I be modelling a Bee

I had a job interview for a company up in North Wales who specialise in 3D visual learning, so I thought I'd better practice doing more modelling just in case I get the job. I've started making this bee as an organic thing to model. (I've modelled a train already, just need to post on here as well)

I think the company like working low poly so I thought I'd better give that a go cos I like working high poly :) 1,682 polys is low so far, right? Have just given it some smoothing groups so it doesn't look so sharp.

I'm pretty happy with it so far but will keep posting to see how it goes:

Illustration Friday: YIELD

I started this one about 3 weeks ago when "yield" was actually the word of the week, but I got very busy with other stuff and didn't get to finish it off until now, but better late than never, right? :)

I must admit I had to look in the dictionary for some definitions of this word to help with the image because I was pretty stumped, but good old dictionary helped me out!

Hopefully the picture is pretty self explanatory. This robber was trying to run away with the money but Mr Superhero flew in just in time to create a wall of fire with his heat vision which made the robber YIELD and drop the money, therefore saving the day :D

Finished Coloured Character:

 Character Outline:

Original Sketch:

Illustration Friday: INTENTION

"she loved her job, and had no INTENTION of quitting now ... even if her next target was her best friend's husband!"

This is my first EVER Illustration Friday! :D
I haven't drawn for a few weeks so I really wanted to draw something to get back into it. My friend Michaela always draws for Illustration Friday so I thought it would be a good excuse to draw; so I gave it a go too.

I wanted to draw something simple first, just a simple character with a simple standing pose ... so I drew this.
My original idea was to draw a sexy lady, but it turned into something a bit more morbid! The more I drew the more it turned into a sexy assassin, but I am happy with the results!
It did take longer than expected to finish, but it's a good starting point for future drawings :)

Finished Coloured character:

Character Outline:

Original Sketch:

Day 83

After leaving uni about 6 months ago we have FINALLY put our graduate film, Day 83, up on YouTube!!! (I'm not sure why it took so long but it's better late than never)

And here it is! Hope you enjoy:



It was shown in London last summer at the Skillset Animation and VFX Showcase and we've recently found out that it has also been chosen in the Animated Exeter festival in February, and maybe at Ffresh later on in the year too.
We are really happy with the response we've had from the film and are really grateful for all the positive feedback, but obviously we can't take all the praise so thanks to all the people who worked hard on the film too :)

Life Drawing

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd put up some life drawing sketches I drew on Tuesday at Ten Feet Tall in Cardiff.
I haven't drawn any life drawing for a while so I was pleasantly surprised how these turned out. I'll start off with my favourite from the night :)

This one took around 25mins to draw:

(25mins) She moved in this one which is why her hand looks pretty big:

(15mins) Male model:

20mins:

25mins:

15mins:

10mins:

8-10mins:

Veg Face!

I haven't been doing much recently in terms of work I can post on my blog. I've finished a 2 and a half week work experience at Red Wire Media in Cardiff Bay and I've also been modelling some props for GamesLab while trying to look for some sort of job. Unfortunately the job hunting isn't going so well at the moment, but I'm not giving up yet! :)

Something that I CAN post on my blog is this painting I made for my Nan's church's harvest. It was her idea to make a face out of Fruit and Veg so I designed the face and painted it for her.
It took me around 2 days to complete using acrylic paints and was a nice break from being on the computer and using traditional media instead. And she gave me £40 for making it ... Score!


The paper was pretty big so I used coffee to stain the paper around it so it wasn't so white. The cluster of berries on the right cheek was supposed to be raspberries but they didn't turn out so great and now they look more like blackberries ... so now that's what they are ;) they were actually the hardest thing to paint and the easiest was probably the melon fringe.

I'm really happy with the result seeing as I haven't painted for a while, and I realised it kinda looks like me! ... It's just a shame the photos of it didn't come out so great

New Showreel

My last showreel was put together pretty quickly for the uni's end of year show, so now that I've graduated and have lots of spare time on my hands I've been working on a new showreel which is hopefully a lot better than the last one. I've put in a few more things in this reel to show a bit more variety of skills

Hope you enjoy!