I’ve made some important enhancements to Image Engine, and bumped the version number to 4.0.2. Significant changes are as follows: Introduced improved handling of missing or incomplete HTML elements. Made a change to the method used to capture the slide description. Instead of trying to step through the child nodes of the <dd> element, the [...]
I’ve made a small tweak to the Image Engine Javascript that drives my portfolio browser. In the initial release, the script automatically started pre-caching all the full-sized images as soon as the page had finished loading. Now only the first 5 images are pre-cached; after that, images are loaded on demand as they are selected. [...]
This evening I am very pleased to be able to announce the launch of my brand new portfolio pages, featuring more than 100 samples of artwork from the last 15 years that I have been working as a professional artist. This is made even more exciting for me as I’m using new slide show software [...]
I’ve recently started work on a HTML/CSS/Javascript image browser that I think could be very cool if I can get it to work. I have some ideas that I think make it potentially very flexible and useful for any artist who wants a stylish and easy to use way of displaying their images. However, my [...]
My wife asked me to do a sketch of Rogue, one of her favourite characters from the X-Men universe. When I looked for some reference material for Rogue, I was struck by the fact that almost all the images of her show her as a dynamic, flying sex symbol (or the awful, shrieking, sulky teenager [...]
My favourite cartoon series in recent years is Avatar: The Last Airbender (I own all three series on DVD, including the US-only final chapter). Today’s quick sketch is of Aang, the eponymous Avatar. I lost track of how long this took because I kept getting interrupted.
Although I’m not able to publish any of the artwork I created for Jambo! Safari myself, there seems to be plenty of examples of my environment and character concepts, and character artwork scattered around the interwebs. Below are samples and links to a few of my images: Amy Wildman character artwork on Gamblog.fr Max Söderström [...]
I’ve actually managed to add a couple of new images to my portfolio recently. I had the chance to colour up a sketch I did a few years ago for an NCsoft art test: I’ve also just added a spaceship concept I did recently for an space combat game currently under development by an independent [...]
I’m a big fan of Ben 10 (yes, I know I’m far too old to like cartoons – get over it). One of my favourite characters from the series is the Cannonbolt alien, so I made him the subject of my second “15 minute” sketch attempt. I still haven’t quite got the hang of the [...]
A few weeks ago, I was introduced to another illustrator via a mutual friend at my aikido club. Kevin Levell is an excellent artist, and I recommend having a browse through his portfolio. One thing I’ve noticed that Kevin does is regularly publish 15 minute sketches on his blog. He does some very nice sketches [...]