Ink & Colour Choices

Black and White Ink

Zombie Colour Palette

 

Blue 

Indexed Colour to match the Original Nintendo Gameboy Palette

Choosing a colour palette to match the scene/story takes takes me a long time, 

that's why I think colourist Dave Stewart is a genius.

-Tom

Blademaster

Blademaster line art

*Cough* Agh, sorry for the late post everyone --I was out of commission due to a nasty flu this week (Maybe I've been overdoing it this past month!). Here is a quick line drawing however, one which I might take a little further.
Take it easy, everybody!

~Jed

Beep!

A digital painting of one of my young zebra finches. Baby zebra finches are so precious, with their black wee beaks and beady little black eyes. Aghh I love these wee guys. I have so many of them right now too. 

Right, time to stare at the wall and plan my next piece (hahaha yeah right... no time for wall staring! Alway stuff to do!)

C out!

The dog days are done. The horses are coming so you better run (Florence and The Machines)

Still ironing things out.....Come to think of it.  I feel like I've done a similar pose before.....

Sigh....I have.

B&W Studies

Unfortunately I cannot claim these illustrations as my own as they are referenced from other artists work. After getting back from overload I've decided to put the focus back on studying, to improve my skills. For fun I looked at some paintings from some of my favorite artists including Bluefley and did some B&W value paintings of them. Starting next week though I'll go back and start studying from life doing some more value studies of actual people.

Sketchbook, On Location - Redux

Notebook sketching,     trying not to be conspicuous.

If everybody posts travel sketches,   may become ridiculous.

At all costs,    avoid being ubiquitous.

   - Tom

Recent Sketchbook Compilation

I, like some of the other Turtles, have begun carrying with me a pocket-sized sketchbook (A6) for quick drawings on the fly. A great little habit for any artist :)

Recent sketches

Me, the Turtles and some of the Drawfest Christchurch crew attended the Overload 2013 artist exhibition last weekend. It was all an incredible experience, and it was great to visit another city for the first time in years. Some of the drawings above were done on the flight to/from Auckland city.

Misc. 2013 sketches

And here are some other sketches from out-and-about.

~Jed

Steampunk fellow

A steampunky character portrait -experimenting with different art styles.

~Jed

Overload Misc.

O-O-O-OVERLOAD!

Erm I did a bunch of chibi drawings for people, but I forgot to take photos of the first few... I'm sorry! Next week will be better. It will be betterrrrr!! OTL It'll probably be bird-related though.

Chan out

Free Drawing

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