Two 4 Joy Creations | By Jonathan Woodward http://two4joycreations.com The Web Home of Illustrator, Jonathan Woodward Sat, 10 May 2008 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en A new beginning… http://two4joycreations.com/2008/05/10/a-new-beginning/ http://two4joycreations.com/2008/05/10/a-new-beginning/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 11:56:41 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2008/05/10/a-new-beginning/ If anyone out there wants to know why I haven’t blogged for ages - head over to my new blog to find out

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2008/05/10/a-new-beginning/feed/ Model Making http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/30/model-making/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/30/model-making/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:20:19 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/30/model-making/ While working on the Graphic Novel project a few days ago I ran into a hitch - without having access to a mongoose (or cusimanse to be precise!) I was struggling to envision the foreshortening of snout, so I thought I’d make a model of the head.

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It’s a pretty basic model, but not bad for a first attempt and it has been really useful so far- I’ll definitely be making more models in future for the other species of mongoose and meerkat that feature in the story.

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/30/model-making/feed/ New Children’s Book Illustration http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/23/new-childrens-book-illustration/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/23/new-childrens-book-illustration/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:50:47 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/23/new-childrens-book-illustration/ Here’s the latest illustration for the children’s book.

First a snap during the collage stage… Cows/Sheep/Geese collage

…and the final illustration
Cows/Sheep/Geese final illustration

Here’s a close up of the bit I’m most pleased with…
Close up

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/23/new-childrens-book-illustration/feed/ Illustration Friday: Little Things http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/childrens-book-illustration-crickets/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/childrens-book-illustration-crickets/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:07:59 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/03/childrens-book-illustration-crickets/ I have been getting used to illustrating lots of little things just recently, first lightning bugs and now crickets.

This is the latest illustration for a children’s book I am working on based on collective nouns for groups of animals - in this case, a chorus of crickets!

Children’s Book Illustration: A chorus of crickets

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/childrens-book-illustration-crickets/feed/ The ‘Seckins Saga’ begins… http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/the-seckins-saga-begins/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/the-seckins-saga-begins/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:35:19 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/the-seckins-saga-begins/ Here is the first glimpse of some work for the new project that I posted about a couple of weeks ago. Can’t say too much about it at the moment, other than that the finished work will be an epic 200+ page graphic novel.

Anyway, here it is…

Surnyoo development sketch

and a little detail…

Surnyoo development sketch (detail)

If you think this looks like a 16th Century meerkat…you’d be right!

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/the-seckins-saga-begins/feed/ New Blog Illustrations http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/new-blog-illustrations/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/new-blog-illustrations/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:18:26 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/new-blog-illustrations/ Here’s a couple of quick new blog illustrations…

First up, for the theme - ‘multiple streams of income’:

Illustration to accompany a blog post about ‘multiple streams of income’

Next up, the theme - ‘Rio as a LIP destination’:

Blog illustration for the theme ‘Rio as a LIP destination’

Been overdosing on the halftone dots effect just lately…I think I need a new effect!

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/12/07/new-blog-illustrations/feed/ Illustration Friday: The Zoo http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/28/illustration-friday-the-zoo/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/28/illustration-friday-the-zoo/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:44:14 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/28/illustration-friday-the-zoo/ Wow, it’s been a while since I last did a piece for Illustration Friday, but with a theme like ‘The Zoo’, I knew it was time to jump right back in.

This piece is based on the London Underground ‘commuter zoo’ that I used to deal with daily before I became Location Independent.

The ‘Commuter’ Zoo

And here are a couple of details…

Bear

Elephant

The animals in this piece were created using acrylic paint washes & coloured pencil - the train was digital.

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/28/illustration-friday-the-zoo/feed/ Possible Future Project (UPDATE) http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/26/possible-future-project-update/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/26/possible-future-project-update/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:37:42 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/26/possible-future-project-update/ UPDATE:
I spoke with the author a few days ago, who phoned and said that he was calling to sell himself to me as he really wanted me to be the artist on his project (huge ego boost for me) - he really didn’t have much selling to do as I was already really excited about working on the project! Anyway, the financial aspect has all been agreed upon and so I am on board.

I’ll post some more details about the project specifics shortly - all I can say for the moment is that I’m now off to grab some mongoose images from the internet to start sketching and studying what these creatures look like from all angles!

I have been liaising with an author for the past week about possibly doing the artwork for a graphic novel that he has created. It would be an exciting project to work on as he is a really nice guy and the whole project is very epic and well thought out. Plus, with races of different anthropomorphic creatures, I would get to combine two of my favourite things - comics and animals!My initial reaction was to go for it as it would be very challenging and a lot of fun to work on, but I have been stung recently with accepting projects where there is very little budget for what would be hours and hours of work just because I’d enjoy working on it - so I have to think really carefully about this one.

Anyway, for now, here is a little bit of concept art that I created for the author - unfortunately it won’t make a whole lot of sense out of context…

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And the pen and ink drawing for anyone interested…

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More details to follow if I’m offered the project and decide to take it.

]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/26/possible-future-project-update/feed/ Custom Illustrations for Blogs http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/23/custom-illustrations-for-blogs/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/23/custom-illustrations-for-blogs/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:45:33 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/23/custom-illustrations-for-blogs/ Starting today, my illustrations will be featuring on the LocationIndependent blog. You can see the first one in situ today on the post “Smart Money Management Tips for LIPs“.

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]]> http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/23/custom-illustrations-for-blogs/feed/ Sketches for Surfing Characters http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/20/sketches-for-surfing-characters/ http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/20/sketches-for-surfing-characters/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:07:42 +0000 admin http://two4joycreations.com/2007/11/20/sketches-for-surfing-characters/ Here are some sketches I did for a potential project working on a graphic novel about surfing…

Sketch of Surfing Dude character #1

Sketch of Surfing Dude character #2

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