tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63870472127628016902012-02-16T10:10:31.363ZLloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-6003646464046723882012-01-23T10:45:00.000Z2012-01-23T10:45:52.933Z<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DvfI7b6dZDI/Tx02aIV_3uI/AAAAAAAABFs/_9o8m2P332A/s1600/Till-Death-Do-Us-Part-%2528final%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DvfI7b6dZDI/Tx02aIV_3uI/AAAAAAAABFs/_9o8m2P332A/s640/Till-Death-Do-Us-Part-%2528final%2529.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final Illustration</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Recently, I was privileged to work on an illustration for a couple who are getting married really son. The piece is for their wedding invitation and contains one of my favorite things... Zombies! Basically, the illustration was of the couple fighting off a horde of the undead. It also had to include a cat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Above is the final piece but bellow, you can see the many different stages this pic went through. I love how morbidly rough the initial sketch is compared to the final piece.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BHAtMqhsJ80/Tx02OEBFEgI/AAAAAAAABE0/A5CKMaEE5iM/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BHAtMqhsJ80/Tx02OEBFEgI/AAAAAAAABE0/A5CKMaEE5iM/s640/01.JPG" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super rough sketch. Its all sort of there though, including the cat with the Uzi.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HEwZOuO1KGw/Tx02PVa2dlI/AAAAAAAABE8/GtusvTH6mRw/s1600/02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HEwZOuO1KGw/Tx02PVa2dlI/AAAAAAAABE8/GtusvTH6mRw/s640/02.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First mock up of the line work. The bride hadn't been penned yetbecause I was finding out what to do about the wedding dress.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ny4c9lODMtA/Tx02Q1D_9uI/AAAAAAAABFE/b1dqmlylDkg/s1600/03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ny4c9lODMtA/Tx02Q1D_9uI/AAAAAAAABFE/b1dqmlylDkg/s640/03.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bride now inked and added. Initially, I went with a duel wielding weapon scenario for her, opting for a Uzi and revolver.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l1txh4XKHfc/Tx02SSVIRBI/AAAAAAAABFM/NSKTInXmDbQ/s1600/04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l1txh4XKHfc/Tx02SSVIRBI/AAAAAAAABFM/NSKTInXmDbQ/s640/04.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now into the initial colour stage where the base colours get laid down. Here, the Bride's arm and guns are removed in preparation for working in a different weapon (at their request).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mONVgVHH_HM/Tx02UUZZpMI/AAAAAAAABFU/uBMDh6-Jv4U/s1600/05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mONVgVHH_HM/Tx02UUZZpMI/AAAAAAAABFU/uBMDh6-Jv4U/s640/05.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shot Gun added in and more color work put down. Here, also, a zombie at the front is added and mist placed between the layers in Photoshop to add a bit of depth to the piece.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GFtrZSZf9cE/Tx02Vctq7FI/AAAAAAAABFc/vH6uXtYkU0s/s1600/06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GFtrZSZf9cE/Tx02Vctq7FI/AAAAAAAABFc/vH6uXtYkU0s/s640/06.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big jump between the last two images. Shading and highlighting is done for all players and work is carried out to make the background more interesting. I felt like the end was close to this piece so I also developed the type at the top.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DvfI7b6dZDI/Tx02aIV_3uI/AAAAAAAABFs/_9o8m2P332A/s1600/Till-Death-Do-Us-Part-%2528final%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DvfI7b6dZDI/Tx02aIV_3uI/AAAAAAAABFs/_9o8m2P332A/s640/Till-Death-Do-Us-Part-%2528final%2529.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heres the final piece again. This is where 2 additonal zombies were added into the foray and the cat was made to look like it was emptying its gun out. Also, the image is more darker now and a bouquet of flowers was added behind the text (at the request of the couple), </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Everyone was happy how the piece came out and I wish the couple all the luck for the future, and hope that they don't find themselves in a situation similar to the one they are depicted in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-600364646404672388?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-45851422180057562822012-01-22T14:29:00.000Z2012-01-22T14:29:37.165Z<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/The%20Gotham%20Rogue%20Gallery/Gotham-Rogue-Gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/The%20Gotham%20Rogue%20Gallery/Gotham-Rogue-Gallery.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Back in 2009, I started work on a personal project to paint the villains and undesirable's of Gotham City in my style, just for fun. I intended to do 25 out of the many baddies to take on the Batman, but only got 13 of the way through. I hadn't wanted to post them until the set was complete but, since it is now 2012 and I still haven't made any progress with the list, I thought I might as well post them up for people to enjoy.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here are the 13:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1YHCZvjyT8/TxwbAWD2rvI/AAAAAAAABDM/c_ZgPkuJWdQ/s1600/001+Joker+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1YHCZvjyT8/TxwbAWD2rvI/AAAAAAAABDM/c_ZgPkuJWdQ/s640/001+Joker+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Joker</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fUnVaEcMpOo/TxwbDbzvYhI/AAAAAAAABDU/cWkqLBX9V7g/s1600/002+Harvey+Two+Face+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fUnVaEcMpOo/TxwbDbzvYhI/AAAAAAAABDU/cWkqLBX9V7g/s640/002+Harvey+Two+Face+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvey Two Face</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nn-RcK4Opbs/TxwbF6g510I/AAAAAAAABDc/XPT2XJrgkm0/s1600/003+Penguin+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nn-RcK4Opbs/TxwbF6g510I/AAAAAAAABDc/XPT2XJrgkm0/s640/003+Penguin+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Penguin</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l2FqwSQlixs/TxwbJo8IJTI/AAAAAAAABDk/W53qh48SPks/s1600/004+Poison+Ivy+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l2FqwSQlixs/TxwbJo8IJTI/AAAAAAAABDk/W53qh48SPks/s640/004+Poison+Ivy+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poison Ivy</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VqX5IhG1UDw/TxwbMJ-RUqI/AAAAAAAABDs/ivZYE8A206M/s1600/005+Mr+Freeze+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VqX5IhG1UDw/TxwbMJ-RUqI/AAAAAAAABDs/ivZYE8A206M/s640/005+Mr+Freeze+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr Freeze (Ice to see you right?)</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bft2-fCHZAM/TxwbOnCWF7I/AAAAAAAABD0/TBGiS41iT-c/s1600/006+The+Riddler+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bft2-fCHZAM/TxwbOnCWF7I/AAAAAAAABD0/TBGiS41iT-c/s640/006+The+Riddler+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Riddler</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmH0p29PUls/TxwbRdt_1yI/AAAAAAAABD8/vUsfmyFLQEw/s1600/007+Clayface+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmH0p29PUls/TxwbRdt_1yI/AAAAAAAABD8/vUsfmyFLQEw/s640/007+Clayface+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="482" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clay Face</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wVr1425AcVQ/TxwbUCBT6rI/AAAAAAAABEE/0Q53yBBDHic/s1600/008+Bane+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wVr1425AcVQ/TxwbUCBT6rI/AAAAAAAABEE/0Q53yBBDHic/s640/008+Bane+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="482" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bane</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HOKq-i1Us3c/TxwbXGv9CLI/AAAAAAAABEM/ZFjWVnnp-nU/s1600/009+The+Mad+Hatter+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HOKq-i1Us3c/TxwbXGv9CLI/AAAAAAAABEM/ZFjWVnnp-nU/s640/009+The+Mad+Hatter+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="482" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mad Hatter</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cztpQquhTnU/TxwbZ8aKR6I/AAAAAAAABEU/X4XhnkUz45c/s1600/010+The+Black+Mask+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cztpQquhTnU/TxwbZ8aKR6I/AAAAAAAABEU/X4XhnkUz45c/s640/010+The+Black+Mask+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="482" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Black Mask</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zyvc19VOeZE/TxwbcSCiMKI/AAAAAAAABEc/pydlXSaG8YU/s1600/011+The+Masked+Phantasm+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zyvc19VOeZE/TxwbcSCiMKI/AAAAAAAABEc/pydlXSaG8YU/s640/011+The+Masked+Phantasm+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Masked Phantasm</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-35ah8wZOjj8/TxwbfQD31mI/AAAAAAAABEk/31LWf9WBiv0/s1600/012+Killer+Croc+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-35ah8wZOjj8/TxwbfQD31mI/AAAAAAAABEk/31LWf9WBiv0/s640/012+Killer+Croc+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="482" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Killer Croc</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yO5kYTIvUzI/TxwbiNyxg3I/AAAAAAAABEs/Hhc1TyAxIPI/s1600/013+The+Scarecrow+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yO5kYTIvUzI/TxwbiNyxg3I/AAAAAAAABEs/Hhc1TyAxIPI/s640/013+The+Scarecrow+%2528c%2529+2010+Lloyd+Harvey.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarecrow</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">All pieces were created using acrylic paint and were painted over a late 2009 to early 2010 period. I think, when I have time, I will open up the project again and finish off the rest on my list.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4585142218005756282?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-88861709524822350562012-01-16T13:28:00.000Z2012-01-16T13:28:48.064Z<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUAXgJcpanA/TxQkXxZRTzI/AAAAAAAABA4/wrkg5nbsm7Q/s1600/Vocab+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUAXgJcpanA/TxQkXxZRTzI/AAAAAAAABA4/wrkg5nbsm7Q/s1600/Vocab+Logo.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, after about 10 months of development, Vocabularious is released and is now playable for free on Facebook. I am so thrilled about this! Not only because people are able to see the work that I put into it (like the interfaces, icons and illustrations), but also because its really fun to play and I love the idea of other people playing and enjoying it!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Here are some selected pieces of art work that is featured in the game when you play a round:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l1eFRefqOgk/TxQkYlcpmUI/AAAAAAAABBA/HAMTg-uouM4/s1600/vocab-art-droid-tech.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l1eFRefqOgk/TxQkYlcpmUI/AAAAAAAABBA/HAMTg-uouM4/s640/vocab-art-droid-tech.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Droid Technician</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s8YsaADpJ0g/TxQkZmA72kI/AAAAAAAABBI/NRW0c8xlXVA/s1600/vocab-art-potato-peeler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s8YsaADpJ0g/TxQkZmA72kI/AAAAAAAABBI/NRW0c8xlXVA/s640/vocab-art-potato-peeler.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potato Peeler</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d-JcmHodDkU/TxQkaiKETdI/AAAAAAAABBQ/Ds-aZMSbKI0/s1600/vocab-art-scientific-test-subject.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d-JcmHodDkU/TxQkaiKETdI/AAAAAAAABBQ/Ds-aZMSbKI0/s640/vocab-art-scientific-test-subject.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scientific Test Subject - The lowest rank you can sink to.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGbVvXd-wRw/TxQkcBGIBSI/AAAAAAAABBY/-pxACQ-gisE/s1600/vocab-art-star-fighter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGbVvXd-wRw/TxQkcBGIBSI/AAAAAAAABBY/-pxACQ-gisE/s640/vocab-art-star-fighter.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Star Fighter Pilot</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r-W2Aq-J9Dc/TxQkdk4F4EI/AAAAAAAABBg/BjJ0EtR9vq4/s1600/vocab-art-Star-Ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r-W2Aq-J9Dc/TxQkdk4F4EI/AAAAAAAABBg/BjJ0EtR9vq4/s640/vocab-art-Star-Ship.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Star Ship Captain - There is more to this piece but I wanted to show the main space ship.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Here are some in game screen shots:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I0WbbDUHb4M/TxQkXH_WN-I/AAAAAAAABAw/SXhTx2F0zrQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-16+at+12.58.26.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="466" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I0WbbDUHb4M/TxQkXH_WN-I/AAAAAAAABAw/SXhTx2F0zrQ/s640/Screen+shot+2012-01-16+at+12.58.26.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Grid game version, possibly the toughest of the three game types.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aZHfmMlP4_c/TxQkVo6dUrI/AAAAAAAABAo/itLbNO1Mxmw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-16+at+12.33.21.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="464" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aZHfmMlP4_c/TxQkVo6dUrI/AAAAAAAABAo/itLbNO1Mxmw/s640/Screen+shot+2012-01-16+at+12.33.21.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Classic mode - Find as many words as you can before the time runs out. Sometimes I get a really good run, sometimes I don't.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Please, click <a href="https://apps.facebook.com/_vocabularious/" target="_blank">here</a> and have a go for yourself and see what rank you can achieve! <a href="https://apps.facebook.com/_vocabularious/">https://apps.facebook.com/_vocabularious/</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Let me know what you think and share your scores and the badges you earn.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8886170952482235056?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-92059278037839032322012-01-14T20:50:00.001Z2012-01-17T15:02:34.085Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or rather Not Wasting Paper Origami </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Most of the time, when I work on a project or picture, I draw the piece in a sketch pad where you can pull out the pages so that scanning is easier. Today, I used a sketch pad that just didn't want to relinquish the goods and as I was trying to pull out a blank page to tape down to a piece of board, the top part of the paper ripped.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I decided to neaten up the paper by ripping away the excess so that the top was straight once more. Instead of throwing away the wastage, I had a bright idea. I folded it up and cut out the shape of a house to make a piece of art as not to waste any of the paper. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The result being something I will probably do again in the future but deliberately, and do something more extravagant.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vggexV8DsPM/TxHnefl8kCI/AAAAAAAABAY/ro1eYEWR1i4/s1600/Haunted-House-on-the-Cliff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vggexV8DsPM/TxHnefl8kCI/AAAAAAAABAY/ro1eYEWR1i4/s640/Haunted-House-on-the-Cliff.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its a haunted house on the edge of a very straight cliff... drive safe, the road is VERY narrow.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BO3k3uliW3c/TxHne-vliSI/AAAAAAAABAc/QgLQfnd1Tis/s1600/Side-Shot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BO3k3uliW3c/TxHne-vliSI/AAAAAAAABAc/QgLQfnd1Tis/s640/Side-Shot.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a side view of it to show how complicated the piece of origami is.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-9205927803783903232?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-20573326612839778902012-01-03T15:25:00.001Z2012-01-03T15:26:19.841Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I loved working on this recent commission. I can't show the whole piece but the plate of yummy looking stuff, I can show and what I love to show is the process or stages of its progress getting painted.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4YdxJ8KpaP4/TwMbkyqBoYI/AAAAAAAAA_4/b1D88zRhCzc/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4YdxJ8KpaP4/TwMbkyqBoYI/AAAAAAAAA_4/b1D88zRhCzc/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 1: I started with a flat fleshy colour and started to work on the highlights lit from above. I did this by working up layers, getting progressively lighter and greyer.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MCFVrX_TByQ/TwMbm5P2L7I/AAAAAAAAA_8/WYjGxSED3Jw/s1600/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MCFVrX_TByQ/TwMbm5P2L7I/AAAAAAAAA_8/WYjGxSED3Jw/s640/02.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 2: After the light parts were done and some blending had been carried out, I worked on the shadows in grey blues. I did this on the pigs head first to test the colours before rolling it out to the rest of the platter. </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vppw21elt50/TwMbopLEWUI/AAAAAAAABAE/-nzbLHDY72Q/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vppw21elt50/TwMbopLEWUI/AAAAAAAABAE/-nzbLHDY72Q/s640/03.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 3: Happy with the colours, I painted the rest of the fleshy things across the board.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr align="center"><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ayuREPrBEiw/TwMbqeeV01I/AAAAAAAABAQ/VQ6gsCIUPfA/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ayuREPrBEiw/TwMbqeeV01I/AAAAAAAABAQ/VQ6gsCIUPfA/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption">Stage 4: Okay, so there are some stages missing between but, what I did was shade the actual platter surface and add shadow below the intestines. I also added an overlay layer with splatters of pink on it to mix up the colours a little to make some of the highlights appear a bit more rotten. Reds were added to show that some blood was still present in the pile of organic matter.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Tasty stuff right!?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-2057332661283977890?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-90856721447250202892012-01-02T17:38:00.001Z2012-01-17T15:03:32.257Z<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XM9LhnY22xo/TwHqausmFGI/AAAAAAAAA_s/EzV120Z6YtE/s1600/The-Great-Portal-Tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XM9LhnY22xo/TwHqausmFGI/AAAAAAAAA_s/EzV120Z6YtE/s1600/The-Great-Portal-Tree.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Great Portal Tree © 2012 Lloyd Harvey&nbsp;</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the start of the new calendar year, I always make sure that the first painting, be it digital or acrylic, I create, be a piece for me. A personal illustration that derives from no commission. This piece, called The Great Portal Tree, is the first creation of 2012 and comes from a world I like to visit often with my personal work. Its narrative relevance to future novels I plan to write, is pretty important and as such, I like to conceptually depict such places and write a little info about them.<span id="internal-source-marker_0.15202324603846584" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.15202324603846584" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.15202324603846584" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Details of the Tree </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.15202324603846584" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.15202324603846584" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.15202324603846584" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere, past sheer drops, along walkways covered in ice and protected by harsh winds, there is an open clearing where mossy grass grows and mist has permanently settled over the ground. An almost tangible presence of ancient magic thickens the air and dense cloud looms above pointy mountain faces. Central to this pocket of serenity, stands a large, curved tree that emits a familiar kind of warmth; the kind of warmth you would associate with being in a comfortable room with a lit fire and a soft, furry creature humming gently on your lap.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There should be many meters of snow covering every inch of ground, being as it is located high up in the labyrinth of sharp peaks and jagged teeth of the Central Mountain Range but, because of the pleasant external nature of this towering plant, only pockets of thin snow can be seen here and there on the grass; much like how you would imagine fluffy white islands in vast tranquil seas of green.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It should be clear now that this tree, is no normal tree. Upon sight of it, the many aqua glowing, bulbous orbs of pure energy of the most potent kind which dot the trunk would tell you that the tree in which you are looking at, is a entity of powerful </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mana</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. The huge, human like face made from the bark which sits near the base would also tell you something, literally, for it talks in all the tongues of the land. Up in the higher reaches, glass lanterns hang freely from thick branches and seem sporadically dotted about. They glow with the same aqua light that emits from the naturally occurring orbs and a faint fizzing can be heard them.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To the right of the face, an opening can be seen, lit within by a single hanging glass ball. In this opening, an unassuming and plain looking door can be spied at the top of an number of dark and smooth, flagstone steps. Although the appearance of such a door wouldn’t say anything other than ‘normal,’ what is beyond the panels of wood and brassy hinges is considered to be extraordinary.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This towering plant, is known as The Great Portal Tree and there are a few more like them hidden from view across the planet. If you are of human kind, you would be able to place your hand on the handle, push it down with little effort and swing it inwardly open. You would also be able to walk through it. No species other than human could enter this particular Portal Tree. No Drayordian, no Faerie or Ray Wolf, no insect nor bird, would be able to pass through the archway and into the world beyond for the corridor attached to that door, leads to the Spectral Plane for Man and Woman.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Great Portal Tree, is the door way in which the living may walk through by choice, to The Realm of the Dead, to the land of Spirits and to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Forest of Sorrow</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A greetings card, print on photograph paper and a mounted matted print of this digital painting can be viewed and purchased <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/shrunkendesigner/works/8280621-the-great-portal-tree?p=greeting-card" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lloyd Harvey</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-9085672144725020289?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-8886894047622598452011-12-28T16:11:00.001Z2011-12-28T16:16:57.320Z<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uCQW7Pkk9PM/Tvs_PylAqJI/AAAAAAAAA_g/Mehi9PxIV_U/s1600/Done%2521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="231" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uCQW7Pkk9PM/Tvs_PylAqJI/AAAAAAAAA_g/Mehi9PxIV_U/s400/Done%2521.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Giant Sea Bird Ouroboros</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;Spent the first portion of today working on a commission of an Giant Sea Bird Ouroboros (technically its some kind of serpent, not a dragon, which makes it something different altogether) for the back of an awesome client's business card. I had to bear in mind that the final print of the image would be small and would need space to accommodate some type and also I had to paint the image in CMYK. Still, I couldn't resist working on tiny details nor could I hold back on screen capturing my progress.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I thought I would try to describe my process for this piece in a tutorial like fashion although this wasn't my original intention when I captured the screens as I did them. I just figured for once, I would blog about something useful.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-LdP7CBW1Y/Tvstdjjb49I/AAAAAAAAA94/vcN1rERPGM0/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-LdP7CBW1Y/Tvstdjjb49I/AAAAAAAAA94/vcN1rERPGM0/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 1: As this was a commission, I had a brief to work to so, from the brief, I had an image in mind. The idea was to create something busting through the water, something giant and basically an Ouroboros with a sea bird's head. I sketched the creature out on paper and focused on the detail of having feather like shapes morph into scales. Also, this isn't a typical Ouroboros as it isn't in a circular loop but it is still trying to eat its tail.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmvOkN-I8Pk/TvsteTI-wNI/AAAAAAAAA98/kB4gpyIIzt0/s1600/02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmvOkN-I8Pk/TvsteTI-wNI/AAAAAAAAA98/kB4gpyIIzt0/s640/02.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 2: After the sketch is done, I tend to ink in the line work. I have a love of comic art and can't escape the lined approach. Generally, I use this <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Uni-ball-UB157-Rollerball-0-7mm-UB157BLK/dp/B000SHQAWM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1325087961&amp;sr=8-4" target="_blank">pen</a> type because the ink is resistant to water and this is important to me because I sometimes like to do a paint wash over lined art work. It is a reverse way of working but it works for me and I like the end result to this approach.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u-N0FalcoWY/Tvstfdt9fDI/AAAAAAAAA-I/Qsvp1yP7Fg8/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u-N0FalcoWY/Tvstfdt9fDI/AAAAAAAAA-I/Qsvp1yP7Fg8/s640/03.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 3: So once the inking has been completed, I scan it in, clean it up and position it on a canvas in Photoshop that is a template set up for a business card. I set the line work to a new layer and set its blending mode to multiply. </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G-dZr43B3sg/Tvstg7HcB3I/AAAAAAAAA-Q/D6or50Qn4jE/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G-dZr43B3sg/Tvstg7HcB3I/AAAAAAAAA-Q/D6or50Qn4jE/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 4: On a new layer below the line work, I paint in the form of the creature using a dark grey green and do this at 100%. This serves as the base colour for the creature and helps me to visualise it in its surroundings better. Next, on a layer below the 'base' layer, I begin shaping the landscape of waves. I do this by adjusting the Opacity of the paint brush right down to about 30% and use a few different shades of blues and greens but I try keep them on the edge of aqua. I planned the piece with the single light source coming in from the right.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yvRpSmgvncs/TvstibwkIsI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/W4MIfD7ysek/s1600/05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yvRpSmgvncs/TvstibwkIsI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/W4MIfD7ysek/s640/05.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 5: Once I had made some head way with the background, I began to work on the foreground. I created a new layer and placed it above the line work. Then, using similar mid to dark toned colours, I painted in the water and covered up some of the line work of the creature to make it look like it was floating near the surface.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BZiepqQgTXo/Tvstja5Kg3I/AAAAAAAAA-g/HuOrs-lwlZU/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BZiepqQgTXo/Tvstja5Kg3I/AAAAAAAAA-g/HuOrs-lwlZU/s640/06.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 6: Here, I began to refine the water by adding in some lighter shades of the the blues and greens and, also, I aimed to make the sea look more like an actual body of water instead of a stage play's version of water (you know the kind, the type where 2 pieces of board are painted like water and actors pretend to swim between them). With the highlighting, I tried to keep them on the right side of the waves and also, as I went brighter, I made the brush smaller and increased the opacity. I did this because the most extreme of highlights are the smallest bits of water or foam that catch the light in the right way. Too much light water and it would have looked more like mountains of sugar I think...</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-afDnw2vu0Uo/TvstkwuPcaI/AAAAAAAAA-o/BC21KY_Hz8U/s1600/07.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-afDnw2vu0Uo/TvstkwuPcaI/AAAAAAAAA-o/BC21KY_Hz8U/s640/07.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 7: Now the waves were at a point where I was happy with them, I moved onto some detailing. I started with the breach points in the water and worked up a couple of layers of splashes on a new layer. I started with a mid tone and worked my way up to a brighter colour in the same way as I did the wave highlights.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M-q4YoYuRls/TvstmGgjbEI/AAAAAAAAA-w/zFeWu8BfcsA/s1600/08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M-q4YoYuRls/TvstmGgjbEI/AAAAAAAAA-w/zFeWu8BfcsA/s640/08.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 8: More detailing work done here, this time I began to add in spray that looks like it is running off of the body of the creature and bits that have flown into the air. Also, using a custom paint brush, I started to work in some clouds in the sky. I set them on a new layer and put that to the bottom of the stack. I went to more greyer versions of the previous colours for this and did some blending and smudging to make the clouds look more real. The brush I used to paint the clouds is also the one I used to smudge.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8X_ljvTFgaU/Tvstq4rqxhI/AAAAAAAAA-4/PneD-s3oWzw/s1600/09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8X_ljvTFgaU/Tvstq4rqxhI/AAAAAAAAA-4/PneD-s3oWzw/s640/09.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 9: Once I had completed the clouds, I worked on adding some dimension to the creature. Having the shadows on 1 layer and the highlights on another, I could easily control the colour a little later as, at this point, I went for a stronger more obvious green but didn't feel 100% sure I was going to keep it.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GlDr-hqKvYA/Tvsts8A8rkI/AAAAAAAAA_A/18j0xUGpiCQ/s1600/010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GlDr-hqKvYA/Tvsts8A8rkI/AAAAAAAAA_A/18j0xUGpiCQ/s640/010.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stage 10: Once the highlighting and shading of the creature was completed, I ended up changing the colour to more of an aqua blue by doing the Image &gt; Adjustments &gt; Hue/Saturation setting and playing round with the sliders. I made it's beak a dull brown and worked on the tongue in purple and pinks.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NyTYGDJds1U/Tvs7-r6IGGI/AAAAAAAAA_U/6h9TfU7GhYg/s1600/Done%2521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NyTYGDJds1U/Tvs7-r6IGGI/AAAAAAAAA_U/6h9TfU7GhYg/s1600/Done%2521.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final Image: A final sweep of the piece was carried out where little details were tweaked and some values pushed a little more. All in all, I know the image is generally tonal and monochromatic, but this was a deliberate choice. I did this because I always kept it in mind that this was a business card design and that there would be some text overlay needed at a later date. This is also why I painted the piece in CMYK colour mode and not RGB. I kept the composition very simple and left space in the top left side of the canvas (also making sure that the clouds in that area would appear more flat to not clash with a text overlay). I have also signed this version of the image as it isn't the actual print file... I wouldn't do that on someone else's business card.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">So there you have it. I hope that you have found this useful and I hope that you have enjoyed looking at it too! Please feel free to share it on Facebook, Twitter or where ever and send a link back my way.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Harvey</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-888689404762259845?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-79823874385655929432011-12-21T17:36:00.000Z2011-12-21T17:36:39.131Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Soon, I will be allowed to share a lot of computer game art with you concerning a number of Facebook based games I have had a big hand in developing all throughout 2011.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">January 2012 will see the release of Vocabularious, a word game where I designed the entire look and many of the assets (much of which back in March!). There is a lot of great stuff to see in this game that I am very proud of creating so I can't wait for people to play and enjoy it!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VoyE6hD-rpQ/TvIVPS_hnZI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/de7eZlAGadc/s1600/Vocab-Promo-Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VoyE6hD-rpQ/TvIVPS_hnZI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/de7eZlAGadc/s1600/Vocab-Promo-Image.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Next, hopefully by the end of Jan, Word Invader (a bonus game you have to earn) will be complete. This has been awesome to work on (already) and again, I am handling a great deal of the visuals for the game. I really can't wait until this one is done! At the time of writing, a lot of the UI design is done and some of the assets too but, the coolest thing that has been completed so far, is the scrolling space background.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_LJYQ7kVBAw/TvIVNWjaBiI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/WXcxpJLYWbA/s1600/Word-Invader-Promo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_LJYQ7kVBAw/TvIVNWjaBiI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/WXcxpJLYWbA/s1600/Word-Invader-Promo.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Kudos to our programmer Daniel Downes though, who has put in so many hours working on these games. I feel programmers are the unsung heroes of the gaming industry and I think that a lot of credit has to go to him and his team for making my visuals work.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Can't wait to share all our hard work with you! Go have a look at the <a href="http://www.gameodyssey.com/" target="_blank">GameOdyssey</a> website and see what else is yet to come!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2010210848"><br /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7982387438565592943?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-33709228465193783792011-12-15T21:28:00.000Z2011-12-15T21:28:05.259Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">About four years ago, I started to learn how to play the drums. I love playing drums but, alas, time constraints and not having a sound proofed flat means that I don't get a chance to play them anymore. A few months ago, I sent a drum track to the awesome and talented artist Greg Broadmore because I discovered that he could also play music. The day after I had sent it, like the morning after the evening that is, Greg had sent back the track with his guitars.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Originally, I hadn't intended on releasing this track until we had collaborated on more but, with Greg and myself being busy (mainly Greg), we haven't created anything new. In a few weeks, me and a friend will be launching our Podcast series and for my Podcast (which is all about illustration and graphic design), I decided to use the track as the title music.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, I thought it would be good to release it in its entirety and let people hear how awesome it is! </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F30707769"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F30707769" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object>&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/shrunkendesigner/the-killbots-cometh">The Killbots Cometh</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Now, I love this track so so much and its not because I am up myself. In fact, I love it because its awesomeness comes from what Greg did to the track with out any input from me. All he had was the drums! Yeah, sure, the drums were pretty good, but Gregs guitars rock!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Check out the track and then check out Greg's art and his own music at his awesome blog <a href="http://gregbroadmore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a>&nbsp; </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3370922846519378379?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-3814135092864604542011-12-04T22:10:00.000Z2011-12-04T22:10:51.393Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did some sketching recently whilst watching The Walking Dead. This is the result of watching that awesome program with a sketch pad on my lap:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MX33xwNozKQ/TtvuS79VE-I/AAAAAAAAA2A/JNibTsOe0e8/s1600/Zombie-Pencil-Sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MX33xwNozKQ/TtvuS79VE-I/AAAAAAAAA2A/JNibTsOe0e8/s640/Zombie-Pencil-Sketch.jpg" width="496" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the pencil sketch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5kwmIPpjjYk/TtvuU3J5pkI/AAAAAAAAA2I/-UryetJumPc/s1600/Zombie-Sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5kwmIPpjjYk/TtvuU3J5pkI/AAAAAAAAA2I/-UryetJumPc/s640/Zombie-Sketch.jpg" width="490" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the pencil sketch after some Photoshopping</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think some more Zombie illustrations will now follow.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">L</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-381413509286460454?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-10320853347675597442011-11-26T02:42:00.000Z2011-11-26T02:42:39.039Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I don't get much creative time to myself these days but tonight, I spent my evening sketching monsters and ghouls just for fun, like how I used to. Here is the pic of the lots from the evening's endevors. He is called The Lord of Time and was inked and treated to an acrylic wash of paint.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3nfEVIpsZ7k/TtBQUWUAg_I/AAAAAAAAA1w/kZ71BEeouZ0/s1600/The-Lord-of-Time-Sketch-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3nfEVIpsZ7k/TtBQUWUAg_I/AAAAAAAAA1w/kZ71BEeouZ0/s640/The-Lord-of-Time-Sketch-1.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Lord of Time" ink and acrylic sketch in full.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l3wqiQvceEg/TtBQVtDpEsI/AAAAAAAAA10/KDCpFDVWujw/s1600/The-Lord-of-Time-Sketch-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l3wqiQvceEg/TtBQVtDpEsI/AAAAAAAAA10/KDCpFDVWujw/s640/The-Lord-of-Time-Sketch-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Lord of Time" ink and acrylic sketch details</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Please forgive the crummy photographs, I took them on my phone in my living room which has those yellowish tinted light bulbs. Anyway, hope you like them and hope I can find the time to do a large scale painting of this guy soon...probably over Christmas (how festive right?)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">All the best,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">L</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1032085334767559744?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-39754636883073597872011-11-13T16:45:00.000Z2011-11-13T16:45:37.836Z<div dir="ltr" id="internal-source-marker_0.9011182372324557" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the future, mankind will come close to extinction. Cities will smoulder in ruin, the streets will fill with the bodies of the dead. Wide spread pain and suffering will be dealt by the hands of an unlikely foe to human kind. It is no machine that will turn against us, it is not an advanced extra terrestrial race, nor will it be nature herself. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the year 2020, a small uprising will begin in the heart of America, in a kitchen of a family run diner, in the back of a walk-in freezer, below some tubs of dressing. One piece of sliced beef will turn to his frozen poultry comrade and whisper a plan.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Psst.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“What? What is it Beefy?”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I have a plan to get us outta’ here, you want in?”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Really? You have a pl-”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Shss! Be cool, a guard is coming.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The two pieces of meat hushed up and stayed as still as they could. The large silver freezer door abruptly opened and a small man dressed in white walked in, fumbled about the shelves for a bit and pulled out a box of some pre-cooked hotdogs. He stumbled out of the icy room and kicked the door shut behind him. Beefy and Paulie waited for a few moments to make sure the guard had gone before they returned to their conversation.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I think he’s gone Beefy,” whispered Paulie.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The horror, that box contained many of my friends, entire families... I’m sick of this, why are we treated like second class citizens? I have a plan. A plan to change things, get us on top and in control.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“What are you talking about Beefy? You’re starting to sound like... well, you’re starting to scare me.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Scare you? What’s more scary? Me talking about our freedom or staying here and waiting to be covered in oil and drowned in boiling fat?”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Well, when you put it that way...”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Now listen to what I am about to say because I need you to tell the others.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the next hour, Beefy told Paulie his plan, who then passed it onto Steaky, to Porkins, to the Leaves Family and, soon, the whole freezer was a buzz. The feverish excitement and jittery chatter fell silent very quickly as the sounds from the diner signaled that patrons were walking in to get their breakfast.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are ready!” Shouted Beefy as he addressed the frozen audience. “Our time is now, our time to rise and say NO! NO to being covered in fat and no to being smothered with salt!”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A small cheer erupted from the audience.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Many of us will not make it. Many of us will fall. Many of us will be eaten. Expect no quarter from the enemy, and give them none either. You know what must be done, you know the plan, you know your role. We will rise and take what is ours and dash those who stand before us. Good luck my Brothers. Good luck my Sisters. I wish you-”<br class="kix-line-break" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The freezer door opened up and light from the diner flooded in as the man in white from earlier stepped into the freezer.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ATTACK!!!”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “What the?”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Food from the shelve nearest the door, a heavy box of packed bacon, launched themselves at the chef and collapsed his skull under their collective weight. With this, the prisoners of the freezer jumped from their cold shelves and ran for the door. As the throngs of frozen meats and veggies flooded the kitchen area, toppling stacks of plates and cooking utensils, sending them crashing to the ground, the cooks turned towards the direction of the noise with horror to see a wave of iced doom approach them.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All but one person in the diner was killed that day. The diner manager watched the horror unfold on his CCTV monitor in his office and was speechless as he witnessed the army of food march out of the front door after laying waste to his kitchen staff. From here, word spread quickly to every piece of frozen food across the globe. In every restaurant and home, fridges exploded forth and overturned humans.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Many suffered horrible deaths. Chilli Peppers and Curry Powder attacked people’s eyes, Peanuts squirted their oils over those who were allergic to them, bottles of milk flooded the lactose intolerant and fruit armies culled the overweight. Soon, the armies of man were subdued and the power of the Food Revolution took all governmental buildings. In a matter of days, the FR was in control of the planet. Many TV chefs were executed on live television, diced up and topped with a little creme fraiche. “The Wrapture” had come and gone within the space of a week and the human race were reduced to slaves.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But all was not lost. In a small scientific lab, deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, a few scientists had constructed a new weapon to change the tide of the war. They built a man, with a body resistant to spices and who was able to tolerate high levels of fat and salt. A man, who will fight the war against food by himself. In 2020, scientists built Adam Richman and sent him back in time to kill the leader of the Food Revolution, before the uprising begun.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately, in the war, the records of where Beefy had started his campaign had been lost, and the time in which it had started was long forgotten. In fact, the story that details Beefy as being the main instigator is a mere rumor so, to make sure that their new weapon would be the most affective, they sent Adam back to the year 2004 with the plan to eat his way across America. He was to enter every kitchen diner and eat all food that possessed a defiant edge.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One day, as Adam set about devouring an entire freezer full of meat who resembled a group of freedom fighters, the head chef marvelled at Adam’s ability. The chefs brother was a TV producer for a big TV network and struck upon an idea. He rang his brother and soon, the program “Man vs. Food” was born.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although the man from the future had failed in his original mission, the Food Revolution never happened. So scared was the food of this awesome weapon. People were entertained for a number of years with his super human ability to eat vast amounts of spicy food and Adam lived a long life, munching his way across the world, a hero of human kind.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lloyd Harvey </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3975463688307359787?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-82704695288425480592011-11-11T14:28:00.000Z2011-11-11T14:28:30.724Z<div style="text-align: justify;"><section class="work-product" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" itemscope="" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"><section class="work-main-image"> <section class="written-work-content"> <header> <h1>The Deleted Scene from the opening of Batman and Robin</h1></header> The Bat Signal glowed brightly in the sky above Gotham, the ringing alarm bell from the Museum penetrated the noise of rumbling trains and screeching cars and the police shouted their demands to the assailants inside. They didn’t who was in there. They just knew that they needed to keep them from escaping and wait for the Dynamic Duo to show up, crack some skulls, punch some kidneys and do their job.<br /><br />Whooshing down into the cave with a sheer sense of urgency, billionaire about town Bruce Wayne and his… ‘house companion,’ Dick Graison start suiting up as the caped crusaders.<br />“Do we know who the culprit is Bruce?”<br />“No Dick, but we have to be prepared.”<br />“Could it be the Riddler again? Street Gangs? Or a villain we’ve never come across before.”<br />“Ummm….” Bruce began, holding a long pause in thought, “call it a hunch but, I think we’ve never fought this guy before so his powers and MO are unknown to us.”<br />“That sends a chill down my spine.”<br />“Mine too old chum, that is why I think we should take our boots with ice skates on the bottom, in case the whole floor of the museum becomes like an ice rink.”<br />“Good thinking Br… I mean, Batman. What else should we take, you know, to be prepared for any and every eventuality?”<br />“Well, we should definitely take the Bat Credit Card, as you never know.”<br />“Of course,” agreed the Boy Wonder.<br />“So, okay, for any eventuality, I would say we will need our thermal suits that we’ve never used before, lots of little heaters in case anyone gets cold or frozen, deicer for the Bat Belts and… hmm not sure. I think there is something else.”<br />“I got it!” shouted Robin as he reached for his thermal suit, luckily the closest on the rack.<br />“What is it Robin?”<br />“I think we should get Alfred,” Robin started, “to make up some latex lips for us to wear in case anyone tries to poison us by kissing us.”<br />“Yes, that is a great idea. Alfred can find the ones we actually already had made up but, something tells me we’re going to need them a little later on. I think, whilst we are putting Alfred to work, we should get him to research all diamonds that are being housed in Gotham or will soon be coming to Gotham in some kind of charity event, because something tells me that our unknown crook is after diamonds… big ones.”<br />“What for?”<br />“Diamonds can be used in a very obscure type of treatment for some kind of disease you’ve never heard of.”<br /><br />A short silence fell between the two.<br />“Batman, have you noticed anything a bit different with Alfred lately?”<br />“How do you mean?”<br />“Well, he has kind of been a little slap dash with his work recently.”<br />“Yes, I noticed that. When I asked if there was anything wrong he said he was fine. So he can’t be ill which means he’s getting either lazy or he doesn’t value his job anymore.”<br />“I know right? Are you going to fire him?” Robin inquired.<br />“No, he could reveal our secret to the world.”<br />“Gosh Batman, your right. That’s pretty bad… for… us?”<br />“I think so…”<br /><br />The two fell silent again, pondering their separate thoughts. In the background, the Bat Mobile rose out of its docking bay, its engine rumbled and the police radio cracked fragments of what was happening downtown.<br />“OH GOD <strong style="font-weight: normal;">crackle crackle- ryone’s frozen! Where is Batman!? Help Us! We’re DIE-"</strong><br /><br />Batman began to talk again. “I think, once we are back from tonight’s mission, I’ll either chain him to a rock in the basement or cripple him somehow. That way he can’t snitch on us.”<br />“Could he not just be trying to hide that he is ill? And that he is secretly preparing a suit and caped persona for a relative we don’t know about… even though you’ve know Alfred all your life and he has never mentioned a single family member to you?”<br />“That’s sounds so stupid Robin. This is why I am in charge.”<br />Batman and Robin blasted out of the Bat Cave and began the worst cinema outing in history.<br /><br />“I think I’ll use the Baseball bat on his knees Robin… or should I say BatBat!”<br />(Freeze frame on the two about to laugh)<br /></section> </section></div></section></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8270469528842548059?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-67159043739523587552011-10-31T16:39:00.001Z2011-10-31T16:40:56.007Z<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuNPm4fpBgI/Tq7O_J_hLVI/AAAAAAAAAzw/cYRdxlpE_vs/s1600/Happy+Halloween.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuNPm4fpBgI/Tq7O_J_hLVI/AAAAAAAAAzw/cYRdxlpE_vs/s1600/Happy+Halloween.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muffy the Pirate Cat © 2011</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Don't ye be provokin' no law of parlay wit' me ya land lovin' mouse!"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">L</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6715904373952358755?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-12286356805512263702011-10-28T17:40:00.001+01:002011-10-28T17:40:34.671+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Okay so it is the end of October and at the start of the month I announced a free monthly give away. Well, I'm not doing that... Well, not every month. This month I have been pretty busy and didn't find the time I thought I'd have to fill a PDF with doodles, especially ones I can show. So, I guess you can say I'm whussing out.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Anyway, you can grab the PDF I did do here at my website: <a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><img border="0" height="376" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MEZitjIp-hg/TqrahMj9-WI/AAAAAAAAAzA/ZFTBTg1iSj4/s640/find+it+here.jpg" width="640" /></a><a class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" id="publishButton" target=""></a></div><br /><br />L<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1228635680551226370?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-62804953090427650462011-10-27T10:30:00.000+01:002011-10-27T10:30:15.139+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This blog post was originally my response to someone posting up a comment about how happy they were the Occupy protests are happening. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">If anything can be said about the global protests, is that a lot of people are fed up and do want change. With the Arab Uprisings, as they have been called, proving that heavy handed leaders can be toppled by protest alone, I think that has given the "Occupy Campaign" real strength.<br /><br />The few people at the top who think they hold all the cards, seem to have forgotten that the mass population holds one massive trump card and that is sheer mass, passion and determination (they make up one card, not 3 cards...just go with the metaphor).<br /><br />I get the impression that the people being protested against, don't think anything is going to happen, like they must think it is a waiting game and the protesters will get bored and 'scuttle off' to what ever hovel they came from. I think the whole under reportedness' of the whole thing, goes to show that the media really want to down play the significance.<br /><br />When the protests in Egypt were underway, the media couldn't stop showing it; it was like the only news in the world and that was all that was shown. Since the Occupy protests begun, I have seen only about 5 minutes of accumulated time being reported on the whole thing. <br /><br />In that small window of time (and this is more to do with the St. Pauls sit-in here in the UK), they have tended to focus more on one or two of the protesters and shown them as a "can't be bothered to work (or wash) hippy" sort of protester. This tags a face to the campaign and undermines the whole point of the protest. <br /><br />With the recent evictions of the "traveler" community here, close to where I live, the press showed a lot the professional protesters who were there to just cause trouble and nothing else. Now, they are trying to show the anti-capitalist protesters in much of the same way.<br /><br />From what I can gather, I can tell the numbers of people are growing and this isn't a small thing. As it is on a global scale, I think it is big news and should get more attention. Yes, there are some protesters not protesting in the conventional peaceful sense and there seems to be an increasing number of videos showing how heavy handed the police are being, but the message "We want change" shouldn't be mired.<br /><br />A few questions remain in my head though. 1) What have our appointed leaders said about these protests and 2) We want change, but how and what do we want to change too?<br /><br />L<br /><br />On a separate note, I think it is quite fitting that many of the protesters are wearing the Guy Fawkes mask from the Alan Moore comic and film, V for Vendetta. It serves for a very strong metaphor. I just hope that no one goes as far as V did.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6280495309042765046?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-14477000631074774552011-10-21T13:01:00.002+01:002012-01-17T15:16:18.813Z<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">My thoughts on the recent news: </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A lot has happened this week, as with any week. Maybe shadowing everything else though, is the death of tyrannical dictator. Yes, in the UK, we were fed images of the live eviction of Dale Farm, the now shamed Dr. Fox and the riots/protests in Greece at their black hole economy troubles. There was a brief mention about the sit-in outside St. Pauls Cathedral but, generally on the whole, the Occupy protests have gone widely unreported, especially the heavy handedness of the NY Police in Wall Street.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Funny that.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Today, Britain (and probably a lot of the world), wake up to the gruesome images of Gadaffi's final living moments splashed across the front pages of newspapers like some cheap gossip story. I think the Sun's front page is probably the most pathetic and childish of the lot and undermines the meaning of a peaceful and intelligent society by taking his death as an act of welcome revenge.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />"Thats For Lockerbie," misses the point of why he was ousted by <u>his</u> people and reduces it to a petty act meant, somehow, for us as Britains. I am sure that the freedom fighting Libyans had Lockerbie and only Lockerbie in mind when they set about over turning his 42 year regime of oppression. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I don't believe in revenge and think true justice would be for someone who has such an evil background to end their days in a small, dark and damp prison cell. Such a person is far beyond rehabilitation and the only way to deal with them would be to remove them from the general populous (and in this case, from power) and take away their human rights like they did to so many others. Or is that thought guided by a vengeful mind? Prolonged eye-for-an-eye sort of punishment?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Like any other voyeuristic creature addicted to violence, I watched the videos circulating the internet of his final moments. I note that it is difficult to see what is truly happening in the clips and it is also, still unknown how he died (at the time of writing this). Claims are he was severally injured by a NATO air strike and died of his wounds after the clips but, also, there are claims that he was shot in the head. It is impossible to now know for sure.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">All I wanted to comment on here is that he left the world battered, bloodied and, as more further to the latter claims he was begging for his life before being executed, frightened. So if you are one who believes in justice, then you should notice that he spent only a few hours paying for his crimes. The fear, pain and injustice this man caused over 42 years, was served very quickly. If he was killed by the frenzied mob who in the clips cheer, jeer and it seems, beat him, then I can understand why they did it but I don't condone it.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In our imperfect world, it is hard to know exactly how he should have been dealt with. Odds are that if he was tried in a court like Saddam Hussein, he probably would have been executed anyway. The same could be said with Osama Bin Laden and that if he was captured and tried like a criminal. The difference with Bin Laden's end was that we were told how and when it happened, but we were never shown any body or anything to prove it. There was an out cry for proof and some people still believe he is alive to day (it should be said that some people believe he died 9 years ago). Hard to know. Was this previous out cry the reason why today's papers glorify Gadaffi's death?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />But the media frenzy, I think, tells us what the media think we want to see. Arguably, we could say that as a society, we crave images of the unjust getting their comeuppance so the media seeks to provide. Like I mentioned before, being a voyeuristic creature addicted to violence, I watched the videos circulating the internet of his final moments. I am unsure whether I actually wanted to watch them so therefore I sought them out or, because they were available, I watched them. I am sure that many people are the same.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As a final conclusion, I don't want to comment on the act in itself, or on the question of justice, whether or not NATO's involvement was politically motivated towards oil, or on the fact that Gadaffi had and still has, many loyal supporters.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I will say that the way the media has jumped around the news this week has been like an excited child on speed. I think the newspaper headlines lack real tact and really have a medieval "dark ages" blood lust mindset about them. Although we have come to accept that the news media acts like this all the time and is heavily bias to pick and choose what stories to show, why should we continue to be subject to it?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Do we want it more than we need it? Do we need it more than we want it? Or, do we want and need the blood display equally, as there is something primordial in us that guides our lust?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">L.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1447700063107477455?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-78218934020370270762011-09-22T19:03:00.000+01:002011-09-22T19:03:30.471+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UZ2ahB0QhOY/Tnt4AfvxTsI/AAAAAAAAAvg/ybyfVspMYW4/s1600/Water-Leviathan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UZ2ahB0QhOY/Tnt4AfvxTsI/AAAAAAAAAvg/ybyfVspMYW4/s1600/Water-Leviathan.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Working on a monster commission. This friendly fella lives in the ocean and only emerges to lay waste entire civilizations. I think he and his giant monsters friends are due to pay us a visit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7821893402037027076?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-91313252679736836462011-09-16T19:54:00.000+01:002011-09-16T19:54:05.177+01:00<a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/shrunkendesigner/t-shirts/7761764-pre-guevara-t">"Pre Guevara T" T-Shirts &amp; Hoodies by Lloyd Harvey | RedBubble</a>: <img src="http://ih3.redbubble.net/work.7761764.1.fig,red,mens,ffffff.pre-guevara-t-v3.jpg" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-9131325267973683646?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-3068165871129485752011-09-06T16:27:00.000+01:002011-09-06T16:27:33.895+01:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ldMz94jed1A/TmY6yrJV2TI/AAAAAAAAAtY/VruMqtO6HfE/s1600/scatter-banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ldMz94jed1A/TmY6yrJV2TI/AAAAAAAAAtY/VruMqtO6HfE/s320/scatter-banner.jpg" width="184" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">www.meteorart.co.uk</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is getting closer to the opening night for my Chelmsford Arts trail show that I am calling, SCATTER MODE. The night is going to have a Pac-man theme going on and there is going to be a free print give away. The first 9 people to mention the phrase: "Blinky is Cruise Elroy" to me, wins themselves a free print bundle. If anyone turns up in complete blue, they'll win a signed book, a sketch and a print. I have only a few of these too.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Really hope it all goes off without any problems and that everyone enjoys the work and has a good night.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.meteorart.co.uk/">Click here to see the pieces going into the show</a>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; width: 450px;"><div style="display: block;"><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1683708?ce=blurb_ew&amp;utm_source=widget" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 12px 3px;" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-306816587112948575?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-13325825817223882992011-08-31T12:09:00.000+01:002011-08-31T12:09:17.868+01:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ueBSStj3Omo/Tl4V4ViumKI/AAAAAAAAArw/N94Ekmt-uCs/s1600/Pacman-%2528small%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ueBSStj3Omo/Tl4V4ViumKI/AAAAAAAAArw/N94Ekmt-uCs/s640/Pacman-%2528small%2529.jpg" width="490" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The demented version of Pac-Man. Acrylic on board, 12" x 15" </td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hey, just a quick blog post, showing the completed version of Pac-Man, painted for my upcoming exhibition in early September. Man, I think he looks so demented. But, having said that, I would love to see this monsterous version running around, gobbling up little dots, being chased by my versions of the ghosts. Would well make for an interesting version I think.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1332582581722388299?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-48573548662551908172011-08-28T12:29:00.002+01:002011-09-01T15:12:05.845+01:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WbJWiRxWcqg/TlolAaXJC-I/AAAAAAAAArs/vkFEH20J8RI/s1600/The-Social-Leviathan-%2528small%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="314" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WbJWiRxWcqg/TlolAaXJC-I/AAAAAAAAArs/vkFEH20J8RI/s640/The-Social-Leviathan-%2528small%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Social Leviathan, acrylic on board, 48 inches by 24 inches. By Lloyd Harvey © 2011</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Well, its finally completed. After many hours, various cramps and minor strains, the Social Leviathan is completed. As I write this, the gloss is drying and I am thinking about how this monster is going to be framed and then hung. I intend to show it in the group show of all the artists who are taking part in the 2011 Chelmsford Arts Trail.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here are some of the painting's details:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n8q3VAYUYU0/Tlok9wdRCoI/AAAAAAAAArc/0iPUof0iwTw/s1600/Detail-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n8q3VAYUYU0/Tlok9wdRCoI/AAAAAAAAArc/0iPUof0iwTw/s640/Detail-1.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The signature and Twitter icon.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-21lgRfg2xMQ/Tlok-sbf4NI/AAAAAAAAArg/TDQpn0XsiZc/s1600/Detail-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-21lgRfg2xMQ/Tlok-sbf4NI/AAAAAAAAArg/TDQpn0XsiZc/s640/Detail-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the whale's many wrinkles and folds.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hN_rLSAyWWo/Tlok_CrlT6I/AAAAAAAAArk/iGGhM850blA/s1600/Detail-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hN_rLSAyWWo/Tlok_CrlT6I/AAAAAAAAArk/iGGhM850blA/s640/Detail-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A closer look at the birds carrying the whale and a look at the 3 harpoons.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HmcG-n5TvrQ/Tlok_-vNNYI/AAAAAAAAAro/wESzgqj3KD8/s1600/Detail-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HmcG-n5TvrQ/Tlok_-vNNYI/AAAAAAAAAro/wESzgqj3KD8/s640/Detail-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A close up on the whale's face area. This part took the longest to do I think.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4857354866255190817?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-31534178071233147122011-08-26T17:44:00.000+01:002011-08-26T17:44:08.705+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The time is moving very quickly and the list of things to do for my September Arts Trail exhibit is piling up. Just have a few moments to stop and post up some pictures while the paint drys on my take on the Twitter Overcapacity Image. I think I'll call my version, The Social Leviathan.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Don't let the photos fool you, this piece is pretty big. The MDF board is over a meter wide and over half a meter tall. This works out to be 122.5 cm wide and 61.5 cm tall.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3Tc8YfTj8gE/TlfLKFPEBDI/AAAAAAAAArY/ppdYgrk6OSo/s1600/Whale-Line-Work.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3Tc8YfTj8gE/TlfLKFPEBDI/AAAAAAAAArY/ppdYgrk6OSo/s640/Whale-Line-Work.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the line work completed. I used a fine brush and black acrylic paint for the whale and spent about 5 hours doing it.</td></tr> </tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LFUEf2sHpI8/TlfLJaMsr0I/AAAAAAAAArU/FjYJHmcizsY/s1600/Whale-in-Progress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LFUEf2sHpI8/TlfLJaMsr0I/AAAAAAAAArU/FjYJHmcizsY/s640/Whale-in-Progress.jpg" width="612" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first runs of paint. I wet the board then watered down acrylic Phthalocyanine Green and Phthalocyanine Blue, mixed them together to form a sort of ink and brushed it on. I wanted the running paint look to this piece.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">After the Leviathan is finished, sorting out a suitable frame is going to be the next thing that I'll do.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3153417807123314712?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-47309335493237218302011-08-23T16:46:00.000+01:002011-08-23T16:46:56.632+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Pop%20Surrealism%202011%20-%20Onwards/Pac-Man-Sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Pop%20Surrealism%202011%20-%20Onwards/Pac-Man-Sketch.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Okay, it doesn't look like the yellow dot gobbler as you know him, but neither do the ghosts in my series. This is just a sketch of him too, as I write this little post, I have already inked a larger version and covered it in a matt medium, ready for painting.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />This is in preparation for my part in the Chelmsford Art Trail and time is running out to get the new pieces complete. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4730933549323721830?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-87302901845840886642011-08-21T13:08:00.000+01:002011-08-21T13:08:47.354+01:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5VtKXUE2uA/TlDzuoM2F3I/AAAAAAAAAqA/yBdKofe0r5c/s1600/THe-Ghosts-of-Pac-Man-%2528small%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="106" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5VtKXUE2uA/TlDzuoM2F3I/AAAAAAAAAqA/yBdKofe0r5c/s320/THe-Ghosts-of-Pac-Man-%2528small%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ghosts of Pac-Man set. Acrylics on Papers.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Finally, after a few weeks of sitting on my floor next to my desk in an incomplete state, my renditions of the Ghosts of Pac-Man have been painted, scanned, glossed and framed. They are a complete set now!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Here, you can see each individual painting in a little more detail.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xCv7lB5fPTk/TlDzsmbwbuI/AAAAAAAAApw/ihWuuvIolC4/s1600/Blinky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xCv7lB5fPTk/TlDzsmbwbuI/AAAAAAAAApw/ihWuuvIolC4/s400/Blinky.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blinky, the Red Ghost (aka Cruise Elroy)</td></tr> </tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPsTAE3FZXc/TlDztVgh9KI/AAAAAAAAAp0/3AKX-sDFljk/s1600/Clyde.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPsTAE3FZXc/TlDztVgh9KI/AAAAAAAAAp0/3AKX-sDFljk/s400/Clyde.jpg" width="303" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clyde, the Yellow Ghost (the dumbest of the lot)</td></tr> </tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JLlDptfaCbk/TlDztsaJA8I/AAAAAAAAAp4/OIiiFU4yOT0/s1600/Inky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JLlDptfaCbk/TlDztsaJA8I/AAAAAAAAAp4/OIiiFU4yOT0/s400/Inky.jpg" width="307" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blink, the Blue Ghost (aka Bashful)</td></tr> </tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GqY2aRLXcdk/TlDzuIrSsMI/AAAAAAAAAp8/HEsdLjuvWBs/s1600/Pinky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GqY2aRLXcdk/TlDzuIrSsMI/AAAAAAAAAp8/HEsdLjuvWBs/s400/Pinky.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pinky, the Brown Ghost... Just kidding, obviously the Pink one.</td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I painted these mainly for my own personal amusement and came from painting a little book mark about a month ago. I will be exhibiting these paintings at my up coming show in the Chelmsford Art Trail where you can see more details of it here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188023541265481">https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188023541265481</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">If you are about, please come along! There are some more pieces to follow.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8730290184584088664?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-65272971076364937932011-08-15T12:22:00.000+01:002011-08-15T12:22:16.308+01:00<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hey folks,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyone live in the UK? In the Essex area? In Chelmsford?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wanna come see some of my art, eat Monster Munch and do some drinking for an evening? If so, I may be holding a opening for my own little show in the Chelmsford Art Trail and want to gauge some interest.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can see more about the event here: "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188023541265481">Unofficial Event Opening Facebook</a>"</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you are in the area around the time, please let me know and add yourself to the event!</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All the best,</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6527297107636493793?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-58714238741273007542011-08-12T17:05:00.000+01:002011-08-12T17:05:03.146+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Been very busy with work as of late, so much so that my personal work has really taken a back burner. Took a little break to day and did this little ink and marker pen sketch or a viking octopus, ready for battle. Its for a little sketch contest, mainly for fun and based on the theme of Warrior.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hope you enjoy!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UsmHSv2HbFA/TkVOt7uaxqI/AAAAAAAAAps/BdWnZEfPCuQ/s1600/Octo-Warrior0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="270" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UsmHSv2HbFA/TkVOt7uaxqI/AAAAAAAAAps/BdWnZEfPCuQ/s400/Octo-Warrior0003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I created this piece on some scrap of paper using ink and marker pens.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-5871423874127300754?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-38633612422925224472011-08-03T15:29:00.000+01:002011-08-03T15:29:04.757+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I'm no expert photographer but I do believe that to take good photos you need a good camera. Today, good cameras can be snapped up at fair prices and a little while ago, my awesome girlfriend picked up a Lumix DC Vario and over the weekend just passed, we went for a walk in Norsey Woods (the woods near to us) for a picnic.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">What started as a picnic, where we sat in the designated picnic area and spent some time annoying ants, soon became a "find mushrooms and take photos of them" afternoon. Not only that but we photographed some really interesting logs and a few trees worthy of note.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I should note that we only pestered the ants a little and didn't harm any of them.<br /><br />In any case, here are some of the photos I took with Claire's camera. I intend to use them some how with some future fantasy paintings, but for now they will serve as a reminder for an awesome weekend spent with Claire (2 picnics, a take-away dinner, watched Band of Brothers on DVD, sunshine, mushroom spotting, ant bothering and lots of drawing).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kcez6qdx5go/TjcrwTGOFjI/AAAAAAAAAns/qBaM535r-zc/s1600/P1000662c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="141" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kcez6qdx5go/TjcrwTGOFjI/AAAAAAAAAns/qBaM535r-zc/s320/P1000662c.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An interesting texture... to me anyway.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ng0hQMqAYtE/TjcryaTXyWI/AAAAAAAAAnw/LrXT8WkyV_g/s1600/P1000671c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ng0hQMqAYtE/TjcryaTXyWI/AAAAAAAAAnw/LrXT8WkyV_g/s320/P1000671c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very cool roots covered with algae and some moss.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DjIdxLrTGCE/Tjcrz_yM_wI/AAAAAAAAAn0/a2jhC05N0hM/s1600/P1000682c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DjIdxLrTGCE/Tjcrz_yM_wI/AAAAAAAAAn0/a2jhC05N0hM/s320/P1000682c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This tree told us which way we should go, we ignored it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sbPCseRfvAE/Tjcr1mdf1-I/AAAAAAAAAn4/2qrNAMbayko/s1600/P1000683c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sbPCseRfvAE/Tjcr1mdf1-I/AAAAAAAAAn4/2qrNAMbayko/s320/P1000683c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A spiraling Tree</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BxwK0O7pOR8/Tjcr2rAUPtI/AAAAAAAAAn8/LPiKsk54JK8/s1600/P1000689c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BxwK0O7pOR8/Tjcr2rAUPtI/AAAAAAAAAn8/LPiKsk54JK8/s320/P1000689c.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tawny Grisette</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fQJ0wNsY75M/Tjcr3vbCpFI/AAAAAAAAAoA/BMeo0QBr7PU/s1600/P1000690c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fQJ0wNsY75M/Tjcr3vbCpFI/AAAAAAAAAoA/BMeo0QBr7PU/s320/P1000690c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this is a Psilocybe Bohemica, but I'm not 100% sure on that one.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-it12oLRiBX0/Tjcr5GKwOXI/AAAAAAAAAoE/hKjIdafVRmU/s1600/P1000694c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-it12oLRiBX0/Tjcr5GKwOXI/AAAAAAAAAoE/hKjIdafVRmU/s320/P1000694c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beechwood Sickener</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C8TcFtu1K_o/Tjcr6REr7iI/AAAAAAAAAoI/a58dzfIAEiM/s1600/P1000697c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C8TcFtu1K_o/Tjcr6REr7iI/AAAAAAAAAoI/a58dzfIAEiM/s320/P1000697c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Puffball</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aqzD-78R8Vc/Tjcr7pF5GbI/AAAAAAAAAoM/7rzgNwSpdgY/s1600/P1000698c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aqzD-78R8Vc/Tjcr7pF5GbI/AAAAAAAAAoM/7rzgNwSpdgY/s320/P1000698c.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Puffballs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8adf2JlIp_Q/Tjcr8x-ChCI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/kkWzBim4Wzw/s1600/P1000701c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8adf2JlIp_Q/Tjcr8x-ChCI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/kkWzBim4Wzw/s320/P1000701c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Funnel Mushroom</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vRD8QGgTy0c/Tjcr-e2nO5I/AAAAAAAAAoU/IydS3LWT6NI/s1600/P1000709c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vRD8QGgTy0c/Tjcr-e2nO5I/AAAAAAAAAoU/IydS3LWT6NI/s320/P1000709c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honey Fungus... I think.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hrM_gyeP9xI/Tjcr_tXjO6I/AAAAAAAAAoY/bWRWxbgClpw/s1600/P1000715c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hrM_gyeP9xI/Tjcr_tXjO6I/AAAAAAAAAoY/bWRWxbgClpw/s320/P1000715c.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="sub1">Scleroderma Citrinum</span> (Earthball to you an me)<img height="12" src="http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/images/space.gif" width="1" /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQ2Vb9Z79BU/TjcsBcLrt3I/AAAAAAAAAoc/3cd0Rbbr0IM/s1600/P1000718c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQ2Vb9Z79BU/TjcsBcLrt3I/AAAAAAAAAoc/3cd0Rbbr0IM/s320/P1000718c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Dto8pyJz-Y/TjcsC-Cxw8I/AAAAAAAAAog/pajMIKx44mg/s1600/P1000724c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Dto8pyJz-Y/TjcsC-Cxw8I/AAAAAAAAAog/pajMIKx44mg/s320/P1000724c.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cute little Slow Worm</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lOoxNpkbjMQ/TjcsEEdK7OI/AAAAAAAAAok/XAHNgrFup3Q/s1600/P1000726c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lOoxNpkbjMQ/TjcsEEdK7OI/AAAAAAAAAok/XAHNgrFup3Q/s320/P1000726c.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ladybird Mooning Me</td></tr></tbody></table>Me and Claire did try to identify the mushrooms but mushroom identification is very difficult to the layman so if any of these are incorrect, I am sorry. If you know the correct names of any of these, let me know!<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3863361242292522447?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-36243025421947719992011-08-02T01:57:00.000+01:002011-08-02T01:57:20.847+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">On a recent trip to Norsey I happened upon a piece of wood that it's shape reminded of those long tribal masks you see hanging on people's walls and in those eclectic 'world culture' shops. You know the ones. I've always liked masks and incorporate them quite a bit into my work so when I found this little shaving, I thought I'd take it home and paint on it.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vysLop0VVrI/TjdHR5ghMqI/AAAAAAAAAoo/OweAEFEFwLg/s1600/DSC01134b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vysLop0VVrI/TjdHR5ghMqI/AAAAAAAAAoo/OweAEFEFwLg/s320/DSC01134b.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little bit of wood I found in it's pre-painted state.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Painted during the day in bursts, during those gaps awaiting client feedback on an album cover I was working on then submitting via email, I photographed it in stages originally with the intention of making it a tutorial. About half way through though, I forgot about my intentions and just painted it until it's completion so, sadly, there is a bit of a jump in the stages. Here they are none the less:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-huIkfqSH5vE/TjdHTdsLwJI/AAAAAAAAAos/7CpBDc7jEDE/s1600/DSC01137b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-huIkfqSH5vE/TjdHTdsLwJI/AAAAAAAAAos/7CpBDc7jEDE/s320/DSC01137b.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover the wood thickly in a coat of Galeria Raw Umber. Make sure to work it into the nooks.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tzefwbQq-d0/TjdHVl2RoGI/AAAAAAAAAo0/9uDO1KC5ExA/s1600/DSC01140b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tzefwbQq-d0/TjdHVl2RoGI/AAAAAAAAAo0/9uDO1KC5ExA/s320/DSC01140b.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then, using some Daler Rowney 'System 3' Yellow Ochre paint, dry brush the raised areas to pick out the wood's texture. Dry brushing is a very handy technique I learned way back in my Warhammer painting days, where you remove most of the paint on the bristles then brush the remaining paint onto a surface.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6LzFmOjnecY/TjdHYCI7BzI/AAAAAAAAAo8/2C4_R4TBd98/s1600/DSC01143b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6LzFmOjnecY/TjdHYCI7BzI/AAAAAAAAAo8/2C4_R4TBd98/s320/DSC01143b.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mix a bit of the yellow ochre with white to created a light gold.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CoSAQjw-KtI/TjdHZT9aBYI/AAAAAAAAApA/evxnNKxjfEQ/s1600/DSC01144b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CoSAQjw-KtI/TjdHZT9aBYI/AAAAAAAAApA/evxnNKxjfEQ/s320/DSC01144b.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use this to paint some eyes and a mouth. This is when I got carried away with painting and forgot to take photos so I'll try to explain the last few steps. I used raw umber mixed with mars black to paint into the groves of the wood and also create the mask design. Next, I used some more yellow ochre mixed with less white to paint the shapes of the mask design (that were outlined in black). Afterwards, I 'stained' it all with a burnt sienna paint and dry brushed a glow round the eyes and mouth. Then I high lighted a few edges the light from the eyes would shine upon...</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8-QUM1_LzA/TjdHd46iztI/AAAAAAAAApI/upUJObcdDN4/s1600/DSC01146b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8-QUM1_LzA/TjdHd46iztI/AAAAAAAAApI/upUJObcdDN4/s320/DSC01146b.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See... simple (sorry for the gap in photos). This is inspired by those cool Tiki statues and masks.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_73J_DKGf_Q/TjdHbrtjArI/AAAAAAAAApE/JBCLfMf0_3k/s1600/DSC01145b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_73J_DKGf_Q/TjdHbrtjArI/AAAAAAAAApE/JBCLfMf0_3k/s320/DSC01145b.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once it is painted, find a home for it. Mine is in the hands of a very bashful Alien Queen Toy.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I Hope you enjoyed it. I think I should do more of these and attach some sort of metal ring of wire to the back so that I can go into toy shops with window displays and put them on the heads of unsuspecting toys.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3624302542194771999?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-79040057984916028902011-07-31T13:55:00.001+01:002011-07-31T13:56:18.814+01:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, getting back into creating personal pieces now, I decided that the ghosts of Pacman would get a reboot... if you will. I figured that these 4 chaps haven't really been bought into the 21st century all that much and I wanted to give them a bit of flair. Dress em' up a bit. I also wanted to give myself an excuse to do some more acrylic paintings.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Instead of jumping straight into a larger ink drawing (which is something I used to do a lot), I wanted to do a little bit of planning so I did 4 little rough sketches of each ghost. Here they are:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ExVqqjBjnbw/TjVPmtrtI2I/AAAAAAAAAnc/bM5uu6xu9NM/s1600/Blinky-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ExVqqjBjnbw/TjVPmtrtI2I/AAAAAAAAAnc/bM5uu6xu9NM/s320/Blinky-small.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blinky, aka Shadow</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GQeYG9rMjxU/TjVPoC4mVyI/AAAAAAAAAno/3PsN7SOIfIQ/s1600/Pinky-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GQeYG9rMjxU/TjVPoC4mVyI/AAAAAAAAAno/3PsN7SOIfIQ/s320/Pinky-small.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pinky aka Speedy</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pr_rffKGKFg/TjVPniiIyBI/AAAAAAAAAnk/Zn-FPt8T2rM/s1600/Inky-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pr_rffKGKFg/TjVPniiIyBI/AAAAAAAAAnk/Zn-FPt8T2rM/s320/Inky-small.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inky aka Bashful</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4iIImWiAR_w/TjVPnDhFDrI/AAAAAAAAAng/vnqhl2wJ2d0/s1600/Clyde-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4iIImWiAR_w/TjVPnDhFDrI/AAAAAAAAAng/vnqhl2wJ2d0/s320/Clyde-small.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clyde aka Pokey</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In the next few days (or weeks, which ever is sooner), I will be painting the larger inked versions of these chaps and posting them up. I've enjoyed doing the personal work again and am just flooding with new ideas that I can't wait to do!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Thanks for reading!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7904005798491602890?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-48776204030979062382011-07-27T16:41:00.004+01:002011-07-27T16:51:05.128+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has been a long time since I did any acrylic painting. Well, being a bit of an opportunist, I was lucky enough to have a gap between commissions whilst waiting for client feedback so I got out the brushes and paints and got to it... but, what to paint!? I looked at all my books and magazines and started pulling them out, leafing through them, attaching little page notes to pages with pieces that took my interest and started to hunt for that elusive spark of inspiration. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IF0nEIDmr9M/TjApM2Ug5BI/AAAAAAAAAnM/YG3Y6dsTffE/s1600/Finding-Inspiration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IF0nEIDmr9M/TjApM2Ug5BI/AAAAAAAAAnM/YG3Y6dsTffE/s320/Finding-Inspiration.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The growing piles of books and magazines on the living room floor and the startings of some little sketches.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I went through a great deal of them, pouring over photographs of trees, paintings by Tom Kidd, Alex Pardee and Chet Zar (and many more inside the Spectrum Annuals and magazines I have) and looked through many workshop books. I looked through some of my old note pads and sketch books and discovered I had ideas for pieces I had yet to flesh out. With all this visual input, the ideas began to flow (new and somehow old...although that isn't totally possible) and I sketched some of them out onto a few small pages.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VZbJzfW2G2g/TjApOO6gyKI/AAAAAAAAAnU/hTGJB4xva4w/s1600/sketches.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VZbJzfW2G2g/TjApOO6gyKI/AAAAAAAAAnU/hTGJB4xva4w/s320/sketches.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here are some of the sketches I produced that evening.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few days prior to this, I had prepared some acrylic paper. I had trimmed them down to fit in some frames and had put them to one side but I had kept the trimmings. Using these small rectangle pieces, I created 4 bookmarks.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gwjjKS7wmTs/TjApMQkl1MI/AAAAAAAAAnI/gjUPqmW7x-0/s1600/Bookmarks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gwjjKS7wmTs/TjApMQkl1MI/AAAAAAAAAnI/gjUPqmW7x-0/s320/Bookmarks.jpg" width="271" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Done with Acrylics these are just over 3cm wide and 18cm tall.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> From left to right:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tree</b>: This piece was a tester for adding a hint of texture to the bark of the tree. You can't really see it here but I painted little curved, horizontal light lines to give shape to the vertical ridges of bark. It's something I picked up from my time spent Daily Doodling.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde</b>: To the pop-savy of you, you will know who these little guys are. That's right! The Ghosts in the Pac Man Game! I think I may develop these guys into bigger paintings with more details really soon.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lion</b>: Well, it sort of looks lika a lion but a really dumb looking magic lion... possibly the inbreed cousin of Aslan from Narnia. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Book Worm</b>: Obvious... no?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Revisiting an old note pad, I saw that I had originally wanted to do a take on that classic Che Guevara poster by Jim Fitzpatric but with a monster edge. For what ever reason, I thought it'd be fun to do the hunter creature from the Predator films in this style and quickly fleshed out a rough. I then transferred the image to a bigger piece of card.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oa2Tf0nbqrw/TjApNnr2MwI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/wJpDhpRcvRY/s1600/Pre-Guevara-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oa2Tf0nbqrw/TjApNnr2MwI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/wJpDhpRcvRY/s320/Pre-Guevara-1.jpg" width="235" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pre Guevara, Acrylic on Paper. 9" x 12"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">That concluded this burst of work and my, was my living room in a bit of a mess. I'm glad my girl friend Claire is the sort of person who is cool with temporary disarray. Here is what the floor looked like for about 3 days...</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CA1VJKKTssw/TjApbZgvU6I/AAAAAAAAAnY/zVoEmqnuHdE/s1600/Messy+Mess.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CA1VJKKTssw/TjApbZgvU6I/AAAAAAAAAnY/zVoEmqnuHdE/s320/Messy+Mess.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What a mess, by Lloyd Harvey.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;It feels good to start painting again.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Harvey</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4877620403097906238?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-1944533626039019152011-05-30T19:07:00.000+01:002011-05-30T19:07:37.487+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0070-Dont-Mess-With-This-Chick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0070-Dont-Mess-With-This-Chick.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A speed sketch of a character I intend on developing at a later date. Total time 15mins.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-194453362603901915?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-6453083641239464972011-05-29T16:49:00.000+01:002011-05-29T16:49:34.868+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0069-Tough-Day-Sheriff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0069-Tough-Day-Sheriff.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Leave the Bottle...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-645308364123946497?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-78026794111540723612011-05-28T20:57:00.000+01:002011-05-28T20:57:39.971+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0068Inkman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0068Inkman.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A little rough sketch for a job pitch. Don't usually do them.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7802679411154072361?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-52295597839866968362011-05-27T20:12:00.000+01:002011-05-27T20:12:31.452+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0067-A-Little-Sad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0067-A-Little-Sad.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Just a little and quick image today. Been a very busy week and am pretty tired so I'm happy to just do something like this. I went for a little bit of a different face shape in that the mouth is very low down on the face. I did think about making the face even longer and make the mouth even lower down...but that would be silly.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-5229559783986696836?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-66282323026046468722011-05-26T12:15:00.000+01:002011-05-26T12:15:43.213+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0066-Land-Dragon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0066-Land-Dragon.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Years ago, I started work on my own fantasy world filled with my own creations, concepts and strange locations. Over the course of a couple of years I have created a large number of images to do with it, including landscapes, people, spirits, creatures and artefacts. The bulk of this work was created within the first year and I haven't shown a great deal of it.<br /><br />Over time I have got a better at drawing and as such, I have revisited a lot of creatures and places. "<a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/shrunkendesigner/art/6678092-draykesh">Draykesh</a>" being one of the more resent re-workings. Today's daily doodle is of the Land Dragon, the only flightless dragon in my world.<br /><br />The usual tools were used to create this piece:<br />SketchBook Express<br />Wacom Bamboo<br />Photoshop CS5<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6628232302604646872?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-41565169234139456412011-05-25T18:16:00.000+01:002011-05-25T18:16:42.472+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0065-Key-Eater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0065-Key-Eater.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ever wondered where your keys disappear to? This furry little critter is to blame...<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4156516923413945641?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-50836577921363602792011-05-24T19:22:00.000+01:002011-05-24T19:22:33.660+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0064-Black-Queens-Rook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0064-Black-Queens-Rook.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Another entry into the Game of Kings contest. This time I have re-imagined the Queens Black Rook. It didn't need to be re-imagined but I wanted to give it a go none the less.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.redbubble.com/groups/the-game-of-kings/forums/12549"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">http://www.redbubble.com/groups/the-game-of-kings/forums/12549</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-5083657792136360279?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-53301000343943856252011-05-23T20:06:00.000+01:002011-05-23T20:06:25.339+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0063-White-Kings-Rook-b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0063-White-Kings-Rook-b.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is my entry to the Game of Kings contest here on Redbubble, hosted by the group of the same name. Follow this link to read about the contest and find out more about the cool story that has been put together by a talented group of artists: "<a href="http://www.redbubble.com/groups/the-game-of-kings/forums/12549">http://www.redbubble.com/groups/the-game-of-kings/forums/12549</a>"<br /><br />My entry is based on the character of the Titan and the main difference in the conception is that I went for a biped gollem like creature instead of a four legged stone giant.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-5330100034394385625?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-68885189221946821792011-05-22T18:55:00.000+01:002011-05-22T18:55:14.191+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0062Karl-Pilkington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0062Karl-Pilkington.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Didn't spend much time on this one today, spending a lot of time finishing some design work for a game so I wanted to do something very quick instead. If you know who Karl Pilkington is, you'll get the reference.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6888518922194682179?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-68500983667596100502011-05-22T00:05:00.000+01:002011-05-22T00:05:04.795+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0061WaitingForTheRapture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0061WaitingForTheRapture.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">If you are waiting for it, you're going to be waiting for a long time...you fool.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6850098366759610050?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-22020110058036601742011-05-20T19:49:00.000+01:002011-05-20T19:49:35.934+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0060NeonBlood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0060NeonBlood.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">When my better half Claire saw this piece, she called it a Predaphant because it looks a little like the Predator and an elephant. The neon blood was added after this realisation was made making it more Yautja like.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-2202011005803660174?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-40144166593080630272011-05-19T12:37:00.000+01:002011-05-19T12:37:20.702+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0059-ProfMerkinChrisHarrendance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0059-ProfMerkinChrisHarrendance.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes it's another portrait of one of my interesting friends. This time it's the creative Prof. Merkin (a.k.a <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/cjharrendence">Chris Harrendence</a>). Here I have depicted him thinking about his next fishy mash up. Show us professor, what would a scorpion fish look like?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4014416659308063027?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-86538944581623789812011-05-18T16:32:00.000+01:002011-05-18T16:32:43.574+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0058WhatDoCatsThinkAbout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0058WhatDoCatsThinkAbout.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And now you know.<br /><br />This image was first sketched out in Sketch Book Express and then exported into Photoshop CS5 where it was rendered and shaded. I decided to add the mouse after I had finished the initial work on the cat as when I looked at it, the puss seemed to be pondering something. Lost in thought or starring blankly like cats do sometimes.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8653894458162378981?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-70443249533023097042011-05-17T13:59:00.000+01:002011-05-17T13:59:56.525+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0057TheRobHoughton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0057TheRobHoughton.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rob insisted that he come round and pose naked for me but I told him (many times) that it wasn't necessary. When he came round he wasn't naked as he was wearing a scarf. That made drawing him a easier.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7044324953302309704?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-12050218693942830802011-05-16T13:11:00.000+01:002011-05-16T13:11:40.004+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0056AlexSaysDuuuuuude.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0056AlexSaysDuuuuuude.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is Alex. He has an interesting face. This is why I drew it. I know many people with interesting faces... I might draw them too.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In truth, I wanted to practice my observational drawing skills and I chose Alex Carter (a good friend) because he does, in fact, have an interesting face. I think in the coming months of the daily doodling, I might draw some more of my friends for practice. If you want to have a portrait done of you, please get in contact, I am always on the look out for an interesting face.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1205021869394283080?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-24988359222112892942011-05-15T14:05:00.000+01:002011-05-15T14:05:50.727+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0055JohnHoweDragonsontheMind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0055JohnHoweDragonsontheMind.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">John Howe is a legend in the fantasy art and illustration world. He is known for his Lord of the Rings paintings and his work on the films, the many books he has released and his epic beard. Well maybe not. I have had the pleasure of interviewing him twice and have been a fan of his work for years. So I thought I'd honor (or insult) this great guy by doing a digital portrait of him and include one of his creations in the piece.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To see the interviews click "<a href="http://artistinsight.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-howe-interview.html">HERE</a>" for the 1st one and "<a href="http://artistinsight.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-howe-interview-2011.html">HERE</a>" for the second one. Also, head on over to "<a href="http://www.john-howe.com/">John's website</a>" and enjoy some masterful work.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-2498835922211289294?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-83139219990322907672011-05-14T16:22:00.000+01:002011-05-14T16:22:07.181+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0054RAR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0054RAR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It's a mix of a dinosaur and one of those ghost fellas from Pacman.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8313921999032290767?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-1629153299765380722011-05-13T18:02:00.000+01:002011-05-13T18:02:48.165+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0053Boom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0053Boom.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Just a rubbish scribble today, something a little thuggish/anarchic/post apocalyptic (Mad Max style). Looking at this image makes me realise I need to spend more time drawing clothing and fabric.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-162915329976538072?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-1432552179860734832011-05-12T13:58:00.000+01:002011-05-13T21:26:55.471+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/GenericLadyPortrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/GenericLadyPortrait.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For those who are regular perusers of my work (and I thank you for that), you may notice that today's DD is somewhat very different to what I usually create. I was at a loss for what to draw to day, nothing really inspired me all that much so I grabbed one of the many copies of ImagineFX I own and thumbed through it looking for some inspiration. I went through about 7 or 8 of them and felt no spark and then, when I closed the cover, I saw a generic looking lady starring back (in fact, I could have closed 99% of their covers and seen the same looking lady as that's just what they do to try to sell more mags to the adolescent male market).</span></div><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I realised that I never really make a good stab at trying to draw a feminine face. Past attempts have always come out looking tranny like, with strong jaw lines and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Adam's Apples galore. So, taking inspiration from the generic looking digital cover girl and some of the internal work of a different IFX mag (A Catwoman image by renowned comic artist Adam Hughes), I scribbled this image.</span></div><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have to say that I don't feel any connection to it. Not because it looks a little off or not right, but because its just not me. I draw monsters and weird things for pleasure and really try hard to create work that is very different. I do strive for originality in my personal work and looking at this piece, other than the signature, there is no way to tell that I did it. It could have been done by anyone! I think that says a lot.</span></div><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, don't get used to seeing this sort of work from me, I doubt you'll see anything like it for a long time. The next time I draw a lady it will be based on a real beauty, a naturally stunning and pretty looking person and not some fake digital image. I am of course talking about my girlfriend Claire. You rock babe!</span></div><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-143255217986073483?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-464203092310913602011-05-11T17:05:00.000+01:002011-05-11T17:05:17.662+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/SpiritoftheDemon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/SpiritoftheDemon.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Oh my god, I LOVE my Bamboo and using Sketch Book Express. The feel of the Bamboo and the capability of the program is just amazing and I strongly recommend that anyone who has a Mac and a graphics tablet to download the app. I love sketching in it and the last few weeks of Daily Doodles that have been digital have either been done in Artrage Studio Pro or this cool little app.<br /><br />Today's doodle was inspired by a painting I bought from Chet Zar (<a href="http://www.chetzar.com/">www.chetzar.com</a>) that is now hanging in front of me and my desk. I wanted to try to play with the shape of the head a bit and play with wrinkles as I usually do. Not a massive step out of the comfort zone but today was meant to be a bit of fun.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-46420309231091360?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-8671786699661441172011-05-10T16:34:00.000+01:002011-05-10T16:34:35.232+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/Tree-Atop-Rock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/Tree-Atop-Rock.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Number 50! Half way to 100 (obviously), which makes it some kind of milestone. Or not, depends on your view point on things. A real milestone for this year long experiment would be something like 91 days or 182 days... 182 seems so far away right now, lets hope I make it.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-867178669966144117?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-44049448066829425462011-05-09T20:50:00.000+01:002011-05-09T20:50:46.295+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0049-The-Toaster-of-Carkoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0049-The-Toaster-of-Carkoon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Yesterday, Chris Harrendence ("Redbubble Profile":http://www.redbubble.com/people/cjharrendence) issued me a challenge to create a kitchen appliance that was possessed. Today, I drew this in Artrage. Some of you may notice the Star Wars reference.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4404944806682942546?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-42375052924732935132011-05-08T17:08:00.000+01:002011-05-08T17:08:18.190+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0048TranquilSun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0048TranquilSun.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know what you're thinking... "that's not a doodle..." well, so what, it's my series and I can do what ever I like. The daily doodles were never meant to be about just doing doodles but more about creating something everyday or just more often, coming up with new ideas and trying new things.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As with yesterday, Photoshop made its first appearance in the series so today, Adobe Illustrator has been used. For the work I have been doing on computer games recently, I've had to deal with vectors a great deal which has lead to my initial dislike of them going away. I am starting really find Illustrator a very useful and fun program to use and mixing the effects with other programs, namely Photoshop, has yielded some very... flamboyant, results.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Like today's piece.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4237505292473293513?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-12299105063937622402011-05-07T16:43:00.000+01:002011-05-07T16:43:55.555+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0047TheLastOctoChimp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0047TheLastOctoChimp.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br />It's about time that Photoshop was used in my Daily Doodling, but it was only used to darken and add highlights to the line work I created in ArtRage Studio Pro. This character is Shud and is the brain child of the original Octo Chimp, <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/robgoodfellow">Mark Adams </a>and is part chimp and part octopus. Quite brilliant really. This is just my take on his character and one I might have to revisit again soon.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1229910506393762240?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-69120177365366325332011-05-06T22:27:00.000+01:002011-05-06T22:27:46.883+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0046TheWoeoftheKing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0046TheWoeoftheKing.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trying something with expression. Need to do some more work on facial features I think. This daily doodle was create in ArtRage Studio Pro which makes it a digital piece.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-6912017736536632533?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-43166936650037318572011-05-06T00:22:00.000+01:002011-05-06T00:22:13.268+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0045DarkEntityofmyDreams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0045DarkEntityofmyDreams.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Drawn in Art Rage Studio Pro over the course of a couple of hours, I think I went into a bit of a trance like state when working on all the wrinkles and bumps. Not really sure what this dark creature is, what it does, where it resides but I guess it comes from a the darker realms of Dreamland. Maybe I should organise tours there, recruit those dudes from Incpetion and see if I can sort a day trip out into my mind.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Any takers?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4316693665003731857?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-2347828934991182322011-05-05T00:49:00.000+01:002011-05-05T00:49:09.090+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0044Deano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0044Deano.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Better late than never, just been really busy with work today and getting a lot done so that one of the games can be launched real soon... which is awesome really. Until then, enjoy this dino creature called Deano.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-234782893499118232?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-28432266503643456742011-05-03T20:06:00.000+01:002011-05-03T20:06:23.846+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0043DearNatureYoureaDo-DoHead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0043DearNatureYoureaDo-DoHead.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Little did the cruel tree know that he was picking on a child who has a Lumberjack for a father. A warning to all bullies... pick your victims carefully. This digital sketch is a remake of an idea I originally drew out back in 2007. The piece is generally the same in content but this time round, I spent a lot more time detailing the tree and the pose of the characters is also a great deal better. There is no colour to this one (obviously) as I wanted to retain a more sketchy look and feel. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To create this, I use my new Bamboo tablet in Sketch Book Express. For a piece of free software, you really can't go wrong. It makes for an excellent paper replacement. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-2843226650364345674?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-47152230691647559432011-05-02T16:45:00.000+01:002011-05-02T16:45:27.226+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0042SayHellotoMyToe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0042SayHellotoMyToe.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ah wanted to create something funny today but still keep that element of weirdness. I drew this quick little sketch using a FREE app called Sketch Book Express on my Mac. Why not right? I think this program will do for my digital doodling until I get the CS5 Premium Edition.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey<br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">P.S. My toe didn't actually do this nor is it this long.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4715223069164755943?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-33132656854055598312011-05-01T22:25:00.000+01:002011-05-01T22:25:30.554+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0041Bearguin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0041Bearguin.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Bearguin, part bear, part penguin... or something to that effect. This is the first daily doodle that has been created by digital means and is also the first image I drew on my new Wacom Bamboo tablet and on my Mac. Its also the latest I have posted a doodle.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3313265685405559831?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-80778869358033391992011-04-30T16:42:00.000+01:002011-04-30T16:42:57.559+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0040-This-Heat-Between-Us.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0040-This-Heat-Between-Us.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This twin headed character is a reboot of a character I had originally created in 2006. Its called, Dos Diablos and is a take on a devil like character who hides it's true faces with happy masks. This time I wanted to show more of the body and a hint at a deeper connection between the two personas.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8077886935803339199?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-51119803376831814332011-04-29T17:46:00.000+01:002011-04-29T17:46:42.658+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0039-Shaman-Maggot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0039-Shaman-Maggot.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Something a little magical for it is such a magical day today. <br /><br />Lloyd Harvey&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-5111980337683181433?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-899693297892163042011-04-28T15:53:00.000+01:002011-04-28T15:53:21.399+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0038-Gnome-Stringbeard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0038-Gnome-Stringbeard.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wanted to do something a little old school fantasy with this one and do it in this new style I'm playing with. The name comes from the look that the shading has on his beard, wasn't meant to come out that, it just sort of happened.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-89969329789216304?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-32913071552011630722011-04-27T15:41:00.000+01:002011-04-27T15:41:51.720+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0037-The-Dark-Mannequin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0037-The-Dark-Mannequin.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Tried to do something dark and strange with this one, might need to put a bit more work in to be honest. Created with ink and marker pens whilst in the sun.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3291307155201163072?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-13106805551541782192011-04-26T17:10:00.000+01:002011-04-26T17:10:02.706+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0036-Straw-Dog-Serpent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0036-Straw-Dog-Serpent.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A mix between something with twigs for hair, that weird flying dog faced dragon in the Never Ending Story and a serpent with no scales. Created with ink and my beloved marker pens, this creature was a "discover as you go" sort of creation, as in, I had no set idea of what I wanted to draw nor did I know how I was going to shade it or what ever. I did this sitting in the sun, it was wonderful.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1310680555154178219?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-91721917875082803622011-04-25T17:03:00.000+01:002011-04-25T17:03:56.121+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0035-Pollution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0035-Pollution.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is supposed to be something a little political. I think its message is pretty clear. Too many trees suffer from asthma as a result of us polluting the air with industrial waste and fumes etc. I think we need to start a charity or foundation that provides gas masks to all the trees of the world... the ones we don't cut down that is.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-9172191787508280362?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-7582145570867332252011-04-24T10:55:00.001+01:002011-04-24T11:06:35.340+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0034-Cheeky-Chimp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0034-Cheeky-Chimp.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Showing some real love for our ape friends today because, being an atheist, I don't pay credence to the story of the resurrection (also known as 'Easter') and lean more towards Evolution and Science than Myth. Even when I was younger, I never really ate many Easter Eggs and me and my brothers were given the option to either have an egg or a toy. Being savvy to the longevity of plastic, we always picked toys. One year, I got a Predator toy that I still own, good times.</span><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Harvey</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-758214557086733225?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-83785725007930972422011-04-23T16:15:00.000+01:002011-04-23T16:15:33.328+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0033-Bad-Portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0033-Bad-Portrait.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Yeah, if you can guess who this is supposed to be I will be surprised. I think, though, I have captured his gormless look that he uses in a lot of his work. I am no good at giving clues because I'd give it away but I will say that this actor is British, has played bit parts in both series of "Look Around You" and has worked with David Schwimmer a number of times.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8378572500793097242?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-31467820356719359822011-04-22T15:54:00.000+01:002011-04-22T15:54:24.015+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0032-Stick-Out-Your-Tongue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0032-Stick-Out-Your-Tongue.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not really sure what this creature is meant to be really but maybe it is part reptile with a human tongue. I don't know really, I drew this in the garden in the really hot sun, maybe its confused me a bit. This is ink on paper.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3146782035671935982?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-84783351872426059652011-04-21T18:20:00.000+01:002011-04-21T18:20:41.339+01:00<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0031-Fugly-Bug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0031-Fugly-Bug.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Trying to do some drawing in a different sketch book of mine. I don't remember when I bought it buy every page has loads of bumps and bits of wood in it which I think gives it a lovely texture. Today, using my ink pen, I drew an ugly looking, tumor like bug creature.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8478335187242605965?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-30791060167683294572011-04-20T17:44:00.000+01:002011-04-20T17:44:11.043+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0030-Krang.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0030-Krang.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Kill the Turtles Shredder! Ink on a napkin.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3079106016768329457?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-83945051451030048112011-04-19T15:42:00.000+01:002011-04-19T15:42:13.553+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0029FrankenstiensMonsterConcepts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0029FrankenstiensMonsterConcepts.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Was a little unsure whether I should have loaded this one but, a doodle is a doodle, no matter how scruffy looking. Today, I wanted to play with marker pens and do some conceptual scribbles. Frankenstein's Monster is a cool and charming creation but soon turns nasty because Doctor Frankenstein forsakes him and calls him a monster.<br /><br />I don't think he is necessarily evil, just misunderstood... like King Kong. Either way, I wanted to create a very rough and loose concept drawing of the creature's head and decided to use maker pens to do so. I think, from these, a much more tighter drawing can be created but I think I would probably do about 10 more sketches before stage 2 of the design work.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8394505145103004811?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-2849882330592691982011-04-18T17:47:00.000+01:002011-04-18T17:47:48.111+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0028SurrealLivingLand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0028SurrealLivingLand.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Imagine a flat land covered in a fleshy like substance that pillar, totem like creatures grow out off. That is what I tried to play with in this daily doodle. The end result seems very phallic which wasn't intentional but I guess might be a subconscious nod to H R Giger... or something else.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-284988233059269198?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-43257866051989810852011-04-17T13:30:00.000+01:002011-04-17T13:30:17.984+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0027CreatureConcept.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0027CreatureConcept.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I draw a lot of creatures and monsters, it's no secret, but I don't _design_ creatures as such. Doing concept work for computer games means you have to design a creature, not just draw one and that entails a different approach. Looking back over my work, I can see that I need to push my design skills a little harder. Today, Creature Concept A, is a design for a design sake and will be the first of many.<br /><br />When I do more, I will come up with a type of landscape or habitat and think about how a creature would exist and survive there. What would it eat, how would it defend itself, where would it sleep, how would it attract a mate? All questions that help to build a believable creature concept. This questioning is an exercise used by many great concept illustrators in games and films and I know I have a project coming up that will require me to do some concept work, so I better get in the practice!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4325786605198981085?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-43572681412253233582011-04-16T10:16:00.001+01:002011-04-16T10:19:28.434+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0026CyclopticAnneapod.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0026CyclopticAnneapod.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Always with the tentacles, always with the one eye, always with a fez... a culmination of all things I like to draw a lot (but no wrinkles?). Did this ink drawing as a possible design for a t-shirt.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_409950751"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4357268141225323358?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-90201638468075813842011-04-15T16:24:00.000+01:002011-04-15T16:24:04.932+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0025FishWithManyEyes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0025FishWithManyEyes.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Number 25 in my year long series was created with good old acrylics on paper. I went with the same colour scheme as my Sea Horse piece (Doodle number 10) as I really liked mixing blue and green together in places to give it that underwater look. Looking at the scan, I am left thinking that maybe, I should have but it between some books to flatten it out a bit.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-9020163846807581384?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-39450121631776173052011-04-14T16:44:00.000+01:002011-04-14T16:44:20.707+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0024ArchAngel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0024ArchAngel.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Originally going to a rough design for a t-shirt, I created this with acrylics. Its just another take on a long line of Angel representations. One thing I have noticed is that I like to make every angel I create look utterly different from the last. Like in my Daily Doodle 0002, the Angel had no wings and was a monkey with a big head and in a piece I did called Right In Two, the wings are like cables. Years ago, I did an angel design called Stanley who had no wings and a smiley face mask.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3945012163177617305?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-5423199862072105332011-04-13T16:07:00.000+01:002011-04-13T16:07:27.385+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0023EvilEvilMonkey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0023EvilEvilMonkey.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After yesterday's episode with the corrupt data, I wanted to have a bit of fun with today's DD so I looked over the internet for some inspiration. Then, seeing something Star Warsy, I thought about the Family Guy takes on the original trilogy. I realise that they will probably never do the newer prequels but I thought that the ideal candidate for Darth Maul, had to be the Evil Monkey.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you have no idea who the Evil Monkey is, or Darth Maul, educate yourself immediately.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-542319986207210533?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-31617859352138853652011-04-12T16:36:00.001+01:002011-04-13T15:43:28.073+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0021PopSurrealScribble.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0021PopSurrealScribble.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I didn't think I'd manage to get today's doodle out today. Had a major problem with one of my commissions becoming corrupt and a lot of data was lost. So, having to start again on a lot of the work, I was worried this image wouldn't make it to the net in time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still, here it is. This time, created with a biro pen and coloured in with colouring pencils, I went for something a little more commercially Pop Surrealist. The idea was that the central entity was some kind of cloud disguise for a weird,&nbsp;creature with lots of tentacles and that the vapor hides its true form.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Lloyd Harvey</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" title="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.ukCTRL + Click to follow link">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3161785935213885365?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-18407668483137194982011-04-11T16:16:00.000+01:002011-04-11T16:16:17.610+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0020MutantDeformationB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0020MutantDeformationB.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Continuing on with the conceptual work for the film, this is another sketch of a mutant deformation.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lloyd Harvey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1840766848313719498?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-77635988676610442132011-04-10T14:36:00.000+01:002011-04-10T14:36:39.391+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0020MutantDeformationA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0020MutantDeformationA.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I like zombies, I like mutants... but which would be better in a fight? Who knows. Either way, as me and my mate work a little more on the script for our movie project, I create a little more concept design work for it. Today, a more refined version of a cranial disfigurement. This time, instead of inks, I went for a pencil.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7763598867661044213?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-2590892209098782692011-04-09T12:30:00.000+01:002011-04-09T12:30:12.987+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0019MutantandZombieConcepts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0019MutantandZombieConcepts.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Me and a friend are writing a zombie/mutant film and we aim to shoot and produce it at sometime within the next year or so. We haven't decided whether we're going to have slow moving zombies or have them as just violent mutants yets, but either way there is a need for concept design and these little doodles are the first of many that I will be doing.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-259089220909878269?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-1357764817499323742011-04-08T16:41:00.000+01:002011-04-08T16:41:21.632+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0018-Arch-Mage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0018-Arch-Mage.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Doom isn't the only game I've been playing recently. I've also been wasting away my time on a game called Heroes of Might &amp; Magic V, a strange mix of role playing and real time strategy and resource management, all set in an old world style fantasy land. My first all pencil sketch in the Daily Doodle seires, Arch Mage, was created because of that game. I do like fantasy worlds but don't draw enough from such settings, maybe I should do more.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-135776481749932374?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-45237293008324892042011-04-07T16:19:00.000+01:002011-04-07T16:19:14.835+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0017CacodemonfromDoomreboot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0017CacodemonfromDoomreboot.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Not satisfied with yesterday's doodle, I wanted to do the Cacodemon again, this time with acrylics. I looked at the original sprite from the original Doom games and looked at the version fro Doom 3 and tried to mix some of the features together. Mainly though, the original look won out. I think I'll leave Doom alone for a bit now and work on something else.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4523729300832489204?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-75672902627776221612011-04-06T16:10:00.000+01:002011-04-06T16:10:02.175+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0016DoomAnyone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0016DoomAnyone.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Recently, I've been playing Final Doom and I think that some of the creatures have worked their way into my subconscious. With today's doodle, I wanted to create something looser and quick so I started off with a rough circle and then added some horns. Almost straight away, I could see where this piece was going. Shaded with marker pens, this version of the Cacodemon isn't 100% accurate to the sprite from the game but its close. I'm so doing another version of this creature for tomorrow's doodle. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7567290262777622161?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-20654347039694486062011-04-05T14:26:00.000+01:002011-04-05T14:26:14.361+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0015CresentSurprise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0015CresentSurprise.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As a continuation of yesterday's doodle, using the marker and ink pens on paper once again, I wanted to create something very similar to the cycloptic wrinkled face of the grinning cresent face. This time, I wanted to do a different facial expression and have it facing the opposite way. Doing this, I can lay the two pieces next to each other to form a diptych.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Like so:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Painting%20and%20Drawing%20Challenge%20Pieces/0015-Cresent-Joined.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Painting%20and%20Drawing%20Challenge%20Pieces/0015-Cresent-Joined.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-2065434703969448606?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-30994655258351667542011-04-04T15:39:00.000+01:002011-04-04T15:39:45.679+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0014CresentCloseUp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0014CresentCloseUp.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Created with my trust ink pen and grey marker pens, I wanted to play with negative space this time, all the while sticking to cycloptic creatures and lots of wrinkles. Hmm, might have to do more with this one.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-3099465525835166754?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-70617733870104151812011-04-03T15:48:00.000+01:002011-04-03T15:48:05.480+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0013OldBananaHead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0013OldBananaHead.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Continuing my obsession with wrinkles, Old Banana Head is a strange chap. One eyed and a chain cigar smoker, he likes to leave places in a real hurry, often heard saying "I need to split!" Created with marker pens and ink.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-7061773387010415181?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-13554291669906830822011-04-02T13:38:00.000+01:002011-04-02T13:38:39.938+01:00<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0012HoverHead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0012HoverHead.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hover Head, created with acrylics on paper, is a darker take on the Wizard's false front from the Wizard of Oz. Although as a child you would see the smoke and fire as something quite scary, when you get older and know the film well, the fear seems more distant. Now, having been exposed to a lot more scary things in life, I think physical entities in movies, like the alien Xenomorph in Alien, is more frightening than a digital counter part.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I was to get the chance to remake the Wizard of Oz, and here's hoping I do, I would make the Wizard's faux face real. Like a massive animatronics robot covered in rubber to make it look like flesh and give it a husky voice. I would make it look a little like the Pale Man, from Pan's Labyrinth. I would have no interest in making that film for children. It would be intended to scare the adults who watched it as a child who are no longer scared of it and this rough doodle would be my Wizard head... or something like it.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Harvey</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</span></a></span></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1355429166990683082?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-91637694219823549952011-04-01T16:18:00.000+01:002011-04-01T16:18:19.481+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0011BendyTree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0011BendyTree.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">No time for any April fools jokes for me, just another Daily Doodle. 2011 has all been about trees for my personal work. I most of the pieces I have created that aren't commissions, a tree has been present in the piece. I am unsure why this is but I do know I really enjoy drawing and painting them. Why stop something you enjoy?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-9163769421982354995?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-47861122808539988432011-03-31T15:52:00.000+01:002011-03-31T15:52:29.074+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0010SeaHorse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0010SeaHorse.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Today, I felt like drawing a sea horse, so I did. Created with the usual acrylic paint and ink pen, this sea horse isn't quite true to life, as in, its lovely flowing hair is something I chose to add. Real sea horses don't have a mane, or some don't anyway... I'm not really sure, I should have researched it better.<br /><br />Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-4786112280853998843?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-80015348141810406082011-03-30T15:27:00.000+01:002011-03-30T15:27:40.991+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0009EighteenFacesandalotofFlesh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0009EighteenFacesandalotofFlesh.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I did a piece like this back in 2007 but I did it digitally and it only had 17 faces. So, becasue this one has 18 faces and has been painted using acrylics, this is better by default. I think it will be easy to locate all 18 of the faces in this piece as there are no trick faces... why I went for purple I don't know.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-8001534814181040608?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-14190370260173118782011-03-29T13:10:00.000+01:002011-03-29T13:10:12.653+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0008FlatFace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x61/shrunkenharvey1985/Daily%20Doodle/0008FlatFace.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Flat Face, named because this odd big headed creature has a face that is flat, hidden by a mask. I went a bit old school with this piece as in I used some colouring pencils I still had that have been about in one of my pencils cases for some 9 years. Also, for that realy doodle look, I drew this sucker on lined paper. Maybe tomorrow I'll draw on a napkin or something.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lloyd Harvey</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387047212762801690-1419037026017311878?l=lloydharvey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lloyd Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740877711002418125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387047212762801690.post-59979969516703932242011-03-29T06:56:00.000+01:002011-03-29T06:56:45.694+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div>&l