Clockwise concept

This is an art piece to help develop an idea in the works for my pre-production story idea which revolves around two clock bound characters facing the concept of the great outside.

Here shows the Spider reacting to a beam of light shining through a hole in the clock.

I'm the first to rush towards a line drawing, the thought of relying on just lighting terrifies me. However... just by chance on photoshop I turned the layer with the line drawing off, and for the first time I saw something I'd drawn with nothing but colour and shading!

This is a biggie, as I'm pretty stubborn and have been avoiding doing sustained painting online for a while. The importance of light has definitely been realised.

The Spider is delicate, as is the light. This proves to be a nice mix.

That said, I'm sticking with the line drawing for this particular piece, just because I feel it gives the character the personality he needs, which would be slightly scraggy yet defined.

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Penryn 800

PENRYN DESIGNS As art director, I'm putting together a rabble of Penryn folk to interact with Peter Mundy in our upcoming animation celebrating 800 years of Penryn! Designing these characters is proving interesting as it seems 17th century clothing is moderately undocumented. There's been a little bit of dreaded guess-work on my part. In these initial stages I've tried to encompass my own interpretation of the feel of cornish port-dwellers. Also I want to stop drawing women in dresses all the time. There's a lot to experiment with and consider at the moment- and you betcha' I'll update the blog as the process carries on.

Scribble time:

Glen. A4, drawn with a pencil I found on the bus. I began by drawing a huge nose and consciously decided to fiddle around with the normal placements of facial features. His ears are small and in line with his mouth; His eyes are wide apart and slightly rotund, yet still around halfway in the middle of the head; and his eye brows take the shape of clear lines, almost looking paved or carved into his face. Drawing bodies in proportion has always been a grey area. Call me mad but it's pretty exciting to think I have so much work to do to refine this, I'd love to become more confident in drawing full figures, as I reckon it's a weakness of mine. Glen is a cover teacher. He used to be a food critique, but one of his reviews caused the closing down of a restaurant owned by a guy called Dudley. Glen put him of work, leaving him homeless. But, feeling bad, promised to let Dud stay over in his house for a few nights. 10 years ...

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