Seaside Rendezvous

1953 BC - naked eye planets

In 1953BC the naked eye planets were in the close alignment - within around 4 degrees. I think the next closest alignment will be in 2044 odd, and that'll be around 11 degrees off. Enough boring facts, here are a few images I'm working on for this event. Thinking of bastardising some type for it too. We shall see. 

2000 BC - stonehenge

I am planning a project looking at the main events from the past 4000 years - key points in history and generally interesting things. Ideally I am looking to produce an illustration for every single year, although this would be a monumental undertaking! As well as that it's actually quite hard finding solid dates and events for each year (a lot of stuff I have found has been quite boring - kings dying or taking the throne and wars pretty much). If anyone knows of any interesting events in mind from 2000 - 1000 BC let me know about it! This is my first attempt at an illo for 2000BC which is the date when Stonehenge was completed (allegedly). It feels a little rough around the edges and not quite on the money, so I may come back to it and develop it a bit more after I tackle a few more events. 

Skull Drawings....again.

I Can't get enough of anatomical drawing, or skulls. So here are some more sketches I did recently. I know it's all a bit lame - drawing skulls and that - but I can't help myself! I did one sketch and then messed around with it in various ways. 

I had a go at drawing the muscle structure over the skull - I definitely want to do more muscle drawings...

How about overlaying them all? Weird.

Some screen shots of a piece I'm working on. Typeface is egypt 22, which I think is beautiful. Everyone should (and probably will be now) using it!

Gliese Typeface

I'm working on a new typeface - inspired by the planet Gliese 581 c

This is a quick comp just to give an idea of where I am at the moment - I want to improve my Photoshop planet creation skills. Obviously that is an important skill to have. 

Horizon - Seeing Stars

I watched this episode of horizon the other day, and one of the scientists had made this awesome little model of a black hole and its accretion disk. Go science! Reminds me of my final major project...ah, the fun. 

Guilloché Pattern Generator

experimenting with this interesting pattern generator

I made a quick animation, might also look at incorporating it into some of the digital collages I've been making.

Moons of Saturn