Ideas and inspiration

Ideas for pictures hit me at the funniest times. Sometimes when they're not really appropriate - such as at work. But unless it's a very busy day, I try not to let that bother me! Here's a sketch that I started at work, in my office notepad no less (hence the lovely horizontal lines). You can see that a few of the original ideas have made their way to the final artwork. Some have not.

I would say that sketching, for me, is the most important stage of creating a picture. If an idea in a sketch looks bad, it's very likely to look bad as finished art. No matter how polished. It's also the quickest way of putting down the ideas that lurk in your head on to a tangable medium which means you prevent much of the initial idea being lost in the translation.

Anyway - there's no much meaning behind this post other than "here's a sketch, and he's the final artwork".

Sorry if I sound so brief, but life had been very hectic recently and I've not had time to turn the computer on in the past few weeks (I mean my home computer, not my work one) let alone get anything drawn or blogged.

Anyway - I hope you enjoy my art!

The Ideas Factory

Dating back from June 2007 I completed this piece of artwork commissioned for Monarch books titled "The Ideas Factory".  You can buy it here! I had a very tight deadline to get this finished, what with juggling full-time work, I only had evenings to get it done! The cover completely drained me.. for the time spent on this, I think it turned out pretty okay.

HTM-HELL

Coding really sucks. I used to be pretty adept at the old HTML coding back in the day (about 8 years ag0) but time has moved on and coding practices seem to have done so too. I've just wasted the past 2 hours customising my blog, trying to port it over to my toli.co.uk domain only for blogger.com to tell me it can't update page profiles.

I'm sure you care even less than I do about coding a website so I shall stop moaning about my experiences with customising this page. What you see now is what you'll have to put up with.

Content to follow...

New Years Resolutions (work in progress)

1. Keep up with drawing more regularly.

2. Make a calandar for 2010. Start this ASAP!
3. Go on holiday. Preferably somewhere warm.
4. Do more exercise. Very cliche but very neces!
5. Be a little bit more productive in my spare time.
6. Draw more regularly -noted twice due to importance.
7. Keep motivated no matter what.
8. Update my website at least once every 2 years.

I think these are all pretty realistic.