Sketchbook: Markers

As a passionate user of watercolour, and a frequent digital board artist, it's always nice to work in a new media.  I've been working on a job this month that needed to be in marker to match with previous shots, and it's been a nice change.

Starting with toned greys and ink, I then used the same technique for the base of digitally painted design renderings. Quick and simple, easy to use when I'm working away from my desk.  What's not to love? 

TV: Storyboard Art: 'Inside the Human Body' BBC

'Inside the Human Body'

TV Series, BBC1

4 Episodes

2011

Series exploring the wonders of the human body. Using spectacular graphics based on real images and the latest scientific research, Michael Mosley takes viewers on a voyage through the workings of the inner human universe.

Producers: Alice Harper, Andrew Cohen

Directors: Nat Sharman, Rob Liddell, Annabel Gillings,Gideon Bradshaw

TV Storyboards: 'Supersized Earth' BBC

'Supersized Earth'
TV Series, BBC1
3 Episodes, 2012 Role: Storyboard Artist

The spectacular story of how we have redesigned our planet to build the modern world. Dallas Campbell explores our most ambitious creations, joining the people who have made the impossible, possible.

Producer: Simon Finch  VFX: Prime Focus
Directors: Rob Liddell, Nat Sharman, Nigel Walk

TV Storyboards: The British (Episodes 6 - 7) Victorians, WWII

TV: 'The British'

Documentary TV Series by Nutopia
2012 on Sky7 Episodes

UK

Storyboard Artist

For 'The British', I created storyboards for CGI and live action sequences across the entire series in pencil with digital colouring.

Episodes 6-7 Victorians, WWII, Suburbs

TV Storyboards: The British (Episodes 3, 4, 5) London Fire and Rebuild, Nelson, Drake

TV: 'The British'

Documentary TV Series by Nutopia
2012 on Sky
7 EpisodesUK

Storyboard Artist

For 'The British', I created storyboards for CGI and live action sequences across the entire series in pencil with digital colouring.

Episodes 4, 5, 6 : Trafalgar, Gutenberg, The London Fire, St. Paul's, Crystal Palace.

TV Storyboards: The British (Episodes 1-2) Ancient, Roman, Medieval

TV: 'The British'
Documentary TV Series by Nutopia
2012 on Sky
7 EpisodesUK
Storyboard Artist

TV Storyboards: Mankind - The Story of All of Us

'Mankind'
TV: The History Channel
Nutopia
Storyboard Artist for CGI

Built in parallel with their other ambitious history documentary 'The British', I arrived late in the process to help out with storyboards for the CGI sequences during the edit.  The shear scale of the project is incredible, covering human existence and achievement across the planet.

TV: Storyboards: 'Gettysburg'

For 'Gettysburg', I produced some (very) quick visuals for CGI sequences, highlighting marches, maps, and weaponry.

About the Show
'Executive produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, GETTYSBURG strips away the romanticized veneer of the Civil War to present the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in a new light--a visceral, terrifying and deeply personal experience, fought by men who put everything on the line in defense of their vision of the American future. Cinematic in scope, GETTYSBURG is an information-packed look at the turning points, strategic decisions, technology and little-known facts surrounding the battle. Developed in collaboration with highly esteemed Civil War historians, GETTYSBURG reflects hundreds of individual accounts of the battle--the unique voices of struggle, defeat and triumph that tell the larger story of a bitterly conflicted nation.'

*'Gettysburg' won 2 Emmy Awards in 2011, including Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special

Images courtesy RSA/History Channel

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