Zomburger


What happens to the food that you don’t finish?  It rises from the dead of course!  Shambling behind restaurants, struggling in bins and rising from the landfill, you’d better watch out…
…although luckily most food items don’t have the teeth and claws nesessary to escape a bin bag, let alone bite and spread the virus, but finish all your meals just to be safe kiddies.

Shane S

Snow scene

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Now Christmas has been and gone the cold weather doesn't feel quite so festive.

Shane

Sprocket & Scratch


Long after the demise of Mankind, small mammals have taken over the Earth once again.  Unfortunately for Rodent kind, cats survived too.  Meet two participants in the violent war between felines and rodents.
Sprocket – Anti-social mechanical genius, tasked with the maintenance and programming of the Mekat fleet.  He’s also a rat.
Scratch – Mark II Lynx Mekat, an autonomous robotic feline programmed with the thought processes of a basset hound.  Ten times the strength, speed and agility of a biological cat but with the loyalty and intelligence of a hunting dog.

Shane S

Amnesius


Most spirits take on the appearance of their living form when they pass over.  Unfortunately for this guy he was snuffed out by an axe blow to the cranium, resulting in a case of amnesia so severe it crossed over with him.  Because he can’t remember what he actually looked like, he’s now stuck with the default ghost body until his memory returns.

Shane S

P.S.  Happy New Year!

The Hummingbird


Sometimes referred to as ‘The Death of Plants’, the Hummingbird devours all the moisture from any plant it touches, leaving nothing but a dry dead husk.

Shane S

FjordOak the restless


FjordOak had relished his freedom as a Walker, but the end drew near.  Once his life bud bloomed, his inner light would fade and he would be bound to the soil once again, to stand guard as a silent sentinal of the Ringwood until the end of days.

Shane S

Happy Rex-mas!


Apologies for the terrible pun.

Once I unknowingly ate reindeer and it's actually pretty good.

Have a good one!


Shane S

Blue Nose Christmas

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Merry Christmas!  Here's an advent calendar design that's available now on all good high streets.  Probably a bit late to buy it now though.

I'll post a not-so-cute Christmas image tomorrow :)

Shane S

Maddie


Maddie didn’t have many friends at school.  She creeped the other kids out, maybe it was the way she stared.  Luckily for them she had her Father’s eyes.

Shane S

Bogborn the Distracted


After a day slacking off down the brimstone mines, Bogborn the Distracted likes nothing more than to relax with a bargain bucket of fried human.

Shane S

Blue Nose Friends Character designs



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A few of my favourite recent character designs for My Blue Nose Friends, now available in plushie form in all good retailers.

Shane S

Happy Halloween!

Halloween seems to be getting bigger every year here in the UK, so I thought I'd get involved for a change and discovered that pumpkin carving is much harder than it looks;

Monsters Inc's Mike carved pumpkin;






Plus a figurine I designed a few years ago - it's bones glow in the dark!;

 




 Shane S

A room with a view...

This is the opening shot of a five minute limited animation that I storyboarded and produced the assets for.  The animation itself was handled by the talented fellows over at Gizmo Animation and features Tatty Teddy and his Blue Nose Friends enjoying a day out in the park.

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Had fun with the lighting on this one, and it's always nice to work on some environments.

Here's the full short for your viewing pleasure;

 





Shane S

Tatty Teddy Bathtime

Another puzzle image for Ravensberger, this time featuring some extra characters.  Had a lot of fun with the lighting on this one.

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You can buy the 1000 piece puzzle on Amazon right now!

Shane S

First book cover!


My first book cover!

Featuring Tatty Teddy and his Blue Nose Friends, this was painted for the first 'My Blue Nose Friends' book (that also came with a mug featuring the same image).  This was also the first time that these characters were rendered with more realistic lighting, marking a slight progression of the style that is still evolving today.


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Shane S

Tatty Teddy bedtime

Another puzzle image from early last year.

Again I went for the digital watercolour over pencil sketch but also experimented a bit with gradient maps, which are super useful once you get your head around them.

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You can buy the 500 piece puzzle from here.

Shane S

Tatty Teddy seaside scene

I thought it was about time I posted some of the work that I've done for Carte Blanche Greetings over the last four years.  I'm not going to go back too far though, this piece was painted at the beginning of 2010 to be used on a jigsaw puzzle.  The paint is actually digital over a pencil sketch, so I was pretty pleased that most people thought it was genuine watercolour.

I now work almost exclusively on My Blue Nose Friends so I don't get to draw the little grey bear very often.

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This puzzle is still available to buy from Amazon.

Shane S

Simon's Cat (sort of in real life)

So now I'm finally settling into Fatherhood I actually have some time to scratch the good old artistic itch again.

One of my favourite things to do is to interpret existing characters in a different style, (check out my Toy Story little green man and Guyver paintings for other examples) so I thought I'd have a go at painting Simon's Cat as he might appear in CG animated form.

He looked strange with white eyes in this style hence the addition of green.

If you haven't done so already, go and check out the Simon's Cat animated shorts at www.simonscat.com.

Shane S

Robot Dreams...

'Cause all robots dream of the apocalypse right?

 


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Robots...



I forgot how fun it was just to doodle a few bionic beings every now and then.

Toned paper and col-erase pencils are my new best friends.

Shane S