Thursday 6 November 2014

Thursday 7 August 2014

Tuesday 6 May 2014

Monday 7 April 2014

robot monster for sketch dailies



quick sketch from over at sketch dailies

Wednesday 26 March 2014

london sketchin'

pulled from my instagram account, I try and do as much outside sketching, painting, photography as I can. London has many places to take inspiration from

Sunday 23 March 2014

Wednesday 12 March 2014

work in progress


I'm exploring a lot with colour and light at the moment, this is a work in progress for a personal project

Friday 28 February 2014

instagram pics






 I seem to keep up more sketches over in Instagram world so reposting some sketchbook pages from there.
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Monday 10 February 2014

eatthai

I was painting this in colour but decided the black and white version felt nicer for the mood.

Monday 3 February 2014

studies



A few quick colour studies after Edgar Payne and Sargent done before work and a Zorn study thrown in for good measure!

Friday 17 January 2014

The Lone Ranger

I helped a little out with some matte painting concepts, elements used where either from the set or location photography which would eventually be used by the matte painters. Lots of iterations for the Comanche hill, this is where I finished it before it moved on to DMP.




Tuesday 12 February 2013

life of Pi



congrat's to life of pi for all it's awards!
I did just a couple of images to help visualize the underwater vfx look of the water when Pi is in the sea.

Sunday 27 January 2013

Wednesday 12 September 2012




some quick vue test renders I did a while ago. Find them quite interesting and may develop them more

Friday 31 August 2012

sketch pages







Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of updates. Here are some pages from my sketchbooks.
Top image is a plein air sketch on ipad just before it got dark.

Friday 18 May 2012

Thursday 19 April 2012