DOODLERUSS

Hello Doodlefans ....... iiiiiitttttssss Christmas !!!!

2010-12-23T04:51:00.001-08:00

After my foray to India with camels, night time desert sleepovers, trippy electric bull senarios

and palm fringed beaches, I'm back to the snow havoced shores of England and the turkey marathon that is Christmas. With one eye on the new year and future work opportunities, I dropped into the offices of Sternberg Clarke, the UK's leading supplier of entertainment to the corporate and wedding markets. Looking for an artist to work at events as a caricaturist. After a few wonky attempts to lose the doodling rust I produced a couple of doodleruss styled characters for their Gallery.

You can find my doodles and their heartfelt comments on their blog with a great big picture of my own work called man and fox having a pint. Fingers crossed 2011 will be full of corporate gigs and bar mitzvahs then ... ?

http://sternbergclarke.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/portrait-artist/

Who touched honey bears honey ..... ?

2010-08-24T12:40:00.001-07:00

Never touch a big bears honey I say ...... got through to the semi final of Mojizu monster fight off with this design, will have to enter a couple new creatures and see how I do. Check out the site, some nice character design goes on it http://mojizu.com

Mmmmm nice bit of huss

2010-08-24T12:30:00.001-07:00

A character I did a while a go now, and just dug him out for a viewing. Always liked the mix of vector and photograph background on this one.

Light & Shade

2010-08-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

Well, I've reached the shadows and highlights stage. It Still needs more work to lift the characters

away from the backgrounds I feel, and I need to make some clear difference in tone and atmosphere between the good and bad sides. But it's getting there ...

The Dark side ...

2010-07-28T05:15:00.000-07:00

Just finished putting the basic base colours into the bad side of my Albert artwork. Next step is to begin adding some depth to the piece with shadows & highlights.

Albert artwork, good bit coloured

2010-07-22T06:07:00.000-07:00

First stage of the colouring in done. Much of these colours will be altered during the working of the piece, but I like to get some colours on the board to flesh out the piece and then change the tone and saturation as I go along. Next I'm going to colour the bad side. Then add shadows and highlights, followed by textures and finished off with the outlines. Not sure whether to keep the black inked outlines or to colour them yet. Looking to get the second batch of colouring done by early next week.

New cleaned up Albert artwork ...

2010-07-19T06:06:00.001-07:00

This is a piece I'm working on for my little Nephew, Albert. The left side will be goodness, elfs and happy trees, and the right will be darker in tone with stinking rats and tattooed goblins. Just cleaned it up, and have begun the colouring in process, will load up each new stage as I work through them.

Big fat ginge on a bean bag ...

2010-07-13T05:41:00.000-07:00

As the title suggests, its a big fat ginge on a bean bag. Scoffing his sweaty chubby face with cheap greasy sweet meats. Still early doors on this one, have a microwave to add which he's watching and loads more bg details. Before there any comments, the similarity is purely coincidental ...

Silvia & George

2010-07-13T05:36:00.000-07:00

This is a little piece I've done for a friend and her cat, George. I'm also working on some ideas

for a Bond like cat secret agent 009 lives with George as inspiration, watch this space ..........

Random character splurge ...

2010-07-05T07:23:00.000-07:00

Forget 3D, this is Zom-D. Film poster for a new gut splurging, brain eating caper ...

Beware of the Hair ...

Take a ride with the Russian fixed gear fiend, Vigor.

Couple of cowboy dudes, Stevey Stu is the long headed yellow fella, and his Green mugged
goon friend is Jeboniar Bobb. Just taking their monthly bath.

More Milton Milton splurge ...

2010-07-05T07:10:00.000-07:00

These are some more character designs for my Milton Milton animation series.
An electro girl, a couple of hoodies and a goth Russell Brand character ...

New/old doodle splurg .....

2010-07-05T06:59:00.001-07:00

Just been looking through my various works of late and found some bits that may be of interest
to anyone that finds it ... ? This is a character called Punk nan, who lives in a small town called
Milton Milton. Working with a friend on some short animations of her anarchic antics.
Will post them up here once we get them all.

One man and his fox ...

2010-07-01T05:45:00.001-07:00

With all of this biting off of babies faces, Mr fox sure works up a thirst.
Time at the bar, gentleman please ...

Revised Hog Jockey

2010-07-01T05:43:00.000-07:00

Just done some more touches to this one this morning, so thought I'd get it up on the doodleruss.

Albert's Goblins and Elfs

2010-06-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

This is a rough of a piece I'm doing for my little Nephew Bertie ... tipsy elfs, happy trees,
tattooed goblins and a skeksis. Stay posted for further color versions.

Some new cat scribbles

2010-06-30T05:21:00.001-07:00

Don't go messing with this kitten ...

Two Killer cat assasins

Character development for a secret agent cat and various ladies ...

Hog Jockey

2010-06-29T05:23:00.001-07:00

Just out on a mid afternoon trot ....
Still needs soom work this one, but wanted to post it up in its current state.

The B team .....

2010-06-04T09:51:00.000-07:00

Several years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These bears promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the London underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The B-Team

It's Me ......

2010-06-03T06:01:00.001-07:00

New little picture of me ..... wink wink

More Sketchbook cut ups

2010-06-02T09:56:00.000-07:00

Bunch of characters I've now colored up and put on my Illustration site

Bunch of new scribbles

2010-06-02T09:36:00.000-07:00

Weirdo's & losers

2010-05-20T07:13:00.000-07:00

Summers here ...... Get your speedos on

The doctor can help with cheap and effective artificial insemination.

The Banjo man is available for birthdays, weddings and funerals.

For more of the same visit my site ...... http://www.russpollard.com/

Monster Mash up

2009-12-14T03:50:00.001-08:00

Up to just under 8 foot now, this is cut together in
photoshop with added sound effects ...

More doodle-boggins

2009-12-14T03:41:00.000-08:00

Rrroooaaaarrrrrr !!!

Evil Dr Octopus

2009-11-23T10:41:00.000-08:00

6 Foot down, 24 to go .......

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Hairy Beasty

Ghost Tickler

Cant beat a ginger Octopus

2009-11-23T10:10:00.000-08:00

Early doodles, a little furry pink fella and a salivating winged skull.

30 Foot of Doodle

2009-11-23T09:48:00.000-08:00

Around 6 weeks ago, after far too long without doing anything creative, putting aside excuses like moving house and having to work to pay the bills and put food in my belly, I had a idea ...

In an attempt to get the juices flowing again, I bought a 30 foot roll of lining paper with the intention of getting away from the confines of an A4 sketch pad or a computer monitor and to
get doodling.

Well here we are 6 weeks later and around 6 feet into the project, and the DoodleRuss blog is
to be doused in new doodles. From Evil octopus and Giant Japanese fire breathing fighting monkeys, to Hairy beasts and Bears with their balls out.

I'll be continuing to update here at least once a week with new stuff, but for now here is some highlights so far ....

Damp Cowboys

2009-04-15T15:48:00.000-07:00

Nothing like abit of white paint on the back of a envelope I say .... Just me then ?

Lesser used pink post-it

2009-04-15T15:44:00.000-07:00

These are from my Pink Post-it period

Eyes and Masks

2009-04-15T15:41:00.000-07:00

and there's more ........

They say three's a crowd, Less than three is surely no more than a small gathering ?

2009-04-15T15:36:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm on a roll now ..... It's been to long and I'm going on a doodle splurge as i like to call it.

Hair, lots of it

2009-04-15T15:33:00.000-07:00

A doodle I did yonks ago when I bought a new moleskin book.

The Russian

2008-05-20T12:24:00.000-07:00

This guy is called the Russian. He has a great big beard and hair and rides fast fixed gear cycles.
I'm really happy how this turned out, nice mixture of the graphite and the blue conte pencil.

Clive & Woof

2008-05-20T12:16:00.000-07:00

I love doodling on post-it-notes. Those self-adhesive little buggers.

2008-05-20T12:05:00.000-07:00

First entry on a new site I found, just for stuff done in Moleskins. Load of guys & girls with big old barnets.

Hello, hello. Its been awhile. I have been very busy with work and the like recently, so have had been nowhere near a scanner. But I have been doodling and will now be putting up a whole bunch of new scribbles, doodles, and characters.
I've started to do some stuff in my new little moleskin pad after seeing a great site featuring only work done in moleskins, some really great work on there.

www.skineart.com - take a look.
More to come.

Tigerboy

2007-11-01T07:14:00.000-07:00

A new cad of a cat....... they call him Tigerboy.
Have a look on my site, I'll be doing a colour version of this new character.

Smash, Crash, Bang

2007-11-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

It's an angry Bear.....

Sloth Rap

2007-10-16T11:20:00.003-07:00

It's not a doodle, but I love a good bit of sloth rap.

THE WIDDLES

2007-09-28T08:21:00.000-07:00

The all new indie-folk-pop muppet band.......

More Doods

2007-09-26T03:43:00.000-07:00

Various Doods

2007-09-26T03:41:00.000-07:00

Excited Woman

2007-09-26T03:40:00.001-07:00

2007-09-26T03:34:00.000-07:00

Doug likes nothing more then walking in the park with his dog, dressed to impress.

Bet

2007-09-22T03:26:00.001-07:00

This is Bet, she's northern.

2007-09-22T03:22:00.000-07:00

This is Clive, he loves cigerettes. He thinks smoking makes him look sexy.

Fags Are Good

2007-09-22T03:18:00.000-07:00

....... Say's Ciggie Monster, the Pro smoking beamoth.

Little Bunny

2007-09-19T05:59:00.000-07:00

NEW POST !!!!!

Hello doodle fans, 1st doodle entree.......it's a rabbit ?!?!