Just a few of the more recent cakes we've made lately. Good fun!
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Friday, 20 December 2013
Thursday, 5 December 2013
BAF IDENT 2013 with the incredible JOANNA QUINN
YAY!!!!!!!A few months back I was extremely lucky to work on this Ident with the incredible Joanna Quinn again. This time was extra special as it was working on Jo's personal character "Beryl" (not Charmin bears ;D) and working from her amazing rough artwork....swoon.
It was both wonderful and very scary animating and in-betweening again....especially as Jo's work is so very beautiful and ridiculously three dimensional. When Jo handed me THE HAND scene to rough animate...I felt the blood drain from my face, I started to sweat, then came the shaking profusely and tears that I cried silently inside...the dog animation thankfully was far more straight forward. My mantra for the entire time was "don't balls this up, don't balls this up, whatever you do don't balls this up". I feel very privileged and proud to have been a part of this and had a fab time working for Jo back at the studio.
Here are some stills (Copyright Joanna Quinn/ BAF)
http://vimeo.com/79108943
It was both wonderful and very scary animating and in-betweening again....especially as Jo's work is so very beautiful and ridiculously three dimensional. When Jo handed me THE HAND scene to rough animate...I felt the blood drain from my face, I started to sweat, then came the shaking profusely and tears that I cried silently inside...the dog animation thankfully was far more straight forward. My mantra for the entire time was "don't balls this up, don't balls this up, whatever you do don't balls this up". I feel very privileged and proud to have been a part of this and had a fab time working for Jo back at the studio.
Here are some stills (Copyright Joanna Quinn/ BAF)
Here is the link to the video:
http://vimeo.com/79108943
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Cakes, cakes and more cakes.....
With yet another birthday cake to make, I decided that it would make thing even more special if I were to design original characters for the decoration. This one was particularly fun....dinosaurs having a party.
The image below was part of a gift to mum from my sister and I, to be exact a "morning of coffee, cake and birthday celebrations with her splendid daughters". I had so much fun drawing the cakes.........it was almost as good as eating them!
Monday, 18 November 2013
STUFF!
STUFF....a design for a junior kendo Facebook header, a roboboy doodle and a mermaid cake.
Thursday, 31 October 2013
HaPpY HaLLOwEeN
I really love Halloween, so much in fact that I put real work aside for a day or maybe two, to draw and colour these in. I had several more ideas but as usual ran out of time due to poor planning. NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, 18 October 2013
LIES all LIES
On closer inspection of my work room and desktop...it appears I have been lying! I have been very very busy, but it seems in that after weeks of spending 15 hours a day at my desk in a delirious state, I have actually done some creative things:
My mum and I have made more celebration cakes (these are two of our favourites from the past month):
I stitched a rainbow to hang on the wall with my sun and rain cloud. This was a pain in the arse to make and I made a hash of numerous pieces of fabric in it's creation...idiot:
Oh...and I also had my work on the television this week alongside Steffan Rhodri (a Welsh actor of 'Gavin + Stacey' and 'Harry Potter' fame). The illustrations are part of a storytelling series called Straeon Ty Pen, broadcast on the welsh channel s4c (there are subtitles thanks goodness). I've worked on lots of projects later aired on television...but this was special... it being my art work rather than my work just being a tiny cog in theproduction machine. This was the first of four I worked on....so I'll pop up the others as they are shown.
NoT sO FuNgi.....
I've been really busy of late with work and haven't had much time to draw for myself. BOO hiss. I love drawing fungi, so decided to do another group of shrooms who are lacking the 'fun'-gi of the original image I posted a few months back. It made me chuckle as I worked on it anyway!
Ooh...I also did this...
Copyright HKJ
A doodle of myself...please note artist license has been taken advantage of in the creation of this image (particularly in the slimming of my neck and shoulders).
Thursday, 26 September 2013
wOoL
Copyright HKJ
JEALOUS???????????
My mam and me made this birthday cake today! There was a cat and some wool so I thought I'd add it to this post!
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
School TIme....
Back to school and the new to school. The little people heading to school for the first time really made me smile last week with their gigantic rucksacks and oversized uniform....so I doodled this and did a very quick colouring job.
Monday, 2 September 2013
Sound Of The Sea
Copyright HKJ
Pencil meet Cintiq...Cintiq meet pencil!!!!!! My pencils have been feeling neglected of late, so I guiltily picked them up and turned off the Cintiq until colouring time. Also, this year I've been drawing lots of children and images for children...so I decided it was time to spend some time drawing ladies again. Here is the first of many to come (I hope)!
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Cintiq...A Toy For Grown Ups.
Copyright HKJ
I have been extremely fortunate to become the proud owner of a Cintiq...a toy for grown ups. I've been more than happy enough with my mini bamboo wacom tablet over the last few years, however with the times changing and more jobs needing to be done digitally, I felt it was time to finally get one. These are two of my first attempts from start to finish on the Cintiq and I must say, it's been most enjoyable.
Monday, 5 August 2013
Stitching Summer
Copyright HKJ
I fancied doing some stitching last week and made a sun...with an hour of starting it the lovely weather we've been having changed to a grey downpour. Thankfully it brightened back up for our break in London. Today it was miserable rain, so I decided to make a rain cloud in the hope that the sun would return...guess what...it did!!!!!!!
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Pharmacy fun...
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Working from home often means I don't leave it for weeks at a time, forget how to communicate with other humans and get fat (very fat). So, in an effort to be like a 'normal' working person, I've been doing some work at my local pharmacy (with my sister the pharmacist ) to get me out of the house. Inspired (and nauseated at times) by the complaints seen, I decided to scribble this. I also, for the first time ever, coloured it in sketchbook pro...very enjoyable!!!!!
Monday, 15 July 2013
Monday, 1 July 2013
Giraffe....
My mum and I made a Christening cake this week. I was in charge of the giraffe that topped it. Icing is very difficult to manipulate and starts to crack when faffed about with too much. I am a faffer and an icing addict. I'm going to need a lot of practice in both icing modelling and self discipline....after all....if you eat all the icing, you can't make anything with it. Oh, I also did a little painting of it too.
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Ring a ring a roses.....
A small commission for an engagement proposal card I did a few weeks back. I was in the process of computer house-keeping (urg) and thought I'd post it before it gets dropped into a folder and forgotten about.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Racoons as pets....
Whilst 'working' hard, I came across a wonderful page about Racoons as pets and started to scribble. Here is the address (it's long)...
http://exoticpets.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=exoticpets&cdn=homegarden&tm=34&f=00&su=p284.13.342.ip_p504.6.342.ip_&tt=2&bt=7&bts=7&zu=http%3A//www.mnsi.net/%7Eremocoon/idio.htm
I still cannot stop laughing.
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Jam Jar...
Something coloured...without line work. How do people do it????? I need answers and a genie to answer grant me skill.
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Is it summer yet????
Copyright HKJ and Coity Wallia Commons
Marsh Fritillary Butterfly.
I've seen numerous insects milling about, but no butterflies as yet. It's probably for the best in our garden as Dexter dog prances about, ears flapping in the breeze gobbling everything in sight. Yesterday's speciality was crane fly and woodlouse.
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Hazel Dormouse
Copyright HKJ and Coity Wallia
A sleepy hazel dormouse. Another of the 30 something wildlife images commissioned by the Coity wallia Commons.
Friday, 29 March 2013
Rat on a cat on a dog
Copyright HKJ
I just have to say it one more time...it's a rat on a cat on a dog. Small joys.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Paper Anniversary
Copyright HKJ
A drawing for my sister and her husbands first wedding anniversary. The first one is apparently symbolised by paper... so I ingeniously doodled on a piece to give as a gift. Just in case they loathe it, I also put some paper money in a paper card for them. All bases covered!
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Sunday, 17 March 2013
MOnSteRs
Copyright HKJ
I thought it about time I did some drawings just for the sheer enjoyment of it ......
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