Myspace Page

Hi, ever since I started my account on Myspace I've never found a layout/background image that I've really liked and I've FINALLY got around to drawing one myself :) The only problem is that it's on a huge piece of cardboard and I've only got an a4 scanner and a bad camera, so....I've ended up scanning it in bits and sewing them all together on Photoshop.

The original image is a mixture of collage, spray paint, acrylic and marker pen, I might add more colour on digitally later.

Special Tree 2

This is the colourd version of the 'Special Tree' for equality and diversity week, I may add more small details to it but this is how it is so far.

Dancing man.

This is all traditional media, acrylic paints layered up, then the white paint to add effect to the image areas, then marker pen in to t

to create the lines. This has been created for the bar Lick and will be hopefully taken there some time next week, it's it's accepted then hoorah.

Website

FINALLY! managed to complete and upload my website :) took a while but all the pages are finished and linked, I followed the instructions to get it online and it's all working well, still confused why it called it's self website_basic when i clearly called it Slap Dash, but apart from that its all gooooooood!

http://www.illustration.artdesignhull.ac.uk/reden

Check it!

p.s something may need changing but if it don't mean much then I'll leave it.

Three Pumpkins

This is a small commission piece, a woman mentioned her daughter was having triplets and that that temporarily called them the pumpkins, so she asked me to draw a simple and quirky picture for her also she said she likes my round people characters so...this is what she gets. :)

Character Transformation Animation

Right, this little short animation took me all day to draw non-stop and it's meant to look sketchy on purpose :)

I've always wanted to try and make a hand drawn animation but never had the patient until now glorious day it's all i seemed to have ha ha. This sequence is a run through of just a few of my characters and drawings that I've done i the past, it does have music in the background (created by me and my guitar) but it's very quiet so crank up the volume!

Hope y'all enjoy this little viewing and i hope to draw more in the future but longer then this one, now i know how it's all done.

Now Available.

Little Book of Big Heads now available to purchase online

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/little-book-of-big-heads/8526520

Little Book of Big Heads

As a personal project I'm creating a Little Book of Big Heads, which are my own character designs dressed as various things and doing different stuff. The are very simple characters but fit well in to most situations and are simple to draw, coloured with watercolour paint, outline with fine liner some areas washed down to get the ink running to make the shadows. I'm currently uploading to lulu.com to be made in to a proper bound and printed book, as the book it is now is all hand painted and stitched together by me. :)

Head Space

A submission for Artlink with the theme of Mental Health awareness week. Painted with acrylic one section at a time by masking parts off with tape and cutting out the shapes from the tape then painting.

Special Tree

This is the basic line drawing to go with one of the chosen stories written for equality and diversity week, the story I've chosen is questioning why we make such a bit deal about leaving homes behind, then realising that there will never be another one like it. The story mentions trees that the author played near when they were a child and how every tree looks the same but that one tree will always be special.

London Bicycle Characters.

The London Bicycling competition, these are the line drawings for the characters i want to colour and place on the collage background of textures. I've made the faces rounder then i do usually and more cartoon like then stylized, i think that works well with the fun element that they want with the image.

Spider Development.

Here are the stages of the Spider drawings, starting with pencil and working on it with water colour pencils, Finally adding the darker details with fine liner and marker pen. The image was made for the group Zine with the theme of other worlds, so i thought about what could actually be or happen in other worlds? and this is what i got :) enjoy!

Steps to make Background.

' T '

T was the letter i was given to design for the name on the front cover of the class catalogue. This is all hand drawn with marker, using my fave detail of stripes. :)

Finished Angel.

Finished colored angel image for 'Happiness - re-birth - joy'

Final Heart Factory.

Finished Painting of the Heart Factory. Glad it's finished 'cause it was startin to get on my nerves!

happiness - rebirth - joy

Sketches for the 'Happiness - rebirth - joy' side of the exhibition.

IceCream Doodles.

'Pain - Death - Sorrow'

Finally working on something that i've managed to finish! Here is the Grim Reaper for the 'Pain - Death - Sorrow' side of the gallery. Hopefully if i get the 'Happiness - Rebirth - Joy' part finished before saturday i will attempt to get these in the St Cuthberts gallery.

Update on Stuff

Latly i've been working on lots of stuff at the same time but haven't had chance to take pics, scans or anything, so i'll just tell yahs.
I've been making my website, adding more pictures and linking everything together and it's reeealy frustrationg cause things keep going wrong! but hopefully it'll all look good when it's on the web.

I've been doing sketches for the editorial project, which i just wanna get out the way cause it's anoying me. I've FINALY finished the painting thats ended up taking me 4/5 days, but it looks good and when i finaly get to scan it in i will be entering it for the Northern Design compertition.

Finaly, i've made yet another book from scratch, designed the cover and everything. I've called it Little Book of Big Heads, all gonna be full of my little characters pretending to be celebrities and doing random stuff.

SO! watch this space and hopefully soon there will be some more images being posted :)

final!

Almost finished my painting! i just need my camera so i can take the final photo,
and also scan it in so i can keep a version should the original be bought.