Personal Work

Some personal work from a graphic novel I am currently working on in my spare time including rough cover art, character design and posing. 

I always like to have something to work on in the background no matter how busy I am, it keeps me alive! The comic is simply a personal goal of mine, something I've always wished to create plus it helps me improve my drawing skills. Win win situation! 

I've been extremely busy finishing my degree and animation but here is some personal sketches I have managed to find time to do. I was experimenting with style variations and traditional media such as copic markers.

 Includes character design work and good old fashion doodles!

Additional Model sheets

Additional model sheets I created for the team. This is very useful to refer back to whilst animating. The crow characters are rather stylised and can be complicated to draw, these sheets provided the additional animators with a solid reference.  

Crow postures interpreted from directors storyboard.

Wing reference page. 

Older version of the crow's design

Older version of the crows design

Character sheets

These are the final model sheets I created for the graduate film I am currently working on.

Basic Crow turnaround

Posed crow

Skeleton outline, this is really useful when animating as it helps give a sense of structure. 

Character Design research

Early character design work for the graduate film that I am currently working on.

Crow watercolour experiment 

Watercolour and ink silhouettes 

Life drawing pigeons with a brush pen

Life drawing pigeons with a brush pen

Flight sequence studies of pigeons

Corvus studies 

Corvus studies with brush pen

Crow silhouette designs 

Poster

Poster for my pitch idea animation. Although I didn't get to make my film this year, I still hope to redevelop it in the future. Additionally, working as producer and lead animator on another film is giving me lots of experience and practise.

nebula practise

Practising painting nebulas in photoshop with custom brushes I made. 

Celestial Eagle designs

Some of the final design work I did for the celestial eagles in my film idea.

Turnaround for the white eagle 

Character features

Turnaround for the black eagle

Black eagle features

Concepts

Small selection of design work and concepts I have been doing for my film idea.

Rough layout sketch

Rough layout canvas set up

Rough character designs

Design work pipeline

Concept

Silhouettes 

Character sketches

Zoo drawings and character design

Tiger drawings referencing artist

Giraffe expressions

I observed this well dressed lady in the wood the other day however, a muddy dog jumped on her white clothes which was begging to be illustrated!

Quick doodle of myself getting excited about going on a plane.

Bournemouth University Student

Me when I can actually afford to sleep in.

Using Jersey interent when I am home is soooo slow!

Quick character design