Ambulance

 

 

More cartoony vehicles. This is for another freelance pitch, expanding the 'ol portfolio if nothing else.

Freelance Animation

Been looking for some remote freelance work on sites like elance. There seems to be great demand for these whiteboard type illustrated explainer videos so I had a go at doing one with a Karl Pilkington story as a kind of proof of concept. Quite fun to do.

Ant Problem - Karl Pilkington from Doug on Vimeo.

And here's my 2d Animation Reel...

2D Freelance Animation Reel from Doug on Vimeo.

I've recently started a new job at Studio Liddell in Manchester as character animator on a childrens TV series. Can't reveal anything about the show but will post any work/info when I can. In the mean time I am fired up for doing my comics stuff again and I think being in a creative atmosphere at work will help me get more done on the side. Plus I have a half hour commute in the mornings which I'm hoping to utilise for writing/brainstorming ideas. Watch this space!

Bedwitchery Poster

I offered to do a free poster design for a local amateur dramatic society. Since I've been getting the watercolours out recently I decided to use them for this aswell. I thought it came out quite nicely and a bit more proffesional than their previous posters. Unfortunately they decided to go with another design so that's what I get for being charitable! In the end I think they just grabbed an image from Google image search and pasted their own info underneath it which I wanted no part of as it is obviously infringing someone's copyright! I guess since they are not really doing it for profit they can get away with it to some extent but I still can't understand why they didn't go for this poster.

Humphrey's Corner

Humphrey's corner by Sally Hunter is a mini business empire based around these little elephant characters she based on her own family. They started off as greetings cards and have been licensed into books, clothing, furniture and everything else imaginable. Quite an inspiring story for independent artists. Anyway I did these art tests for a portfolio submission to the company when they were hiring illustrators. I was unsucessful but I'm quite pleased with how the watercolours (above) and digital watercolours (below) came out.

Freelance Concept Work

The image above was done for a local graphic design agency, they were looking for some cartoony designs to pitch to their client. Unfortunately the client didn't really know what they were after so I put loads of work into something that I eventually didn't get a penny for. After they rejected the above image they gave the feedback for something more ICONIC. So I developed this next set of images:

They were quite quickly roughed out but again they didn't go for it. I thought I would put them up here to show some of the things I've been up to on the freelance front.

Haven't been blogging much of anything lately. Lots going on behind the scenes but haven't been drawing stuff that I can post yet, it's all very hush hush. Also busy with the webcomics. This was a kind of mood board for a sports comic freelance pitch. Didn't get it, but I like some of these.