Boy Portrait

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This was created using Adobe Photoshop with a few custom brushes. The picture of the boy was from one of my favourite magazines… The absurb and eclectic Permanent Food.

Kwon Sketch

Old Sketchbook Work

I love checking out old sketches from old sketchbooks… I remember drawing things better than most other things.

I think this chap is from Baraka. He’s a macaque monkey from one of the early scenes in the steamy hot springs of Japan. I’ve never been so moved by so little motion. As he closes his eyes you can almost feel his spirit reaching out of his body… It sounds over the top but I still feel that, every time I see it.

Edith Piaf. This sketch reminds me of my days working on the phones for Severn Trent Water, and especially my Polish friend Ania who I met whilst working there. So many hours spent drawing and laughing. I still have a polish notebook that Ania’s Dad gave me in return for a portrait I made of him. I have very fond memories of that time.

I have so many sketches of random ideas for films or stories. I think this may have been drawn from a book though.

Chloe Sevigny is a very beautiful lady. She has an honesty in her gaze. I love her in Julien Donkey Boy.

My friend Garrick has an unhealthy obsession with Mickey Rourke, aka The Motorcycle Boy. He has hundreds of cuttings from magazines sourced from all around the world, he has rare film cards, bootleg documentaries and pretty much every moment of film that he has appeared in. As a consequence I have done many sketches of Mickey Rourke. When I was freelancing I would actually sell prints of these on Ebay… Times were hard.

Digital Sketchbook

I’ve spent the last few hours wandering aimlessly around the internet in search of inspiration. Search terms: tendrils, voronoi cells, lepidoptera, ink, pouring liquid, etc. More coffee…

Oh my golly! Digging deep into the digital sketchbooks… So many forgotten jpegs.

Back on Google… back on Flickr Tag Browser… Back on YouTube… Search terms: tendrils, fire, spirals, strange attractor, etc… More coffee.

Listening to Last Days… Sitting back in my green chair trying to visualise the butterfly, the room, the darkness, the colours, the sounds, the smell… I didn’t realise Flickr had video… Something inherently beautiful in procedural animation… browsing through the latest maxscripts and  3ds max plugins for ideas… anything… Listening to Greg Haines… More coffee.