Exula

It’s been another busy week, but I managed to find time to watch Kung fu Panda…twice. I can’t praise enough the art style of this film. Living in a town with a number of games companies around and about it was funny to be sitting in the cinema admiring the end credits and then realising that the members of the audience that had stayed behind to watch the credits were all industry artists, doing exactly the same thing.

I recommend that if your’e interested in the art behind feature films that you go out and pick up the Art of Kung Fu Panda, with the best part of 100 pages devoted purely to character design you’re in for a treat!

I’ve added the 4th on the series to the Insect Dynasty. It can be found in the illustration section, but as usual I’ve also added the quick link at the end of this post. More to follow in the coming weeks!

The new Left Below site has launched in anticipation of their upcoming album ‘My favourite Protocol’. I’ve had the privilege of creating all the visuals for them over the last year, and I think I’m going to be doing it for a while yet! Go check out their site and go to the music section to sample the new album!

So where’s all the art? Well I’m working on it! Among other things there’s a new piece for the Insect Dynasty on the way. I’m also writing a tutorial for 2D Artist Magazine which will be out later this year. More news on that closer to the time. There’s also an Exula collaboration in the works, where some of the characters may well be stepping into 3D very soon.

Lots to come, but in the meantime here’s a piece I designed for Left Below whilst they were touring last year. I’ll be uploading more Left Below stuff in the coming weeks.

Take it easy!

Okey Dokey, it’s time for an update!

Well since the last update I’ve recovered from my ailments (huzzah!) but this has meant I’ve spent a lot of time away from a wacom stylus, causing extensive withdrawal symptoms. However I didn’t waste this time; where possible I developed the plans for the Exula novel. A while back I did an 80 page treatment and a basic plan of the plot etc. This was well received and I got a lot of valuable feedback. So I’ve been building on the story arcs, fleshing out the minutia of this world and making sure the pacing is well balanced. Basically I hope to start writing in full sometime in August. I’ll update more as things shape up.

Expose 6 is out now! Buy it and buy a little bit of me…or at least my artwork. The Mantis Queen also made it as one of the limited edition prints!

Because things have been a little sporadic, the website won’t see full completion for another week. However, I have resized all Exula images as well as the ‘Otherworldly Portraits’ so they’re bigger and more glorious than before.

Work on producing prints proceeds well. If there’s anything in particular you’d like to see as a print, gimme a shout over email!

I’ve been helping out the Left Below lot as well, so expect to see more artwork from that in the coming weeks.

Obviously I wouldn’t update without something to show! I’ve added one more portrait to the Otherworldly section in Illustration as well as a quick 2hr landscape study entitled Goat and Robot. I imagine goat and robot would get up to all kinds of crazy hijinks, just like those old films about cats and dogs floating down stream in a cardboard box…you know the ones.

Anyway for convenience, here’s the links.

Thanks for looking around!

Hey all, just wanted to say thanks for the feedback and positive comments. I’ve taken all of what’s been said onboard and I’ll be making a few changes to this website in the next couple of weeks, most substantial of which will be larger images. In the meantime I’ve tweaked the navigation of the image viewer; no more searching for the changing location of the ‘next’ icon. Just click the image.

**EDIT: I promised new work for this weekend, but sadly I’m under the weather at the moment. The website tweaks will have to wait until the end of next week. **

Welcome to Exula! As promised the website’s back online with lots of new artwork to show as well as a few old favourites. Here you’ll find artwork from my personal projects as well as commissions and work I’ve carried out in my daily job as a concept artist. A few of the sections will be coming online in the next few weeks, but the artwork’s up and that’s what you’re really here for!

Thanks for visiting and check back soon for regular updates!