Long Overdue

No excuses here really, long story short, I suck at time management and sadly my blog has had to suffer the consequences of my lack of organization. Well here are a few things to get you up to speed.
>School work has been a little hectic and I'm trying my hardest to not fall behind (it's not really working though) so hopefully buy the end of the year I'll have a tone of images to upload
>The artist book I last mentioned is coming along quite nicely.

I've begun the pages and the outer and inner covers of the book, soon all I'll need to do is stitch it together. The leather has been cut and embossed (turns out when you buy leather wholesale you have to buy half a god damn cow!) and the final embellishments are being added.
The bonus of this book being made is that with every new page I'm also completing a section of the comic that I hope will become a full published work in the next year (maybe year and a half..two years max). Character development is rather entertaining and rewarding when you finally draw that perfect hero or villain, like creating a real human, just less messy. I still struggle with landscape and buildings so that is another area I've been slowly progressing in. All the drawings for my artist book and comic are a mixture of pencil sketches and ink paintings. I've then been changing the tone of the the paper on photoshop to give it a sepia hue and make it appear more like a workbook of an inventor or engineer (Well I think it looks good, you'll all just have to wait and see.)

I do have some personal work that needs uploading, but like I said school has been and is my main priority right now. After this week there's only two weeks left of school, followed by catchup week and then I'll have completed my first year of tafe. This year has gone by too quickly. I'll be glad when it's summer and I can pay more attention to updating my blog with new art, and some pieces I've been meaning to upload for some time. I'll upload a little 'work in progress' photo of a piece I've been painting inspired by a poem in a game of the same name; 'Grim Fandango'

 

There you go, my oil painting in progress. I'm having a little trouble uploading pictures of my artist book (the start of it anyway) but hopefully I can get it working soon and I'll try harder to keep my blog updated more often. Cheers!