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Daily Drawing, 1-7 February

2012-02-07T18:46:00.000Z

A few years ago I created a blog, on which I intended to upload a year’s worth of daily sketches, as I drew them. I failed.

Later, I created the SketchRiot blog, with the intention of just doing daily drawings, with no set target amount. This time I made it a whole 365 days, and then stopped; mainly because it took a whole extra year to finish scanning and uploading them (I fell behind somewhat).

Now, I’ve decided to do daily drawings again - just for a month this time - only it turns out that many other people have also decided to do daily drawings in February. And when I say drawings, I mean like full blown illustrations... which rather put my sketchy efforts to shame! Which is why I’m throwing some colour at the damn things now.

So here’s the first week’s worth, all based on suggestions from people on deviantART and whatnot, which I will be uploading daily (where possible) on SketchRiot. Suggestions for drawing ideas welcome!

Andy Parsons

2012-01-29T19:54:00.000Z

An attempt at a caricature of stand-up comedian and Mock the Week panelist Andy Parsons, drawn while watching Britain’s Got Idiots

Doctor Proctor

2012-01-24T23:53:00.000Z

Just and old sketch... that badly needed colouring up.

Good Grief it’s 2012

2012-01-12T14:55:00.000Z

Where did that come from?!

I should have done tonnes of drawing by now but I got Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Christmas. And then a 3DS for my birthday :3

All I can offer you is this drawing, started last year, that I have only just now finished.

Must try harder!

Egyptian Theme Challenge

2011-10-24T17:27:00.000+01:00

Another Design-A-Character challenge, this time with the theme of ‘Egypt’.

Okay, look: Anubis is a Jackal-headed Egyptian god; Day of the Jackal is a film about a guy who attempts to assassinate the President of France; and that’s how I came up with this slightly odd image. Um.... you’re welcome?

2011-10-20T13:51:00.001+01:00

http://ping.fm/NNMgV

Judge Dredd

2011-10-17T16:04:00.000+01:00

Always a fan of Joe Dredd!

Dick Dastardly

2011-10-13T12:51:00.000+01:00

So I had this sketch of one of my favourite cartoon characters and decided to polish it up!

Flash CS3

Summer Prop Challenge

2011-10-10T19:47:00.000+01:00

On the Design-a-Character group they have a Prop Challenge; design a prop, then design a character who would use it. This time the theme was “Summer” and I drew a gothic parasol; this is the character that followed!

19/09/2011

2011-09-21T10:09:00.001+01:00

War Bitch II

2011-09-18T12:09:00.000+01:00

I finally took that there sketch and after some indecision (Flash or Photoshop?) Inked and coloured it. And then spent entirely far too long trying to decide on a background.

Feeling Testy

2011-09-15T10:20:00.002+01:00

So there's a Blogger iPhone app now? That's very cool. Possibly. I'm going to add a picture now....

Cowboys vs. Aliens

2011-09-08T13:18:00.000+01:00

No, nothing to do with the film... it’s for a Versus Challenge on the Design-a-Character group

Stature is Metal

2011-08-29T17:20:00.000+01:00

Yeah I done another one, what of it?

Caffeine is Metal

2011-08-24T22:51:00.000+01:00

A new Brutal Comic?!

OCL Captain America

2011-08-22T22:57:00.000+01:00

Striffle is holding a One Character Lineup thing on DeviantArt, and the them this time is Captain America - ie, redesigning or reinterpreting the character.

Inked with brush pen, colours in Photoshop

ZOMBIES

2011-08-15T16:20:00.000+01:00

Geddit??

This is an idea I sketched ages ago, and only yesterday got around to inking and painting, then added some stuff using Flash and Photoshop.

Lashes on Potluck Comics

2011-08-11T21:20:00.000+01:00

Kei has a comic up on Pot Luck Comics, and I would consider it a great personal favour if you were to head on over to the site and share her comic! Facebook ‘Like’s especially welcome

Caricatures

2011-08-03T11:22:00.000+01:00

I was recently asked to create some caricatures of someone’s colleagues; I was given 6 individual photographs and a vague description of their body types (“the women are all skinny!”) with which to work. Here’s the result!

Trent Raven

2011-08-03T11:10:00.001+01:00

The most recent Style Challenge on Design-a-Character: create a character in the style of Mike Mignola

War Bitch

2011-08-01T21:54:00.000+01:00

M E D U S A

2011-07-24T14:28:00.000+01:00

Medusa Mirrored

2011-07-21T13:43:00.001+01:00

While at work one day I did a Medusa doodle in my notebook. I tried to draw it symmetrically and suddenly realised that by drawing half the face in Flash, inside a movieclip, I could just copy and paste it and then flip it over and the other half would be drawn automatically.

I imagine this will be finished.... eventually!

Rock Steady

2011-07-19T22:44:00.000+01:00

Commission: Freestyle

2011-07-19T07:52:00.000+01:00

A commission for Halquinsmirks on DeviantART of his character Freestyle.

Commission: for Mike

2011-07-19T07:48:00.001+01:00

A commission for Mike Georgiou of his character Steve, from the long-running comic Steve & Bob. Rockets away!

Almost there....

2011-07-05T18:12:00.000+01:00

Hmm, haven’t posted much of late have I? Just been too busy with work and family life to do much more that sketch on the bus. Except, I’ve been fiddling with a (very) short Flash animation in the last few weeks. It’s nearly done. And I swear I’ll never try to hand draw and colour animation in Flash again. Until the next time I do so.

Lucrative Lizard

2011-06-09T23:39:00.000+01:00

Giant Robot

2011-06-07T00:07:00.001+01:00

For a recent challenge in the Design-a-Character group

Swift

2011-06-04T10:08:00.000+01:00

Flashing up more sketches!

Swift © DC/Wildstorm

Think Tank

2011-06-01T22:51:00.000+01:00

A sketch that I thought deserved some colour treatment.

Time to Level Up

2011-05-27T17:12:00.000+01:00

All I’m doing lately is working relentlessly in Flash. But I’m too used to CS3; it’s time to evolve.

So, if you can recommend any quality training resources for Flash CS4 or CS5, please comment below - particularly if it’s related to IK handles.

Don’t get me wrong, I will be googling the crap out of this, but I always find it’s useful to get recommendations from people with first-hand experience of using this stuff.

That’s it anyway. See you the other side of the Bank Holiday (which I’ve only just found out about)!

Atom Eve

2011-05-21T23:08:00.000+01:00

The original sketch has been sitting on my hard drive, in a Flash file, waiting to be finished for a long, long time. In fact, I began this in Flash CS3 but finished it in Flash CS5.

Atom Eve © Image Comics

Ford Show Lineup

2011-05-17T23:30:00.001+01:00

Fairly sure I’ve posted all these character before, but here they are in a nice neat little group...

Further Ford Show

2011-05-07T15:15:00.000+01:00

Yep, more character design in Flash

More Ford Show

2011-04-25T09:27:00.000+01:00

Another character is added to the Ford Show lineup, with another in the works!

Watercolour Spider-Man

2011-04-19T09:19:00.001+01:00

Feel like I was cheating a little on this one. Just look at the detail in those facial features(!)

Spider-Man © Marvel Comics

Thing Watercolour

2011-04-18T08:33:00.001+01:00

Another little watercolour. Orange seems to be the theme lately!

The Thing © Marvel Comics

Watercolour Human Torch

2011-04-17T08:30:00.000+01:00

Yesterday I took a trip to Brecon and Abergavenny with my family, and saw lots of arts & craft stalls and art shops, all of which gave me the urge to start painting again!

Human Torch © Marvel Comics

Also, I’ve just added a Watercolour button to the bar over on the right hand side of the page, seeing as I keep on making them!

Storm

2011-04-09T13:44:00.000+01:00

I may have mentioned a while ago that Kei and I did some work on Storm, an animated beat poem by Tim Minchin; and now it’s finally been uploaded to YouTube and it looks great! Major props to Director DC Turner and all the other Kick-Ass peoples who worked on it!

X Professional

2011-04-05T11:25:00.001+01:00

Just a quick doodle to keep my hand in, as I haven’t had any time in which to produce personal artwork lately. Too much going on in life! Headwork!

Professor X © Marvel Comics

Wolverine

2011-02-08T23:25:00.001Z

Some vector-based Wolverine fanart, in a similar style to that other vectory fanart I done.

Wolverine © Marvel Comics

DJ Stevie May

2011-02-03T16:13:00.002Z

This here be a commission for a Mr. Stevie May, who wanted a cartoon pic of himself.

Viking

2011-01-18T08:20:00.001Z

The challenge here was to design “A heavy, grumpy viking who doesn't care much for combing his/her hair, has a smoking and drinking habit, loves to get into fights".

Don’t ask me how a Viking got hold of a cigarette. It was in the brief!

Shape Challenge 5

2011-01-16T16:46:00.001Z

Finally, back on the Design-a-Character bandwagon, with a new shape challenge provided by LuigiL. I recently discovered how to use clipping masks in Photoshop, and thought I’d try it out on this piece to create coloured lines. Didn’t turn out so well, but at least I’m learning stuff!

That's the great thing about Catholicism…

2011-01-14T09:18:00.001Z

…it's very vague and no-one knows what its really all about.

Poor Dermot Morgan, he died far too young. Still, he’ll always be remembered as TV’s favourite embezzling Catholic priest!

Ford Show Character Designs

2011-01-13T15:52:00.001Z

Some more character designs from a thing I’m working on, based on real people. More details soon!

Vantgarran

2010-12-20T16:56:00.000Z

This started as an attempt to sketch out an idea for a pose I had, and quickly became Holly. Seeing as I suck at colouring stuff, I referred to the Colour Index for inspiration in colour palette choice. Below is the sketch. Criticise as you see fit!

Focus

2010-12-11T15:37:00.000Z

You know, if procrastination was a skill for which one could be paid, I would be able to retire in my early 30s.

Never mind. Here’s an early draft of a character design I’m working on for something called the Ford Show.

Quick Hulk

2010-12-05T23:20:00.001Z

Hello there!
Yes some new drawings from me. No, not particularly original!
Just a rapid drawing of Marvel Comics’ mean green machine.

Behind the Times

2010-10-25T15:21:00.002+01:00

So much has happened in the last month or so. Not least of all me and Kei moving house. Still, there's no time to sit here blogging - suffice to say, I will be back with proper updates before the end of the week,
And I will assuredly be deleting all the fucking spam comments from my blog.

Invasion of the Graffbots

2010-09-21T00:10:00.001+01:00

Here it is! This is what I spent the last couple of months working on.

Invasion of the Graffbots is an original concept by David Lewis, envisioned as an animated series and/or video game, following the adventures of a robot that appears on Earth and has the power to self-replicate through graffiti art.

For this particular brief, I was provided with an animatic, an array of model sheets, title slates and background images, all created by David (plus audio by Rhys Griffiths). After an initial meeting with David, and via direction by email, I was able to animate the sequence using Flash CS3, finally adding the sound and cutting it all together with Premiere CS3.

So, any thoughts?

Ask me stuff on Formspring.me

2010-09-20T02:57:00.001+01:00

GO AHEAD, MAKE IT INTERESTING

Where Are My Manners?

2010-09-18T10:27:00.000+01:00

It’s been over 2 months since I last posted here!
In all fairness, I’ve been pretty busy during that period. David Lewis has opened an exhibition of his own work at Pontypridd Museum, and at at the beginning of July he asked me to animate a short promo for an animation/game concept he came up with. I got the animation done in time for the opening, but unfortunately there was no time to edit all the footage together, so that’s what I’m working on now (more accurately, I’m battling with After Effects and Premiere, in the hopes of getting one of them to work properly). In the meantime, here’s a still from said promo:

The character design, storyboarding and backgrounds were all done by David originally; I just came in and did all the Flash animation. It was tough, balancing this with family life and two part time jobs, but in the end I was glad of it, not just for the money but because I haven’t had the opportunity to animate anything in so long!

Right after this I got involved with development on another project for a few days, so this is really the first opportunity I’ve had to get to the blogging. More details soon!

AFL Nurse

2010-07-29T15:31:00.001+01:00

Leigh Way did this drawing of a nurse for his DeviantART-based AFL tournament, and I liked the idea so I had to draw my own. Colour to follow…. erm… sometime.

Just 1 Level

2010-07-18T21:10:00.001+01:00

Time to pimp someone else out for a change!
My fiance did some artwork for an iPhone game called Just 1 Level (as above) and it is now available on iTunes! So do yourself a favour and go download it now (if you actually own an iPhone…)

Sketches in June

2010-06-16T01:00:00.000+01:00

Here be some sketches! First is some fanart of Atom Eve from Invincible, an awesome comic published by Image.

Second is (yet another) sketch of Angelcrusher’s imaginatively named character, Angelcrusher. (It’s my own fault for offering free sketches XD)

Batgirl

2010-06-14T11:32:00.000+01:00

Here’s another daily sketch that I finished up with Flash.

Watercolour Lobo

2010-06-08T09:19:00.000+01:00

It’s been a long time since I did one of these little watercolours, and I think it shows! Time to get back into the swing of things I think. Still done with a pencil and water-brush-pen thing.

Lobo © DC Comics

Wonder Woman inks by Sinsistar1

2010-05-25T08:23:00.000+01:00

A while ago I did a sketch request of Wonder Woman, and this guy liked it so much that he asked to ink it. So he did! See his original post here.

Misplaced Challenge

2010-05-24T19:57:00.000+01:00

Another Design-a-Character challenge: a character that is misplaced. Hope you enjoy my metalhead in a bakery!

Creature 004

2010-05-10T13:05:00.000+01:00

A coloured/inked version of one of my daily sketches, using Flash. More to come? Probably! I really need to do more than sketches….

Caricature Challenge 01

2010-04-29T00:55:00.000+01:00

This week’s challenge is the Caricature Challenge! I chose to draw Ross Noble. Watch a short screencast of the inking process here!

Kicking Arse

2010-04-26T02:27:00.000+01:00

Profile Challenge 1

2010-04-21T02:13:00.001+01:00

Another recent Design-a-character challenge: design and draw the profiles of teenage characters.

Prop Challenge 1

2010-04-10T00:31:00.000+01:00

Haven’t posted a Design-A-Character challenge here in a long while – been too busy with ‘real life’ to participate! Anyway, here’s the first prop challenge. This challenge requires us to design a specified prop (this week, a chair) and then design the character to go along with it.
I went with a sci-fi chair and an aging, out of shape space captain.

What do you reckon?

Weekly Character Design 4: Full Character

2010-03-03T19:37:00.000Z

So I went for the orc character from last week’s challenge. I may get around to doing a turnaround for it, seeing as I’ve finished this week’s challenge.

Re-Imagine Challenge

2010-03-02T11:40:00.000Z

March sees the start of a handful of new challenges in the Design-A-Character club, and to kicking things off is the Re-Imagine challenge. This time around we’ve been asked to redesign Goku from Dragonball; now I’m no fan of Dragonball or any of it’s other pathetic iterations, but I had a go all the same!

Sketch a Day, Again

2010-03-01T01:55:00.000Z

Once again, I am attempting to do a drawing a day. No time limit this time. These are all the drawings for February. To see them daily, take a look at Sketch Riot.

Weekly Character Design 4

2010-02-24T00:03:00.000Z

This week’s theme: generic fantasy characters. This time sketched in pencil and inked with a calligraphy pen. How traditional!

Weekly Character Design 3: Full Character

2010-02-22T16:18:00.000Z

Not sure if I’m going to do the turnaround for this one – not really feeling it…

Weekly Character Design 3

2010-02-15T13:31:00.001Z

And the ball keeps on rolling! Quite tough shapes this week. Also decided to draw in Photoshop rather than Flash, just for a change.

Frogs, Princesses, etc

2010-02-15T10:18:00.001Z

Well, yesterday was Valentine’s day, and as a treat Kei and I went to the cinema to see the Princess and the Frog. Not only was this our first cinema trip since our son was born, it was also the first time we’d left him with someone else for more than about half an hour. It was a little daunting!

Anyway, the film. As the first 2D Disney film in who knows how long, I felt it was quite important to go and see this, despite the subject matter (another Disney Princess film? Please). But Despite the obvious theme, and the fact that yes, it was a musical, it was rather good. Animation-wise, it was the sort of high standard you’d come to expect from Disney – so no surprises there. All in all it was a very nice looking film, from the backgrounds to the character design, which itself was a bit odd. It’s one of those stock-Disney character design films, but some of them were really good (like Doctor Facilier, the rich girl and her dad, or Raymond) and some were bland stock-Disney types (like the crocodile, or the main character). Actually, the main character, Tiana, was really annoying. Apart form the standard Disney-girl look she had, at the start of the film she was a child, and yet had an adult head! Whereas her friend, the spoiled rich girl, actually looked like a little kid (and even as an adult she had a much more interesting design).

Still, it was on the whole a really enjoyable film – not the sort of spectacular 2D extravaganza you’d expect after such a break, but still great. It wasn’t quite the Incredibles, but was leagues ahead of crap like Cars or Robots, you know?

I definitely recommend seeing this film, it’s probably the most interesting thing at the cinema right now (including Avatar).

NB: While writing this, I had the almost irresistible urge to shoehorn in the pun ‘warts-and-all’. I resisted.

Weekly Character Design 2: Full Character

2010-02-14T13:37:00.000Z

I guess he’s some kind of creepy magician?

Weekly Character Design 2: Turnaround

2010-02-11T04:44:00.001Z

This is the character that I chose to develop this week. Not my best turnaround, but it’s a start :)

Weekly Character Design 1: Full Character

2010-02-09T18:49:00.000Z

The next part of the character shape challenge involves turning one of the faces into a full character, complete with turnaround. I only had the time to do a head turnaround, though. What do you reckon?

Weekly Character Design 2

2010-02-08T21:02:00.000Z

That other character design thing I posted? Yeah, it’s a weekly thing. I was supposed to have done a turnaround for one of the characters for the last one, but I didn’t join in until the end of the week so I’m a little behind. Never mind! I shall catch up tomorrow.

Weekly Character Design

2010-02-06T13:21:00.001Z

There’s this guy on DeviantART who has created a group called Design-A-Character; the group promotes different character design challenges, and in this one, the guy gives you random squiggles, and you have to make characters out of them. I think the idea is to take one of these, design the rest of the body, and do a turnaround. Here’s my attempt at the faces; we’ll see if I have the time to do the rest of it…

Wonderful

2010-02-05T22:50:00.001Z

A free sketch of Wonder Woman for another DeviantART friend.

Note: the title of this post is not meant to suggest that I think this drawing actually is wonderful – it’s just a feeble pun.

Identify

2010-02-03T15:47:00.001Z

Made a new ID for my DeviantART page, because the old one was old.

Dave.

2010-01-31T22:20:00.000Z

Another free sketch for someone on DeviantART, of their character, that I promised them aaaaaaages ago…

Stab

2010-01-29T21:12:00.001Z

GORILLA

2010-01-26T23:36:00.000Z

Some more old life drawing….. from a trip to Bristol Zoo

Hellbitch

2010-01-19T17:34:00.001Z

Here’s a bit of life drawing from a couple of years ago – well, I say life drawing, as you can see I took a few liberties with the model’s pose…

GORGON ZOLA

2010-01-18T19:39:00.000Z

First bit of artwork I’ve done so far in 2010. I would have done something much sooner, but I got a PSP with Gran Turismo for my birthday :)

Showreel 2009

2010-01-12T22:16:00.000Z

Here be the latest version of my Showreel, featuring more of my recent animation work. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas, etc

2009-12-24T11:07:00.001Z

Have a rollickin’ good time during this Pagan midwinter celebration, folks.

Here’s a painting I did at the request of a friend, as a Christmas gift for his girlfriend or something:

Wrestler Turnaround

2009-12-15T12:29:00.001Z

Here’s the turnaround of the character that I promised. What do youse guys think?

Modelling

2009-12-14T13:14:00.001Z

Basically I’m going to be making some model sheets and turnarounds of this guy.

Remodelling

2009-12-04T09:28:00.001Z

Thought I’d change some of the graphics on my blog, including making the buttons on the right a little smaller, and changing the header to look more like the new header on my website. Not sure if I like it yet, what do you think?

Diagnoses are Metal

2009-11-30T22:46:00.000Z

Ooh, a new comic! Finally.

As ever, see more at Brutal Comics…

Memory

2009-11-26T00:49:00.000Z

Not sure how long this took. Around 45 minutes maybe?

#44

Puzzle

2009-11-08T00:37:00.000Z

Another List item - #43: Puzzle

No Way Out

2009-11-07T21:31:00.001Z

A long time ago on DeviantART I found a list – 100 words and phrases designed to give you some inspiration in times of artistic drought. It’s been a while since I looked at that list, but I dug it out today and decided to use it once again….

1$F: Round One

2009-11-05T02:41:00.000Z

And so begins another of AngelCrusher’s tournaments! The other characters in this image belong to TBPow and MarkDobson.

Flash Cleanup

2009-11-02T04:44:00.000Z

Flash Cleanup Test from wesleyriot on Vimeo.

This was a pencil test of one of the scenes from the film I animated for my BA in 2007, at GCADT. I decided to take it into Flash and try cleaning up and colouring it; this is the result.

Thoughts?

One Dollar Fighter

2009-10-21T22:23:00.001+01:00

Another picture done for one of Angelcrusher’s art jams – this time a competition with actual prize money at stake! Each combatant submits one dollar via Paypal towards a prize. I don’t anticipate winning but I do need something to encourage me to draw morre often!

Character/logo is mine, template by Angelcrusher.

The Blissful Simplicity of Fists

2009-10-19T15:57:00.001+01:00

Here’s a sketch I did earlier this year, while I was still living in London. I have no idea why I never posted, because it’s actually one of my favourite drawings!

Further Testing

2009-10-16T22:52:00.001+01:00

Question: does the Twitter plugin for Live Writer work for me?

Test

2009-10-16T22:39:00.000+01:00

Trying out Windows Live Writer to create blog posts. Just for the hell of it!