Hello everyone and welcome back!

Over the holidays i worked a hell of a lot but not on animation,

I did do a few drawings and sketches but nothing really grabbed me.

I have been struggling to find an idea this year, i have hundreds of them

but nothing really solid.

I always keep coming back to lighthouses for some reason so i decided to go with

my gut instinct and keep with the lighthouse theme.

Initially i was going to do a story from second year that i wrote and really love, but

the more i thought about it, the more it didnt seem suited for my major. It did involve a light

house but was very sad and dramatic.

After speaking with quite a few people at uni i tossed around a few ideas, such as one about

a fisherman (which i still plan to make maybe next year), Neale helped me come up with an idea

about a metal forest which i really love but couldnt visualise it properly, and i wasnt into

making a forest this year. I just couldnt stop thinking about the beach and this bloody lighthouse!

So back to square one, i wrote yet another script ( i think ive done about five different ones so far) and i enjoy the characters in this script but, after showing Huni it still needs alot of shuffling and rewriting.................................arrrrrrrrghhhh.

Not a problem, i love to write. :D

Here are a few pics i came up with:

They are a bit out of order, this one is a really quick sketch about a fisherman and a blue ringed octopus, (the octo wants to steal his coke can to live in)

This is an oil pastel, just playing with the

mediums really, there is a wolf hound in the

story i wrote last year, but this guy is way to

cute for that story.

This is Lewis! I love him for some

reason, i like his old crappy umbrella ( i say parasole

but everyone looks at me strange when i say this)

This is the guy im re writing my story for

I like this cool underwater crab

tank thing i drew, not sure what its for

but was fun to play with the oil pastels

More oil pastels, i dont like this thing

and i dont know what he is, but the colours

are cool.

This is a few sketches of a mechanical bird.

This little guy is Lewis's companion? minion? sidekick?

Finally, my light house!

First time i have really played around with

water colour paints on paper, and its so much fun!

Im a huge fan of water colours, i really like the look

you can create for some beautiful backgrounds and

shading, I would like to do my backgrounds in

watercolour and sketch over them a bit with the wacom