Archive for April, 2009

Papa November Picture II

 

I produced a drawing from a picture taken with my phone, the results were like the picture on the left, I felt the face looked a bit long, so I photographed it at an angle and from the top, this shortened the face and added some weight to the top of the head. It doesnt [...]

Papa November Picture

 

I don’t think people need or want to see actual pictures of my mug, so here is a self portrait I did on the 22-04-09, drawn in pencil using a 0.5HB lead, scanned at 300dpi and tinted in photoshop. Very League of Gentlemen,  as in ‘I can I can’t’

Luton to Birmingham in 7hours

Returning from Luton to Birmingham I missed my train connection to Leicester and because I had an off peak ticket, I had to kill 2:30 hours in Luton. One exit from the train station led to the town centre, the other exit up a road with lots of character and plenty of unusual shops. Seven [...]

Money For Old Rope

Continuing the scan and fill tradition, here is a drawing I produced in 1998 for a graphic novel I was working on with a friend, the story fell apart as distance and time became issues. I kept a folio full of line drawings. This one showing the hero of the story sharing a rollie with a [...]

20th Century Thug

This man committed a crime and was imprisoned in Russia, were he became saintly. Drawn in pencil at the sister in laws, scanned and filled at home.
 

Stan & Wes Contemporary Art Malpractice

Lately I have been mostly drawing and filling with draughstman supreme, Brother John Sheldon. Here the product of our labour.

You can just about tell the date of drawing in the picture, drawn from a National Geographic book on 19th of March 2009. Scanned and filled on the 9th of April 2009 by Stuart Tonge.

This picture was [...]