Thursday 28 June 2012

Bit of Blue

Evening,

Here's another little nudey done on the Ipad using the Brushes app. Started this at a life drawing class in Edinburgh at The White Space, and finished her off back at the ranch, as it were.






Sunday 17 June 2012

Monty and My First Commission...

Well hello again.

A first for anything is always rather exciting isn't it?   In this case it was my first ever portrait commission - a painting of a rather lovely chap by the name of Monty.  His girlfriend Sus, whom i met at an art class in Edinburgh, very kindly asked me if i would be interested in painting his portrait, which i most certainly was!

I started by doing some initial sketches of Monty over at their house and taking some photos. I then went away and did this color study on the Ipad as a practice run before getting the oils out.



And here's the final painting. It was done with Alkyds on canvas ( 24x20 Inches Windsor&Newton deep frame canvas).

Monty - 24x20 inches. Alkyd on canavs


Sunday 3 June 2012

The journey begins...

Ipad Girl



Well, good evening, good evening!  Thank you very much for visiting.


My name is Alastair Mclauchlan.  I work as a video games artist by day at a place called Rockstar North in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here you will find things I've been working on in my spare time.


Why am i doing this blog?  Well, recently I listened to a speech made by Neil Gaiman to the University of Arts graduates, 2012. I found this hugely inspiring. Especially the part about seeing your goal as a distant mountain and ensuring that each step you take should be on a path headed towards that mountain. So I'm hoping with this blog I can record some of those steps.




The above sketch is something I did last week at a life drawing class on the Ipad - I love using the Brushes app for this as you get to see all the choices ( or in my case mistakes ) you made along the way.