What happens when....

'Concept art' style speed paint meets the actual world. You get a quickly painted Santas chair for a presentation. Did you know , for instance, that children are no longer permitted to sit on Santas lap? This is why the chair is extra wide, and so children need never know what sort of athletic support Santa uses. Everybody wins,- Santas can eat more Pudding until of course chairs must be widened further. I can sympathise, in fact I might make one(a pudding) and do a 'speed paint' of it.
I am trying to locate life drawing classes in my region at the moment,- with some difficulty,- I found one class i Byron bay- the trouble is i want to practice my drawing not find my inner self, my chakras or whatever.
If I start speedpainting dolphins(or even slow painting) then you know the worst has happened.
Although the colour down here is awesome- I've never been much for landscapes but I've really taken an interest in the colour and how far from earth tones the earth can be.
So I might paint a beach.... although I realise thats a slippery slope.
Then I'd have to figure out where to put the spikes(Rob).

It says lach's lost world,- means there must be a dinosaur heres about.
A scribble i did while reading the photoshop manual on 'texture' and 'dual brushes'.
Why is it lo rez?- well while I was absent mindedly reading and fiddling I failed to notice i had zoomed in on my canvas and was only painting on an eighth of it.

Its a long story,

but I now have that newfangled internet thing, again, at last.
Some watercolour dabbling.
The koala and the girl is 'as is' - the 'guy with the heater', and the 'miss muffet booty call' have been touched up in photoshop. The idea was to get to a certain stage with the watercolour version and then scan them in, in case I mess up, but I started noodling once i scanned them.
They're a bit devoid of perspective, and I don't like that dog thing.
Can you tell I like that ultramarine blue?
I have a few pages of ideas I need to colour- (plus I have a whole bunch to colour- stockpiled from that aborted gallery thing).
I was trying in the pages of ideas to do a few more kids book style images- I want to do ones that aren't overworked or over rendered. So I'll and post them soon,- and also expect me to revisit some old drawings as coloured versions finally.
Plus that first book for EC publishing starts now.
So after so much limbo and frustration I can get going.
Hooray.

Strike a match go start anew...

Well I'm nearly moved down to kingscliff. The room with all the plan drawers and our large dining table(which I often draw on) has a nice view of the ocean. I'll post a pic of that soon.
These last 2 week have been a bit frustrating-getting the new computer working and moving house-and nothing going quite to plan.
My cintiq arrived! But I haven't used it yet!- damn moving thing.
Instead its been something like 2001, its a cardboard monolith and I'm reduced to beating the ground around it with a chicken bone.
Well nearly.

Actually 2 weeks ago I did a quick mouse drawn image for Sharon Penny, for a christmas Santa stage installation . I think her presentation went well so we're waiting to see if that gets the go ahead.

So heres some old life drawings- about 3 months old. I did my thng where I draw something around them to try and make it a bit more than just a nudey figure floating in space- but they ended up a bit Boris like- which isn't so good, but hopefully they are more lach like than boris like.

Lets get this snowball snowballing

New computer - check.
New computer completely working- sorta check.
Sexy cintiq tablet about to arrive please god check.

Here in the newspeak of the younger generation are some 'old school' warmups.
Ie they are done in watercolour, I've yet to touch them up in photoshop.
I had 2 gos at the elephant idea.

more soon.

touch of death

seems I have the touch of death as far as computers are concerned- in the last month the motherboard of my main computer and my laptop itself have died.
Hence no posting from lach.
So I getting a new computer while my old one is being repaired.
Apologies to people who've commented and browsed by in my absence.