Come back fighting.

Ok i've had a little break from art and stuff and come back fighting. I've finished my latest calender fairytale image here..

But also had the inspiration to get back and do some of my old school stuff, this image i'm very proud of which is saying something as i haven't been proud of my work in a long time.

.Little Miss Muffet.

Latest finished picture.

Little Miss Muffet.

More on the way... watch this space.

.It.Starts.

It started with an experiment of drawing myself and it looked good, so I drew some one else..that looked good too. All of a sudden the potraits became popular and i'm being asked to draw even more, so now i'm charging :) all details on potrait comissions on my website http://www.wix.com/bex_eden/bex-eden-illustration check it out!

Below is the first few potraits I have done.

.The return of Alice.

As well as working on an image for a booklet on 'What Hull Means To Me' I've drawn another Alice image to keep me going. All it needs is a bit of colouring, this is the line work of it, with stylized border also drawn by moi.

.Space.Man.

I found yet another competition with a deadline that was close enough to make most people go 'NO WAY!' but I gave it a go.

The theme was 'future living in space' and there is literally a million things you can draw for this theme so I chose the one which I was most familiar with... gardening!

Also I tried a new style of keeping the same sort of tone through out the whole image and keeping it simple and fun! this is what I ended up with.

It wasn't until I read the fine print that I noticed part of the main prize was a trip to Russia to experience a weightless environment in the space center, this prize is non transferable. So yer I still hope I win, but I'm not liking the idea of a weightless experience!

.Vs.

Having no inspiration can be a good thing because then when a competition comes along that has a deadline pretty soon, it will push you to create something unexpected in a short amount of time.

A situation like that came upon me recently, a competition related to the film Sucker Punch they wanted a mash up of things against things, the more random the combination the better.

The winner gets a signed book of artwork from the Sucker Punch movie created by Alex Pardee, not much to some people but a lot to me. So I gave it a go anyways, considering I did this in a week this is what I came up with.

The Atomic Poodle Vs Bruce Lee! how random is that!? ha ha

.Kidz'n'Pets.

..and just as I finish my last blog post I realise that since my last image post I have done more images!

So here's the idea, I series of images including characters and crazy creatures as pets, fun no?

Here is the first image, I have many ideas of more I can do but at the moment I have so much going on at the same time that I'm slowly getting on with everything, so watch this space for more images!

Timmy! blog link.

If people are interested, the Timmy book I've recently been working on now has it's own blog to keep tabs on it's progress and development. Here is the link in anyone want to follow the stages and making of Timmy and the Magic Bean:

http://www.timmybeanbook.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

I'll be posting more new and images of my creative capers and drawing of 'Kidz'n'Pets' that I'm also working on.

.Drum.Guy.

Continuing on with my quest to create strange and ridiculous creatures based on musical instruments, my next instalment is Drum Guy. ( line work below, soon to be coloured )

.Free.Stuff.For.All!.

Ha ha! made you look...

Mr.Guitar in full colour, playing his music to the worlds eagerly awaiting ear drums. This image is digitally coloured in a new way of using tools that I've only just found out how to use (why 'only just' I have no idea because this could of helped me a lot in the past).

Rest assure I will most defiantly be using this colouring style more in the many creative days to come. Later on I will get round to doing the same image styles but with acrylics and good old fashion paintbrushes and sponges, to get a contrast and find out which way of colouring works best for me.

TA DA!

.slowly.back.on.track.

So lately I've been focusing more on the book I'm making, it's taking a lot of organising and sorting out as well as putting together and adding information but I'll keep you all updated as it progresses.

In the meantime I've been occasionally having a break from it and adding more and more to a painting I'm doing. It's quiet a big image and will have a lot of detail but I'm only going to give you a small peek of the progress.

.GNOME.Comp.

An idea that I started drawing a while back and I thought would work well as a design for the GNOME 3.0 t-shirt design competition. Being a bit psychedelic and crazy but also fun, I thought it was a good way of representing being able to be creative and fun whilst using the GNOME program to simplify and keep your files safe without any worry.
There are many variations of this design which can be used on different coloured t-shirts, obviously the original design would be the most expensive to make as it has lots of colours but I think it looks just as good in one or two colours. Below are a few examples of the different ways it could look and simplified sections of the design.

.Illogical.

After going back to basics and taking up good old fashioned pencil drawing once again, it has inspired me to start working on another picture book. Usually I write the story, research elements, re-write and work parts THEN do the illustration. This technique seems the logical way of doing things and most people would take this route, but I'm not most people and love to be illogical :) so I'm doing it backwards..

The plan is, continue drawing pencil sketches relating each one to the previous drawing there for creating a story line by letting it fall in to it's own path. Once I think the images have reached an end i will organise them in to a story line and add text if necessary and see what the end product looks like!

Here are a few of the drawings and doodles I've done in the last few days...

.Hugo.Mixed.Tape.

The latest competitions I've been working on, the deadline is at the end of the week and I managed to get these designs done before then so yey! The aim was to pick a list of mixed songs from the hugocreate.com site and draw an album cover inspired by the music, also it had to include the Hugo bottle image somewhere. These are the three ideas i came up with, i tried to make them all very different to give voters a bit of variation to chose from.

Feel free to pick and vote by clicking on the links below...
http://www.hugocreate.com/gallery#art_4653
http://www.hugocreate.com/gallery#art_4644
http://www.hugocreate.com/gallery#art_4631

.people.picture.colour.

Finally! I've finished colouring the image! this has been one grueling piece of work and has taken just over a week to complete, that is me working on it about 3 1/2 to 4 hours a day. In the end I'm glad I've complete it but am now in a dilemma as to whether or not I like it best with a plain background of textured one, so comments appreciated!

.people.gathering.

All that talk of people drawing was not exaggerated one bit, here are the line drawings of all the random people in the basics of my plan. I'm going to experiment with colour to see what works best then maybe add texture.

.people.people.people.

Yet another competition under way with the theme 'Embracing Our Differences' with the goal of creating a billboard sized image with lots of detail. My idea is many many many drawings of many people from many nationalities all merged in to one big drawing to reveal another drawing if you get my drift. Here are a few simple line drawings which I've started with, much more people drawing is on the agenda as I want to get as many as possible in to the big picture.

.Mini.Prints.

Inspired by the idea of mini prints I have created these two images that are 8cm by 8cm in true size, was fun trying to get all the small details in. Entierly water color and fine liner.