Anna-conda

Found this sketch I did for one of Bobby Chiu's one-hour challenges last year. The theme was "serpent" I believe, but I didn't feel like going straight for the topic so I gave it a little twist.

Looking back at the challenges that I did for Bobby's live-streaming sessions, most of them seem to have gone in a humoristic direction. I don't normally do funny drawings, but Bobby's own whimsical artwork with a twist inspired me to think differently. I'm not a competitive person either, but challenges and competitions can push you in unexpected directions so it's worth going for it from time to time.

Topic: Cave man

Topic: Design your own Street Fighter character

Topic: Big and graceful

Topic: Creature cowboy

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Bobby Chiu's Imaginism Studios - Link
Sketchoholic.com- Live streams, contests and interviews

Previous related posts:
Chiustream cave man
Girl sketch

London Book Fair

Yesterday me and Emma Vieceli spent a few hours in the new Comics area of the London Book Fair drawing on giant A1 sheets of paper. This was the first time attending the fair for both of us and despite empty stalls due to the volcanic ash cloud, the scale and diverse offerings of the event was pretty impressive.
Throughout the day there was a steady stream of people stopping by to look at what we were doing and to chat about comics and illustration.

It was interesting to meet people with different backgrounds in publishing and illustration. There's certainly a big world out there outside of comics and manga.

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Emma Vieceli - website
London book fair - website

Ink sketch

Drawn on a shaky train with a Japanese fude brush. Inspiration provided by Ludovico Einaudi.

Colour geekery

Today's laundry: CMYK

Pirates colour studies

These are a bunch of 15 minute colour studies from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Movie shots are carefully framed and colour designed for story-telling and mood so it's a great study resource for all the beautiful images you might want.

It's funny how the more you learn about something the more you realise how little you know. Back in the days when I started colouring digitally I knew very little about colour theory, or light for that matter, but I knew what I liked so that made me confident in my colour usage. Since then I've gradually caught on to the complexity of the world of colours and light, which all of a sudden made it into something rather difficult.

Colour is one of those shifty topics where rules are rarely general and things are judged on a case-to-case basis. There's a lot that could be said about it, but the piece of advice that I keep stumbling across is "When all else fails, go by what looks right". 

There's a great resource for pre-captured movie stills here - Leave me the white