Although there's more of a chance I'll be killed in a bizarre gardening accident than anyone ever reading my blog I thought I'd quickly post to say I'm going quiet for a few months. We have to keep hush about the JourneyMan project so no posts from me for a bit.

Hopefully this won't effect the number of members in my fanclub...

I've finally finished my concept for my Journeyman application.
I've applied for "vehicle artist" I hope to almighty god that I get it as I really don't like the look of the other roles and if I end up in "outsourcing"...well... I might just commit suicide...

Anyway, here it is;


Datsun 240z Mad Max style.
I'm satisfied.
Not overly happy.
Satisfied.

I can think of a million other things I'm desperate to add including a rear view shot showing the spare tyres and some badass exhausts etc but as usual time just doesn't allow for that.

Fingers crossed I get the Vehicle Artist role! Competition looks fierce.

Just a quick update of where I am today.



It's WAAAAAYYY too shiny at the moment and I'm just really unhappy with it's progress.

Perhaps tomorrow will yield better results...

So I started on my "final concept" for the Journeyman application today.
I was reading the brief that I got from the university and I noticed that for my chosen theme (Hashima, Japan) the specified look and feel should be "Post Apocolyptica".
This made me happy, I've always wanted to do something in that style.
I immediately thought of "Mad Max" and decided I wanted to do a Post Apocalyptic Waste-lander Car, although I'm aware that a car would be quite useless on an island as small as Hashima but I can't think of much else to do and we haven't been given much guidance on what it is we're expected to produce so I'm going to make a car, decision made.
I made a moodboard of the kind of car I had in mind;


I want a used, beaten up, repeatedly repaired look. It has to look like the owner has found a car, repaired it with bits of rubbish and customised it to be the perfect wastelander car

Next I had to pick a car, Hashima is an island off the coast of Japan that was abandoned in the 1970s so I looked in a book I have called "The Car Book" for a cool Japanese Car from the 1970s and found the "Datsun Fairlady 250z";



I've always liked this car, it has such a nice shape and is a 70s icon, I particularly like the rally version with it's beefy tyres and beat up, used bodywork. Even the lights are cool!

With this car and my moodboard in mind I sketched this concept;



It's not perfect but I like the way this is going, I've stopped working now to get some dinner but I will add colour tomorrow.

I think I have found my final concept idea!

So the Journeyman Project is upon us Teesside University go-ers and to kick start my role application I've done some quick weapon concept sketches;



I did these on paper with Copic Markers, I love working with markers and I don't understand why they aren't more popular, I personally prefer them to Photoshop in some instances.
For these two weapons I was working towards the "Hashima" theme (only Teesside go-ers will understand what I'm going on about here...) I wanted to give a post apocalyptic waste-lander feel to them.In the case of the assault rifle (the top one) I wanted to give the impression that somebody had found a beaten up old assault rifle and repaired it with bits and bobs like a medical crutch and some nuts and bolts and tape etc, to give it a real "used" look and feel I tried to give a hand made feel to the sniper rifle, it's supposed to fire ammunition made from small CO2 canisters that would be found lying around and the gun it's self is made from bits of scrap metal pipes and a pair of binoculars with one "nocular" removed and the remaining "nocular" bolted on to the receiver to make a very ram-shackle scope.

I'm currently working on a "Mad-Max" style car, I'm aware that there probably wouldn't be any cars on Hashima but as I'm applying for a mechanical artist role I thought it would be a suitable concept to focus on.

New website! New start! This is my new site anyway, I hope you like it, Mr/Mrs viewer person... whoever you are.

This is going to be my proper portfolio site from now on, it has everything; flashy dot navigation thing, cool portfolio image gallery, pretty looking blog and a blue map of the UK. Yeah it's really lovely.

I can't think of anything good to put here for now so, that's all folks.
More soon!