About Me
If you found me searching for the lyrics to the children's song, you can find them here.
I am a researcher in bionanotechnology currently living and working in Tokyo. I moved out here nearly three years ago, against my better judgement but in search of adventure. It has certainly been an adventure and not one I would have missed for the world.
I am trying to retrain as a designer and you may see the odd example of my work appear here as I progress.
I also indulge in opinionated rambling.
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All the artwork by Nell on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Category Archives: Art
Some graphic design
These just popped into my head this afternoon, so I sat up until 4.30 am doing them. I am an idiot. It only took me that long because my laptop wasn’t up to the job, but I couldn’t stop till … Continue reading
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The brief: design a book cover…
The first semester of my course is over and I managed (by the skin of my teeth) to submit enough work of (just about) high enough quality… I think. For reasons too complicated to go into here (and for once … Continue reading
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Some more art
There’s only just under 2 weeks of the first semester of my course left now so I’ve taken the week of work and am busting an art gut for the next few days. Here’s some of my recent bits and … Continue reading
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Perhaps I’m making progress?
Well, you saw my first attempts at drawing people, just so you can see that I am making progress, here are today’s:
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Sunday morning meanderings
Balancing my coursework requirements with my job hasn’t left me much time to spare for writing here and the one time I did manage it was an epic post that was probably deeply uninteresting to most. Perhaps it is time … Continue reading
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Some other bits and bobs
Quite a lot of the first few activities have been based on finding small areas of larger photos and drawing small sketches of them, I’m not uploading them all because most of them are rubbish, here are a couple though: … Continue reading
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More arty stuffs
For various reasons, I’d got behind on the course before I’d really got going, so I’m having a catchup weekend. Here’s today’s first effort: It’s a conte crayon “tonal” drawing, as compared to last night’s line one.
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Getting creative
I said I’d post the various bits and bobs I did for the art course up here. This isn’t my first drawing, but it’s the first that was big enough to be worth posting, the others have all been warm … Continue reading
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Double poster today
I had to share this, it’s simply incredible: Willard Wigan on TED The first half is interesting from a biographical perspective but it really gets good about 12 minutes in when he starts showing examples of his work. There’s more … Continue reading
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In case you thought I might have forgotten…
Some sketchy stuff: After scanning it in, I decided to put a bit more shadow inside the hand.
