light

In my story the girl is given over to the daemon as a sacrifice. I invisioned a procession escorting her to the gates of his castle, all holding candles to light her way. So I wanted to practice light being cast on her face from random angles. This is what I came up with.

Digital painting

I had a go at doing some digital painting (finally bit the bullet). I'm glad I did, even though it's not come out as well as I'd hoped it's a good start. It can only get better... right?

Sharp Shotz

I am lucky enough to be involved in a project called Sharp Shotz this year. Where I, and 3 other uwe students, will be providing creative and techincal support to 2 groups of secondary students. We have so far had two meetings and it's been really exciting.
I have written up detailed reports of these meetings, as I believe we are going to graded on this, but I'm not sure what I can say online. So, for now, here's the main site - Sharp Shotz

.... we were being filmed for the second meeting... it was very bizaar.

A bit of background information...

My male character started off as an vampire, but I felt that it was a bit ...lame. He needed to be a bad guy, but with sympathetic qualities and a reason for being bad.
So I looked up mythological creatures, monsters and shapeshifters. And I came across this creature, Ala. It is said to be a weather daemon that causes havoc to crops.
Ala info

I am not very good at drawing the weather so I though this would be a great challenge, and I will be looking at Turner for inspiration.

Anyway, I decided that something that cause shapeshift and control the weather would make a really good bad guy. I have written a brief back story for him, but need to flesh out his character much more.

Storywise...

So before I said that my story is set around the early 19th century. I have been thinking it through and I've decided it would be better if had a fairytale time rather than an actual one. It makes it easier for me to shape my characters how I want them, and gives me free reign on their scenes too. I havn't done any painting yet because I am trying to cement my characters first. The story is fleshing out and evolving.
This is the first outline of the story that I came up with. It's very rough around the edges. My main male character has changed pretty dramatically.

Basically the main theme of this story can be summed up in one picture...

Some Animation

On Monday I dragged my lazy bones into uni to actually do some animation! I know, crazy right. It was quite alot of fun, may not have done much drawing though as I got carried away with using a 5 pence piece to work out a path. I think the instant result was pretty gradifying.
Anyway, I've done a few little test, unfortunatly youtube is taking about a day and a half to upload one so I'll add more as I get them up onto the interwebs.

This test I wanted to give the ball a bit of character, so its more of a bouncy creature than a bouncing ball. I may have uploaded these in slightly the wrong order... Oh well.

Something to aim for...

A while ago I wrote the outlines for a story and I wanted to make it into a comic. I then decided that I wanted to make a series of illustrative paintings.
Later on I found these --->

click for more...
She has basically done what I want to do, only better. Anyway, this is what I want to aim for. Using old painting techniques, but in my own drawing style.