Attack of the hindu gods!!

here some images i have currently been working on of shiva, ganesh and hanuman!!... the aim is to make them look epic!!

New batman art coming soon!

 

Time to get some more art work out there!!!

Latest character development for 'The Roomies' Interactive book!

Here are some of the latest drawing I have penned up for the characters called the 'The Grubbs'. These characters will feature in the up and coming interactive childrens book called 'The Roomies' developed by  Liam Birch http://liambirchphoto.com and me.

I have included 3 characters that will feature heavily in the first interactive book. I have experimented with skin colours and line weight but this is not a final feature yet! The next stage is to see how these characters interact with real life elements. Heres a link to some great photographs taken by Liam Birch http://liambirchphoto.com/2012/05/27/sun-is-shining/ . I will be working with these images to create scenes for the book. Liam has carefully taken these photographs with considerations of lighting and props. The aim is to create a unique and believeable illustrations to accompany Liam Birch's well written story and photographs.

So stay posted for further development..... its all very exciting :o)

any comments are welcome ;o)

New facebook fanpage

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http://www.facebook.com/alpystarillustrations

If my friends became comic heroes......

I animated 3 of friends into comic heroes. I used photoshop to create a much more epic background!

Batman Pencil Art Work

Apart from creating cartoon and caricatures I still enjoy creating art work with traditional media. This is the type of Art work I was producing during my college Art years.

I used a hatching technique for the first image which offers a nice shading  to the pencil drawing. The second image allowed me to express my enjoyment of using pencil crayon to help blend various colours and tones for the moon lighting on batman.

Pencil Drawing

Batman under the moon light

Hope you like then :o)

New exciting projects!

It has been while since i have posted anything on my blog. I am currently in the process of developing a few projects with my very good friend Liam Birch who is a talented photographer and a fantastic writer! check out his website  http://liambirchphoto.com/ . The aim is to produce a few interactive books for the tablet market. With his talented writing and photography skills along with my illustrations and app development knowledge we will be collaborating for a some exciting projects. So definitly watch this space for further development!

One of the projects we are currently working on is a book called 'The Roomies'. Liam is currently in the process in writing the story and i am creating the characters illustrations to accompany his work. Below are a few sketches i have started. These are very early sketches of the characters called 'The Grubbs' and further development will be recorded on mine and Liam blogs (http://liambirchphoto.com/) in the future......

so watch this space!!

The Channel 4 Team

Wanted to do the whole channel 4 news team from the film anchorman. It has took a while to do each character but i felt i need to draw the rest of the team having watched the film the other night. Seriously cant wait for the sequel.... hope all the existing characters remain.

The Channel 4 Team

Anchorman 2!

With the great news of confirmation of Anchorman 2! I couldnt help but create a Ron Burgundy illustration on illustrator. I had to add a smug and cocky look on his face... what an awesome character cannot wait for the film!!!

Anchorman

Say hello to my little friend part 2!

I added some addition details to the original image. Having been inspired by some art nouveau illustrations i wanted to apply this to the scarface image all incorporating with 'the world is yours' slogan. I used illustrator quite a lot and i think this works well with my illustrations.

Say hello to my lil friend!!

I wanted to create a very animated Tony Montana in a some what caricature form. I thought the use of a chopped up board background works well and adds to the scarface gangster theme i wanted.

Ive started using simple vector shapes to help create border to surround the character... i thinks this works quite well so i might continue to use similar style for other art work.

The world is yours!

Final art work for Walking dead

Finally coloured up the previous sketch on photoshop. I have left a white background to allow the blood splatter and characters to stand out more. Also finished watching second season of walking dead, cannot wait till october for the 3rd season....amazing show!!!

hope you enjoy my image of Rick grimes kicking zombie ass!!!

A 'Walker' with his head blown off!!

Walking dead

This is a sneak preview sketch of some artwork based on the walking dead. I am currently watching the second season and have been inspired to do some art work on the character rick grimes.
The whole show is based on the walking dead comic series. Such a kick show!
final artwork coming soon....

Hadoken!!!!!!!

Been experimenting with various styles of illustrations. I love Street fighter and found myself drawing Blanka and Ryu in battle. I have used indian ink for the outline and photoshop to colour up the drawing. I am still experimenting with the background but i have posted two backgrounds styles that i have done so far. I wanted to create something fun and little different from most the street fighter art work you see on the internet.

I hope to create some more street fighter images in the future so watch this space!!

White background

Old paper background

Original Sketch of Ryu

Blanka Image inked and ready to be scanned in