Like a boar with apples

Hi guys, I created a design for Threadless.com and just wanted to promote it as much as I can. It would be a fantastic help is people could vote, comment or even share this with friends! I'd appreciate it so much! If you could like to vote, just click HERE to be sent to the page!

Thanks!

Mrs Packletide's Tiger

Another piece in the Saki series. Based on the story of "Mrs. Packeltide's Tiger". I'm still personally unsure about the orange but I'll leave it for now. Overall I think the colour pallet works quite well and I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. I'm still working on lots of images at the minute, I seem to have bits and pieces all over the place just waiting to be put together but I'm getting there! Click to make it larger, Any advice would be welcom!

Sneak peak.

I've been able to scan some more work recently, so here's some of my more recent stuff! I don't know what on earth I'm going to do when I don't have access to an A3 scanner anymore! Yes! These are A3 Sketches!
Anyway, I'm very fond of working in pencil, I really like the semitransparent nature to the lines which you don't really get with Indian Ink. I still have a lot to do on these specific pieces, but here's a sneak peek anyway! I've not fully set my mind on these colour pallets but I can tweak those later. I also need to add some decorative floral borders and actually colour the right hand image. Click to make them bigger!

Tobermory

I've not updated for a while because, although I have a lot of sketches to show everybody, I don't have a scanner to get them on my computer! What a shame! Anyway I managed to borrow Joe's scanner to get started on my Tobermory piece, so here it is!

The music on the hill.

I'm still thinking about adding text to make it look like a mock festival poster, but here is it so far. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The music on the hill.

So, here's what I intend to do with the face of Pan. I still need to include insects and colour everything. This is just a rough plan, just to see if it actually works. I also had the idea to turn it into a sort of mock 'festival poster' by putting text along the top and the bottom but I'll play around with that after I've finished the line work and added the colour in. So far so good, eh? Any helpful advice would be appreciated. Thanks for looking! Click the image for a closer look.

The first face of Pan.

So, I've decided to do something compleatly foreign to me. I've decided to draw most elements from a piece of artwork separately. Its based on a story called "The music on the hill" by Saki, which features the god Pan, the god of the wilderness, flocks, shepherds and animals etc etc. It's an odd tale in which Pan takes the form of a young boy hidden in bushes and plants to torment a woman.
SO, the central part with be his face and then I will build up brambles and thorns and vines and insects around it. Hopefully it'll turn out super. Here's his face so far-

The Story Teller

More or less complete now. I'll probably end up changing a few things but I thought I'd upload it anyway. It's based on a Saki story called The Story Teller, in which a grumpy man tells some annoying children a story during a one train ride. In this story a young girl, who's very good, gets let into a secret garden as a reward for being such a good child. Unfortunately, the garden is full of pigs which is the best place for a wolf looking for his supper. Instead of chasing a little pig he chases the young girl into a myrtle bush. She would have gotten away if it wasn't for her medals, awarded to her for being such a good child, hadn't clashed together and revealed her location to the wolf. Anyway, Click for a larger image!

Conradin

I've changed the colour palette for Conradin and Sredni Vashtar. However much I liked the gradient on the screen, when this piece printed out it just looked like the printer was running out of ink (something I probably should have thought about). Its a common mistake that artists make, especially those who have only recently dabbled in digital. So I suppose I can't get myself too blue about it. Anyway, the revamped and almost finished piece again!