Some of my concepts below.
rendered shots coming soon.
Last week I was fortunate to attend a one week oil painting class at Central Saint Martins, the class was taught by Mike Major.
I really had a great time. It was a small class of about 8-9 people, all working in oils.
We had the same model all week - 4 poses. 3 one day and a two day to finish off.
First day,- - free to do what we wanted 
Second day, as it was a small class we couldn’t move our easels around the room. At first I hated my view. But was pleased with the end results. For this we used earthy colours, basically we couldn’t use any strong colours.
Third day. No brushes, no fingers, only pallet knife. For all these paintings we put a wash on first, for this I used a strong pink.
The first of a two day. Only four colours- Light yellow, dull green, dark red... and black! Sorry can’t remember the exact names.
The final canvas after two days, sadly not yet finished on the bg.
big thanks to Uli
I drew these for a friends wedding dinner - animals instead of table numbers , makes the day a bit more fun.
Indiana Jones 4… 50% excitement - 50% curiosity. Spielberg re-visiting his popcorn film making, and with a new take on the characters. The cgi special effects shunned… and we get a new drew struzen poster!
Uli kindly lets us take over the studio once a week to arrange life drawing, these were yesterday’s creations. Thee sculpt was from a 45 min pose. The first photo was the angle I set myself up. As you can see from the second photo I was to lazy to move around. But it was great fun.
I hate my laptop screen, strong word 'hate' but I do, it lightens everything. I colour something... am happy with it, have a look on another monitor and I can barely see the thing especially dark pictures (obviously). its really frustrating, but I prefer drawing on the laptop to the pc. portability is great!
Via the magic of the curves tool... we have this!
so the sounds a bit out-of-sync...
Does anyone know how to get a youtube in sync? i uploaded a avi and an mpeg, both rubbish!
Mr Cosmic and his chin
After a bloging pause I finally got some motivation to post some new artwork. the picture above is from a quick doodle which I later coloured on the pc. Somewhat meaningless, but part of my new years resolution is to sketch more... and watch less big brother! 
I have updated my Airship blog, not much but a bit. I should have better things to do with my time... actually I do have better thing to do...unfortunately I cant stop developing the chronicles and thinking about stories. Meanwhile hope you enjoy the blog. 
