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Uni's over, it was great to see everybody's work up at the exhibition on Friday. Some real standouts there! I guess this means I can start showing some of the work I was doing this year now for Honours year.

Hmm I guess the overarching "theme" was incursions of Order/Chaos that warped the landscape and those in it; initially my plan was to be following the travels of two people, one through a Chaos land and one through an Order land, but as usual time got away from me (or maybe I was aiming too high hahaha). However I'd done a lot of creature and environment desigs, so I will be posting them over the next few days. This is not counting the three sketchbooks and several pads worth of painting studies and practice I did, and my creature sculpture.

Order avatar - mountain lion

Nuclear Ghost - human

Orderbeast - body profile

Orderbeast - head studies

Click to see each full-size version. More to come!

old sketches

Some older sketches from a while back, will post some fresh ones soon aye.

girls vs boys thunderdome ii

"What took you so long, mate?" (click for full size)


Scraped into the deadline for the second Battle of the Sexes Thunderdome over at ConceptArt.org Forums. You'd think by now I'd have figured out some way of starting images earlier and getting them done properly on time.

Us girls had the topic "A great day to die." I tried to steer away from easier/more obvious sort of ideas but I'm not sure if it worked. Either way, good colour practice.

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Apart from the above, uni work has taken up most of my time these days. Not that I'm complaining, I love being able to go in and spend hours working on a big Wacom Cintiq. I'll post some of that work soon, just need to get more of it done first!


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Sketchbook pages

I currently cart around three sketchbooks at a time - one of them is a small, A5-sized one. Usually I use it for quick studies and supplementary uni work sketches. Here's some recent pages, trying to get a feel for drawing human faces again and also working on my knowledge of form and values. Slow goings.





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invasive stream of consciousness

Ey up. Started and finished this about two weeks ago, for the 2009 ConceptArt.org Forums All-Girl Thunderdome, with "Something Wicked This Way Comes" as the topic. Go check out the thread here :) Some great entries there!



Sometimes you know you have to concentrate on your studies of art fundamentals, but those easier older habitual ideas in your head want to come out of the pencil instead...click for full size.

Fanart - HALO

For an FPS game series, HALO has one hell of an epic storyline. I have been meaning to paint the Master Chief for a long time now. Click for full size.

Commission - griffin

Part of a small, quick commission. Griffinnnnn; painted in Adobe Photoshop. Yep, I do them commission things :)