I just got a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch. It’s small, ergonomic and beautiful. And i’ll probably be doing a lot more drawing and animating as a result.

Above is an unfinished sketch of the local landscape here. Features are missing. I will probably do different versions of this scene, as it changes with the light, fog, weather, etc.

Below is a portrait that I gave up on, unsatisfied. But I’ve come to believe that it’s better to do lots of quick sketches than to chase individual ones around until I get frustrated and demotivated.

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I think the reason I’m not completely satisfied with it is because I started drawing it before I really knew what I wanted to do with it. It’s helpful, with anything, to know what you want before you begin.

Pop, another one. This was a bit belaboured – hopefully it doesn’t show too much.

hadn’t been very creative for a while, but recently i’ve started writing, and just now i’ve done another e-doodle. another portrait of a clock for practice:

this time it’s animeclock

I painted this picture to try and recapture a particular bonfire night of my childhood.

powered by my new clock crew tattoo:

It’s a bit rushed, I guess, but it turned out alright.

another clock portrait. this time, spongeclocksquarepants. a dutch clock. hence the orange sash.

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this is snakeclock

i think this is perhaps the best one yet, in terms of likeness at least

spooky

I really enjoy doing these digital paintings, but what I really find really distracting from the fun and creativity of it is trying to get the portraits to actually look like the people they represent… whilst still maintaining something expressive

here is a portrait of tequila clock. just to practice drawing faces (something that i recently became interested in after drawing caricatures of professors during classes).

I made this picture of Jack White using brushes made from the lyrics of the album Ecky Thump:

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