Vector Work

The past couple of weeks have mostly been spent wrestling with vectors, laser cutters, and a recalcitrant computer that needed a new hard drive. I have successfully learned to deal with or get around at least two of those things.

Hand Made Playing Cards – Day 3

The last design day for the cards involved cutting blanks as for the pip cards, ruling rectangles into them, and then drawing each design. I did that in pencil and then went over it with Indian ink, to get a

Hand Made Playing Cards – Day 2

Card Design, to send to client for approval. Click through for bigger images:

Hand Made Playing Cards – Day 1

I have a commission in for a set of hand made Tudor-age playing cards for use by a re-enactor with a high-class persona. Essentially, these will be a prop to show the public, as well as a useable deck. They

Methods of Portraiture

I recently persuaded a friend to sit for me for several days while I tried out painting techniques. She was writing, which meant she had her eyes down, but she was still enough that I could get a good likeness

Spotlight On: Dinobot Illustration Part II

This interview is continued from the previous page, after I found myself blathering. Heather ‘Teaceratops’ Shepherd draws ridiculously happy dinosaurs when she is relaxing on her private yacht in the Seychelles. So Heather, apologies for breaking up this interview. No

Spotlight On: Dinobot Illustration Part I

Teaceratops, or Heather Shepherd, is an artist, illustrator, part-time dinosaur-themed superheroine, and all round painterly designerly sort. This interview gives a brief overview of someone who draws comics and dinosaurs and elves. Heather has a busy schedule filled with enough