Cake Time!!!!!!

Just a few of the more recent cakes we've made lately. Good fun!

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)

Here is the link to the video:

http://vimeo.com/79108943

Cakes, cakes and more cakes.....

 Copyright HKJ

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!

 Copyright HKJ

STUFF!

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STUFF....a design for a junior kendo Facebook header, a roboboy doodle and a mermaid cake. 

HaPpY HaLLOwEeN

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.....

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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...

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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).