Art O brother fan art process Last week, I got a hankering to watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? and after I'd watched it, I got a hankering to draw some of the characters. As I did most of the work digitally, it was fairly easy for me to export the various steps as
Comics My process I’m nearing the end of a project for Bottleneck Gallery [https://bottleneckgallery.com/collections/sketch-booth/products/sam-hardacre-sketch-commission] to produce 50 illustrations for their customers. I’ve been posting photos and time-lapse videos to Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/skinnydrawnboy/] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/skinnydrawnboy/] along the way
Typography Flourish A really nice short film showing the progress of an illustration/typography project.
Illustration Project closed I'm really sorry to say but my 52 weeks 52 works project has died a lonely death. It lasted only 6 weeks until I ran into trouble marking out the time required to produce the kind of work I want. There would now be too much back-tracking to
Film True Grit Six weeks down, fourty-six to go! This week's piece was infulenced by our recent viewing of the Coen brother's take on True Grit (definitely worth a viewing or three). I hadn't really intended on doing a portrait of Jeff Bridges but I thought it&
Projects Unfinished study I think I'm starting to get into the swing of things with this project now. I'm drawing more regularly and starting to push myself into learning skills I weren't expecting. Over the last two weeks, I've found myself becoming more keen to
Film Chaplin It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Charlie Chaplin and it was only a matter of time before he was the subject of one of these illustrations. To be quite honest, I'm surprised I left it this long and it's
Projects Hand A little late posting this one, I've had a bit of a busy few days working on another project. I decided to try another study of basic form which ended up being my left hand. This one was admittedly rushed as I've had little time to
Projects Wife feet This week has been a bit of a struggle to do something that I would be happy to post. I toyed with the idea of doing a Sherlock based piece to mark the final episode of series 2 airing this evening but I wasn't happy with my tests.
Projects Marilyn So I'm kicking off my 52weeks, 52works project with a pencil portrait. I've not done much pencil work since my college days so I thought it was a good starting point as it's something I want to improve on as the year progresses. I&
Illustration Christmas cheer Don't take any notice of Santa, he's had a few and feeling a bit abusive. This was a quick doodle which I never planned on showing anywhere when I started it but then I thought it might make a good accompaniment to a Christmassy post. I
Projects 52 weeks For years now I've been banging on about getting back into a more regular routine of creating art, primarily illustration. I've periodically picked up my pens to do a bit of illustration but these occasions are few and far between. The quiet periods is partly (and
Projects New exercises For quite some time now I've been eager to pick up my pens and pencils again to do what I spent most of my teenage years doing, drawing. Before I discovered the wonders of the web, I was very much an analogue type of person, the only time
Illustration Preparing artwork I've decided to make a few changes since the launch of the journal. The typography I'd chosen wasn't working for me and it looked a bit too clean for what I wanted. I'm going to try adding some illustrative elements to the
Art Finish a bic A really great video showing what can be created with just a Bic (and a huge amount of talent).
Process A day in the life of an Editorial Cartoonist A great video created by Justin Fowler on the day in the life of an Editorial Cartoonist.
