Gorillaz and Internet Explorer 9 Character Design Competition: Week 4 - drawing by nephnephneph

Gorillaz and Internet Explorer 9 Character Design Competition: Week 4 - drawing by nephnephneph

Gorillaz and Internet Explorer 9 Character Design Competition: Week 3 - drawing by nephnephneph

Gorillaz and Internet Explorer 9 Character Design Competition: Week 3 - drawing by nephnephneph

My Entry for the Evangelist Competition at Gorillaz.com!

Beauty and The Beast

A little experiment in style, which I've become really rather fond of!

Drew this after watching Beauty and The Beast after it was re-released on Blu-Ray a few weeks ago :)

Spirited

Been watching Spirited recently, it's such an amazing show and Matt King is wonderful as Henry, so I drew a quick pic of him. Matt even tweeted about it C:

Sydney-Speed Paint

I don't really know what classifies as a speed paint, but this was speedy for me! Took just under an hour in PS CS4. Referenced from a photograph of Sydney Harbour Bridge I took a couple of weeks ago.

Forest Beast

If I could get paid to draw creatures and beasts all day, I would be the happiest person on earth.

As it is, I'm relatively happy but exceedingly poor.

I drew this guy a couple of weeks ago but never got round to uploading him anywhere. Had been watching Princess Mononoke and felt inspired to make a forest spirit beast thing and that was what came out haha

Dragon

So I originally made this as an entry for a Forum competition at ImagineFX, but due to Tablet Fail, Computer Fail and Internet Fail (An horrific triforce) I missed the deadline.

Still! I like the image a lot even though the background and wings are unfinished and probably won't even be finished (Persistent Tablet fail)

Wips

Well worked on this on and off for about a day, from sketch to full colour.

Personally I like the sketch more, but I wanted to have a go at doing something like this.

If it's not obvious, I have little idea how to draw backgrounds aha.

Website

So I've finally set up my own website! I still plan to use this blog for in progress works and sketches, I will be uploading more finished work to my site!

It is linked at both the top of the blog and in one of the sidebars. I'll work on getting a nice banner sorted out soon.

http://zombietech.rydia.net/

Did some more to the dragony beast. I'm not overly fond of it having wings.. so I might remove them and have a play with colours. But yes.. finished for now~

WIP

I recently purchased a book by John Howe depicting various representations of Dragons he's worked on- it was a pretty big inspiration, and I felt like drawing up a little reptilian beasty.

Monsters

I've always had a fascination with myths and legends since I was young, as such, I tend to draw mythical beasts and strange creatures when I'm at a loss of what to draw.

Artist Study

In my first year of University, we would have to do an artist study every week and I felt like trying it out again! Here are two studies of the same painting "Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar". I concentrated on only the face, though in time I would like to do a study of the entire painting.

The First Image was made in Open Canvas:

The second image was made in Photoshop:

Both have very different outcomes!

Animal Characters

Been trying to go for a more 'cartoony' style of animal design. I started with a more realistic digital sketch, before making some more stylised sketches.