Monday 3 March 2014

Sparkol animation

Sparkol did an amazing job on creating a little animated video of some of my drawings during my 'Draw a Tiger Every Day' stint last year.







Check it out:

Sparkol Tigers 

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Digital painting experiments

The following two pieces were created using a brush set designed by my friend Joe Sutton. I really enjoy experimenting with textures and mark-making and therefore found these pieces really satisfying and fun to do!

It's pretty simple and easy really - a cheeky little trick for digital painters is to find a decent reference picture and then using the photoshop colour-picker to extract your painting pallate.  I then paint quickly and loosely using the different texture brushes. I start using larger brush sizes and zoomed out and then getting smaller and more zoomed in for the smaller details! I really like the classic complimentary colour palates in these pictures - blue and orange, i.e.: cold and warm - which leads the exactly where I want: To the eye in the first and to the tiger in the second.



Tigers are so unbelievably beautiful, it's so sad to think there are very few of them left! 
Please show your support by sending in your tiger pictures to me, or by supporting WWF

Thanks!
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