Chef Worm says Hi!

A friendly critter, doing a job you probably don't want them to.

Pencil on A6 paper

Tattoo Design - Part One

My friend Brad wanted a new tattoo so he asked me to design it. Tattoo design isn't something I'd done before so I was excited but also a bit nervous about doing it.

He wanted an interpretation of his wife Jen and their dog Ferris.
This is what I came up with.

Quite rightly, Brad thought the dog could do with more sci-fi/steam-punk type embellishment. The trouble was that I had raced ahead and finished the shading on the original pencil drawing in one sitting and couldn't really add anything new on top of the pencil drawing without messing the drawing up.
I've had a light-box stored in my loft for well over a decade so I thought this would be a great time to bring it down, clean it up and use it again. So my plan was to draw the extra pieces for Ferris on a new sheet of paper that was laid over the original drawing which in turn was resting on my newly restored light-box.
Here is the result

And then when the two images are combined in photoshop we end up with the final design

Here's a photo of Brad before starting the first tattoo session and another one just after.

Apparently he's got another six to nine hours of pain before the tattoo is shaded and finished. Ouch! I'll post part two when it's all over.

Hanging Hermit Turkopus

 A Hermit Turkopus is a creature that appropriates discarded machine parts and other rubbish left by more sentient beings to give itself a protective covering.

 
2B pencil on 3 by 5inch post-it-note

Ball Critter

Started sketching this out and then halfway through realised I'd been influenced by an article I read the night before about the Pokemon cartoons.

2B pencil on 3 by 5inch post-it-note (a surprisingly decent sketching surface)

Office worker contemplates the destruction of himself and the alien horde

When the office worker was sketched out he looked a bit like a short, round Steve Buscemi but the slight resemblance got lost when he got shaded in.

Pencil on A5 paper

Alien Pilot (colour version)

This is a colour version of a pencil drawing I did back in 2010 ( link here : Alien Pilot Inspects His Ship )
I started this a bit before the image in the previous post (Eye Floating In A Gas Mask) so it doesn't use the digital painting style that was used in that other image.

Eye Floating In A Gas Mask

All my previous digital colour pictures have been created by tinting black and white artwork (pencil or pen & ink), sometimes adding digital 'paint' over the top to augment the picture. This is my first picture that is 'painted' digitally from scratch. There is still a pen & ink drawing underneath but except for a few stray pixels around the edges (and the signature) it is completely obscured by the colour on top.

The gas mask in the image is inspired by an exhibit of a WWII era gas mask in the Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience (Tooley St. London). The single floating eye is well.. a motif I use often.