The Mighty Boosh

This was my final assignment for Jason Seiler's class. Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett aka Vince Noir and Howard Moon from BBC's The Mighty Boosh.


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Bruce Willis Caricature

Here's a digital painting I did of Bruce Willis for a Schoolism assignment a few weeks ago.

The Mighty Boosh caricature illustration

Here's a sneak preview of my final illustration assignment for Jason Seiler's Schoolism course. Vince Noir and Howard Moon from The Mighty Boosh. Might need a few more adjustments, then I'll start painting it.

Bruce Lee update

I've been working a bit more on my Bruce Lee Sketch, made it a bit more caricature-like, less portrait-like, and added a bit more tone. I think I'm ready to transfer it to canvas!

Another Bruce Lee sketch

I'm thinking about what to paint on the huge canvas that's been sitting in my room for months. Here's a sketch I did today of Bruce Lee, that I'd like to have a go at painting. I'm trying to make the most of the bank holiday weekend and get a lot of sketching done. Most of the ones I did today were terrible, but I quite like this one. Needs a bit of work on the likeness, and a bit more exaggeration, but it's not bad.

Time for an update

I was looking at my online portfolio just now and thinking that a lot of the older pieces are not really worthy of being in there. My recent work is in a different league to some of those pencil drawings (some of which are over 12 years old!). Most of them are little more than sketches, so I'm planning to remove them from the portfolio, and probably just archive them in the blog, leaving only high quality work on the main website. I might redo some of the old caricatures, as I did with the Fran Healy one, so I can compare old to new and see how much I've improved. It's always encouraging to see your own progress as an artist.

I'm also starting to want a new design for the site (haha - the joys of being a web designer!), but that will have to wait!

Here's some more sketches from Schoolism assignments:

Caricature Assignment 4 - Monochromatic painting of Jason Seiler

The photo for this piece was labelled Matthew. I thought it looked suspiciously like Jason, but figured he might have a brother/cousin who looked like him. Apparently it is him after all. Well, he was fun to paint, and I feel like I'm getting the hang of this values thing. I know we've got a lesson coming up which focuses on painting hair, so I may rework the hair after watching that lesson. Comments welcome.

Schoolism Assignment 3

First post of the year, that's pretty slack. Oh well, I've been busy with work, and doing Jason Seiler's Schoolism course, which I have to say is amazing, I'm learning so much! Here's my third assignment piece. We took a pencil sketch by Jason, and painted values over the top of it, using a photo reference. I made a few small adjustments based on Jason's critique, and I'm pretty happy with the finished product. I think it's my most realistic rendering to date. Hopefully all my future work will be of equal quality.

To see Jason's version, visit his website.

This week we have to produce both the sketch and the monochromatic value painting. I'll post that sometime next week.

Caricature commission

Here's a commission I started ages ago and finished recently. It took me a long time because it's huge, this one is only about 20% of the actual size, so I had to spend a long time on the details. I don't think I'll have time for any more commissions until after I've finished Jason Seiler's online caricature class, so if you want a caricature from me, you can email me around the start of April. Hopefully I will have time for some sketching and maybe some more acrylic painting before then.