I Don't Talk to the Trees

 

Here's some trees and nature pictures for you. Mostly done from life.

This first one is a sketch from 2002. I always thought it would look good on a greetings card.

It's Swamp Thing!!

This tree is one of several really old protected trees in Burnham Beeches, a woodland area near where I grew up. Being just up the road from Pinewood Studios here in the UK, it's famous for being the forest location in several films including the awful Kevin Costner 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves'. This painting was done in acrylics in a small A5 sketchbook. I love how it's bending back as if reaching up to the heavens. I don't know if this or the other old trees are still there having not been to the Beeches for years. I hope so as they were around three hundred years old when I drew them... thirty years ago. 

Is this not like the petrified bones of some ancient giant alien dragon, or what?!

Another one reaching up to the heavens... Could it be that I had unwittingly stumbled upon the Parliament of Trees?

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Work Work Work #3

 

This was a model making project that dates back to the mid 90s. I wanted to make it all atmospheric and industrial and play around with trick forced perspective. Once I had the idea I started with some sketches. Here's a passable one...

Next is a painted sketch of how I wanted the background to look with the dirty, grimy, rusty look reflected in the sky as well as on the bridge.

Here's the finished painted background..

The rusty iron girders of the bridge were made with card and masking tape then painted with acrylics. I made three with each one a smaller size to create the forced perspective. The figure was made with modelling clay and painted with acrylics. I made his head separately from the rest of him so it could be moved in the photos.

 

 Like here... This one was taken from the Daily Doodles on the Mondo Facebook page, hence the joke. The original photos are buried in my loft somewhere...

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Work Work Work #2

 

Some people are never satisfied!

" -sigh- I wish I was at home... working at the office is so boring."

" -sigh- I wish I was at the office... being at home is so boring."

Models and photos by Jonny O 1995.

Mondo Archive #1

Art- Ade Hughes- currently working on Pat Mills' 'Spacewarp' comic.

Famous for his flaming sword years before Game of Thrones, Lee Davis' The Gladiator, and his post apocalyptic world graced the pages of Mondo from the start in several stories drawn by several different artists. It's currently running as a newspaper style strip, along with several others as 'Champion of Forever' on the MondoToons Facebook page.

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Art- Tom Carney

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Work Work Work #1

Like most of us I've done loads of different jobs over the years. 

Here's some work based drawings...

 

This is the corner of workshop in one of the printers I worked at, found in a sketch book. I have no memory of drawing it, must have been in a quiet moment when the boss wasn't looking. 

I think we've all been this guy at some point. It's fifteen minutes before the end of your shift and you're starting to wind down, when your boss give you a new job to do before you go home. They say that it'll be fine it'll only take ten minutes, but they've never done the job before and you know, because you have, that it'll take an hour minimum. The boss dismisses your concern without offering a solution and heads off home leaving you to it, expecting it done in the morning. Your colleagues are all heading off too now and you don't want to ruin their evening. You need the job to pay your bills...

I did have an idea for a quest story that would begin like that. Our central character is left alone in a warehouse, but it's like an infinite warehouse like the one at the end of Indiana Jones. The deeper into it he goes into it the more outlandish and ridiculous it becomes. He would come across the skeleton of a co-worker who disappeared  twenty years ago and end up with him fighting off dragons and dinosaurs on snow capped warehouse racking! I dunno... bit sort of like a Narnia warehouse... What do you think? Is it a fun idea for a story? let us know in the comments below.

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