Sketchbook or Daybook 014

Here you can see some early Conan style images starting to happen (I'd obviously been leafing through my Spectrum annuals, that always gets me started)... You have to admire the greats of the this style of work, like Franks, Frazetta and Cho and Jeffery Jones etc... If your anatomy isn't up to par, its a real struggle to get anything looking close to decent... Back to the life room it is then.

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Over the last year or so of teaching I've been thinking about what informs my own creativity in order to feed this stuff on to my students...

One of the big conclusions was that without my sketchbooks I wouldn't know what to do...

They are the heart of my working life and repositories for all the mad thoughts that I have while not working.

I encourage all my students whether 3D designers, illustrators, games designers, fine artists, film-makers, graphic designers or fashion students to carry one with them...

Even the ones who aren't strong draughtsmen/women

I tend to call them "Day-books", so as not to frighten off the sketch-shy... but as the title suggests I insist that they are used every day...