Tattoo Art - Sailing Ship

I have put this on my blog previously in pencil format but have now done the illustration in ink using a stipple like technique. It is for a friend who is Chief Mate in Oil and Gas Industry and he is planning on using it as a a basis of a tattoo on his forearm. I need to put a bit of background in it before I can say it is entirely complete.

New Sketches Today!

Some of the work I have been doing over the last few days. It's so nice to be sitting sketching, so therapeutic! Still need to put in some background details but they are getting there. Only 11 more to go plus the cover, it's all good, seem to be getting faster as I go... becoming one with the pencil! :)

Sample Illustration gets the Job :)

I did this sample illustration and have landed myself a job to illustrate a children's book. So excited! I started working on my illustration brief yesterday, completed 1 drawing and have another 13 illustrations to do plus the cover. Happy, happy, happy.... I have days of drawing ahead of me!

Illustration Redraw Part 2

So I finished the redraw of the other illustration for Psytonal. This is the image or the back of their T-shirt. Hopefully I can nab myself one :)

So whats next on my list. I have to finish a drawing of a tall ship for a tattoo. That one has been sitting for a while.

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Illustration Re-Draw

This week I have been doing a redraw of an illustration for a heavy metal band "Psytonal". They only had a small low resolution image and required it to be redrawn so that it was 14" x 17" for a t-shirt. This is the image that will be on the front of the shirt.

I am still working on the image that will go on the back of the shirt. Its a rainy day so today is perfect for spending some quality time with photoshop.

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Photorealism; New Project Started

Happy New Year to all :)

I am absolutely loving my new Intuos 4 Tablet and using it with Photoshop. After feeling inspired and motivated by the work of Alexia Sinclair (Fine Art Photographer and Digital Artist), I decided to stop procrastinating and learn more techniques and just do it and see where it takes me. Below is a little video of the creation of her face.

I am feeling a lot of good will come out of 2012, lots of positive choices and changes. :)