Stained Glass Window

Thursday and Friday,  17th and 25th of May

The last couple of weeks I worked on the Southwark Cathedral section.  I have doen a bit less work because the weatehr's just so bloody good but also the heat is a bit aggrevating at times especially when combined with hay fever.  I've had to work downstairs because it's been too hot in my room and I find I get distracted quicker down there than I do up here.   Luckily it's going to be a bit cooler this week. 

Anyway here's the painting...

The actual cathedral still need some extra detail but I can do that in the computer :D  Especially the three little bits at the bottom.

Lions and Tigers and Bears... Oh My!!!

...or maybe just a Lion :D

Tuesday and Thursday, 15th and 24th of May

I continued with the character last week trying to get the general body proportions right.  I had had the problem with the shoulder blade.  It strangely looked too much like a wing.  At first when I drew him again he was too enlongated, the whole body I mean.

 

So I shortened the body.  I had a quick look at some dinosaur pictures and decided to make the back bones more like the Stegosaurus plates that run along its back.  The shoulder blade still didn't work when it was enlarged though.

  

Naturally the next step really was to get rid of the shoulder blade.  Instead I enlarged the general shoulder area.

  

 

It still not being quite right, I rounded the shoulder off more, made the back legs less fat and made the chest bigger.

 

Being a lot happier with this design I coloured that one in.

 

I then did one of it running just to see if the legs and so on would work.  Apart from having drawn the head too small I think it's fine.  

 

I also did a front view.  It looks like shyte so I'll have to redo this as some point.  I don''t know it looks like it's really old and clapped out.   I'll have a better look at anatomy of a lion front on, that should help.

Then Yesterday, Thursday I drew the side view on an extra large piece of paper.  I did this one really big so I could get all of the details on one picture.  Also I have been working on tiny little picture with a lot of detail recently and it's driving me slightly insane, only slightly... so I drew a nice big one :D

 I still need to add an extra front leg at the moment because it looks like he's only got three.  When I've done that I'll add a better picture.  I think Gizmo on the left looks pretty terrified.

You Spotted Snakes with Double Toungue

Wednesday, 23rd of May

This week I rounded of the Globe T-Shirt and complimentary product range designs. I started off by colouring in the design for on the back of the T-Shirt. 

I used the same colours as on the front design which both come to a total of six colours.  I then made out the template for the back T-Shirt.

 Having done that and still having time spare that, which happily surprised me I continued to apply the two designs to some of the products in the Globe's range.  The badges were quite tricky as a lot of the pictures weren't very well visible on such a small space.  I figured if the badges were made with a 3 cm diametre instead of the smaller ones they would be okay.  Some of the badges still aren't completely right, but Meghan said herself that the presentation sheet mainly to give a general idea and was all we decided on.  After having made the bookmark I figured this would also be a cool bumper sticker so I added that comment on the presentation sheet. 

I am very happy with the final designs for the product range.  I think the range works really well together as a whole and I feel I've created an original new take on the 16th century play. 

I emailed Meghan today with the designs so I hope I get a reply soon.  I also asked her about the Pantone colours and so on because I'm not quite sure which ones they should be.  If they are different I will just have to change and match them the best I can. 

Robin and his Merry Men

Wednesday, Monday and Tuesday, 16th, 21st and 22nd of May

Last week I made sure I had both of the sketches for the CD Cover ready to go.  I decided to leave out the Will Scarlett page because I didn't really feel it was a vital part of the story.  I felt that the main parts of the story/theme could be brought across with the other four songs I had picked.

The picture here shows my general proces for the Battles page.  I thought I would go for a kind of ambushy scene (combining Battles with Darkmere) so I found a reference picture of Little John and Robin doing a bit of archery.  I then just draw some people on horseback and after having looked up the soldiers in the TV series I added the correct outfits to the wee blokes on horses.  The faces aren't quite right but that will be alright once it's painted.

On this day I also finalized the Together We page.  The past week I spent Monday, Tuesday and an hour on Wednesday painting it.  Yes it really did take that long but I'm really happy with the result so it doesn't matter.

This is a quick recap of the previous sketches and here is the painted page...

Remember this painting fits on an A4 page so I can scan it,  so the fact that there's less detail on some faces is because they're one centimetre on the page.  Next week I'll be painting the Battles page.

TIME COUNT 14/05-18/05

+- 23 Hours 30 Minutes  

The count was lower this week as I had a day off with Eva shopping.  I got some cool material so I can tryout making a Tudor Waistcoat in the holidays.  They call it a waistcoat but its more of a jacket.  The rest of the shops were pretty crap but we had a nice time in the park.

No Electricity -> No Internet

You may have noticed that I haven't posted anything in a few days.  Annoyingly a few days ago the internet on the ground floor dropped out.  As our modem is set up there the internet was also down.  This all happened on Saturday and as it costs a huge amount of extra money to get somebody in on the weekend we waited till Monday.  It's all fixed now and the great romantic cooking by candlelight, basically because otherwize we couldn't see a feckin' thing, is over.  I shall now post the TIME COUNT for the previous week and then just post the general info together with what I did this week. 

Front T-Shirt Design

Monday, 14th of May

It ended up taking the whole day to get the colours right for my T-Shirt design.  I was having difficulties figuring out how to do it.  I tried doing it by colouring bits in with pen, scanning them and then rying to adapt them but this just didn't work.  I also tried using the halftone settings in photoshop but I didn't really get the effect I wanted either.  I figured that first of my actual pen drawing didn't have quite enough detail in it so I added a bit extra.

I decided to purely colour it in digitally.  This is very different to the general illustration style I am trying to develop, but my general style just unscreen-printable.  I really enjoy doing T-Shirts like this, it is in a similar manner to the manner in which I designed my Symphonic Sci-Fi T-Shirt.  The colours are all blocks so they can easily be screenprinted onto material.

As you can see I changed the colours a lot.  I couldn't really find the right colour to go with red and green for the faeries which would allow them to stand out enough.  I love purple so I tried that out and I think the blue looks really cool.  I decided the background splodge was too flat so I used the texture of a tree stump to make it look more interesting.  I decided to add the detaile on the faerie wings as well because I felt they were lacking.

To round off I put the picture on to my T-Shirt templates.  It doesn't work at all on a white sheet as it gets completely lost but I think it looks wicked on the black one.