I'm Alive!

Hello!

I'm so sorry for such a lapse in blog updates of late. Time has flown by in a gust of graduating from university, moving out, moving back home, moving back out again, exhibitions, job seeking, house decorating, mud covered festivals and turning 22.
I'm hoping it's all beginning to settle back down again soon so life can return to normal and i can get more work done!
Our new house has two spare rooms, one of which we put a tent up in (gonna make it like Richie's tent in The Royal Tenenbaums!). The other we are using as a studio. Which is going to be great! I'm going to have a place to go and work like the studio at university was. I think like minded people can appreciate the need for a change of scene when working and one that's not a foot away from where you crash every night too....



Since my last post lots has happened. Some of which was an exhibition my friends organised in our town. It was a lot of fun and a great experience.

We made some good contacts and sold some work. So i count it as a success!

Role on 'Departure lounge: 5 Years Later' hahah













I've also been doing commissions and i've also got some exciting things lined up for this November in time for Thought Bubble 2012. I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth into work on them in my new studio space!

My lovely lingering comic project, 4AM. Has, hopefully understandably, trailed off of late. I'm also really looking forward to getting that wrapped up and printed! I'm so sorry to anyone who has been expecting out by now. I'm reminded of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Life has well and truly been getting in the way. The sequence below is from it. It's one of the many pages on line art i've got to do the colour layer for...
(the image at the top of this post is one of the also many colour adjusted and finished pages from it. So i'm getting there!)

Anyway, hope i've somewhat explained my absence. 

(There you go Tabi :) I've updated!)

I'm back to work!

Cheers for reading!

Hope you have a lovely week :)

TEE x

FishBowl

I've been having fun drawing two of my characters as kids. It's fun trying to think about how someone would look as a kid and then trying to draw it. I has made me think back to a time when the challenge was to make a person not look deranged let alone like someone or a certain age. Oh it's nice to feel like you are learning :)
Probably need to practice a hell of a lot more at this age thing though. To make someone look older i would probably just add more lines on their face hahah...and that's not quite all there is to it i'm sure!

Anyway i thought i'd upload the sketch and lines from the two pieces i did of my sibling characters Bowl and Fish.
First them as kids...

Then as the age i mainly draw them at...

I named the pieces after two lines from a Noah and the Whale song i love.
I was messing around in photoshop so here they are finished with the titles included as (badly) arranged text...

You can see the actual finished pieces without text and bigger over on my deviant art.

Click each pic below to be taken there! :D

Hope you like them.

TEE x

I Drew A Lot of Birds.

Hello!
Went on a little drawing trip to the Natural History Museum and Pitt Rivers in Oxford this week with friends from uni.

Here are some of the quick sketchs i did mainly with my lovely waterproof needle point pen, water soluble pencils and water brush. :D

 I seemed to draw a lot of birds considering the wide variety of things they have there!

I found it weirdly strange to be drawing from objects it front of me again, after spending about a week the days before running round in my imagination. I've been working on sorting my major project out that will take me to the end of my degree this coming june. I don't want to jinx anything.....but....it may be starting to materialise....
D:
One of the things i'm doing is filling a sketchbook entirely with the basic starting points/ narrative/ themes of some 'Stories to Tell'. It's pretty fun and i'm trying not to get too precious/ self conscious/ picky about it since i think that's when the best ideas form :)
I cut and pasted a few of my favourite examples of some cells to show what the whole book will look like eventually!...

FUNNNNNN!
Here is an angry Fish to end...

Have a lovely rest of the weekend.

 TEE x

We are Nowhere and it's Now W.I.P plus veg!

hello!

I've had time to get back to drawing for myself for a while now and it's ace :) Amongst other things i did a full length painting of 3 of my characters. Fish, Bowl and Alex.
This time i remembered to photograph the whole process! So here it is! I hope you find it interesting :)

First the sketch on some random paper...

then 'light-boxed' onto watercolour paper...

then finishing touches and it's done :)

CLICK TO SEE THE FINISHED THING BIGGER

On a random side note...I finally got round to sorting out and re-seeding my veg plot hahah! Me and my dad built it last year together and the crop was hilarious...lots of radishes no one really wanted and everything else was really small because i didn't want to thin them out. THIS YEAR WILL BE BETTER! :D

That's all guys :)

Have a great weekend!

TEE x