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Open licenced artwork by William Mckee

Bellez Rat

Here’s a digital painting  I did today of Bellez. I promised her a painting months ago of her rats. It’s not the most dominating image of her Rat, it’s something. It’s been a long time since I’ve create a video for my digital painting - 3months! I used my old tablet, so looking forward to getting my new one back. I’ve returned it to MightyApe so it shouldn’t be too far away.

Until then, I’ll keep painting, because it makes me happy.

316303_4694225475385_1219244501_n Reference photo of Bellez and Rat

may-bellez-line Line layer drawn in GIMP

may-bellez-bw Grayscale tonal layer. Three different brushes used.

may-bellez-color Color layer. Normally don’t use blue on figure, had to use a new blue for the sky, could of gone with yellow/reds. One brush type used.

And finall, check out her blog - Probably Not Sane

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RedditGetsDrawn May

So I’m back in Levin. The art being updated here has been slow. I haven’t been getting out and drawing. Althought yesterday I decided to use my old tablet and record some digital painting. Reference used was portraits from RedditGetsDrawn. It’s been months since I’ve recored videos of my digital painting. Hopefully I get my new tablet returned to me soon - I’ve dropped it off at MightyApe. Just got to wait for them to fix it and return.

Anyway, here’s some digital painting - may-twocouple-linemay-girlport-bwmay-girlport-linemay-glassescool-COLORmay-glassescool-linemay-taylormay-taylor-bwmay-taylor-colormay-twocouple-bwpainr

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Auckland Drawings

It’s been sometime since I’ve uploaded some artwork to here. I’ve mostly been drawing, street scenes and such.

DSC_7590 Albert Park fountain. 2H pencil

DSC_7595DSC_7601DSC_7603DSC_7605DSC_7608DSC_7597DSC_7604DSC_7606

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Dune Painting

Here are several drawings I did well reading the Frank Hebert book - DUNE. Rather than working from reference these works are from imagination. I do this in real time - read a passage from the book and draw what it’s saying (often DESCRIBING a character or environment).

I’ve been using bio pen for my work. It’s quick, bold and allows me to WRITE more. Drawings are photographed at various stages - line and tone. Convert to black and white, just to get rid of that color temp problem. Make everything the same.

DSC_8130 The Witch.

DSC_8127 Scene at McDonalds with DUNE title (from book) scatted

DSC_8128 Illustration was copied from Dune book cover

DSC_8129 Starbucks

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Auckland Pencil Drawings

It’s been sometime since I’ve uploaded some artwork. I’ve mostly been drawing, street scenes and such.

DSC_7590 Albert Park fountain. 2H pencil

DSC_7601 Queen Street

DSC_7603 Top page of that Queen Street drawing

DSC_7605 This is Hamilton. I’ll include it here anyway. Bus stop in Hamilton East. Chilled here well waiting for my brother to wake

DSC_7608 Imagination. It’s great to just doodle sometimes

DSC_7597 Queen Street. Sitting on a seat, drawing the corner. Attempted to add some figures. Rubbish

DSC_7606 Character was referenced from a magazine. Background was imaganation

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cv

Hi. This is the CV of William Mckee. Contact on: [ 0223721475 ] [ will@artcontrol.me ] He’s creative, hard-working, and innovative. Shown through his art, game development, photography and web-work.

Ability to express ideas efficiently via oral, written, and visual communication.

Determined, and responsible, projects are finished on-time and with the highest standard.

Career goals are in the entertainment, technology and education industries. Formally trained in

art and creativity.

[ Skills ]

Pencil Renders - 6+ years experience.

Software - Photoshop/GIMP, illustrator/ InDesign, Maya/Blender, Unity3d.

Programming - Python, C#, Javascript.

Photography - Evidence shown on his stock photography site.

Web - Wordpress management and development.

Cooking - Curry

[ Work ]

BroBeur Studios - 2013 - ongoing - Video Game Development. Founder.

Stock Photography - 2012 - ongoing -

100+ Digital Painting Demos - 2012 - ongoing

RedditGetsDrawn: Portrait and character illustrations - 2012 - ongoing

Global Gaming Jam Hamilton – 2013 – Attended and completed a game in 48 hours.. Unity3d.

Milverton Kindergarten Painting – 2012 – Digital/traditional painting with children. www.ruahinekindergartens.org.nz

Portrait Drawing – 2012 – Matchbox Studios.

Life Modelling 2011 – Casual model work for Dan Wilkinson at The Learning Connexion

Company Branding Shop - 2009 – Screen Printing.

[ Formal Education ]

Studied Applied Visual Imaging 2007-2009. UCOL. Majors: Animation/Video Minor: Illustration

Studied Design and Drawing 2009-2010 Palmerston North School of Design

Diploma of Art and Creativity (Honors) July 2010 – December 2012. The Learning Connexion.

Horowhenua Collage - 2006 - NCEA Level 2

[ References ]

The Learning Connexion: Dan Wilkinson: d.wilkinson@tlc.ac.nz, Marc Hill: marc@marchill.org, Sophie Saunders: s.saunders@tlc.ac.nz

CBS: Ingo http://shirt.co.nz/ 06 367 2277

Milverton Kindergarten: Helen Keeper www.ruahinekindergartens.org.nz 0277653234

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Dzhokar RedditGetsDrawn Portraits

The following images were drawn this morning. Reference used was photographs on RedditGetsdrawn. Minimal line, but enough to fill in the area. No tone was used. For tone HB pencil is easier to work with. Bonus Dzhokar portrait.

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