Esther Marie

It's my sister Esther's birthday today, so she gets a portrait! 101 Dalmatians is one of her favourite films, so I wanted to recreate that famous dog walking scene with the scottish terrier she's always wanted. 

This is my 74th portrait for my daily portrait challenge. You can see the other 73 over at the tumblog, 366 Portraits.

Click for larger size. Digital. 

Once again, I had it printed by the lovely ladies at Rae & Bennett Fine Art Printers on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, my new favourite paper. Looks better in print! This is the paper I'll be using for the giclée prints that will be available in my online store, coming real soon.

Detail shots-

Hefty Hilda & co

WIP snippets of a bunch of new character portraits I’m finishing up for a new project involving The Show, launching later this year. More details soon. Looking forward to launching it so I can finally upload the film online for all to see!

Testing out ideas

Something I worked on a while back, testing out an idea.

Photoshop

Recent Cowboys

Some recent cowboys & sheriffs from my daily portrait blog!

Drawin' at the zoo

Deva and I visited the zoo last week for some drawing times, and I finally got around to scanning the sketchbook.

PS. The crazy looking Tawny Frogmouth is my new favourite bird. Also, echidnas are hilarious when they wiggle-walk.

16 portraits (out of 366)

I wanted to post about this a while ago, but had to see if I could get through the first 2 weeks first. 

I've set myself a drawing challenge for 2012- to make a new portrait everyday. A mix of live, drawn, painted, and digital so far... some more complicated than others. I hope to do some small animated ones soon!

Aim is to post the results everyday on the main tumblr, 366 Portraits. If I'm particularly fond of one it will make it's way here on the blog as well.

Some earlier ones below!