Beards

I've always said if I were a man, I would love to grow a beard. Sculpt it, Wax it, curl it. The lot! Men just aren't really catching on to the beard thing fully. Except for the fellas at worldbeardchampionships .

I am thinking of doing a series of Beard drawings, to fully explore possible beard styles. Or maybe not. Anyway, the photos came in handy when thinking about how the Inventor Baron from The Inventors Notebook would look.

Inventors Notebook in the shop

The Inventors Notebook is now complete and in the Shop. Below are some shots of indivdual pages. One thing I learned is that I need to learn to write with good cursive script otherwise a perfectly good drawing can look incredibly scruffy with a bit of haphazard writing. The written pages i've re-written with a script from a book of handwriting fonts. Took ages but the results are worth it.

An Inventors Notebook

The great thing about Christmas, for me, is that I get some time off work to finally finish off some projects, or get one under way. The current project is an inventors notebook which grew up out of drawings like the Flutter Fish and Clockwork Fish and watching/reading about the adventures of Baron Munchausen.

A character started to form who is pretty Muchause-e-in but instead of having heroic sporting and adventuring incidents, this one is an inventor of - stuff. Totally random, unusable and illogical stuff. Some in-progress shots - sorry about the quality, lighting was terrible:





































































Some of the inventions so far are:

Clockwork flying fish
This can carry passengers and has 2 pilots. It's powered by an altered form of helium which is only a bit highly flammable.

The Philoshophicare
A portable philosophicating machine which has useful and practical answers for all kinds of people from the very Religious to Atheists - and also an average answer which is very helpful for people who like to hedge their bets.

I have one more to complete and then it will go in the shop. For a while I thought about having prints made of these and having them professionally bound. But I think i'll stick with originals for now.

First post

This is my first post, to explain something about myself and why I am writing this blog. By day, 5 days a week, I work as a Flash designer. By evening, 7 days a week, I try to draw, paint, make things and sell my work on etsy (www.littlerobot.etsy.com). The shop is a bit paltry at the moment, but I am currently working on a sort of 'invention' series with a one-off artists book currently being made.

So this blog is really to keep updates on what i'm working on, but also to keep a record of all the things I come across which are interesting or inspirational. I think and hope that there will be other artists out there who will also find them inspiring.