SmartassPaint
Art and Animation.
18/06/2024
Wonderful afternoon spent at the Tate, seeing some of the greatest portraits of all time. John Singer Sargent.
22/02/2024
Quick sketch practise. Aiming for a likeness in 1 hr instead of 20! Anthony Hopkins, a young Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy.
02/01/2024
Freshly updated website for the new year Smartasspaint.co.uk
Have a peek at all the different projects I've worked on in the past year.
17/12/2023
After a year of AI and computer art, I found time to get messy with charcoal. I made the reference photo with AI though :-)
06/05/2023
Your AI art for today :-)
05/05/2023
AI fun with the amazing Midjourney.
16/04/2023
From a recent project - a mixture of 3D, Photoshop and painting. Unavoidably influenced by a recent trip to Dubai.
31/12/2022
Not long until the release of 's epic track, featuring the stunning vocals of .
28/12/2022
A few quick screenshots from a recent animation for . Due for release early January, it's a superb track by great musicians and incredible vocals from ......also the most fun I've had creating a video :-)
11/11/2022
After a busy year of digital and 3D work, it's wonderful to get back to my pencils again.
Happy Halloween! Here's a quick 3D animation I did using an incredible skeleton rig by Juan Pablo Bouza.
27/10/2022
A commission from earlier this year for a good friend and fine musician. I'm feeling the need to get back to portraits.
This was difficult because the only photo I had was small, blurred and with poor lighting. This is graphite and I had to be REALLY careful to get the values correct.
28/06/2022
A little collection of arty screenshots from a recent music video.
Fabulous music by , go check her out!
More 3D Blender fun! Such a complicated program. Thanks to for the great tutorials.
14/06/2022
A departure from portraits again, my first serious attempt at 3D modelling. I can see why people get into this. It's a weird feeling, creating something from nothing, which looks real.
A little sneek preview of a recently finished video, to be released next week. A massive 107GB project, with many, many layers.
Great music from . Checkout her music!
germanastellals FRIDAY 17/06/2022‼️🔥
The official animated video of IN TIME AND (S)PACE will be premiered on
In the meantime, you can listen to IN TIME AND (S)PACE on , , , ... 🔥🔥🔥
05/06/2022
Crappy photo - great gig! I was MD in charge of the hardest swinging Sinatra '62 sextet today at Ronnie Scott's.
Wonderful playing from the band. Elliott Henshaw, Eric Guy, Pete Roth, Bob Sydor, Anthony Kerr
Happy Good Friday everybody. This is research and development for a job, honestly!
I'm too old to get a proper job now :-)
I'm having a Blender weekend and trying to learn as much as I can from (almost) zero. My brain hurts.
A fun bit of research and testing for job.
A departure from portraits, I've been testing new software. A quick experiment with Element 3D in After effects. Love this program.
05/01/2022
Last bit of portrait practise for a while......
31/12/2021
Happy New Year from all of us!
29/12/2021
More charcoal portrait practise, keeping me off the streets and off the wine during the holiday period :-)
23/12/2021
Some recent charcoal practise, after a week of making a complete mess I'm begining to love this stuff!
14/11/2021
Meet "Podge"! As a cat lover (who defected to dogs) it was a pleasure to paint this wonderful tabby.
One of the few recent art projects that I can actually post on social media 😀
A little animation experiment with lighting scenery and 3d shadows.
Music by
Some whacky motion design with added music and sound FX.
This is from a fantastic tutorial by .by.nick from his Motion Design Upgrade course
Go buy it!
Some whacky motion design with added music and sound FX.
This is from a fantastic tutorial I just completed by .by.nick from his Motion Design Upgrade course.
Happy Valentine's Day ❤️
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