Little Climate

A little illustration I made for Amelia's Magazine's weekly Earth listings.

Periodic Table

So after making my Solar System series, I really wanted to do another project based on science and what else could I have done other than the one & only Periodic Table of Elements?! It's something I've been working on, a bit at a time, for the past few weeks. Modelling each object in 3D proved to be a huge task and took a lot longer than I originally thought but the feeling of completing it was awesome. On top of it all, I've learnt way more about the elements researching for this than I ever did in school :)


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Apologies if the image seems a little on the small side, it's to prevent the bad people from stealing and printing it. However, printing it as a poster is an option I could take...would you buy it, yes/no?

Edit, July 2011: Even over a year later, I still haven't managed to make prints of this available, so if anyone knows of a good company who can do affordable, large (A2+) quality prints, please let me know!

and here's some close-ups of a few elements.

Fall Friends

Trying something different here, loosening up a little and playing with composition.


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One Day You'll Thank Me

Jacqui & Kate are two lovely ladies who have just launched their new blog titled "One Day You'll Thank Me", a blog all about their trials and tribulations as mums. I had the pleasure of making some fun illustrations for them too :)

Socks & Sandals

Now that Summer is over, we won't be seeing anymore of this...hopefully.

Bliss

So much love for the awesome designs of retro clock radios...


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Rain

Some colour experimenting.

But how?

Since posting my Thief illustration, many people have contacted me asking about my processes and how I created the image in 3D. So to explain, I have split up the 'layers' of the completed illustration which will show how the everything was put together. Even if you have zero experience in 3D and those terms mentioned below make absolutely no sense, hopefully you can still understand the processes visually.


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1. Diffuse render - fullbright, solid colours
2. Ambient occlusion render, original
3. Ambient occlusion render, colour adjusted
4. Diffuse render(1) * ambient occlusion(3)
5. Shadow render, original - very intense directional light & Lambert shader
6. Shadow render, cleaned up & colour adjusted
7. Diffuse render(1) * shadow render(6)
8. Diffuse render(1) * ambient occlusion render(3) * shadow render(6)
9. Final image - completed with finishing touches
(* = Layers stacked with multiply mode in Photoshop)

...and here is the full-sized final image again.


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Thief

I've been working on this scene a little bit everyday for the past week or so and finally completed it today!


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Kim 21st

For Kim.

School

Sun Wukong

Recently I've been reading up on the Journey to the West, a famous Chinese story (some of you might recognise this from Jamie Hewlett's and Damon Albarn's animated titles for BBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympics). It's a pretty fascinating story so if you're interested in legends and whatnot, you might like to read up on it too :) Most recognisable is probably the main character named Sun Wukong, a monkey king who has some pretty impressive party tricks up his sleeve, like somersaulting through clouds. I realised he is just too cool to not draw, so here you go! This might even be the start of another set...


(decided to draw this after a little nagging from Rob, hehe)

Solar System wallpapers

Here they all are lined up, in order of course!

I've made two sets of desktop wallpapers, dark and light with both being available in the following resolutions:
1280 x 800
1680 x 1050
1920 x 1200
Download them from here.

Enjoy! I certainly enjoyed drawing them :)

Earth and Mercury

Hooray, all eight planets are now complete! I decided to re-do Earth again because he didn't really match his 'orb-headed' friends.

Coming soon will be desktop wallpaper and prints at my shop.


#3 Earth


#1 Mercury

Venus

No, Venus is not a sexy Roman goddess.

Mars

I think planet #4 is a bit annoyed with those techy things we keep sending over.

Uranus

Say a sideways hello to planet #7, Uranus.

Jupiter

+1 more, #5 Jupiter. Half way through now, only four to go (although I may go back to redo Earth since the rest have heads that are 'whole' planets...if that makes sense).

Saturn and Neptune

#6 and #8 of the Solar System set I'm now working through.


Saturn.


Neptune.

Earth

Yes, we really are living on top of a giant creature's head.



This was just from a random scribble but I think this will be the first out of nine eight and so his friends, Mars, Venus etc. will be on their way soon.

Tell you what, Jupiter is going to be fat.