Monday 25 June 2012

Monsters Of Us All



This is my latest sketchbook protest, scanned and coloured to beautiful perfection. It's a concept for a childrens' picture book. This one's the story of a jealous little girl who decides to stick a sharpened pencil in her brother's ear.

Slight issues w/ lens glare and texture distortion, but it achieves its intentions regardless.

Thursday 7 June 2012

Indifferent Features

This sketch is a proclamation of my love of late '90s sadcore dressed up in a Daniel Clowes inspired visual style. I've always been impressed by Clowes' ability to capture the ugliness of human beings, and yet somehow present a sense of genuine compassion alongside it. So this is my homage to his work, featuring horrible wallpaper-esque screen-tone colours to appropriately mimic his wonderfully unattractive style.




Music To Fall Asleep To

I assume it would be relevant to share this music video, directed by French animation company CRCR, of the song "Ghosst(s)" by electronic musician Lorn. The sheer artistry of the production combined with the eerie instrumental piece manages to convey, with relative simplicity, a utterly tremendous feeling of abstract hopelessness. It honestly chilled me to the bone.

Nothing like a bit of existential terror on a Thursday.

Monday 4 June 2012

Beginner's Mind

So I started experimenting w/ Sketchbook Pro and came up with a character design for an animated sitcom. Unfortunately Adult Swim weren't interested.

(screentones added in photoshop)