Irish Sketch Society/Creator Owned Day

 Here's a Bitmun drawing I did as part of a new page on Facebook called the Irish Sketch Society,were anyone can upload sketches based on that weeks theme! Might do some of these regularly as this was a good bit of fun to do! Check out some of the other great sketches on there too!

 As well as that,I also did a sketch for #CreatorOwnedDay on twitter which was a trending topic that promoted creator owned artists and their work.I took inspiration from a hideous shirt design and the rest drew itself!

Odin Hungover At The End Of Time

Just a sketch that I did for last weeks Illustration Friday that I just got around editing.The word in question was 'Tree.'

Alternative title, 'Nagginarok.'

Revenge of the Norka (Reloaded)

My final final submission from my last assignment.Last you'll hear of the word Norka on the blog (I can only hope).So these were mainly derived from my original sketches that ended up being watercolour on printed cartridge paper (outlines).They ended up as 19 x 22cm.Madness.

The Healing Well

More art exploring style choices.This was done for the charity Equipe who are putting together a book project called 'A Cuppa And An Armchair' which will raise funds for their work in educating the poor overseas.The illustration was based on a short story called,'The Healing Well' which is about a mother who goes to the healing well of Clootie in order to cure her child's sickness.

EDIT : The ebook is now available for purchase for the generous price of $2.99 on smashwords.Go purchase it here,all for a good cause! Coming soon to Amazon. ( note: Paperback now comes in two editions, ones with or without the illustrations however the latter will be a bit more price wise.)

The Norka

  

Few sketches from an assignment I'm working on at the moment for the Bologna Book Fair.Like last years brief, I'm keeping it loose style wise.The story I chose is an old Russian Fairy Tale (again with the Russkies) about a multidimension mink who terrorizes a King's land.So he sends his three sons to slay the beast,in return for all his inheritance.

 Roughs on Norka.Looking a bit haggard!

Two of the Kings oldest sons,the main antagonists.

 Two of the three princesses (sisters of the Norka,bizarre I know,right?) There's a plot element involving them turning their palaces into eggs,should be interesting to draw...

...and finally here's some thumbnail developments.First one is of the King's council,just have a bit of tweaking to do for the arrangement of things.The one below is of the third son and hero of the story,discovering one of the princesses palaces.

The hand that feeds...

So did this for my first practical assignment in which we had to produce a postcard that represented our work.A few hours of drawing dead babies later and this was the result.I don't think there's much to say after that....More work coming soon!