Weekly Post (Ashley)

Hello all!

I'm sorry to say i haven't done anything all that innovative over the last week as exams have come up meaning I haven't had much time to make much :(

But here is what I do have:

I really loved making this little guy :) I also found it interesting playing with different opacity to show the light coming from the lantern.

Finished this little guy last night :) I might tweak it in the future but pretty happy with it :)

And more penguins :D The colonel (left) and captain (right). Name suggestions anyone?

And that's about it. My exams will be completed by the end of Wednesday and after that I'm free to do FINALLY do more arty stuff :D I've got some paints I need to use and I'm planning on finishing the skull graphic I started a while back. I've also got a couple other projects I'm hoping to do; the main one is a kids book that my youngest sister had the idea for and the plan is I do all the illustrations :)

And apologies for Tim's lack of art lately... he's been taking the exams a little more seriously then I have :P But I'll try bug him to post something in the near future. But no promises :P

Please leave feedback/suggestions! 

hope you all have a great week :) 

~Ashley

Weekly Post: Microsoft Office graphics (Ashley)

Hello All!

So last week was pretty hectic for me... a lot of assignments and a tonne of doctor's appointments. Though I didn't manage to get the time to use my water color pencils or my paints, I did manage to make a number of little graphics using Microsoft Office. Who would have thought Microsoft Word and PowerPoint would be so good for making pictures :P

I'm probably going to do some more stuff like this in the near future, so please leave suggestions!

NOTE: I'M LOOKING FOR SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PENGUIN'S NAMES... any ideas? Please leave a comment if you want to name one of those little guys :)

Anyway; here's some of the stuff I did over the last week:

A wolf in the tundra...

Penguin Mercenaries!! 

My new Google Plus icon and a Pigeon

A little cartoon character I initially designed a year or so ago and finally managed to do him justice! Guys; meet Silki :)

A log cabin in the highlands. Actually quite happy how this one turned out... might turn it into a poster or something....

Weekly Post (Ashley)

Hey guys :)

reallllly sorry I didn't get round to posting anything Sunday. But I didn't forget! its just a day late... I've been really preoccupied lately and had half a dozen doctors appointments so I don't really have anything recent to show... :(
I got round to doing some concept sketches last week and that's actually all I did... really strange for me to only draw one page for a whole week :P

And because I don't have anything else from last week... heres a pic of a yin and yang/fire and ice symbol I drew in class:

And here's the concept stuff I did last week:

Have a great week guys! Hopefully I'll get around to doing some art-y stuff this week, but I've got even more appointments now and exams are just around the corner :S But I've got some acrylic paints and water color pencils I've being dying to use... 

~Ashley

Two assassins, one artist

Two assassins, one artist.
Hey guys! This is my first real proper post to the blog (yay)!
These both took about 5 -6 hours to complete with ink and colouring.
Hope you like them and I'll try upload drawings every week if I can, like Ash. But hey, when exams are around the corner, you don't have much time to draw! 

 Arno - a French Assassin hailing from the 18th century during the French Revolution.

Ezio Auditore - an Italian assassin who lived way before Arno.

God Bless

~Tim

Floral Skull -progress update- (Ashley)

Now: I present to you one of my longer term projects I'm currently working on.

It's based on a sketch I did a few months back, and the aim is to develop it into a graphic. I've been trying to give it a bit more of a water color feel compare to the original.

I was hoping to have a LOT more of this done by now... but alas, time has not allowed for it. About 5- 6 hours worth of work on Photoshop so far and I've still got a way to go :P

I've finally finished the rose and vines after way to much tweaking and second-guessing myself. I can almost guarantee I'm going to fiddle with them some more later, but overall I'm pretty much done these components.

Please tell me what you think :) Tips, comments etc. are all very welcome :)

This is the original sketch I did a few months back

And here's what I've completed on the graphic so far

Also: I previously posted a progress update on this on my Google plus page (before the blog was functional) 

https://plus.google.com/115066641373030512674/posts/iNxAQaJyf5f

~ I'm thinking of making a weekly contribution to the blog; probably on Sunday. But I'll see how I go. That's the plan, but for now I'm not making a commitment as the next few weeks are going to be hectic for me...

Anyway; hope you guys have a great week :) I'll try bug Tim to post something during the week, or maybe we'll get someone else to submit some work :D We'll see how we go :p

~Ashley

Random sketches (Ashley)

Might as well introduce myself i suppose:

If you don't know me, my name is Ashley and I hate talking about myself so I'll keep this brief :P I taught myself to sketch throughout the years because my best friend as a little kid was my cat :P I've won a couple of photo competitions but kinda lost interest in photography over the years. More recently I've been trying to make some graphics using Photshop and Autodesk Sketchbook. I've tried it before but I've been taking it a little more seriously of late.

I have no idea what i want to do when i leave school; a graphic designer seems like the backup option  at the moment, though I'm still really undecided...

So here's some of my kinda-recent work:

Sorry for the bad photo quality in some of these... 

All of these were done during school when i should have been doing school stuff :p not my best work, but it gives a general idea of the stuff I do.

please leave feedback! I'd love to know what your opinion is :)

regards,

Ashley

Davy Jones (Tim)

This isn't the first time I've posted this drawing online, but its good way to start off (and it was the only decent drawing I had on my computer at the time)! I will be uploading more recent art once I get my scanner up and running.

-Tim

A bit about myself. I learned to draw simply by trying it out and practicing. I enjoy drawing cartoons and different characters from movies/games etc. I've recently started to ink and color my drawings, and it has worked well for me (so far :P)
I'm gonna go on to university to study psychology - what fun!