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Auckland Pencil Drawings

May 3, 2013 / Will / Comments Off

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

Albert Park fountain. 2H pencil

Queen Street

Top page of that Queen Street drawing

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

Imagination. It’s great to just doodle sometimes

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

Character was referenced from a magazine. Background was imaganation

Clem and City photo studies

January 12, 2013 / Will / Comments Off

During my final hours in Auckland I started playing The Walking Dead. I got the majority of the way through episode one. I’ve just reopened it up on my laptop and playing it.

Here’s a painting I did of Clem from the game:

And using some reference photos that I took recently I did this enviorment painting:
I used several different references for this – the first a clock tower photo in Levin, this also included the reference for the street lamps. The second reference was from Auckland – the Sky tower. The rest of the image was just tone building up from imagination - including the mountain. I’ll like to do more of these photo studies rather than just work from my drawings.

Finally here’s the video for this these paintings -

Auckland Characters

January 11, 2013 / Will / Comments Off

I’ve been taking photos. The majority of these have been landscape or street scene, but I have taken some photos of people. You can check out my new stock photography website – FreshFigure.

For this painting I used several of my photographs and painted characters. I normally paint enviorments so it’s always refreshing to paint characters. Here goes:

Line. The four figures are all the same height with the two portraits slightly wider than the figures. I especilly enjoyed doing the line on portrait with the tongue out – it’s very unusal and nothing like a normal portrait. Yay for differences.

Grayscale tone. I focused on skin and hair – missing the legs on the left two figures. I went in with the middle gray and just covered areas before going in with dark to the hair areas. I used a light gray in certain areas of the skin to increase the contrast.
Color. I dropped opacity to 30% and covered the skin with yellow. Next was red for the darks (just laying over that yellow). Finally I used two shades of blue for the back wall and a green for the floor.

Here’s the video:

Sketchbook Travels

December 30, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

I’m currently in Auckland. I got a new camera for xmas so able to take plenty of photos. So far I’ve taken over 1500.

When away on holiday like this I don’t spend much time on the computer but here are drawings that I have done recently:

View of the hills from my Mothers home in Poringa. I didn’t get much drawing done over xmas, instead I spent the majority of the time on the computer working with pygame. Over the past few day’s I have been taking plently of photos of enviorments that I plan to use in my artwork somehow. So the drawing has been low.

The other side of the page. Very minimal lines in this. I’m not sure if I will do much with it. It’s quite boring.

Another view from Mums home. This was a closer view. To the right is a concrete mixer, very top the sky, and below vegetation.

I’m happier with this one. Far more structure to the piece. The concrete mixer was fun to draw. It was similar to drawing cars, but a different shape. To the right of the mixer, a concrete wall in progress. Bottom is grass. I used a straight line vertical stroke to show this. I only drew part of the grass so repeating mindless tasks like this calls for a for loop. Here’s dreaming.

Another drawing of Poringa. I started with drawing part of the neighbors house and drew vegetation fences and the hill behind it. A fence ran all the way across the top of the fence.
Right side of the previous drawing. Not as much happening here, I guess I lost interest and went inside to the computer. The very left is a power pole, followed by vegetation At the top the fence continues along The hill twists and turns.

This was a drawing I did in Hamilton. I spent the day there before traveling to Auckland. Nothing much happening here. Lets move on. Another Hamilton drawing. Again, very minimal. I wasn’t really in the mood for drawing so closed the book and walked.

This was drawn in Hamilton at the base. My Mother, Sister went shopping and I was free for several hours to draw and look around the shops. It was a beautiful day in Hamilton and I enjoyed drawing the store fronts. This is a drawing of a clothing shop well drinking a glass of water and eating a scone.

This will do for now

Vector Logo Mall

August 27, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

I spend the majority of my digital painting time in GIMP. I love it, I always will. I’ve tried other Raster programs out there – and will continue to use – DeviantArt Muro, Manga Studio, MyPaint, Alchemy, Photoshop.

There is another set of programs I can paint with.. Vector. During Highschool I spent time learning Freehand. It was a favorite program. I enjoyed this more than Photoshop. Having a tablet back then would of been great – even if it was a tiny 2×2 screen size.

Anyway, I learnt Freehand, then moved onto Illustrater. In 2007 I did the majority of my digital work in Illustrater. Later I moved to Inkscape – cos it’s not Adobe.

Here are two logo/header displays and a paint over of a sketch:This is a paint over as well. I used a figure from GIMP and painted over in Inkscape. I used my mouse for it. I’ve been using the tablet lots – it needs a new nib and I can’t find the packet. I think the mouse does a decent job at painting. Clearly the model is James. Who else could look like this? One of the advantages of having these files as Vector objects is the freedom. I can scale, and mix without losing any detail. Paint over of Lynn Mall sketch. Color used is inspired by my other works. I think I’ll keep working in Inkscape. It’s something different that allows me to create works digitally.

Saturday Morning

August 24, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

Several digital paintings. Pencil sketch to GIMP paintings. Airport sketch thanks to Netscrolling. Exploring areas of color further – what shapes can I make? Do the buildings and people need color. Maybe I could try a silver or grey on it. I’ve used grey somewhat in my other works – especially at the beginning stages of building a painting up.

Westfield. I want to take the majority of my pencil sketches into GIMP and develop these paintings. This can only help my knowledge of compossion and environments….The final painting. I guess I shouldn’t really call it a final though. Because anyone is free to take my work and develop it on a new path. Just let me know :) A digital painting from several months ago. Decided to take it into GIMP and work over top using the same colors. I’ve been having a look over my older blog posts and noticed lots of life drawings that I could take though the digital stage. There is likely lots of life drawing work not uploaded – I should work on getting these uploaded as I can then turn them into digital paintings and such.

Westfield Auckland Sketch

August 24, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

Some more drawings of Auckland during my visit. Most of these are around Westfield New Lynn Mall.

Top half. HB Pencil on white paper. This is mostly the ceiling. Working vertical, gives an interesting perspective. Much more detail in this area then the roof. People were blocking areas so I had to work around that somewhat. Attempted to capture the wood bark texture on the containers – spreading it to other container structures. I’ll do a paint over of these works tonight or in the morning.

Left side of mall outside sketch. Sadly the other half isn’t scanning. stupid scanner.

Digital Mall Time

August 22, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

Taken several of my sketches from Auckland and produced a paint over. There was only one new idea here – using the eraser in areas to help tonal value

New Lynn mall. I need a new nip for my pen. It’s grinded down and is scrapping on the tablet. It may be part of the problem of unable to get straight lines – my hand has been very jerky. Frustrating.

Working on this I wished I had taken a photo of the scene – the line was fine – but I had no information for the tone – so just made it up. I guess it works, but it doesn’t feel right.

I used the eraser tool for the blue – capturing a more transparent background. It’s been awhile since I’ve explored these ideas.

Auckland Waterfont plus train wait

August 20, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

A selection of drawings from my trip to Auckland. I picked the Sketchbook up from Ponsonby and began to fill it with views from around Auckland. Although I picked up two new colored pencils from the French Art Shop as well I didn’t end up using it – I’ve been finding it easier to work with just pencil then adding color at a digital stage.

Auckland waterfront. There were several fisherman out. I sat on a seat and just enjoyed the view. I enjoyed drawing this because it offered me several layers of perspective – something thats important when capturing the scene. No tone either – praticing that line. Once I’ve taken this into GIMP I’ll work on paintingLynn Mall. During the time I was locked out of the place I was staying in New Lynn I hanged out in the local Lynn Mall. There were several place to sit and draw. This is near the entery of the building. Train. The train takes an hour from New Lynn to Britomart. One hours a long time to work on a drawing, so every time I took the train I was able to get a drawing done. I was happy with the train system in Auckland – it was certainly cheaper than Wellington.

And last another view from the waterfont. This time it’s the huge machines they use on the dock. These were lined up in perspective so I struggled somewhat with attempts to capture the scale.

There are more drawings of Auckland that I need to scan and upload. But this will do for now. Enjoy.

Sketchbook auckland

August 18, 2012 / Will / Comments Off

Here are drawings from a protest in Waihi and Aucland.

I love my new landscape sketchbook – the pages are long! These drawings are all in my A4 visual diary.

Sketch of Janelle protesting across the street. I held my sign with my legs and just sketched, multitasking. I did several drawings of Janell in my sketchbook – and in return she drew a portrait of herself for me.

A merge of the ‘Fuck the system’ badge attached to Janelles jeans and the massive hole at Waihi – Mining! The view was incredible – shame I didn’t have my normal pencils – only this yellow. The line is much heavier than pencil.

Portrait that Janelle drew in my book during the car drive up to Auckland. I always like it when someone gives me a piece of their own creative lives.

Henderson drawing. This was at the train station – observing an intersection below. Aucklands been fun to explore with my sketchbook.
The drive up north with Gary. I tried to fill in perspective – by using both the view outside the car and the interal of the car. Roads were a large focus of this – attempting to capture the scale and rotation. Candles. Where I stayed with Gary. This is the view from the kitchen table- Again working with perspective – candles in foreground and shelf in background.
Where me and Gary stopped for the break on the trip. It was a beautiful view so I did a quick sketch. I included someones van for added scale.

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