Scribble of the week #009

My sketch books are forever filled with random mind-scrawlings and scribbles that will otherwise never be used for anything or be seen by anyone, because of this I bring you "Scribble of the week".

Scribble of the week is a weekly feature(well, bi-monthly at best at the moment) where i'll be posting a random sketch, scribble, design or element from one of my various sketch books. These will always be unfinished pieces of work and will often, most likely, be very random.

This "week's" scribble is just a quick character concept.

I recently watched a video about doing quick "brain-stormy" character concept art.
It's all kept very simple, colours are just blocked in, line-art is messy and shading is very crude until a final concept is nailed down. Most details are totally absent and it gives me an excuse to totally disregard feet which is always nice :)

It's a fun exercise and keeps me scribbling so I expect I shall be working on other character concepts for a while now.

Photograph of the week #49

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

This week is a black and white photograph of a chain wrapped around a wooden post. Again this is a photo I took whilst at lunch, walking around the bay near my place of work.

I don't do black and white very often but it's a technique I do appreciate. Instead of confusing the image with too many colours and other stimulus with black and white you can concentrate purely on the subject, the atmosphere and the textures.

Photograph of the week #48

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."


Just a quick Macro shot I took this morning of a ladder in my garden.

Photograph of the week #47

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."


A quick macro shot from my garden og some morning dew formed on a weed(I think) that has now been removed.

Photograph of the week #046

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."

The above shot is of a little kitten called Dinky one of four sister-kittens being looked after by the folks over at http://www.allanimalrescue.co.uk/ that I went to photograph and video this morning.
Terribly cute bunch, I doubt they'll be without a home for too long.

Photograph of the week #045

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."



This weekend my beautiful wife and I went to the end of the road festival. I didn't take my camera for most of the festival and by the time I had gotten it good to go some of the things I wanted to photograph had become somewhat "weathered".

This shot is of a very cool looking art installation in the middle of a wooded area involving hundreds of origami cranes.

Photograph of the week #044

"When not scribbling away in a sketch book or dabbling on a Wacom tablet i'm invariably fiddling around with exposure settings on my Nikon D90 trying to capture moments in aesthetically pleasing ways.
So here we have "Photograph of the week" a (mostly) weekly feature showcasing my favourite photo of the week."



Today was my dear son's birthday so this weeks photograph of the week is just a quick taster of that.
We're a lot more settled into our new home now so regular Potw's should resume at a somewhat higher standard.