Some pages from my sketchbook, spanning just over a week of stuff. Some rough ideas for an arcade stick design (nothing usable…) some meandering thoughts and some Zodiac related scribbles.

Yesterday I completed the more-difficult-than-expected task of selecting a number of images to feature in my portfolio. I set a limit of ten images and tried to gather a set of images that gave a rounded representation of what I can do.

While trawling through work recent and old, I found a number of pictures that never got the chance to see the light of day. Here’s a few that I rather like.

There’s plenty more! When I started this blog I had an idea of diving into old work to examine what I’ve been doing in the past. Maybe this is the start of bringing that idea to life.

One from a series of images.

This morning I was hurrying to my bus stop via a narrow alley when I was quite shocked to realise there was something very big and very black sitting on the fence next to me. A huge, fluffed up crow.

But maybe it wasn’t that huge, maybe it just seemed that way because it was above me, or because it was all fluffed up. At work today I drafted the below two pictures, playing with two different view points.

Gah!

"Oh, hi"

I didn’t have time to finish the second one before my lunch break ended, but I also thought I could handle a lower view better. So I redid it when I finished work.

Revised and inked.

I think I like the expression in the first one a bit better. I also lost the shape of the bird when I inked it (It was a bit sleeker and I kinda wanted it to hint at the silhouette of a falcon because at one point when I looked at the crow I thought it was a member of the falco family!)

The damn bird was at my bus stop again when I got home this evening. It flew around lazily, taunting me as I scurried to my car…