I thought I’d dedicate a post to everyones favourite grumpy, fat, football loving Pigeon. So here’s his latest outing.
I’ve got do something World Cup/Vuvuzela related for him soon!
Archive for Concept art
Cass – Updated design!
Phew! Ever since I first drew Cass she pissed me off. Everything I’ve drawn so far has been very straight forward, but then I decided it would be a good idea to create a main character who has to look like normal child on first glance and becomes weirder the more you look at her.
She’s the focus of a story which has slowly grown out of the ‘Dreamscapedia’ project. The idea with her is that you naturally assume she is the dreamer but as events unfold it becomes clear that she is merely a dream character created by a man who is on the verge of waking from a 7 year coma. She’s basically the memory of his 6 year old daughter Cassie combined with the knowledge that she would be 13 years old at the time of the dream, information which has possibly been unconsciously filtered from conversations around his hospital bed.
And that’s why her design has been the trickiest of all, it was important that she didn’t just look like a 9 year old, she needed to be a direct mix of child and gangly teenager without looking so weird you’d think I just can’t draw kids. Hopefully I’ve got the balance right though now, It’s the first time her design has satisfied me so that’s something at least!
Please note her footware by the way, It’s my favourite bit. And the best thing is that because she lives inside peoples dreams she can walk walk, run and jump without breaking her feet!
Old icky design! Bleh! (2009)
The old gang
Alright? I haven’t posted anything in ages cos I’ve been busy beavering away getting ready for New Designers.
Anyways recently I decided to update the designs of all of my characters, starting with these 4. (Top left, to Bottom right) Aposse, Everton, Cass and Batholomew, from the Dreamscapedia project.
I’ll upload them individually in a couple of days, perhaps comparing them to their old profile art, but for now just enjoy this quickly thrown together lil snap shot of the guys looking at each other and you.
Dream Job!
I thought I’d do a little update as I’m currently powering through my work this afternoon and it’s getting me all psyched up.
I’m currently working on a self-directed project called ‘Dream job’ where I’ve been asking people what would they do with their life if they could do absolutely anything in the world. The only limitation I put on them is that it has to be something extraordinary, something really awesome to illustrate!
Anyways, first up is Barney (I mentioned him in the last blog) as I came up with this idea when I went to do some work experience for Jelly and I was challenged to produce some ‘Jelly’ themed work by the end of the week. Weeeeeeell, it’s been a little longer than a week (about … 6 MONTHS?! ….Jeez, What have I been doing all this time?!), but I’m definitely gonna finish it by tomorrow!
I thought I’d tease you with a little detail section of the sketch, remember though this is like the first draft, so it looks a little skank. Now I’m off to ink it up! Chow!
Lea
P.S
Can you tell what his job is? It’s pretty extraordinary.
