Stuff

Character Design

This project is on character design. We had to interview five of our classmates whilst sketching them. The idea is that you get enough background information in order to create a comic character out of them... and give them super powers.

Comic Book n ting

I'm working on a comic with a friend of mine. We have a vague idea on the plot so its all still work in progress. These are just a couple of initial character ideas.

Flip Book

This was my first animation task at uni. The breif was very basic, start and end in a dot... You can see where i went from there.

Flip book from Jimmy Cliftlands on Vimeo.

Walk Cycle

This is my first walk cycle excersise. Its a bit patchy and could do with a bit more inbetweening but is pretty good for my first attempt.

Walk Cycle from Jimmy Cliftlands on Vimeo.

This a page from a book we had to create on studies of object in museums we had visited. man that was along sentance. anyways.... so for some reason i decided to be a little adventurous and do the book completely in stencil. as of yet the book is unfinished (has to be 15 pages) This is my favorite page so far. it is based on the statue of Eve in the V&A.

Landscape Project

My first project in my Illustration class was one of landscapes. I really struggled with this one but in the end i recelived some good and helpful criticisms. Heres the best of the bunch for all to see.


This is my interpretation of Greenwich park. I got fed up of drawing landscapes realistically so i let my imagination loose on this one!

Sketchbook Scans

Ok so I have not posted in a while. I've been at university studying Illustration and Animation for the last two months. Here are a few selected images from my sketchbooks so far.

Cant be bothered to finish.

I started this a while ago and have not got round to finish it. I tell myself its because im busy but if i'm honest its because im lazy. It looks alright so i've put it up here anyway.

Colour Pens

My awesome friends got me some coloured pens for my birthday. This is just me experimenting on an old sketch. I like them alot.

Alarm Clock

This is a one page comic I did. Four years of waking up at 5:30 am really got to me. This was a way of me finally closing that chapter in my life... for now anyways!

Mums Birthday Present

This is a Painting I am givin to my mother on the day of her birth. It's basicaly myself and my three brothers and our X-Men mutant powers. This is the first time I have properly painted anything in over ten years. Hopefully I'll get better.
Top left is Shaun as Iceman, top right is Terry as Wolverine, bottom right is Danny as Cyclops and bottom left is myself as Gambit ...I'm awesome!

Bayer Sisters part 2

So I finally redid Katies artwork. She was happy that i'd managed to capture her and her sisters so well. So this was my first ever paid work but seeing as I owed her money I ended up payin her...

Bayer Sisters part 1

So my friend Katie asked me to do some cartoons of her and her sisters for her sisters birthday. She wants me to show their personalities and interests. These were my first attempts but didnt reach Katies high expectations. Back to sqaure one ...shes lucky i love her so much ...plus she's paying me!

Leaving Gifts

As I am leaving Preston Manor High School after four years I have decided to make a few leaving gifts for some of my friends. I havnt yet given them so shhhhh... its a secret

Background and colour

I really hate doing backgrounds and colouring. So this was just an experiment. Ten points if you spot the mistakes!

Vita and the Vicious

Some artwork I did for a band named 'Vita and the Vicious' I started with the four individual characters then grouped them together. Am getting used to effectivly colouring in Photoshop.

Check out the band at http://www.vitaandthevicious.co.uk/ They are really good! ...and the lead singers pretty hot too!

Preston Manor Social Climbers

I was asked to do a t-shirt design for a rock climbing club. Just a basic 5 minute sketch. nothing really special

Zombie Collage

This was supposed to be a christmas present i ended up not giving. The background was done in charcoal. The front images I used black pen and water colour. It is now is stuck on my wall.

Sketches

A few sketches here i did a while ago. The first two are of statues in the V&A gallery. The first is of Neptune. I cant remember what the second was called, something to do with truth and lies... i just thought it looked cool!
The last is just sketches of my hands.

Forbidden Planet

A couple of posters i did for a school play. For some reason i used couloured pens instead of paint... took ageees!

Sketch book scans

Finally got this blog stuff sorted. Here's my first sketch book dump, mainly just using black ink at the moment. Building up to use more colour soon... Damn colour blindness!