Digital

Splatoon 2 @ Battle Arena Melbourne

Posted on May 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

I did some poster art because I was hype about Squid Game at BAM!

Battle Arena Melbourne is Australia’s largest fighting game event. It’s being held this year from the 18th to 20th of May at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center. This year we’ll be joining the fun, running Splatoon 2 events throughout the weekend!

I’m pretty proud of this artwork. The sketch, lineart, flats and draft background were all completed in a single session on Monday, with touchups done over the next couple of days.

Waiting for Busso

Posted on May 5, 2018 Leave a Comment

I missed the bus on Friday and spent the time waiting for the next one doing a twee little self-portrait based on my reflection in the bus shelter ad.

Needle Knight

Posted on May 4, 2018 2 Comments

Kinda lost interest in this one part way through. There was a lot I wanted to do with it that just didn’t work out. Oh well, here it is

Bird and Bear

Posted on May 3, 2018 Leave a Comment

A quick half-hour sketch. I have no idea where this one came from.

Transcription WIP

Posted on May 2, 2018 Leave a Comment

A mage transcribes single-use spells from their schoolbook. The spells are probably very basic and benign, perhaps for use when doing housework.

A variety of spells can be stored in this manner. To invoke the spell the paper is burned.

Guard Cat

Posted on May 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

A quick and simple post – I may or may not be back on the blog wagon. Stay tuned to see if I can keep up regular posts during the month of May!

Jangmo-o

Posted on September 7, 2016 Leave a Comment

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I drew the cute new Dragon PokÃ©mon that was teased today. Drawn in FireAlpaca. Need to work on getting my line-weights consistent.

Just Squidding Around

Posted on September 1, 2016 Leave a Comment

My last post for Blaugust, after a month of heavily-Splatoon weighted content.

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I drew this picture for a poster I’m planning. It’s the first digital art I’ve done in ages. I think the sketch process of this one was kinda funny, the very initial sketch was way simpler than I normally do but it worked quite well for establishing the feel I wanted.

I inked this in FireAlpaca. I seriously enjoy that program more every time I use it, and not just because it’s called FireAlpaca. Everything else was done in Photoshop.

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Tutorial: How to create paint splatters in Adobe Illustrator

Posted on August 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

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Past-me graciously supplied current-me with all of the partial steps of a tutorial. All I had to do was fill out the text. It’s not the most beautifully formatted tutorial, but I think it gets most of the main points across. Happy splatting!

Duck ‘n’ Cover

Posted on August 5, 2015 Leave a Comment

Since there’s a Splatoon tournament coming up I gathered together a few friends and formed a Squid Squad. Needing a name for the Squad I tried to think of something with a ducky theme but couldn’t come up with anything on my own. So I turned to John who suggested “Duck and Cover” – I think it works quite well considering the aim of the game is to cover turf!

Based on the name, I made a logo for the team. The art is entirely vector art, traced over an initial pencil sketch.

I think I could have done a better job with the art if I thought about it as overlapping shapes rather than as lines that needed to be filled. I haven’t gotten into the correct headspace for vector art yet!

PS if you think you’ve seen this art before you’re not quite right. It’s the same lineart, but for the first draft it was vector lines only and paint-bucket fills of colour, as opposed to being filled vector shapes. This version is much cleaner.