A bit more life drawing

Second week at Tugun.

Also on the list of things to get back to.

I am starting back into life drawing...much needed, very very rusty.
There are a lot of life drawing classes in Brisbane but sod all where I live.
Just a bit hard getting to and from brisbane at the moment
I'd also like to find some studio space somewhere around here.
Anyway here are the first rusty scribbles form Wed night at Tugun .
Well its the first night back in well over a year, sitting on a couch with book on my knee and ballpoint pen..can't expect miracles first up- get points for turning up at this stage.
Model was very good and quite Norman Lindsayish (which is good), (especially considering it was the hosts wife and therefore not her day job).

I decided to join James Guppy's life drawing class in Byron.
Hopefully I will be left alone to draw in that, but James appears to be a skilled artist so I'm looking forward to it.
But I'd like to squeeze more drawing in- any nude models in the tweed /northern rivers area need odd bit of work?

The best for last

Well , where have I been?
I did a bunch of work for Strangeloop games, which I can't post.
Mainly animation.
I've had a bunch of ideas for some games too.
And some drawing in sketchbooks.
+I also actually had a break over christmas new year!
A break!

Trying to get into unity a bit and only just began to look at zbrush again. So much to learn.
At least this time on my new computer with rented copy of 3dsmax Go-z works and so does Z-applink.

Anyway.
I'm working on a last wombat book- Wombat goes surfing.
It will be the best, and in my opinion a much needed australian kids book that involves the beach and surfing.
here are some unused cover roughs and odd internal pages. The characters won't be white of course.

Over the Moon

Or - "the things a wombat will do for a piece of cake"


Wombat book finished-
 here is the front/back cover image.

Brisbane Supanova-2013

Well no explanatory photos.
General impression- sold a lot less than Sydney.
Possibly due to me being in an altered state of consciousness most of the time.
Why?
 Because the food and most importantly coffee was inaccessible.
So by mid afternoon each day I was in a bit of daze because I hadn't had any coffee or food all day (except for breakfast).
In this respect the Sydney venue is vastly superior.
Plus the artist alley was set in a carpark- yes a carpark,- very classy.

Also I felt very unprepared- I had big plans of getting little art books printed etc- but the whole new computer fiasco and disaster of the last 4 months...I dunno- what happened?...anyway.
Plus I was certain when I was booking the thing that it was on later int he month- did they swap the Brisbane and Adelaide dates at all in the last 2 months?

I got a lot of good feedback on Dinosaur Rocks- from people who had bought it last year and their kids a year later still loved it- thank you- you guys made my year hearing that.
Didn't sell any Wombat's birthday surprise- did sell a few other wombat books.
I was only there the Saturday and Sunday- so I guess the drawing output wasn't too bad given I hadn't done any preparation (see previous post).

Some Brisbane Supanova Sketches

Some- not all

A Spread

From the Pearson educational book.
There are others of course.