My journey of 10,000 illustration hours began in photography, pixels were morphed into digital art, expanded via pigments in traditional arts and graphic design to build and hone the skills required for my imagery creation and layout design.
The White Rhino is my final drawing for a great short Natural History Illustration course I have just completed. The course helped me understand graphite and I really enjoyed closely observing the natural world and the application of Science in drawing, I am looking forward to doing more Natural History-style illustrations and
Read MoreOne of the hardest things for me is self-promotion, but it is a vital ingredient not only for Artists but for success in many fields. I am much happier to just create and do what I do and somehow magically it will all work out if I do... (--pfft, yeah right~)
I am pleased that my submission to the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Style File was
Read MoreGraphite Spice- Chilli, Ginger, Garlic, Cardamom....
I am a few weeks into a short Botanical illustration course and these are a few drawings so far. I really love the beauty of nature- including food and of course all those delicious flavours- in particular gorgeous herbs and spices.
Slowly I am becoming more comfortable with my graphite nemesis, and am
With the increase of all that lovely black ink around this month (Inktober) I thought I would remind you to not forget about your colours too, make sure you include several of the colours from this palette a day- 5 vegetable servings and 2 of fruit, if you don't, make sure you paint with them :)
Read MoreNow that spring has well and truly sprung, I have re-hatched my ink harvest.
My original "Harvest" word-art was done a few years ago when I had just fallen in love with ink. It was rushed for a project and I didn't spend the time on it that I would have liked to.
Lately, I had been feeling like I was at an impasse with drawing, painting and digital, and I realised that I
Read MoreThis image was a failure, the goal was to create an ink illustration for my portfolio. While composing the elements I had the idea to add one of my old incomplete oil paintings to the background. I loved the effect and the mood it created, but
Read MoreFor this study of Illustration styles, I used traditional art techniques to make Portrait Imagery of 1950's Hollywood Legends, reference material was from the amazing and inspiring Photographs of Athol Shmith- from the book shown.
Using traditional ink techniques for Sir Laurence Olivier, with a
Read MoreThe idea for this image was to do a watercolour style illustration of some Yoga poses.
I started with a few sketches of familiar poses, found my favourites which I felt were stronger, I then added some watercolour, and played with colour until the imagery felt
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