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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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!!