Characters
The following collection is comprised of pieces that tend to focus on one particular character in situ, explore it, study it, you might even call them Character Studies.

As with much of my art, many of these are technical experiments. Sometimes I set out to develop my understanding of the interplay between shape, light and colour, sometimes I am exploring how simple animations can evoke feelings and tell stories.
Torren · Ophelia
SandWerm // This Our Ride? // Walkin' With Rhythm
Digital Painting Animation
The teeth are gnarly but the lips are juicy.

After seeing the film about the big psychedelic-pooping space worms I was heavily inspired to paint and animate my own take on Frank Herbert's desert monsters.

The technical experiment here was creating these layered, separately animated concentric rows of teeth in the dragon's maw, attempting to elicit this sense of being drawn in to its crushing abyss.

I am particularly proud of the horror inducing life-like shivering of the worms movement and the juicy skin-like texture detail on its lips.

"Walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the worm
If you walk without rhythm, you never learn"
- Fatboy Slim

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco, brought to life and optimised for Instagram with Adobe Ae and Pr.
Moonman
Digital Painting Christmas Card
A sleepy Christmas card with sleepy mid-winter vibes and a technical experiment in learning how to shade the banana/crescent moon shape.

This character is inspired by a long-lost lamp I had in my bedroom as a child, revived through what I remember of it.

"Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own"
- Kenny Sargent

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco, brought to life and optimised for Instagram with Adobe Ae and Pr.
Snowman
Digital Painting
His head is a ball and he has a carrot for a nose.

I noticed variations of this creaturebuilding repeatedly popping up in my Cityscape doodles, and so I decided to give him his own character study.

This painting was the first large scale piece I did as I moved away from outline-drawing and into purely shaded shapes - expanding my understanding of lightcolourshape.

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco.
We Missed You
Video Project
Raven // Welcome
Digital Painting Animation
I set out with this one to explore the process of animating separate elements (ears, gloves, text, arm) and rapid-fire character creation (the faces around the border).

The idea is "Raven has created something interesting, come and see!" or "Welcome to the Club"; imagining this could be a wall-sized digital poster as people enter the creative space.

[He has manifested the word "Welcome" in his palm - if only it was a little more legible]

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco and Ae, background video clip taken from a classic Nuprin advert.
Freddo Cappuccino // Freddie Cappuccini
Digital Painting & Photo Collage
This piece is a celebration of the Greek classic iced coffee in a style heavily inspired by the film poster art for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (early drafts for Freddie's face looked more like Frank-N-Furter, but the UwU face was more... shall we say... accessible?).

I created this as a commission for the Greek coffeeshop BRIKI in Exmouth Market, and they currently use it as one of the featured artworks on their gift cards.

See the BRIKI case study here.

Cappuccini
/'kapʊˈtʃiːnɪ/
plural noun (Italian) - Cappuccino

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco and copyright-free photo collage.
Sandman
Digital Painting Christmas Card
My mum took me to Egypt when I was eight and ever since then the Pyramids have held a prominent place in my imagination. I found them terrifying and confusing - I had no idea what was going on at that age.

The biggest criticism I get of this Christmas card is that people "don't get it", but there is nothing to get, it's just a silly and simple bit of absurdism.

But if there is anything to get it is a joke that pyramids once upon a time had a cap.

Why not a little red night cap? And why not make a snowman out of sand?

Don't think about it too much. It's no less problematic than claiming they were built by aliens.

Original digital art created with Adobe Fresco.
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