Artist of Pencil, Pixel and Paint.
Simon’s Sketch Work – Cosmic Eye
I’ve been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques… This is something I felt inspired to draw rather than a copy. I’m not sure I totally know what it means – maybe it’s about the cosmic, human perspective What doContinue reading “Simon’s Sketch Work – Cosmic Eye”
Simon’s Sketch Work – Dancer
I’ve been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques… People are interesting to draw, the form and perspective makes it a challenge. This Dancer image was a struggle to get right and even now isn’t perfect… but good enough. WhatContinue reading “Simon’s Sketch Work – Dancer”
Simon’s Sketch Work – Butterfly
I’ve been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques… This is the next sketch I’m showing off and I kinda like the intricacy of it, it almost looks delicate on the page like the butterfly is in real life. IContinue reading “Simon’s Sketch Work – Butterfly”
Simon’s Sketch Work – Praying Hands
I’ve been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques… I’ve done a few recently and the first one was of some praying hands. There’s something about praying hands that’s peaceful, there’s many things human hands can do for good orContinue reading “Simon’s Sketch Work – Praying Hands”
Sketching of Virgin’s Galactic Spacecraft
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spacecraft has finally flown, to some fanfare and a lot of controversy the Virgin Galactic took its first commercial flight some weeks back. Aesthetically it’s quite a pretty thing, something that looks quite swan like and graceful. Finding a picture that inspired me – I created this sketch. There a fewContinue reading “Sketching of Virgin’s Galactic Spacecraft”
Sketching Scarlett
I’ve been working a bit on my sketching, especially with portraits as they’re quite interesting, my latest work was of a portrait of Scarlett Johansson. This was the finished sketch: The hardest bit I found with this is the charcoal pencils, the fine detail with them seems hard to achieve and I’m wondering if IContinue reading “Sketching Scarlett”
Space Art – The Clouds of Jupiter
After the fairly successful Horsehead Nebula I dived into a bit of planetary art this time the clouds of Jupiter were the subject. This took a fair bit of time this piece as the colours and patterns had to be shaped and merged and all of that good stuff. I’m quite pleased with this oneContinue reading “Space Art – The Clouds of Jupiter”
Space Art – The Horsehead Nebula
I had an urge the other week – that was to create the Horsehead Nebula, I’ve been shying away from digital painting and I simply decided to have a go and see where it took me. Taking a shot of it from NASA I painted, smeared and added stars and all of that – piledContinue reading “Space Art – The Horsehead Nebula”
Space Art – Saturn and the Distant Sun
As part of my aim to create more art in both digital and traditional ways I wanted to re-create the space scene that I use quite a lot on my site and see how well I could make it using what I had. Unlike the previous times I have created planet rings I didn’t takeContinue reading “Space Art – Saturn and the Distant Sun”
Science in Sci-Fi – Time Travel
Science fiction is as the name suggests the fiction of science. I thought it would be a fun, interesting and at times mind bending idea too look at the science behind some of the technology in science fiction and look under the hood to see what’s required to make it work or what barriers areContinue reading “Science in Sci-Fi – Time Travel”
Time, Space and the Universe as we know it – Part 2 Relative Motion
With all it’s vastness and complexity it’s taken a long time for humans to reach the understanding that we have of the universe that we have. This is the story of evolving understanding and how simplicity gives way to incredible truth’s that seems to sit at odds with how we think life should be… andContinue reading “Time, Space and the Universe as we know it – Part 2 Relative Motion”
Science in Sci-Fi – Quantum Entanglement Communication
Science fiction is as the name suggests the fiction of science. I thought it would be a fun, interesting and at times mind bending idea too look at the science behind some of the technology in science fiction and look under the hood to see what’s required to make it work or what barriers areContinue reading “Science in Sci-Fi – Quantum Entanglement Communication”
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