A selection of poses from a recent life drawing class.
Life drawing September 2011- 10 minute poses
Posted by nen on October 23, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/10/23/life-drawing-september-2011-10-minute-poses/
Zoo sketches 18/10/11
used my first day off in a while to partake of some sketching time with my chimpanzee buddies at Edinburgh zoo…
Posted by nen on October 21, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/10/21/zoo-sketches-181011/
Some quick Photoshop doodles
Feraligatr, Reuniclus, Gengar and Seadra. Some quick sketches done in a fever of procrastination 
Posted by nen on October 6, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/10/06/let-me-show-you-my-pokemans/
Pokémon centre- post VGC 2011
for the inimitable Chris Seed on his birthday- an in-jokey picture of the imagined aftermath of this year’s Pokémon tournament we took part in. One of us did better than the other, clearly . Happy birthday mate!
Posted by nen on July 19, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/07/19/pokemon-centre-post-vgc-2011/
Pizza Power!
More TMNT action, this time a more homely scene
Posted by nen on July 9, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/07/09/pizza-power/
Submission for Young Carers project
Some months ago, I submitted a sort-of “pitchfolio” for what became this project. My mum is actually part of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers, so I came at the brief with a certain amount of background knowledge. In the end, the client went with something else, as my drawings were thought to be perhaps a bit too dark and adult for the intended audience. Here’s my take on the characters, and i urge you to check out what they went with in the end as well- As narrated by “Peregrin Took”!
Posted by nen on July 7, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/07/07/submission-for-young-carers-project/
Dragon Ball…Vegeta?
As anyone who listens to our podcast will be aware, I’ve been mad into my Dragonball Z of late, and I just started investigating Toriyama’s original “Dragon Ball” manga- it’s a lot of fun! It made me think though that it would be funny if it had been Vegeta instead of Goku who came to earth- perhaps it would have looked something like this…
click for full size!
I am aware that Vegeta couldn’t actually ride on Kinto-un like that- pure of heart he ain’t!
Posted by nen on April 2, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/04/02/dragon-ball-vegeta/
More TMNT…
Another TMNT image, started this one ages ago as well, but came back to it as a bit of a colour/photoshop learning exercise. Big thanks to Chris McD for his rather large role in advising me on how best to finish this one up. This image, like the earlier one i posted, is based on a particular splash page from issue one of the original Turtles comic. Perhaps one day i’ll have redrawn the issue in it’s entirety…
Posted by nen on March 21, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/03/21/more-tmnt/
Podcasts
All past and future episodes of Neil & Gareth’s Podcast can be downloaded from it’s own special blog, which can be found HERE!
Posted by nen on March 7, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/03/07/podcasts/
TMNT issue one cover…cover
This one is actually almost a year old, I had intended to send it in to the excellent Covered blog.
My love of the Ninja Turtles franchise is no secret… what I was trying to do with this image was explore the idea of giving the Turtles’ more individual body shapes to correspond to their personality. Mike’s fairly heavy set from one too many pizzas, Donny’s a literal egghead, Leo’s athletic build tells of his commitment to his ninja training, while Raph’s been hitting the weights hard…
Very silly, but found it in my sketchbook and thought it might be of interest!
Posted by nen on March 1, 2011
http://neil-mcdonald.co.uk/2011/03/01/tmnt-issue-one-cover-cover/
