ImagineNation Artist in Residence
Page-turner Library meets laboratory in the artist’s studio, packed with inspiration and a mix of media
My web camera for taking Zoom calls. On the wall next to it you can see a limited-run promotional poster from Riddick, which I storyboarded on.
I hung these string lights up in the studio to create some general ambient lighting. I much prefer to have low-level lighting when I’m in the studio.
Here you can see my light box, which I’ll use when I’m creating my initial sketches and concept ideas before I get to scanning them in.
A printout of the branding logo that I use for myself. It was also going to be a test piece for the cover of the sketchbook I’m working on.
I often think of my workspace as a lab. I spend so many of my waking, working hours experimenting in here, tinkering, fashioning, ingesting new knowledge, and fostering explosions of creativity. I have several areas designated for different activities.
The Cintiq area is where I do all my digital professional storyboard and concept work. On the other side of the room I have a wall that I’ve set aside for brainstorming. I like the idea of writing out ideas as they come to me, and have taken a section of that wall and layered it with a roll of whiteboard film, which allows me to quickly jot down ideas with Col-Erase markers. I like leaving it up like that because I can remind myself with notes and quotes as I go in and out of the room.
By the window, I put most of my wooden artworks that I’ve drawn on with markers, pens and pencils. I really enjoy making things with my hands in 3D space and have paintings, clay sculptures, and pieces of wood that I’ve treated and drawn on dotted all throughout the studio.
Traditional art is truly my favourite, and I usually reserve that form of expression as gifts for people, or for personal use. I typically express what I like to call freestyle art, which is art that’s allowed to flow freely from my subconscious and through to my hands, manifesting as it is without any judgement. I’ll find myself expressing lots of symbolic, abstract writing and shapes. The characters can manifest, blending and morphing into the next stream of elements.
I love my library. I reference many subjects daily to further my awareness in both the arts
