Organising my life a little

Just having a few days of rest to sort out my life a little XD

"And When The Stars..."

At this moment I am working on a children's book which I am writing and illustrating.
It's likely to be in that 'picture books for older children' category that picture books with lots of words seem to go in.
I'll see how it goes, if it turns out good I might finish it/ try and get it published/ get some printed and sell it myself.
Anyways I have here some sketches that might be of interest to you.

 I was thinking that I would like all the characters to look kind of floaty and free, mythical and with some sort of webbing/wing/fin/flipper, because at the beggining of the story all the animals can float around as though there was no such thing as gravity.

As for Supernova Clover... she was already a character I had, and she's an alien so she doesn't count. Im not sure why she has a ruff in this picture to be honest, I just felt it was needed, at the time, I think.

Even more sea

In the story she has a mental breakdown and runs away to the sea where she used to live, but her childhood home has been destroyed and she has lost contact with her parents. In the last picture she stands on the edge of a cliff. Her efforts to return to happiness were in vain and she does not know what to do next.

More Sea project stuff

quick deviation

a quick deviation from posting my sea project images:

My first upload to Youtube

my channel

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hmm why isnt this working?! temp link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7yXc9ceRgk

Sea WIP V

bad photo,
but its a bad picture XD

Sea WIP VI

Four of the drawings are done!
Sort of.
I can't draw.

Sea WIP

Sally's desk. The only colour in the office is this little corner and Sally's hair.
I ruined this a little. Also the people in the photograph look awful XD

Dancing Shapes

Just remembered today that my next theory module is "reading animation". This made me excited and enthusiastic about animation again.

This animation by Len Lye always reminds me of sitting in The Tate watching videos on loop:



The white line also reminds me of The Soundtrack part of Disney's Fantasia. I watched that again today too on video cassete. Yes I still own a video player.

Apparently the Toccata und Fuge sequence is abstract animation. I tend to disagree and say that it is, at most, semi-abstract; but semi-abstract isn't really actually a thing ... is it?

Return To The Sea

So Christmas is over.
It was fun and possibly the best for a while now.

I had a great and, in my opinion, well deserved rest.
Now it's back to work.

Here's a little look at the project I am working on at the moment:

and a quick digital colouring of one of the character designs: