Beyond the Surface

Here's a non-Christmassy flyer for the same theatre company I've worked for before (think it's been nearly 5 years now). It's for a production educating teens about online privacy and stuff like that. They wanted a lot of characters for it, took ages to do so many. I originally had someone based on Moira Stewart on the back, they wanted Davina McCall...can't say I'm totally pleased with it, but it took ages what with changes and stuff. Thought it should go here just because.

"I'm kind of a big deal!"

A bit of drawing here. It's been a while since a film got me interested in doing something for it. Fanart isn't someone being as 'creative' as they could, but it does have this irresistible pull. I didn't see Ant Man at the cinema, but wish I had. I absolutely loved it, best Marvel film for a while. I quite liked that it was a (no pun intended) small scale, no blasted American town with an army of cookie cutter villains. My lovely lady did the painting and the colouring.

Frasersaurus

It's been suggested to me a few times about doing personalized dinos. I only really sell my stuff at MCM Comic Con in London and they're all done in Adobe Illustrator. Kinda difficult to do them to order. Someone at work wanted this for his son. Quite a while since I've done something on canvas. Would rather have had more time to do it, stuff like this always surfaces around Christmas..all at the same time!
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Earlier this year my lovely lady bought us tickets to a lecture at the Natural History Museum called Secrets of the Stegosaur. Very informative and I got to hold casts of the bones of the new Stegosaur skeleton they have in there. Absolutely fantastic!                                
 

Radagast the Charcoal Brown

As weird as it sounds I'll never forget being in a queue in the rain to go into a Doctor Who convention with my dad in the late 90s. We were there for a bit when a taxi pulled up and out jumped Sylvester McCoy, the 7th Doctor. He ran full pelt across the tarmac and vaulted the fence, brushing right past us with a very obvious "I'm late" look on his face.

Just thought I'd share that. Anyway, fast forward to present day.

I will stand up and say that, as much as I can talk about all the faults of the Hobbit films I've got a lot of praise to lay at Peter Jackson's feet as well (especially hearing recently how much pressure the man was under to deliver the films, poor guy). One of the absolute best things was Sylvester McCoy as Radagast the Brown. Although he wasn't technically in the book I really thought his presence added some much-needed humour into those films. Plus I was overjoyed to effectively have a Doctor Who/Lord of the Rings crossover, Sylvester McCoy bridges my two favourite franchises. I also have to mention the rabbit-pulled sleigh, love that.

I gave the Gandalf to my dad for his birthday and I couldn't really not give something similar to my mum so I ventured into the world of charcoal again for her birthday.