORK. As you can see, it's a cloudy rainy

bus stop scene.. What is the reality is this: Monday morning and these commuters

are not at all happy, especially one in particular! Can you spot him?  

Original sketch ready to start painting.

Painting the scene in Gouache paint, Because that's what I use :)

 

 

An illustration based on the topic of People. This week's theme in Illustration Friday.

 

What you see here is a couple of Mental Jellyfish. Jellyfish are fun

because I just wanted to play with some paint for the first time in 120 years.

I'm slowly working my way back into feeling again. = Therapy.

 

"Jelly" Fish

 

Sock Monkey's incorporated: illustration.

 

Some illustrations based on a friends Sock Monkey's.

 

Mid-way through colour test.. Seeing what colours work together.

 

Original drawing to colour in Photoshop.

 

Original Sketchbook ideas/doodles/thumbnails. Working the illustration out.

 

More original thumbnail ideas/notes.

 

More Notes/Sketches.

 

A beautiful example of one of my friend: Karen's Sock Monkey's.

 

This one she made for me, I call him Kali 'after my favourite rainbow coloured sweet as a kid.' :)

 

And another fine example of Karen's talent. Fabulous Monkey's :)

A illustration done for a friend. There is a bit of an "in-joke" in this between us, But fun all the same. I Might just do some more illustrations of this Mammoth, I think he as many stories to tell.!

Sketching "thumbnail" ideas in Notebook. :)

Dog & Dinosaur - Out in the Snow. Dinosaur does everything for that dog!

 

Original drawing on white card, coloured pencils.

 

 

   To achieve symmetry, its easy to draw one side and then trace it to the other side. Simples!! :D

Original tiny sketch which gave me the idea for illustration.

 

     

Above: Photograph of my hand to draw, and original sketch idea in my notebook for FROST.



 An illustration based on the word FROST. Again, drawn, scanned and coloured in photoshop. Once more, I wanted to illustrate something different from the usual vision of snow and Jack Frost. I decided to be a little macabre and have someone writing 'YOU BIT ME' with the finger they lost through FROST BITE. :P

Stage 3: Final illustration - entitled: My notebook doodles. These are various characters I have created throughout my notebooks over the past year. Characters I had ideas for, but never used, so chose to draw some of them together "like a group photo" for amusement and maybe inspire me to use them in future projects. Also my obsession for colour is fully expressed here I think! :)

 Stage 2: Colouring in, in photoshop. As you can see, the background is completed first before any attempt on the foreground is tacked has with all my painted work. Although using software enables a faster way to colour - I did take time and great care to make sure all the many colours work together, and I believe I have succeeded in this!

 

 Sage 1: Original drawing - Firstly in pencil and then penned over. Originally drawn to hand paint, but thought that this would be an ideal piece to "brush" up my Photoshop skills gained. So, scanned in and proceeded to commence colourization. :)

 

 Experimenting and just having fun and getting lost within madness for far too many hours than I intended!! Anyhow, I just playing around with pictures by printing photo's on to watercolour paper and playing around and seeing if I can manipulate them. Has I went along (not planning anything) I began to notice "specially with my eye's" how Monty Python it was getting!! Then suddenly I thought of one of my favourite films: The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, Thus I shall name this crazy piece of something: The Adventures of Baron Von Mattausen, because I CAN. ;)

The insane photograph that started this journey into darkness :0)