Terribly scanned but finished tiger baby commission

Even more progress

Characters blocked in with a little bit of texture added.


Just about finished except for a few minor details. However the mama tiger's face is looking very odd so I think I will paint over it and fix it up.

I'm also noticing some mistakes and it's too late to save them, for instance, the dragon's fire is lighting up the mountains far in the distance... and well, I guess it's just one huge dragon. Or maybe they're not mountains, but just little hills that aren't too far away? Oh dear.

More progress

Apologies for the horribly blurry photo, here's the next bit of progress on my painting. At the moment I'm not extremely happy with the dragon, but we'll see how it looks when it's completely dry...


Also, here's some stuff I did in class today. Toodles!

Painting in progress! Oh yeah!

I am painting! Just enjoying my last day off until I have to sit down and churn stuff out for the final month of my schooling. Here's a photo of my 'studio', or, erm, workspace I guess. My brother is off taking over the world starting with England so I am borrowing his room for my own fiendish purposes.


It's very cramped up as you can see and it's not the most comfy place to work but it's okay. I'm right handed so I have to be careful not to drip water all over my paintings while I work. Silly me!

While I'm messing around with the camera I figured I'd take some progress shots of my new painting. It's a commission! Here's the first bit.


I start with the background and just block everything in. This is about A3 size on watercolour paper, painting with gouache, by the way. It's yumtacular!


Next bit. The moon is looking a little funny so I will have to fix that at some point. But I can't get too caught up in little details just yet, so I must move on!



And here it is as it is now, with most of the background blocked in and a little bit textured.

I'll keep updating with new photos as I go along. So far, this is about 3 hours of work. The next step is to finish all the drybrushing in the sky, mountains and ground. Then I will fill in the foreground, and start filling in the colours of the characters. Details are added at the very very very end.

Anyway, I hope this is somewhat helpful somehow.

Blake's Bear

A while ago I was asked by a friend's partner if I could do a commissioned painting for their nursery room, in time for the birth of their baby. I had a lot of freedom - they wanted something to go with their teddy bear theme, and something unique and in my style. So to start I drew them a bunch of bears and they picked out the ones they liked. They were very fond of the bear playing with blocks, so I drew that one out again and did a few colour roughs for them to choose from.









After we worked out some colours that we liked, I set up my painting stuff and began! Here's some progress shots of the painting, and the final is at the bottom. They were very happy with it, and they've gotten a few comments about it apparently. I was certainly happy with how it turned out, I would say it's my best painting to date!!