Skull Logo Design - Phase 1

A little bit more time than i'd've liked has past since my last update. Work has been most demanding of my time as of late.
For this weeks scribbles I shall be posting three variants of the same piece of work i've been working on. Essentially these designs are being made with a plan to have them printed on t-shirts. Though it's likely I will reduce them down to far far simpler graphics before then.

The work itself is an exercise in developing further the techniques I used with the recent portrait "painting". There are to be several more variants of this design by the time I've finished, some of which are already sketched out and waiting to be coloured/toned/etc.

Scribble of the Week #005

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(on and off probably) 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 eclectic.

Another random sketch I did for a concept, it's got all my usual themes, skulls, swords... and all that jazz. I think I drwe this sometime in 2009, possibly in december 2008. I'd totally forgotten about it untill I went hunting for a Scribble for this week. I still kinda dig the skull tattoos...

Portrait painting

The past week has been spent practicing my photoshop skills and painting one portrait everynight for the week. With every portrait I think i noticed an improvement in my technique but there are a few mistakes here and there that i'd fix up if I were to finish these images up but I'm happy with them currently as a working experiment.

Scribble of the Week #004

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(on and off probably) 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 eclectic.

 Should have a none "SotW" update this week as i'm just finishing up a bunch of portraits and concept artwork to post but for now here is the most recent scribbling from my sketchbook. It's a concept really crossing ladybirds and faeries together, I also liked the idea of working on a fantasy piece with a "Macro" background.

So far it's called Ladybird and Blackberries for obvious reasons... in my head it looks pretty good in colour.

Scribble of the week #003

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(on and off probably) 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 eclectic.

A page lifted directly from my sketchbook of some random pirate themed artwork I was working on about a year and a half-ago.

Scribble of the week #002

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(on and off probably) 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 eclectic.

A very recent work in progress, still very early in it's conception.

Scribble of the Week #001

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(on and off probably) 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 eclectic.

Recently I discovered a lot of my old sketch books, notebooks and old photographs had been ruined by an unfortunate leak in my garage. This horribly aggravating event coupled with the fact I recently went through my current sketch book and stumbled upon a lot of unfinished and finished sketchs and illustrations i'd completely forgotten about has inspired me to start up this potentially weekly feature.

This particular piece of work is of my dear(seven and a half month) son, Marley. I drew this about 3 months ago when he was distinctly more babyish than he is now. It's a silly scribble but was quite a lot of fun.

The characters around him represent some of his favourite toys and the bottles, ofcourse, representing his one true desire at this stage in life. The concept in my mind at the time was to make a sort of pseudo heavy metal album cover with an obvious sense of irony.

For comparison, here is a photo of the little chap himself, taken around the same time.