The SCIENCE FICTION FREEDOM E’ZINE includes one of my illustrations this month to accompany the story Scene Saver written by Raymond Charbonneau.
Click HERE to access the FREE E’ZINE. You can also download the back catalogue from this link for you viewing pleasure! Thanks to Peter Saga for including my work.
Sci-Fi E'Zine
Added a new gallery of screenshots from my time testing the new game Star Wars The Old Republic from Bioware & Lucasarts.
I think this is finished now. This is Miranda on Illium. Miranda is a character from the Mass Effect series of games. The background scene is from a balcony overlooking a city on Illium, a planet that features in Mass Effect 2. Facial reference from images of actress Yvonne Strahovski were used. Yvonne is the actress who played the voice of Miranda and the character is also modelled on her likeness in the games.
I started off with a pencil drawing of the character. Once scanned onto the computer I painted in the rest. When playing Mass Effect 2 there are many WOW moments when you take in the scenery. For me walking around the city on this planet I would spend a lot of time looking over the balconies onto the cityscape below. Bioware did a really good job on the visuals here! The reason I have done this painting is in appreciation of Mass Effect, the artists behind it and the beautiful Yvonne Strahovski. I couldn’t really go wrong making this one look pretty 😛
I’m creating a larger wallpaper version for people to download to use as their desktop background this weekend 😀
Miranda on Illium - Mass Effect 2
Cockneys vs Zombies group photo
Cockneys vs Zombies - on set
Photos from the article were taken on set by Owen Billcliffe. Click HERE to view his online portfolio.
Continuing on from the Rick Deckard sketch, here is the painting so far based on that sketch. This is an oil painting A4 size. This is now starting to look like a 1982 Harrison Ford from the film Blade Runner.
I had been struggling and nearly ripped it up earlier in the process as it was strangely looking like Mel Gibson but I’m glad I didn’t give up on it as a few more hours of work has started to produce a better likeness.
Rick Deckard oil painting work in progress
Rick Deckard – Blade Runner sketch
Ridley Scott has signed up to produce and direct a new Blade Runner movie. The news brought me to watch the original movie (Again), and draw a Deckard sketch which I will paint soon.
This is HB mechanical pencil on thick watercolour paper A4 size. Not decided whether to use watercolour or transfer to canvas for an oil painting yet. Watch this space…
Sadly I didn’t get to meet Eliza Dushku face to face in San Diego to thank her for posting my artwork on her Facebook page. However I did get some pictures from the crowd, just before the signing for Batman Year One began at the Warner Brothers stand. Eliza plays the voice of Catwoman (Selina Kyle) in the upcoming animated movie.
It would be nice to see the pics or video she took of us with her iPhone 🙂
