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Donkey mascot design and illustration.

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Villians and heroes illustrated for a card game / mobile game.

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GameCamp 2017 gave away these beer mats to participants. There was much lively discussion among the design team which characters to choose in order to represent the worlds of console, PC, arcade, mobile, tabletop, role-playing and as broad a number of strands of gaming as we could. Illustrating the chosen five in a style consistent with each other was a fun challenge.

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Drawings from weekly life drawing sessions, late 2017.

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At Thought Bubble comics small press festival yesterday, amazed at the quantity and quality of books and illustration that abound!

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Life drawing with quite a tall model with clear bony landmarks on the figure. Standing poses 40 and 20 minutes duration, kneeling and seated poses 10 minutes each.

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Fan art of Chun-Li from Street Fighter (alpha costume). 

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A whole bunch of images drawn from reference as part of SenshiStock’s Draw Everything June II challenge. http://senshistock.deviantart.com/journal/Draw-Everything-June-II-2017-Edition-681089428 It’s been good practising “drawing through” the body and doing lots of hands and feet as par for the course. :)

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I thought it would be cool to make an animated .gif out of the figure drawing process for this SenshiStock pose. :)

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Some more drawings based on SenshiStock’s pose reference I forgot to upload here!

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Drawings based on pose reference photos from SenshiStock on DeviantArt: http://senshistock.deviantart.com/journal/Draw-Everything-June-II-2017-Edition-681089428

I was dissatisfied with the first outcome so I studied the pose some more and made another version. :)

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Pose #3 from this: http://senshistock.deviantart.com/journal/Draw-Everything-June-II-2017-Edition-681089428

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Pose from SenshiStock on DeviantArt. I installed Krita on my laptop and drew this with it! XD

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Drawing a view from Bournemouth Gardens. 

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Made a study of a crop from “Seven Oni Killahs” by Adam Ferrando. I wanted a closer look at a piece that uses a controlled colour palette, strong silhouette, and strong contrast.

I didn’t use the eyedropper tool, but tried to match colours using the colour wheel picker.

Check out the awesome, wide format original on the artist’s Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Al54W