Articles tagged with Artwork

The obligatory moo cards

By john

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With dConstruct just over a week away I've received my moo cards with plenty of time to spare.

All of the designs are from illustrations/paintings I've done, so at least they are nice and personal. I could have done with spending a bit more time in Photoshop before hand …

Moleskin upload

By john

An assortment of sketches from my moleskine. In order - a sneaky sketch of my sister, several drawings from Istanbul (which I visited with a friend earlier in the year), a rough acrylic of Heather and a sketch of Lolita (Heather's sister's dog) from Barcelona:


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Playing with paint: girl with red hair

By john

Another red haired girl. Sticking to same style/colours etc as previously. Think this might end up being a series of very similar paintings, which hopefully will let me slowly improve my technique with each one.

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Playing with paint: Girl and an Altair 8800

By john

So playing with a bit more paint I thought I'd have a go at drawing something from my head. I'd just been reading the Diamond Age and had vague ideas along the lines of drawing Nell with the primer. Didn't turn out quite that way (just went with what seemed …

Playing with paint: a bit of bowie

By john

So I've decided to try more painting, rather than drawing and inking. So needing a subject matter, Mr Bowie seemed to fit the bill. I also happened to have young americans on vinyl, so there was a picture to hand. I didn't spend too long on it, but here's the …

Me and an open house

By john

Well last night and today saw me performing a similar feat as last saturday, except I was wielding pencils, inks, gouache and brushes this time around. I'm part of an open house for the fringe festival in May and given it's April tomorrow I thought I'd best get working. There …