Having the ability to produce a good working concept drawing can save a lot of time while trying to sell an idea to a client.
Before I start any project, from painting, sculpture, featured walls, fixed seating, grand entrances, or whatever it might be. I will always produce a concept image that gives me, clients, and work colleagues, a good reference to work from.
I can also use Sketchup, A 3d package that allows me to build a precise 3d Model of a large work space for larger projects, and construction jobs.
Other concepts include building a miniature 3d model of the proposed space or feature. which is possibly the best reference to work from.
This concept drawing was produced by hand sculpting the fire place and pillar in a small scale polymere. which I photographed and interoperated into the design sketch. There are many benefits in working this way. For it allows the client to hold the finished proposal in their hand, which cuts out all debate of description. It also allows your team to have some visual to work from.
This is a picture I took of the wall that the client imagined a dragon on top off. He had two pallets of roof slate left over from a build, a ton of sand and cement with plenty of rebar lying around the site. So I designed this dragon by using up all of these leftover materials.
Fixed seating back panel. Inspired by the devil's advocate. Really liked this piece.
This concept drawing was for a mural on a domed ceiling above a hot tub. I kind of Plagiarised the people surrounding the bath. If you look closely you can find the girl with the pearl earring, Romeo and Juliet as well as snippets from other famous works.
Another Service I can Provide that I have been using recently. Is the ability to create accurate to the millimetre 3d working model. This is a great tool if I need to construct a piece for specific fitted areas. like Display stands, or shop windows.
This was part of a water slide made for a theme park quite a few years back. I didn't have much involvement in this project. But the concept drawing gave the fitters and client a good reference to aim for.
Brigid or Brigit (/ˈbrɪdʒɪd, ˈbriːɪd/ BRIJ-id, BREE-id, Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲiːdʲ]; meaning 'exalted one'), also Bríg, is a goddess of pre-Christian Ireland. She appears in Irish mythology as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres, with whom she had a son named Ruadán.
She is associated with wisdom, poetry, healing, protection, smithing and domesticated animals. Cormac's Glossary, written in the 9th century by Christian monks, says that Brigid was "the goddess whom poets adored" and that she had two sisters: Brigid the healer and Brigid the smith. This suggests she may have been a triple deity. She is also thought to have some relation to the British Celtic goddess Brigantia.
Saint Brigid shares many of the goddess's attributes and her feast day, 1 February, was originally a pagan festival called Imbolc. It has thus been argued that the saint is a Christianization of the goddess, or that the lore of the goddess was transferred to her.
Personally I believe Brigid to be associated with the star Sirius, which is the brightest star in the February nights. or possibly Orion's belt, considering she is a trio of sisters. Finally her father, The Dagda is described as a Giant with a club.
Concept for large painting
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshiped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven".
She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, her early main cult center. In archaic Uruk she was worshiped in three forms: morning Inanna (Inana-UD/hud), evening Inanna (Inanna sig) and princely Inanna (Inanna NUN), the former two reflecting the phases of her associated planet Venus. Her most prominent symbols include the lion and the eight-pointed star. Her husband is the god Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), and her Sukkal (attendant) is the goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal.
Concept sketch for the tree of life. A concept that I think would make a nice centre piece.
This is a digital concept drawing illustrated in Photoshop without reference. The beauty of digital illustration is that you can resize or redraw an element that you are not happy with. The Final drawing will then be drawn or painted in a different medium.
Pan has a Connection with the Constellation Sagittarius and a possible connection with the Moon. where as the Nymphs are connected to the Pleiades System. So my theory is that this story has a relationship between an occultation with the Moon and the Pleiades in the star sign of Sagittarius.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic tale from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames”), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC).
Gilgamesh was a tyrant king, which nobody could compete with in battle, apart from the wildman Enkidu. However, being a man of the wild, Enkidu has no care for the outside world. So a Beautiful Harlet named Shamat is used by the Hunter to use her attractiveness to tempt Enkidu from the wild, and his 'wildness', civilizing him through continued sacred love-making. Brought to a water source where Enkidu had been spotted, she exposes herself to Enkidu. He enjoys Shamhat for "six days and seven nights" (a fragment found in 2015 and read in 2018 appears to indicate that they had two weeks of sexual intercourse, with a break spent in discussion about Enkidu's future life in Uruk).
Unfortunately for Enkidu, after this long sexual workshop in civility, his former companions—other wild animals—turned away from him in fright at the watering hole where they congregated. Shamhat persuades him to follow her and join the civilized world in the city of Uruk, where Gilgamesh is king, rejecting his former life in the wild of the hills. Henceforth, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become the best of friends and undergo many adventures (starting with the Cedar Forest and the encounter with Humbaba).
When Enkidu is dying, he expresses his anger at Shamhat for making him civilized, blaming her for bringing him to the new world of experiences that has led to his death. He curses her to become an outcast. The god Shamash(the Sun) reminds Enkidu that Shamhat fed and clothed him before introducing him to Gilgamesh. Enkidu relents and blesses her, saying that all men will desire her and offer her gifts of jewels.