Featured on The Wall Breakers!

Not content with more than a handful of features on deviantART this week, I was featured on The Wall Breakers today!

The guys who run the site were interested in my digital impressionism art style, and chose to give me and my art a feature. 

Click here to see the article.

Thanks to The Wall Breakers team for the feature!

Re-Launched Twin Sword Trading Sites!

Due to my work on 'Royal', and my artwork swaying more towards original characters at the moment, I decided to re-launch several of my sites, so they remain consistent with my current style.

deviantART
I started by deleting my existing deviantART account, and starting again. You can now find me at http://www.twinswordtrading.deviantart.com. Here, I have all my current digital art which I am most proud of. Gone are the original pieces, and anything not done in my preferred style. It looks a lot tidier and more professional now. Please give me a watch if you are on dA!

Facebook
My Facebook is now completely up to date with all my artwork, and also an album with previews of my comic has been added. My cover photo is now devoted to my comic too! Find me here, and give my page a 'like': http://www.facebook.com/twinswordtrading

Twitter
Twitter now has a new background and profile image, with a greater emphasis on Royal. Please take a look! http://www.twitter.com/twinswordtrades

STORE
And finally, my store has changed. I've removed a lot of older images, and kept my favourites. Also, I'll be adding regular discount codes and promotions. Currently, type 'TWINSWORD' in at the checkout to get 20% off your order. Bargain!

My store can be found via my Facebook page.

Thanks for visiting, and keep coming back. Royal is almost finished now-I'll be updating with more previews and news about that soon.

Lewis

Preview Of My New Comic!

I am currently working on a new comic which I will be ordering a print run of once it is completed. 

I intend on selling the comic at conventions, as well as my Payvment store. I already have the story storyboarded and written out, so now becomes the long process of drawing it all out, adding the text and making it presentable. 

Here are two sample pages of what it will be like. The comic combines my impressionistic/oil painting style with noir-ish writing. I hope you like what you see! I am hoping that I will have my first print run of the book by December, although as I work a full time job as well as draw, it all depends on how busy everything is.

Please keep an eye on my deviantART for more tasters of the book, and I'll update the blog every so often to fill you all in on how it is progressing. 

A tester page.

Page 1

Draw Again Contest

On DeivantArt, a site that I do have a rather severe love hate relationship with, I was linked to a Meme that also was part of a contest.  Now whilst I do not expect to win, I thought it would be a good thing to do.

When I teach art I am always preaching that you should redraw pictures again and again if you want them to look good, so I thought it was time to give it a go.  I took two old pictures that I was proud of and re-drew them.

Desdemona 2010 vs 2012

A piece that I did for Halloween almost to the day two years ago, now re-drawn.

Ice Face 2008 vs 2012

My second ever acrylic painting drawn four years ago.  I still have it up in my flat despite the lack of technique as it has a spot in my heart.  However I thought this was a good reason to redraw it.

Charity Project On The Way...

Hello all,


Things are quite busy at the moment. I've packed up work for the summer holidays, and will not be returning until September, so it gives me a lot more time to get commissions and projects done!



As well as a bunch of commissions which I am currently working on, I'm also in the process of finalizing a charity project, which I will reveal soon in a post via this blog. They'll also be a dedicated site for it. I don't want to reveal anything as of yet, as I love surprises, but it's going to be a good one. :)


Here are a two of my latest uploads to my deviantART page. As always, anything that is not on my Big Cartel store is also available to purchase. Just get in touch if you are interested!

A quick drawing of my friend.

A thank you card for a work colleague.

Thanks all, and keep your eyes peeled on the blog for the charity project update and more!

Lewis