Life drawing September 2011- 10 minute poses

nen — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:43:49 +0000

A selection of poses from a recent life drawing class.

Zoo sketches 18/10/11

nen — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:48:25 +0000

used my first day off in a while to partake of some sketching time with my chimpanzee buddies at Edinburgh zoo…

Some quick Photoshop doodles

nen — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:23:51 +0000

Feraligatr, Reuniclus, Gengar and Seadra. Some quick sketches done in a fever of procrastination

Pokémon centre- post VGC 2011

nen — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:19:34 +0000

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!

Pizza Power!

nen — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:54:17 +0000

More TMNT action, this time a more homely scene

Submission for Young Carers project

nen — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:49:22 +0000

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”!

Dragon Ball…Vegeta?

nen — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:07:41 +0000

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…

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I am aware that Vegeta couldn’t actually ride on Kinto-un like that- pure of heart he ain’t!

More TMNT…

nen — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:50:34 +0000

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…

Podcasts

nen — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:34:00 +0000

All past and future episodes of Neil & Gareth’s Podcast can be downloaded from it’s own special blog, which can be found HERE!

TMNT issue one cover…cover

nen — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:22:35 +0000

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!