Ken's Gallery

Black spot: Thank you! Much appreciated. Glad u like my thread - some of it is WAYYY old though haha

Chairman: Thank you mate! I used brown Col Erase pencils, brown conte, red, black and white watercolour pencil (without the water) and erm.... eraser! Im glad you saomething other than just a portrait and found some kind of feeling in there. I wasnt really thinking of that at the time but its something I wanna start doing - looking for something deeper in the models pose or expression. Cheers dude!

Doubt: The left wrist WAS painful. She had to keep moving it off that chair and shake it out. WHich was annoying for everyone drawing her hands, but understandable. Thanks mate!

Got a digi study today - It was inspired by the art of John Singer Sergent - was trying to understand how he painted somewhat.

Another digi sketch i did a coupla days ago, yo. haha

Wow thanks claire! means a lot. :D Yeh i do like Bobby Chius style! Most of it. His painting style is nice, and he draws some great characters.

Hey, your a fellow brit!

jabberwocky: prove it? erm.... gimme 6 months

blackspot: yeh, he had a great face to draw!

chairman: cheers mate! im glad the new ones capture something too. Oh yeh I do, I like to vary my style and experiment. Its important for me to do both sides of the coin, to be able to capture something realistically and exaggerate something. Cheers mate!

FroZen: thanks for the kind words mate!

Not much new stuff to show but I have to post something before my thread shrivels up and dies so, heres some observational stuff from sketch club. I meet a bunch of people on sundays and we go drawing in the local bookshop

Hey dude, I am still currently working on "The Illusionist". As far as Im aware Chomet is still very active on the film, although Im not privy to all the inside info! I work in a completely different studio, so I have no idea. All I do know is, the film is looking awesome - so dont miss it when it comes out!

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hello hello - some more digi paints. The second one is concept art for my film. Better late than never! haha

Just some life drawing I did this week. Trying to be more experimental

rach: Indeed he does! and dark alleys are his favourite hive after dark mwuhuhuhuhuhu!

Jabberwocky: His moustache is modelled on my own! hahaha. cheers

Goofygraffix: oh yes! what a great back story

Animationfreak: wow thanks!

doubt: cheers! I stole it from sargent haha

I got more life drawing today and a wee bit of observational drawing. Nothin exciting tho

Just some quick characters I did for www.artjumble.blogspot.com

ken :D

whoa!

I havent posted here or been active here in quite some time.

Just thought I would start my wee sketch thread rolling again! Here is some of my latest work

hey cartuneman! sorry i didnt reply you. yeh im still down under - even now! and glad u like my film appreciate the comments!

ok! i didnt see my old thread (this one) so i started a new one. But then jaberwocky found my old one, so im moving back to here. so im reposting from the new one, and hopefully the new one can be deleted. so im sorry for double posts!!

hi stribs! Thanks for the comments much appreciated! Just starting out? Awesome! A losing battle? Hey I know how you feel, I get that feeling too. I would say, No its not raw talent, definetly not. All artists practice and with practice get better at what they do.

For anatomy and such yeh, I recommend life drawing, you can attend life drawing classes and practice drawing the human figure. It definetly helps no question. Or, learn from books, or practice from photos, or even draw people in the street etc. All these are important. But I would say the MOST important factor in doing anything, be it drawing, playing guitar whatever - Its to enjoy it!! Draw because u enjoy it, and everything else will fall into place. Its only hard work if we dont enjoy doing it. Hope that helps?

Thanks for visitnig dude, I got another illo here.

ken :D

Some more recent work

rach3: Thanks for the kind words Rach, much appreciated!

Chairman: No worries mate. Thanks for dropping by and I am glad you enjoyed my work. Cheers for the kind words also!

Cartuneman: Cheers dude! means a lot :D

Racattack: Thanks for the compliments dude. But you should reconsider - life drawing is essential to animation, you really should try it one day!

Here is a portrait study from portrait class:

palette: thanks for the kind words dude :) haha his tie flaps even when the wind aint blowing...

Cobster: Thankyou :) I hope I can keep this thread going this time haha

Zachary: Thanks dude - thats the beauty of art, its so subjective, one glove doesnt fit all as it were :D I try to vary my style and subject also, so as not to go stale. Variety is zee spice of life!

Hello! Its been a while. Ive been a bit busy. Well. Ive been busy relaxing and not drawing. But Im back at it now.

Hey hey, I did this quick sketchy paint for Chinese New Year. It was loosely based on a photo I took while in China of a girl in traditional dress