Mascot concepts 2

By this stage the client wanted the footballers to look like superheroes, not only in stance but also their physique. It was a bit of a flashback to high-school days and Marvel (superhero) figure drawing 101. Here they are unadorned...

Mascot concepts 1

Here's some concept art for a football club image makeover that I worked on last year.

Obviously a lean towards the anthropomorphic side.

More to follow...

Fairy doodles

Apologies for the lack of posts lately- crunch time and then a well deserved an appreciated break

Me at 100

Gotta love the smell of a meme on a Monday

Disney Princess Mural

Finally, it's finished, the Disney Princess mural that I've been working on for my daughter for the past 2-3 months. It's been an interesting process- I've wondered at times what I'd gotten myself into, bending around in funny angles trying to paint sections; but I'm more than happy with the result and so is my daughter.

Here's the process outlined below. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Rather than do a more traditional wall wrap-around mural like these two here and here than further inspired me to get moving, I opted instead to paint it on my daughter's sliding wardrobe doors. I figured that they would never be obscured, so it would be a great "canvas" for a mural.

Here the doors have been painted with the base coat-

Now the artwork was enlarged to size (the two large pieces are A0 size) and positioned with the linework to be carbon transferred onto the doors-

Me starting with some of the colours. Unlike the previous mentioned murals I didn't think that placing the mural on the bottom half of the doors would result in me cramping myself onto the floor in order to paint the low sections-

More colours done-

The bulk of the colours are now painted-

The whites are now painted-

Filling in the eyes, and now ready for the black-

In order to make life easy on myself I decided to paint the linework with the surface flat-

What a task this proved to be. "OO" paintbrush and thin lines = lots of hours and a sore back-

Nearly there-

First door in place-

Second door in place-

Ta Dah!!! All finished!-

Close on right-hand door-

Close on Tinkerbell at the top of the right-hand door (there's fairy dust coming off her wand also, which unfortunately isn't too visible in the photo)-

Close on Left-hand door-

A very happy little girl with her Princesses-

The aftermath, lots of paint sample pots and a few exhausted brushes-

S is for Snow White

Here's the last of the official Disney Princesses, Snow White for my daughters mural.
Stay tuned, the mural will be finished shortly...

J is for Jasmine

Here's the princess all the boys seem to like, Jasmine

B is for Belle

Another Princess for the mural. It's nearing completion, probably only a couple of weeks to go.

Some inspiration to share

Here's a collection of Disney animation drawings from the classic golden years of the studio that were assembled for some of us while I was working at the Sydney studio. Fantastic inspiration to just look at constantly. In fact, I have these images with a textured paper backdrop as my wallpaper on my computer at work.

A break ...

Time to revisit an old drawing exercise...

A is also for Aurora

I'm a little surprised how few people actually know the name of the title character from "Sleeping Beauty", then again she does have two names.
I love the character design of this film

A is for Ariel

C is for Cinderella

Here's the next one in the collection, and the only one I actually drew as part of a production. It's a pity my daughter wasn't a couple of years older as she is mad on Cinderella, and it would've been a great kick to be working on her with my Daughter aware of it all.

T is for Tinkerbell

Still here, just very busy, and wishing I could post some work stuff, but that'll have to wait.

I've had a little project that I've been toiling over for a little while now. My daughter is a Disney Princess nut, and I had the brainwave (or maybe it was a snap) that I'd paint a mural for her. Then I had the big decision to make- do I go for an "On-model" look or stylise them. Amy's retro Disney Pin-ups were a great tempter to go for the stylised option, and it would certainly be more forgiving. But in the end, with some input from my daughter, I went for the "on-model" version.

What was I thinking? They're really hard, and especially trying to nail one style in a drawing and then move onto the next one. Thankfully I have a good collection of model sheets from my time at Disney, not that I drew many of them. Well, Cinderella was the only one actually.

Anyway, here's my first...