pencils and patterns

Just a little something i drew last night, to test out my lovely new mechanical pencil, and got a little engrossed in drawing the patterns on my dress :-)

A few pages from my current sketchbook

Whilst trying to work out the structure for my final MA project I got slightly sidelined and a bit overexcited sticking sheets of paper together and created a rather long rough drawing of a fishing village, which seems to work quite nicely as a concertina book. So now pondering how i can go about making this ...

Captain Bushybeard

Have been looking into the whaling industry of the 19th century, and found the photograph this drawing is based on while trawling through the Scott Polar Research Institute archive. I couldn't resist the awesome beard, so had a go at drawing him, with an attempt at combining the way i draw people when i do portrait work and the way i draw characters from my head.

This is the most recent piece i've finished for my MA, a short animation based around my idea of woods in fairytales.

The music is 'Red' by Martha Tilston from her 2004 album 'Bimbling'

ahoy there!

so i've been thinking it was about time i started getting my work online more regularly than the occasional alteration to my portfolio site, and what better way to arrive than in a crazy horse boat carriage thingum .... which is a little something from my sketchbook, which i really like for some reason, but have not as yet found a place for.