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Walt Stanchfield sketch

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

I just recieved in the post both volumes of Drawn to Life, a brilliantly put together collection of Walt Stanchfield’s Disney drawing class handouts. During art college I printed out and bound the pdfs that Animation Meat used to have of the notes, but it’s really much nicer having them properly published in book form. […]

New Easel

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I recently had this folding easel built by Jeff Lacey at Easels Galore in Victoria, this is the Horizontal to Vertical Fully Folding model, made from Spotted Gum. I’ve only had it a short while now, but already it’s clear this is an easel that should last quite a long time. As you can see, […]

SketchCrawl 21

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

OK! I’m back now from a 6 month job in Sydney (Well, have been for a month now), and it’s time to get this blog up and going again.
First up, I’ve started a thread at the SketchCrawl forums here for Brisbane on the 10th January 2009 as part of the 21st SketchCrawl. Anyone local (or […]

Clay Rig (wip)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I’m a little low on drawings and paintings to post at the moment, so instead I thought I’ll give a sneak peek at a character rig I’ve been working on in XSI. The facial setup is now more or less compete, just fixing up some skinning/weighting issues on the arms/fingers now. I’ve tried to make […]

Merry Christmas One and All!

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Seasons greetings and blessings to everyone in blogland and whoever may stop by this humble blog! It’s been a hectic week leading up to Christmas (hence the slightly belated post), shopping for last-minute gifts, and a tree, organising food and activities for get-togethers with family and friends, it’s only now on boxing day morning I’ve […]

SketchCrawl #11

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Grab your pencils and sketchbooks everyone, tomorrow is the 11th Worldwide SketchCrawl!

As for me I’ll be sketching while travelling down the coast to the beachside village of Lennox Head, where I’ll be spending the next week, so if you comment on this blog, please forgive the delay in your comments showing up :)
When I […]