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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Eden Project Trip

when i first arrived at the Eden Project, i, like everyone else, started drawing things. my mistake was that i was trying to draw things as i saw them (quite out of character). it took a bit of time for me to realise i could stylise the crazy plants i was seeing, soon the comfort zone was found and in this case the results were pretty funky. (the one on the right is my favourite)

Character designs

Penryn Folk After refining my original sketches (which, for the record, were way off style to begin with) I adapted my approach and made sure the eyes were not as round and far more in proportion. I actually really enjoyed coming up with these 6 Penryn characters! The colour scheme is gritty and representative of the age as well as being colourful. I love the bearded character second in the line. His jacket's all torn and patchy, plus he looks pretty trust-worthy. The blonde-haired girl in the green dress standing next to him is also one of my favourites. She has a bizarre mix of hesitancy and adventure in her eyes that I find refreshing (I hope other people see this too) I think the way her arms are hung by her side gives her an proactive personality. I'm told the woman on the far right looks like she could bake a really good loaf of bread. Little tweaks have to be made here and there, but overall I'm proud of this line up. Watch out for that cheeky lil k

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