A Christmas Card of Sorts

Have a super Christmas everyone!

More Christmas Bokeh

Elwood, Xmas Bokeh

Having a little fun with out-of-focus photography and custom aperture shapes.

In the Stars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939

Seasons

I've been a bit busy lately, and any downtime has been spent watching things and playing video games instead of drawing, but I shall try and do something creative and personal for the advent/Christmas season. In the meantime, here's a photo I took.

Firefox

A bit of Halloween fan art for Mike Witner over at Pinkerton.

Nikkormat

The guts of an old Nikkormat (or Nikomat).

Monday Moonrise

The Climb

Maybe I'm just too big a fan of the old TV series, but I couldn't help but feel The Dark Knight Rises was missing something.

EDIT: Some people don't get this. It's a reference to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_CM3tvkys

The King of Hearts

This was my submission for a project which collected together a whole group of artists to create a deck of cards, which each card illustrated by a different artist. I called the King of Hearts. The project has been kind of shelved for now, or at least put on the back burner, but hopefully it'll see the light of day in the near future.

In-situ

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Macro Guitar

Some more macro photos using my phone and a laser pen lens. The perfection of the guitar strings amazes me; I expected to see lots of irregularities and imperfections at this scale.

Macro Photos

Some experimenting I did tonight with the lens from a cheap-o laser pen attached to my phone camera. No zooming or cropping has been done to these photos.

Best before date on a bottle lid

Castor sugar

Castor sugar

Two pence coin

Two pence coin

Fingertip

HD TV screen

B pencil

Beer bottle cap

Headphone jack

Biro tip

Paperclip

Salt

Pencil rubber

Beer bottle cap

Beard stubble

Those tiny chain things you get around dog tags and such

Keyring

Hulk

I drew the Hulk for the sketchjam topic "monster". I like him because he's part Frankenstein, part Mr. Hyde. Two cool monsters for the price of one. When I was a kid I was a fan of the Bill Bixby Hulk series, but I never saw another screen adaptation that really satisfied until The Avengers. Marvel's The Incredible Hulk did do a good job with Bruce Banner and his struggle, but the rest let it down. Now, if the next Hulk movie can mix the tragedy of Banner's existence with the emotion of Edward Norton, while at the same time keeping the passive aggression of Mark Ruffalo and the look/sound/humour of the his Hulk, then, well, they can take my money now.

Positronic Brain

EDIT: There is an updated version of this work here.

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I'm a big fan of Asimov's robot stories and I particularly like the concept of the positronic brain (meaingless as the name was), which has since made it into several other science fiction titles. I like the idea that truly effective humanoid robots would need something beyond programming; that they would need something more complex and even more physical to achieve the level of interaction (and even learning) needed for societal integration. It bridges the gap between robots/computers and a living, organic mind. It offers a much greater chance to unplanned or unpredicted behaviour. It begins to bridge the gap between soulless machine and life.

The picture was based on this previous piece I did, only this time I wanted to go for a more realistic look. It gave me a chance to try creating different kinds of metal surface, which was challenging and fun.

Close-ups of my original drawing.

Ben

The weekly sketch jam has been a bit quiet lately, most members have been busy, but I shall try to get something of my own done this week for the sake of keeping up my drawing, once today's work is done. In the meantime, here's a doodle. Maybe a rival London 2012 Mascot? I don't know. But it's iconic, chibi and has a catchy name. Not that I'm at all against those terrifying monsters Wenlock and Mandeville...

Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs

I don't do this kind of painting very often so it's always an experimentation. Same goes for caricature. There's still things I'd like to try and improve but I've spent too many hours on it now, I'm just going to call it complete. The good bits outweigh the bad bits for me.

Development sketches. Bruce is hard to capture in a drawing.

PogoCop

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