iRelle

Hi there! It’s been a while, huh? The pressures of uni and life in general have abounded lately, and I’ve simply had no time, (or energy, when there is time) to post. Things are looking up, though. The other day I remembered to grab my camera as I went out the door, today I’ve had time to peruse some arty webcomics and start some ideas that have been in the back of my brain for ages. Here’s one of them:

I’ve been wanting to do some prints for a while now – if they were sufficient quality and amazingness, I’d get them printed on 30″x30″ canvases… I don’t think I’m quite up to that yet, however. I might just start with card mounted on chipboard and go from there. Below, you can see the preliminary sketches for the set I’m working on at the moment. I know it’s extremely likely I’ll end up rushing this project to get to an end-point… hopefully I can curtail that by posting some development sketches. I’ll probably end up doing lines for this with photoshop’s pen tool – nice and smooth and easily controllable thickness, etc. with colouring done in a kind of watercolourish way!

So, tell me what you think of the general placement and shapes and so forth (I rushed the owl – you all know what my owls look like anyway, right?). The colour scheme is by no means set – it’s a toss-up between this or something with more orange in it… we’ll see which way it goes when I get around to colouring! Click for bigger images.