sketches

Sketches I did at the weekend, because I was fed up of working on the computer.

From top: my sister's back garden, honeysuckle in same, and people with summer hats at The Norfolk Show

the project that has eaten my life for the last two months

This is a still from my sting for the British Animation Awards. Now with added colour!
I learned a lot about Photoshop while working on this project.

The Texture Blog

I've started another blog here: http://thetextureblog.blogspot.com/

This is a collection of texture photos for general use, though if you want high resolution photos you can buy a CD from me for £10 *

I've recently started using photographic textures in my artwork (see the recent pages of Trust in the Snow I've been drawing for Parable) in an attempt to make my computer colouring more three-dimensional. I had to find similar photos while I worked on Charlie and Lola, and used a great website called Mayang's Texture Website.

This was the only free texture website I could find (you could also buy all the high resolution textures on CD, this is where I stole the idea from ) it was wonderful, and it's no longer online. So I had to start taking photos myself. I decided that since I was building up a small library and was unemployed at the time (though not at present) I might look for opportunities to sell them on the Web.

I will keep adding to this site: a trip to South Africa in September should be specially interesting!

*Please email caroline@carolineparkinson.co.uk: I have not yet had a chance to set up an online shop

Life drawing 27th May

Yeah, so I missed a week. Actually I missed a couple.

Bafman!

This is what I'm working on like crazy at the moment- a cel drawing from the Bafman animation project. My animation skills are terrible- but a hell of a lot better than when I made The Cloud Factory, my student film.

Self portraits

I was invited to tag along to a free self portrait class the other week. I haven't drawn a self portrait since was a teenager. I was struck by two things.
Firstly, I'm a lot happier, or at least more resigned, about what I look like than I was as a teenager. Secondly: I gurn madly when I draw, which makes it difficult to draw myself accurately.

Where is a crowbar when you need one?

Does this condemned warehouse (it was hosting an art exhibition) look a lot like a Half-Life set or is it just me?

PS: Did I mention I really really really like Half Life 2?