•CHARACTER CREATION

I'm not exactly sure how or when I fell into character creation.

I used balk at character drawing and found myself quite clumsy at sketching out figures and poses. But with practice, reading lots of interviews with master character designers and studying techniques, little by little I developed a fluency and now they seem to be one of the main stays of my freelance work.

I'm particularly pleased with the set I created for Razamatazz Magic, children's entertainers - hi Andy and Sue -  the puppy dog and kitten are for them, as are the Santa and Rodney Rabbit.

I've produced Turkeys for Toblerone and Pandas for Panda Pops and filled a whole living room with little bunnies, offspring of their Airwick rabbit mum. 

Please feel free to click on any image to enlarge but remember all are strictly copyright.©

•MORE PRE-DIGITAL WORK

My preferred medium of choice before pixels came along was water colour. Dr Martin's watercolour inks is a fantastic range of brilliant colours and when combined with coloured pencil work they gave me all the freedom and detail I needed to create my first greetings card commissions and posters. Airbrush always played a major role in poster work too. I employed a small variety of styles that included black and white pen work. The brush pens with the rubber tip were excellent for freehand work.

In this set of pages you'll see some of my early efforts, whilst researching and collectingwork for this anniversary blog I was amazed firstly by how much work I had saved, and secondly by just how much I'd totally forgotten ever doing!