Chris Reilly Artist and Writer

Front cover for illus210 Back cover for illus210 Watercolour and pen final illus210 page design

pen and watercolour drawing i just finished for illus210

2 more digital sketches for my project.

Digital sketch Ive just done for my project, will upload my traditional stuff once i have time to convert them to small files.

Digital sketch I did of my warus character, yeah I did name it something that lame ;) Will update this blog once I get around to taking pictures of all my work for this project theres quite a lot :)

New character for my project, looked a bit like a turd at the start due to the brown colour scheme thought it best to change it lol

Bunch of stuff for my illus210 project.

Bear study

My blog got click jacked a few weeks ago but Ive just fixed it, I think :D Heres some paintings I did recently. Ones an entry for this months gnomon competition, and the other I did today is a painting of a wolf.

made a few adjustments to the last picture

Gnomon monthly challenge entry : rustic inn

Portrait study

Two watercolours I did for my location module at uni.

Portrait study

Final, could do more but sick of the picture lol

Step 3 - final underpainting. Step 4 - initial colour pass

Something Ive been working on. Step 1 Step 2 Will hopefully get around to tightening the rendering and then colouring it at some point.

Final image for my location project for uni. Would like to do more, ill have to see how my wrist/arm hold up.

Speedpainting for uni project.

doodling since ive been doing a boring ass essay all day lol

Playing around with Maciej Kuciaras' brushes

Mushroom cave speedpainting, about 45 minutes.

Quicky for my location drawing project at uni

Different crop and slight alterations to previous painting, not sure if it works better this way or not.

Doodling, trying a different approach to painting.

First proper speedpainting I guess of 2010

Doodling- first personal painting of 2010 ;p