Freebie painting number 3 for today. A Brotherhood of Steel Knight from Fallout 3 for IBringTheFunk.
August 12th, 2011
Giraffe
August 12th, 2011
House Sparrow
Yesterday I offered out 10 free ink and watercolour paintings on twitter. The first 10 lucky enough to request one will get a small paintings of their choice and I get some practice material!
Here’s the first piece, a male house sparrow painted for @Moshiicake. I’ll be uploading more throughout the day.
July 24th, 2011
Garrus Portrait WIP Part 2
Some may remember the portrait I posted work in progress images of back in January. It’s of Garrus, a character from the video game Mass Effect.
It’s only been 6 months (oops) but I thought I’d stick the canvas on my easel and do a bit more work on it today. I’m hoping to get it done next week, but I did chose to paint it on a huge canvas…
June 23rd, 2011
Google reverse image search surprises
Today I was alerted to some new Google image search functionality by Myrmecos. The new feature allows you to drag and drop images or use URLs of existing images to find where the image has been published online, or images that are similar to it.
For some photographers and artists, this feature means they can track where they have been unaccredited for their work or any unauthorized use of their images. For me, I was mostly interested to see where some of my more “interesting” photos have appeared.
Last summer I was awarded a Daily Deviation on deviantArt for one of my scarification photos. Not long after I was bombarded with random people wanting to get to know me, people insulting my decision to get a scarification and of course a couple of crazies who wanted to get attention from me, be my best friend or just have sex with me. Because of the unwanted attention – all I wanted to do was share and look at art, not be stalked by emo teenage boys – I deleted my deviantArt account.
By the time I had deleted my account, the image had pretty much done the rounds on tumblr and various forums. I tried using TinEye to track where it had gone, but let’s face it, TinEye is pretty shitty. So when I found out about google reverse image search today I was straight on it. Most of my images had appeared on forums, tumblr pages and the odd blogspot but here are a few treasures I found along the way…
Click the images to go to the websites
I found this blog post with some photos taken during my scarification that I hadn’t seen! Clearly they had been published on BMEzine, but this is the first time I’d seen them. Please excuse the little panties ;)
This one managed to annoy me. Using a photo from my scarification to promote tattoo removal. WHO THE HELL WOULD HAVE A TATTOO REMOVED LIKE THAT? This is a ridiculous website.
And finally, to distract from the gorey scarification photos, I found my Katamari painting on a rather cute Tumblr page.
May 27th, 2011
Loom
This video was sent to me by TAKA_future on Twitter today. A collaborative project created by Polynoid, this film explores the relationship between predator and prey – a spider and a moth. It’s incredibly beautiful and brutal in equal measures. Definitely worth a look! You can read more about it here.
EDIT:
Just found another short film by Polynoid, this time featuring mechanical snails. This one is called ’458nm’. More info about it can be found here
May 6th, 2011
Sketch – Ichneumon Wasp
Oops, it’s been a while since I last posted. This is mostly due to being really busy at work and playing too much Portal 2!
Anyway, I thought I better post up some artwork since it has been a while. Now that I live in a house and I’ve finally got my own garden, I’ve been gardening lots and spotting lots of interesting beasties. My house over-looks a school playing field, which has a small patch of thicket at the one end. Because of this, my garden (and my living room!) has had lots of interesting visitors since the warm weather has hit.
It’s great because not only has it prompted me to get my sketchbook out and started sketching again, but I’ve seen some critters that I haven’t seen for a while.
I’ll post more sketches and photos over the next few weeks but here’s a sketch I did of a Ichneumon wasp (Ophion luteus). One of these flew into my house during a poker night and landed right on top of the deck of cards!
Ichneumon wasps are pretty cool. I loved explaining to my guests how they use their ovipositors to lay eggs onto/into caterpillars and watching them get completely freaked out. They were less scared when I told you that this particular type cannot sting humans.