Wednesday 11 May 2022

Still Game Wedding!!

As promised in the previous post, here is the Scottish based artwork I created for a wedding a few weeks ago. Due to Covid the wedding kept getting pushed back & felt the work would never get shown.

This piece is based on characters from the hugely popular Scottish comedy Still Game. The characters used are Jack, Victor, Isa and Winston, alongside the happy couple, Nicola and Gary Keyes.


This piece was printed on A2 350 gsm high quality card then framed in a simple white frame. 


This was a very enjoyable piece to work on & may be the last drawing of this type for a while as I look to get back to animating.


My next update will most likely just be some graphic stuff for nothing in particular, so stay tuned. 

 




 

Thursday 28 April 2022

A long overdue update!

As promised, I’m back to update the blog with various projects that I have produced since June last year. Firstly, I have a piece of art that I worked on for a family friend, requiring her grandson Murray to be turned into a wizard in the Harry Potter universe. The final piece was printed in A3 on 250 gsm card. This was the first Harry Potter themed project I’d worked on but as fate would have it, it wasn’t to be my last of 2021.



Shortly afterwards, my next piece was also Harry Potter themed. I was tasked with turning Sarahanne into a Hogwarts witch, specifically for her 30th birthday. This was a great little project to get involved with & allowed me to explore the Hogwarts theme a little further. The final piece was printed in A3 on 250 gsm card.




I recently got permission to publicly display my past logo work for Moorlife & Moorbeauty, both based in New York. On this occasion, the work was left uncoloured as the company opted to complete this part themselves. We do not have the final coloured logos but will share as soon as they become available.






 

I created these fun little designs as Christmas/Halloween posts within my local community- these were not created commercially. These designs are based on the urban legend in the village of Twechar that a bear lives in nearby woods (known as the Coachie) supposedly named after a headless coachman, yet another urban legend.

 


 

Additionally I created a logo for BBM in Buffalo, New York. At present that design is still under an NDA so as such I still can’t say much about it or share images of the completed piece but will update on it as soon as it is cleared.


Finally, I am happy to say that another project, for a wedding, is nearly able to be shown off and I will update soon. This project was previously hinted at as a Scottish project.


So, as mentioned above, the next update will feature a wedding piece & I will also take that opportunity to update on what I have planned next.

Wednesday 20 April 2022

Long time no see!

I can’t quite believe how long it has been since I last posted my thoughts on Life in Animation. I hadn’t even realised that almost a year had passed, probably my longest absence from the blog in a few years. Obviously since I last posted I have been going through the joys of bringing up my son, so the blog posts, which are always secondary to any work I’m doing anyway, haven’t been kept up to date. 

I have quite a number of updates to discuss from last year regarding past projects and also some upcoming ones. I’ll leave it at that for now and post more updates soon.