As someone told me lately

Everyone deserves the chance to fly.

The girls at the knitting club we have at work love Wicked just as much as I do.

A birthday gift for a lovely friend!

And I'll form the head!

I was planning on making this post early Jan! oh dear.

2012 was an eventful year for me on my creative achievements:

- Started working at Mind Candy
- Two iOS games I worked on were released. "Alien Masher" and "Buddha Finger"
- Artwork in the "Journey" artbook
- Adobe Illustrator semi mastered ( with the help of some amazing friends at work) 

On top of that I met a whole bunch of crazily talented people, the majority of them I have the pleasure of working with. The year of the dragon has been the most amazing so far!

So many things to learn and there's never enough time, wishing you all the best in your creative developments for the new year! Bring it 2013!

I will also try and post/ draw more...

Merry Crustmus

I got to design a fancy Christmas card at work. The theme was Jelly Beans and Shoreditch. And  Moshlings of course! Big Bad Bill is one of my favourites. Finally got to paint with my tablet after so long!

Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you all the best, happy times with your loved ones.

Hello Wildcats

For the past few weeks, we've had life drawing sessions at work! Here are the fruits of my labour.

1st week

2nd week

3rd week

All 1- 5 mins.

Trying to do more gestural poses rather than concentrate too much on the anatomy as I have done in the past. I am trying to push more of the narrative and allow bad drawings to happen.

Jamminn Ninja

I love Game Jams, it's great fun and sometimes something special can come out of it. Heres an example of one I was asked to polish up. Done around last year while I was at Mediatonic :) Great memories.

Earl Dinkleberry; Likes: photography, collecting things and reminiscing about the past. 

Dislikes: Anything Poor

 

 Did the castle in illustrator D:

Nostalgic Chainsaws from Hell...

Look at this stuff, isn't it neat?

Hey guys, some updates!


1) My fan art is in "The art of Journey" artbook. So very excited to receive my copy. Journey has been one of the most beautiful and thought provoking games I've played in these last few years. Its an honour to be a small part of  it.

2) An iOS game I helped work on is now released. I have been freelancing with the amazing people at Lady Shotgun on  Buddha Finger. I worked on the story images with the existing art style from the main artist. It's similar to "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!" with a crazy story twist! Do give it a go and let me know with you think. tap tap tap!

 

 3) I attended  the Schoolism workshop in London. Alex Woo's gesture drawing workshop was a complete eye opener for me. It's given me a lot to take back and think about when I'm drawing. It threw a lot of things I thought I knew about drawing/ sketching out the window. Would recommend it if you ever get the chance. It was also a great opportunity to meet other creatives in the industry!

4) Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera from Imaginism Studios came by Mind Candy to give a talk and demo. Thanks so much to Nana for arranging it! Did I mention I work next to Nana now? It's pretty sweet! I spy on her a lot.

 

Mind Candy creative department. So motivated!

 

 Breakfast Club with Bobby and Kei! 

Dinner with Pixar story artist, Alex Woo.

 Halloween at work, photo courtesy of Rich Mitch

Lastly, I'm having a blast at Mind Candy! too much fun to draw in my own time ohohohoooouuu......!!

lapis lazuli

 

Illustration from last year that went into a friends collaborative artbook " Precious Earth" I'd forgotten to post it up!

Pull up in the monster automobile

Hellloooo!

I have no work to show still :( But there have been a few really exciting projects that I will soon announce when I can!

So far here is some work I have done at Mind Candy for Moshi Monsters that I can show. I use illustrator all the time and its been an exciting learning process.

Drawing ideas for the key.

 coconut bras

Apart from that I'm really lucky that I get to work with a whole bunch of amazingly talented people.  Some great places to add to your bookmarks! :

Ross McCaughey

Trevor White

Nana Li

Lynsey Gray
John Taylor
Lucien Hoare
Jim Whittamore

Boom!
Images are (c) to Mind Candy and are under Non-commercial creative commons.

Derp

Nothing new to post as I've been busy at my job and doing freelance work outside of it. I'm loving every moment of it though! Heres an image I did for my portfolio a while back. It's a rushed idea but not sure if I will develop it right now.